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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 4958361" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Well the "Redux" creatures are basically monsters that already have official WotC stats which had things I didn't like (e.g. lots of Toughness feats), so I reworked them.</p><p></p><p>The "Nova" creatures are ones that either don't have WotC versions, or if they do I haven't got them, so I statted them up from scratch. Although I sometimes sought inspiration from a published monster (my <em>Pliosaurus</em>, for example, uses a fair bit of the <em>Elasmosaurus</em>).</p><p></p><p>I' don't feel having the Dire versions of the animals on a separate thread to the regular versions is a good idea, since it would surely make them harder to find for a "regular user".</p><p></p><p>As for the crocodiles, I think my take on the regular, large and giant crocodiles are pretty close to being realistic. The standard Medium croc represents a 10-12 foot long animal, a Large croc is one up to 20 feet long (about the largest size real-world living crocodiles have reliably been measured at), while the giant groc stats are suitable for the various extinct species of super-sized crocodilians, such as Sarcosuchus.</p><p></p><p>The "ripplesense" is real and crocodilians can certainly use them to locate prey in murky or pitch black water by feeling their movements. Do a search for Crocodile <em>Integumentary Sense Organs</em> or <em>Dermal Pressure Receptors</em> for background on these pressure-sensitive pits. The organs may have additional functions in some species like chemical sensitivity, they're still not well understood.</p><p></p><p>I will confess that I have probably grossly exaggerated the range of a crocodile's Ripplesense in these stat. We may want to cut it to 20 feet or 30 feet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 4958361, member: 57383"] Well the "Redux" creatures are basically monsters that already have official WotC stats which had things I didn't like (e.g. lots of Toughness feats), so I reworked them. The "Nova" creatures are ones that either don't have WotC versions, or if they do I haven't got them, so I statted them up from scratch. Although I sometimes sought inspiration from a published monster (my [I]Pliosaurus[/I], for example, uses a fair bit of the [I]Elasmosaurus[/I]). I' don't feel having the Dire versions of the animals on a separate thread to the regular versions is a good idea, since it would surely make them harder to find for a "regular user". As for the crocodiles, I think my take on the regular, large and giant crocodiles are pretty close to being realistic. The standard Medium croc represents a 10-12 foot long animal, a Large croc is one up to 20 feet long (about the largest size real-world living crocodiles have reliably been measured at), while the giant groc stats are suitable for the various extinct species of super-sized crocodilians, such as Sarcosuchus. The "ripplesense" is real and crocodilians can certainly use them to locate prey in murky or pitch black water by feeling their movements. Do a search for Crocodile [I]Integumentary Sense Organs[/I] or [I]Dermal Pressure Receptors[/I] for background on these pressure-sensitive pits. The organs may have additional functions in some species like chemical sensitivity, they're still not well understood. I will confess that I have probably grossly exaggerated the range of a crocodile's Ripplesense in these stat. We may want to cut it to 20 feet or 30 feet. [/QUOTE]
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