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From the name alone I guessed it might have similarities to the ocean giant in Monster Manual II, and the Type II giant does physically resemble it.

Wow! That's a first with the group breath weapon. It doesn't need to deal more hp damage in the dark for me since this is independent of the ambient light conditions (unlike blindness).

Yep, there's that flightless desert-living brown dragon (as if deserts aren't already crowded with blues and brasses) though it's located in Raurin rather than down south, where yet another flightless desert dragon, the rattelyr, lives. I wonder how they chose those three colors.

At first I was not sure it should have a gore attack, but seeing that bison and boar have them, why not? Trample yes, stamp I doubt.

I agree with all three, I'm just curious how we can word the last one. (With the sidebar on draconic evolution, it's feasible to re-classify the night dragon not as a true dragon, but a lesser dragon that happens to share the same age categories as true dragons—the sea serpents in Dragon...

Let's compare the megaraptor to the advanced deinonychus: hp: mega- slightly higher Str, Dex, Con: mega- has higher Dex but lower Str and Con Talons, claw, bite: deino- slightly higher The advanced deino- packs slightly more punch for a loss of one HD compared to the mega-. I think I'll go for...

We can stick with 12 age categories and still have the short life span since the rattelyr from Faerûn's Shining South ages 5× faster than normal, reaching great wyrm at 240 years. Also the rattelyr, like the night dragon, has very few abilities (hood and rattle), but these are potent.

Quick take: with such a gaping maw it must have Swallow Whole, and as the jaws in all likelihood applied a tremendous amount of force it could have Ability Focus (bite), increased damage, or Improved Grab. Here's a video of it's close relative Liopleurodon attacking, from Walking With Dinosaurs.

It does look like a smaller dragon. I agree with freyar on the copper's size progression.

I'm happy with it.

Complete skeletons have not yet been found, so the 30 ft length is a tad conservative estimate and it could be bigger (a similar case for Quetzalcoatlus); it seems like a scaled-up Beipiaosaurus.

Ooze. If it does have undead traits, there's a precedent of sorts in the teratomorph in MM II which, while not having the chaotic subtype, attacks rather like a chaos beast.

We could go either way. If it has rend maybe it's because it's an aggressively defensive herbivore. If it has a combat feat it means it has a particularly notable way of defending itself beyond the usual slash. BTW, if you want to see feathered Chinese dinosaurs (like therizinosaurus) in all...

Are you freakin' kidding me?! Reality revision's like psionic wish. :p Affinity field is great for when healing itself the leviathan gets to heal its allies at close range; likewise a dreadnought or red dragon that harms it in melee combat gets the damage too. Talk about passive aggressive. I...

Stealth makes sense if it's a stalk-and-ambush predator (like a lion) rather than a stalk-and-chase predator (like a wolf). The former has short, bulky muscles for the quick bursts of energy for ambush, while the latter has long, lean muscles for sustained chases. Since Ornitholestes has long...

Just an interjection at this point. Since all the Philippine monsters have been converted, I'll do a PDF of all of them using public domain fonts and art to give it an Asian feel, along with sidebars on the real-world myths of each of them; then I'll send it to the CC.

I was about to say Improved Grab but Demiurge beat me to it. Especially if we want it to live up to its name, it could snatch Small or smaller, low-flying birds in flight.

Here's my lucky MS Excel psion class spreadsheet (ain't spreadsheets so damn useful for D&D? ;) ). A psion that maxes its power progression, whereby it learns higher level powers as soon as it can, has the following power level list at 20th level: 1st—5 powers; 2nd—4 powers; 3rd—4 powers; 4th—4...

At least for the cover, it's not another red dragon. It sorta monopolized the 3e books (as well as Dragons: Worlds Afire). I wonder if Races of the Dragon and Dragon Magic especially (with the part on variant dragon abilities) are hints as to how 4e dragons will be different. Maybe some dragons...

I have to confess that I'm not familiar with the last few beasties because they're taken from different parts of the Philippines, and given our archipelagic nature, and 85+ linguistically-differentiated tribes, each has it's own but nonetheless related and parallel set of beliefs, myths, and...