Converting prehistoric creatures

Rappy said:

Recently, Xidoraven's posts over at the WoTC forums reminded me that I wanted to help out around here, so I figured my palaeontological hobbyism would make this a good thread to start. And now that the deinotherium has been moved away from, I felt prepared to join in. Aaaanyway...

When they refer to these creatures as "Devonian predatory fish", they're presumably referring to cheirolepis or its ilk.

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Good to see you here, Rap......py.......torial...... So glad I could helpy fuel your muse.

freyar said:

PS. xidoraven, looks like a good start at an individual! And, Rappy, welcome! Please feel free to help out whereever you'd like!

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Thank you. It was a fair attempt, and I enjoy having it refined by the 'experts'.

Sorry I posted then jet for a few days. That was not what I had planned, but then had to run out of town for longer than expected. I am really happy to help, especially to incite motion to stagnant waters - I seem to be good at it for this purpose.

What I have so far of the list of currently-posted stats of everything prehistoric (dinos & prims from A to Sinocalliopteryx), with CRs, Environments, and Notes about the entries & creatures). This is only half-finished, but will be completed soon, and I will post all my notations on reviews and empty informations spots when it is completed up to this point.

I am also home again now, so I will get to posting the stats for the published critters in Fiend Folio, Frostburn, Sandstorm, & Stormwrack - possibly later today. I found few if any other examples of dinos in many other publications, but I am still looking.

I would love to have a completed ecology of CR and Environment tables for a prehistoric fantasy setting within the next month or so - starting small in a local region, and progressing outward as the info is compiled. I know that sounds like a hasty deadline, but honestly most of the hard work has been done on dino/prims - allowing me to put together a fully-functional spreadsheet for making these tables.

Sorry for the novel, all.
-will

Animals, Fictional Animal Creatures, and Dinos/Dires/Prims - part 1

Animals, Dinos, Prims, Dires, & Beastland-specific critters


(**All of these creatures were added from Stormwrack, 2005 - v3.5 pdf file)

These are great, xidoraven, but do you mind sliding them into a different thread? Kind of makes it hard to follow the conversion discussion.

freyar said:

These are great, xidoraven, but do you mind sliding them into a different thread? Kind of makes it hard to follow the conversion discussion.

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http://www.enworld.org/forum/genera...erting-prehistoric-creatures.html#post4853206

I think I did that right. I pressed 'Fork to New Thread'.... Was that what you meant? Should I delete this one now?
-will

Happy 4th

Hope I'm not too late for this, but for all of my fellow Americans, Happy Independence Day!

xidoraven said:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/genera...erting-prehistoric-creatures.html#post4853206

I think I did that right. I pressed 'Fork to New Thread'.... Was that what you meant? Should I delete this one now?
-will

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The other thread looks pretty good! Maybe you could just hide the text here in an sblock? You just put <sblock> </sblock> around the text, except with [ instead of <. Like this: [sblock]This is my sblock.
Sorry if you know this already; a lot of people don't.[/sblock]

It's good material, I just have a tough time following what we're working on with blocks of other stats popping up. It happened in another thread recently, and we had to split that one, too.

Thanks, freyar. I appreciate the help and suggestions. I am one of those that is not so saavy in this forum's coding style - I am more proficient in wiki, html, actionscript, music, and English... Everyone needs a little helping hand ever so often.

I deleted the content except for the summon list img/table, and posted a link to the forked thread. That works for me if it works for you. I will just post a link to the thread when I have updated it with a new publication. I have four pdfs on my screen right now, plus Sandstorm and Fiend Folio in the other room, to make sure that we have all applicable critters for prehistoric-style campaign settings (like the one I am putting together for this new game for my buddy's character!).

Spoiler is a nice touch though.... I almost regret having deleted the material just to try it out and see how cool it is.... :/ Oh well. Stormwrack took effort only because I tried formatting for bold and italics in the first part.... Then decided that someone else can do that when it gets copied and translated over to its own page.

I personally feel that all entries should also include the following applicable statistics in every animal's block:
-As Familiars. as Companions, as Mounts
-Breeding, Rearing, Training, and Value of Animal/egg/hatchling, etc.

Seeing some entries with it, and some without it is somewhat disheartening to the reputation of these multi-site projects.... At least for me. Maybe I am taking it too close to heart.

Happy 4th! Celebrate independence from.... Wait, are we still independent? Celebrate freedom! Best wishes,
-will

Updated.

Skills: 14
Piranha swarm has Hide, Listen, Spot

Feats: 4
Piranha swarm has Alertness, Improved Initiative, Toughness

Improved Bull Rush?

Or Ability Focus (distraction)? Edit: splitting ranks into those 3 skills sounds good.