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Better flavor text. The massive constrictor snake emerging from the swamp water is so long it almost seems to be endless. Giant titanoboas are enormous constrictor snakes found in primeval jungles untouched by the passage of time. Though they resemble modern-day anacondas, they have a...

I think I'm starting to side with Cleon. If a real Titanoboa is 40ft long, then it shouldn't have more hit dice than a purple worm twice its size. However, looking back at the Monster Manual II, the 40-foot-long fiendwurm is listed as Gargantuan, so I still feel that Gargantuan is the correct...

I'm supporting Swallow Whole on the basis that a snake could swallow something much smaller than it (2 size categories) rather quickly. I know it takes my Tiny corn snake to a long time to swallow a Diminutive mouse, but a Small young boa constrictor might make quicker work of one. (I think...

Toughness...yick. If anything I have two non-core feats that might be useful. I found a feat called Strong Coils in Dragon 313 that improves constrict damage by one step. Also I'm quite fond of the Improved Toughness feat, and so are the people on the WotC prehistoric creatures thread I...

O_O whoa...that's a big snake. It makes my pet Elaphe guttata guttata look like a Leptotyphlops carlae. Are there any feats that can improve its Constrict ability? (I know you upsized it to Gargantuan but under the Size/Type line it still says Huge.)

OK, what's next?

OK, what information I can scare up on the size of Arctodus simus states that it's a bit over 5 feet tall at the shoulder on all fours, and when upright is 11 feet tall or more. It also says it weighs 1,800 pounds. Can't find anything about its length on all fours right now, but based on the...

I think we should go with either the dire bear's or the Agriotherium's ability scores over the polar bear's, and for whatever reason I'm leaning towards the dire bear's.

How about 10 HD? I like the Frightful Roar ability. Edit: Yay! My 100th post!

I also notice that we don't have flavor text for Combat. Otherwise, it looks like we're finished.

Now we need its CR and advancement. We also need the rend damage. Its CR looks like about a 9 to me. It has more natural and special attacks than the Sarkastodon. Advancement 16-24 HD (Large); 25-30 HD (Huge)? Am I right in guessing that the rend damage should be 2d10+15? How is rend damage...

or Gnaw or Crunch?

d12s don't get enough love ;), so let's use that for the bite damage. The skills and feats you selected look good. Also how about we call it Worry instead of Chew? The fhorge's (from FF) Worry ability has exactly the same effect but with different wording:

What's with it having the flavor text for Sarkastodon!?:confused: Unless any of you can come up with flavor text I'll have some posted tomorrow.

There's an extra closing parentheses at the end of the trip entry, probably a copy-and-paste mistake. Also I don't think the comma here is necessary unless it says "and they can crush bone to pulp." Other than that, I think we're done. I'd like to continue with the prehistoric mammals.

It looks to me to be at least CR 8. Advancement 16-18 HD (Large); 19-30 HD (Huge)?

I like the skills and feats

But wolves and lions are both back hunters - or do solitary predators do this as well? Thinking about it again, I realize that you can do pretty much the same thing in Spore if you play as a carnivorous creature, but you still have to be fast enough to catch your prey once you've spooked it...

A +2 bonus is reasonable, +4 at the absolute most. Not too sure about the roar ability, though - the point of Move Silently is not to spook your target.

OK, well then, this is a stupid thing to be arguing about. Feel free to make any of those changes you mentioned.