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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 4982333" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Welcome aboard hamishspence!</p><p></p><p>I hope you won't mind if I make a few constructive criticisms of your take on <em>Deltadromeus</em>.</p><p></p><p>Str 25 and Con 18 seem a bit low for a Huge animal. I'd suggest bumping them up to around Str 28 and Con 21. I'm guessing you picked these numbers by knocking a few points off the SRD Tyrannosaurus's Str and Con, but that dinosaur is woefully weedy for its size (it's Strength is little more than a grizzly bear's!), which is why I did a "Redux" version of Tyrannosaurus the previous page with Str 34.</p><p></p><p>It's missing a feat. A 15-17HD animal should have six feats, not five.</p><p></p><p>Speaking of feats, <em>Deltadromeus</em> has Improved Toughness and Powerful Charge among its feats, neither of which are in the SRD. I'd prefer to stick to only SRD feats and have any additional abilities as Special Attacks, since people (myself included!) may not have a source for a novel feat or, worse, there may be several different versions of a feat with the same name and I don't know which one you mean.</p><p></p><p>For example, the Netbook of Feats has a take on Improved Toughness, but it requires Toughness as a prerequisite, and as this <em>Deltadromeus</em> doesn't have Toughness I'm guessing it isn't that version of Imp. Toughness.</p><p></p><p>Also, isn't Powerful Charge an extraordinary special attack, not a feat? Why else is it listed in the Special Attack line?</p><p></p><p>Oh, and if it likes to grapple opponents with its bite and then Rend them, shouldn't it have the Improved Grab special attack too?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 4982333, member: 57383"] Welcome aboard hamishspence! I hope you won't mind if I make a few constructive criticisms of your take on [I]Deltadromeus[/I]. Str 25 and Con 18 seem a bit low for a Huge animal. I'd suggest bumping them up to around Str 28 and Con 21. I'm guessing you picked these numbers by knocking a few points off the SRD Tyrannosaurus's Str and Con, but that dinosaur is woefully weedy for its size (it's Strength is little more than a grizzly bear's!), which is why I did a "Redux" version of Tyrannosaurus the previous page with Str 34. It's missing a feat. A 15-17HD animal should have six feats, not five. Speaking of feats, [I]Deltadromeus[/I] has Improved Toughness and Powerful Charge among its feats, neither of which are in the SRD. I'd prefer to stick to only SRD feats and have any additional abilities as Special Attacks, since people (myself included!) may not have a source for a novel feat or, worse, there may be several different versions of a feat with the same name and I don't know which one you mean. For example, the Netbook of Feats has a take on Improved Toughness, but it requires Toughness as a prerequisite, and as this [I]Deltadromeus[/I] doesn't have Toughness I'm guessing it isn't that version of Imp. Toughness. Also, isn't Powerful Charge an extraordinary special attack, not a feat? Why else is it listed in the Special Attack line? Oh, and if it likes to grapple opponents with its bite and then Rend them, shouldn't it have the Improved Grab special attack too? [/QUOTE]
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