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Yeah I'd rule out Hide since those scintillating scales are one of its weapons. Jump and Survival are good.

Sounds good. Do we give it a range like frightful presence, since both are laregly visually-based?

I think we've nailed this one. What I like about this is what for whatever environment you're in there's a proboscidean adapted to that with its own set of abilities that make it just that different enough from the others.

Yes, Anancus was a forest dweller. If I may digress at this point, grazers (grass-eaters) have lamellar teeth for grinding silica-bearing grass while browsers (leaf-eaters) have molars with blunt points for shredding leaves. Anancus was the former. It died out when the forests started regressing...

Ok, I haven't seen all the stats yet, but from what demiurge just said, proboscideans with more closely spaced and straighter tusks are more likely to have improved grab and toss because the animal has a better chance of scooping up an opponent with the tusks.

I'd like to get my hands on all proboscideans for comparison. There's the elephant from Monster Manual and the SRD, dire elephant and grizzly mastodon from Monster Manual II, and now the woolly mammoth from Frostburn.

So this dragon has a breath weapon that behaves in some ways like a disease that has an incubation period before the full effects work. The Styx dragon's acid breath deals damage over three rounds (half damage in the 2nd round and quarter damage in the 3rd round), so there is precedence for...

Here's an idea of how long and straight Anancus tusks were: http://www.fossil-museum.netfirms.com/pic/images/anancus_jpg.jpg I've got a book by famed Czech paleoartist Zdenel Burian that includes this animal so I've known this one for years. :) With those tusks, I think we can change its gore...

Komodo dragons, you've met your match (and then some)!

Huge size is good. 12 HD is good as well. This is the largest of the varanids by far. It's a toss-up for me between Improved Trip and Awesome Blow. Do you want to add Disease (Ex)? Komodo dragons often kill their prey due to the infection from the bacteria-laden bite they inflict, and those...

My thri-keen buddy says it looks mighty tasty! ;)

I found ballistic attack: So we can write it as a weak version of telekinetic thrust.

Sure, I'd like Shade's input on the detonate. And yes, they're not strictly psionic, though they seem analogous to psychometabolism effects.

Well, that breath weapon reminds me in some ways of the 2e crystal dragon's crystalline shards breath weapon. From the description, it seems that the beam seems to illuminate dust particles in the air. I'm getting ahead of the stats, but the entrancing effect reminds me of the nymph's blinding...

I'll streamline detonate because it doesn't do bludgeoning damage (the daggoran doesn't need to aim it as the area of effect is a burst centered on itself) and adjust the damage. Detonate (Ps): Three times per day, a daggoran can detonate the crystalline growth on its back. This is similar to...

Bring me in! I wanna see what's gonna come out of this thread. I wonder if we can suggest the various homebrewed monsters to Paizo, such as those in the new and interesting dragons thread?

Unless Mental Leap is overkill, a daggoran can have this (as a bonus feat). Detonate can be modeled on either hail of crystals or swarm of crystals, but I favor the former: Detonate (Ps): A daggoran can detonate the crystalline growth on its back. This is similar to hail of crystals, except...

I got a different figure than that: 19 (Con) * 8 rounds/Con * 6 sec/round / 60 sec/min = 15.2 minutes. The Con score * 8 is the highest multiplier in Stormwrack isn't it?

Int 4 seems a reasonable cap, a scan at the PsiBook shows that only the brain mole among the psionic magical beasts has a Int of 2. I assume freyar the higher Str is for its Jump skill?

Ooh a Dark Sun beastie. Looks like a Medium magical beast (psionic) to me.