Converting prehistoric creatures

[freyar]

All those suggestions seem good to me. Will let our experts tell you organization names.

 

[demiurge1138]

How about a tangle or a knot?

 

[Shade]

"Tangle" has a good feel to it.

 

[Cleon]

Environment: Temperate or warm aquatic?

I'd say Environment: Any aquatic.

Some species of hagfish live in cold water, like the Southern Hagfish Myxine australis.

Organization: Solitary or x (2-x swarms)

We used tangle for Dire Lampreys and it does appear in Swarm organizations. I do like the Rat Swarms infestation as well. Why not use both:

Organization: Solitary, tangle (2-4 swarms), or infestation (7-12 swarms)
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Challenge Rating: 5? It's deadlier than a piranha swarm (CR 4), but nowhere near as tough as a death scarab swarm (CR 7).

I think that's about right. Its Consume attack is pretty nasty.

 

[Shade]

Updated.

Does the flavor text suffice?

 

[Cleon]

Updated.

Does the flavor text suffice?

Looks okay for our purposes.

I am having doubts about the Consume completely destroying the body of slain prey though. Hagfish aren't much good at eating bone, for a start (that duty is usually left to specialists, such as the worm charmingly named the bone eating snot flower). How about changing the description to:

Consume (Ex): A hagfish swarm can attempt to consume prey both inside and out by entering a creature directly through the skin or by crawling into its mouth and other orifices. If a hagfish swarm successfully distracts a foe it surrounds, it takes advantage of the distraction by entering the distracted prey's body. Once hagfish have entered a creature, the victim automatically takes 4d6 points of damage in each subsequent round. If the hagfish swarm slays the prey they can completely strip the flesh off the corpse within a minute, leaving nothing behind but bones and equipment.
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[Shade]

Good idea.

Updated.

Are we ready to move on?

 

[freyar]

Think so.

 

[Shade]

Are we finished with the agnaths we wanted to do?

If so, Eomanis awaits.

 

[xidoraven]

Are we finished with the agnaths we wanted to do?

If so, Eomanis awaits.

We have begun the discussion and posting material here, here, here, here, and here. I only linked to the postings that contain veritable material on the stats for Eomanis, and this says nothing for its potential dire counterpart.

The whole thread page 65 deals with it in bits and pieces, but there are also other things being posted and discussed too which might make it harder to review the whole page for material (such as the Dinopriminals, which make me very happy - but take up a lot of posting space).

Beyond this, there is a whole plethora of other prehistoric creatures which were posted but not fully reviewed which could really use some expert eyes to tune them up, such as Dimorphodon, Potamotherium, and others.

*dances because Eomanis is up next*
-will