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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6669204" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Okay, I'd like to sort out a couple of fundamentals.</p><p></p><p>Firstly, although we've agreed on a "gargantuan labyrinthodon" interpretation I'd like to remove the red-pencilled Amphibious trait.</p><p></p><p>This is supposed to be a "realistic" animal, and it seems highly unlikely to me a whale-sized aquatic amphibian would retain lungs. It'll die if it gets beached anyway, so lungs would just prolong its expiration. My preference would be gills-only, as if it <strong><em>literally</em></strong> were a "giant tadpole".</p><p></p><p>Although we could include a rumour that if it lived in a water that very slowly dried away it'll metamorphose into a legged form that could also breathe air, like an axolotl can...</p><p></p><p>Secondly, do we want to keep the Blindsight? I only left that in because whales have it, both in real life and the SRD, but as far as I know no real-world amphibian has sonar.</p><p></p><p>Come to think of it, the <em>Monstrous Compendium</em> entry for Whales it's based on makes no mention of sonar, so maybe 2E AD&D whales can't echo locate either! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses B-)" data-shortname="B-)" /></p><p></p><p>I'm inclined to cut out the Blindsight, but I'm inclined to give it decent darkvision as compensation and <em>possibly</em> Blindsense as compensation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6669204, member: 57383"] Okay, I'd like to sort out a couple of fundamentals. Firstly, although we've agreed on a "gargantuan labyrinthodon" interpretation I'd like to remove the red-pencilled Amphibious trait. This is supposed to be a "realistic" animal, and it seems highly unlikely to me a whale-sized aquatic amphibian would retain lungs. It'll die if it gets beached anyway, so lungs would just prolong its expiration. My preference would be gills-only, as if it [B][I]literally[/I][/B] were a "giant tadpole". Although we could include a rumour that if it lived in a water that very slowly dried away it'll metamorphose into a legged form that could also breathe air, like an axolotl can... Secondly, do we want to keep the Blindsight? I only left that in because whales have it, both in real life and the SRD, but as far as I know no real-world amphibian has sonar. Come to think of it, the [I]Monstrous Compendium[/I] entry for Whales it's based on makes no mention of sonar, so maybe 2E AD&D whales can't echo locate either! B-) I'm inclined to cut out the Blindsight, but I'm inclined to give it decent darkvision as compensation and [I]possibly[/I] Blindsense as compensation. [/QUOTE]
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