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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5438210" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Well as far as their 3E stats go I was thinking the bipedal Ceratopsians wouldn't be much different (if at all) from a "Generic Herbivorous Dinosaur". Maybe with a more powerful bite, but not much else.</p><p></p><p>Anyhow, I think we're better off concentrating on the quadrupedal ones to begin with. I've already got a <strong><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/4953624-post7.html" target="_blank">updated Triceratops</a></strong> based on the SRD version which I think will serve well as the foundation of an <em>Enormous</em> Ceratopsian (e.g. "Huge and a Half"). Then it's just a question of scaling them down from there and picking some appropriate species.</p><p></p><p>e.g.:</p><p></p><p><strong>Small Ceratopsian </strong>1 HD, Str 6</p><p><strong><em>Little</em></strong><strong> Ceratopsian</strong>2 HD, Str 8</p><p><strong>Medium</strong><strong> Ceratopsian</strong> 3 HD, Str 10</p><p><strong><em>Big</em></strong><strong> Ceratopsian</strong>4 HD, Str 14</p><p><strong>Large</strong><strong> Ceratopsian</strong>6 HD, Str 18</p><p><strong><em>Very Large</em></strong><strong> Ceratopsian</strong> 8 HD, Str 22</p><p><strong>Huge</strong><strong> Ceratopsian</strong> 12 HD, Str 26</p><p><strong><em>Enormous</em></strong><strong> Ceratopsian</strong> 16 HD, Str 30</p><p></p><p>Hmm, those Strength seem too low for the smaller varieties. I think I'd better tweak it up by Str +2 across the board.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm not sure what difference, if any, there should be in the D&D stats of a 3-horned Ceratopsian and a 1-horned one. They will both do gore damage with their main attack. The lump-faced ones would do slam attacks instead.</p><p></p><p>That reminds me, I did wonder about giving them a Bite attack (Ceratopsians had enormous jaw muscles, sharp beaks and jaws full of shearing teeth, so their mouths were like big serrated scissors. They could probably have bitten smaller theropods to death with little difficulty.)</p><p></p><p>However, a gore attack can also cover that kind of slashing/slicing bite, is in the case of the SRD Boars, so I think gore alone will cover the jaws as well as the horns.</p><p></p><p>That raises the possibility that the lump-faced have a choice between gore and slam for their attack.</p><p></p><p>Another thing I am considering is giving the larger Hornfaces some DR/-, since they were probably pretty tough beasts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 5438210, member: 57383"] Well as far as their 3E stats go I was thinking the bipedal Ceratopsians wouldn't be much different (if at all) from a "Generic Herbivorous Dinosaur". Maybe with a more powerful bite, but not much else. Anyhow, I think we're better off concentrating on the quadrupedal ones to begin with. I've already got a [B][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/4953624-post7.html"]updated Triceratops[/URL][/B] based on the SRD version which I think will serve well as the foundation of an [I]Enormous[/I] Ceratopsian (e.g. "Huge and a Half"). Then it's just a question of scaling them down from there and picking some appropriate species. e.g.: [B]Small Ceratopsian [/B]1 HD, Str 6 [B][I]Little[/I][/B][B] Ceratopsian[/B]2 HD, Str 8 [B]Medium[/B][B] Ceratopsian[/B] 3 HD, Str 10 [B][I]Big[/I][/B][B] Ceratopsian[/B]4 HD, Str 14 [B]Large[/B][B] Ceratopsian[/B]6 HD, Str 18 [B][I]Very Large[/I][/B][B] Ceratopsian[/B] 8 HD, Str 22 [B]Huge[/B][B] Ceratopsian[/B] 12 HD, Str 26 [B][I]Enormous[/I][/B][B] Ceratopsian[/B] 16 HD, Str 30 Hmm, those Strength seem too low for the smaller varieties. I think I'd better tweak it up by Str +2 across the board. I'm not sure what difference, if any, there should be in the D&D stats of a 3-horned Ceratopsian and a 1-horned one. They will both do gore damage with their main attack. The lump-faced ones would do slam attacks instead. That reminds me, I did wonder about giving them a Bite attack (Ceratopsians had enormous jaw muscles, sharp beaks and jaws full of shearing teeth, so their mouths were like big serrated scissors. They could probably have bitten smaller theropods to death with little difficulty.) However, a gore attack can also cover that kind of slashing/slicing bite, is in the case of the SRD Boars, so I think gore alone will cover the jaws as well as the horns. That raises the possibility that the lump-faced have a choice between gore and slam for their attack. Another thing I am considering is giving the larger Hornfaces some DR/-, since they were probably pretty tough beasts. [/QUOTE]
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