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Hi Shade and Co, I'm late to the party, as usual. Anyway, glad to hear you take a break, and now it's my turn to pipe up with the news that I've been on the road again for the office this year A LOT, hence my absence. In fact, I'm on travel right now, and am sending you guys a greet before...

There's some debate as to whether a recently describe giant Pliosaurus is actually either Kronosaurus or Liopluerodon, but in any case it demonstrates that this genus can be scaled up, as per the rest of Cleon's post. True, an 80 foot pliosaur, has, as of this writing at least, not yet been...

Huge for me.

Agreed, they're too similar to crocodiles to be differntiated game-wise. As an aside, the name phyotosaur means "plant lizard" which is obviously misleading for a carnivore. How the first paleontologist who named them came to the conclusion they were peaceful herbivores boggles me!:hmm:

Cleon's got the herd organization and physical stats pat down so it's a go for me.

Good point you made about the xill comparison, Shade, and those skill points seem all right to me.

Hmm… that's a valid point about the charge. If we opt to make spines offensive as well as defensive (#1 and #2 options) weapons, would a slam make sense?

The shoulder spikes seem like they work best when the animal is charging or turning it's head and shoulders sideways. I suppose you can work the damage when the aetosaur charges?

How about… Psi-like Abilities: Always active—synesthete (feel light and feel sound only); at will—chameleon; x/day—catfall, mind blank, shadow body.

True, but we can qualify it along something like Wall walker (Su or Ex): as the power, except that the creature can climb at its normal speed. Maybe restrict it to rocky surfaces.

Agreed on those, it's more terrestrial than amphibious and as a vegetarian it had a far weaker bite. It may have had a more erect posture than a crocodile, but the ankle remains crocodile-like so at most it would have only a +5 speed boost I'd say.

Ok, quick glance: look like it has the catfall, chameleon, mind blank, synesthete (feel light and feel sound effects only), and shadow body powers as PLA or Su, and paralysis-dealing poison. It would be fitting if it has the eponymously-named power wall walker given that it can climb on ceilings.

Ooh, an aetosaur! Fearsome-looking plant-eater distant crocodile relative. (Unlike the misnamed phytosaur, the carnivorous "plant lizard".) Of course dinosaurs like Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus (in the Monster Manual II) were tail swingers too, but theirs were spiked and spiked/clubbed...

I checked all three saber-toothed cats, and it looks like you did a good job of differentiating them from one another other than just HD while noting their similarities. Neat-o!

Whew. Sorry I've been away so long guys, this year's been busy travel-wise for the office. Being sent away on two-week fieldworks plus attending seminars and workshops in and out-of-town. I'll take a look at the Smilodon and come back to you.

We can specify that this detect psionics PLA only detects psionic creatures.

Sorry guys; the office has been sending me on meetings outside the workplace and I've had to travel out of town so I've only been sporadic here. So I missed quite a lot of develoment here. A psionic creature has a psionic aura even when drained of all power points, so an Su ability of detect...

Dex 12 is agile enough for me too.

Well, the spidery ectoplasmic swarm from Complete Psionic is a magical beast with Int —.

This ought to be a magic beast then. The text doesn't explicitly mention how the leech benefits from the drained power points, ie. converted to hit points, etc. Also I think a brain mole might be a better model since it doesn't need to touch its targets and it has the power leech PLA.