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11 HD also sounds good for this swarm. Incidentally,despite the "armor" in its nickname it is unrelated to the Dunkleosteus we did way back.

I concur with freyar

I remember we gave the pink dragon over at the true dragons thread a unique spellcasting progression. I think we can modify that for the phase dragon.

Speaking of… BREAKING NEWS! PREHISTORIC DIRE PIRANHA! If you think the piranha swarm in Stormwrack was bad enough, a swarm of dire piranhas was truly nightmarish. They made their modern cousins look like goldfish by comparison. Ok, the article below says they may not have been as carnivorous...

In a forest setting where predators can be lurking behind the foliage? Sounds justifiable.

Same here.

Works for me too; it also differentiates them as a group.

Higher Int and Wis then? Skipping ahead to the breath weapon (can I anticipate this already?), we can use just the weaker version and say that it can apply a (enlarging metabreath) feat to it 4/day.

This odd-looking proboscidean was a forest browser, since it's comparatively long legs and short trunk meant it couldn't reach grass in a standing position. The teeth were likewise ill-equipped for grinding grass (do you know that grass actually incorporates tiny crystals of silica to make...

I couldn't find any rhino, woolly or otherwise, in Frostburn, so I suppose the Fiend Folio dire rhino can stand in for Elasmotherium. BTW, Elasmotherium is regarded by some paleontologists as the real-world prehistoric unicorn. Think of it as a unicorn on steroids.:lol:

So, a creature with a gaze attack such as a medusa that attempts to petrify the beast will fail if the gazing at it head on, because the arsinoithere won't meet its eyes. It will have to cock its head, as ISR indicates, to see the creature, if it wants to. Behaviorally, should it do so, in order...

Just wanna add here that the fang references were for the uintathere, not the arsinoethere. Augmented critical on those twin massive horns! Perfect!

Yes, I agree with Freyar on 9d8. The Eocene saw a burst of large mammals to fill the void the dinosaurs left. Relative brain size is low compared to modern mammals however, so a low Cha and modest Wis is fair enough. We can compare the bite damage from the fangs to those of a hippo, but...

This Pleistocene creature looked like a shaggy, camel with a tapir-like trunk. It had a long neck with thick limbs, and it browsed on leaves from trees and bushes. Combat Generally inoffensive, this creature prefers to run away from predators but if cornered it can lash out with it's hooves...

Are there statted trunked animals with Scent or any olfactory-based bonuses? Though with a short trunk it may be unnecessary for this one. There was speculation that it was amphibious and used the trunk as a snorkel, but it's not widely accepted.

Not as robust as a camel, from what I know, so less HD is good. And it's often depicted with the neck held vertically like a giraffe's. Macrauchenia is a litoptern, a group of South American ungulates that converged on other ungulates. If the macrauchenids converged on camels, the prototherids...

Just one thing left. Here's the ageing table for familiar drakes if they age as fast as rattelyrs (five times as fast as true dragons) Category Age (Years) wyrmling 0 - 1 very young 2 - 3 young 4 - 5 juvenile 6 - 10 young adult 11 - 20 adult...

Weight's fine with me.

That static CR progression actually has precedent. In the Greyhawk dragon's stats in Dragon magazine it had two successive age categories with the same CR; but in Dragons of Faerûn and the original WotC web article where it is called the steel dragon, it doesn't have that.

Coming a bit late to Moropus… Rend for me! Not only were they big, but also somewhat heavy set. A leafy diet like that requires a lot of gut for digestion, which adds to the weight of many such modern mammals. So an advanced Moropus should pack on the weight.