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Bears are plantigrades too. Wikipedia claims that "The fossilized teeth of Sarkastodon show that it ate a variety of foods, and probably led a lifestyle in some ways like that of modern brown bears." All the pictures of Sarkastodon that I can find show it with bear-like claws, but I can't find...

Here's what I've come up with. Sarkastodon Large Animal Hit Dice: 15d8+75 (142 hp) Initiative: +1 Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares) Armor Class: 17 (-1 size, +1 Dex, +7 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 16 Base Attack/Grapple: +11/+26 Attack: Claw +21 melee (xdx+11) Full Attack: 2 claws +21 melee...

The ability scores from some large bears: Brown Bear/Polar Bear: Str 27, Dex 13, Con 19, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 6 Dire Bear: Str 31, Dex 13, Con 19, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 10 ("A typical dire bear is 12 feet long and weighs as much as 8,000 pounds.") Dire Polar Bear: Str 39, Dex 11, Con 23, Int 2, Wis...

OK, let's start on Sarkastodon. Here's the flavor text I came up with for it: This brown-furred predatory beast is nearly the size of a rhinoceros. It resembles a melding of bear and cat, with a leonine face and a bear-like body terminating in a long, furry tail. The bear-like sarkastodon is...

Exactly what I was thinking.

I like it all. Let's give it another special attack to put it solidly at CR 8. I'm not sure whether I like trample or stampede more, but I'm leaning a bit towards trample.

OK. It's a desert creature, so its environment should be Warm deserts. (It still says "temperate plains" as a cut-and-paste from the giant camel)

If it has Ability Focus with the spit ability, shouldn't the ability allow a saving throw? Or do ranged touch attacks allow saving throws of any sort? (Certainly a poison would, and some things can shoot out their poison...) The range should be 30 feet. All the things that I looked at in the MM...

OK. Let's get started.

OK. The ability scores that Shade suggested for the dire camel were Str 26, Dex 16, Con 22, Int 2, Wis 13, Cha 5. How many hit dice should it have?

Shouldn't the stamps be +8? (instead of +7)

:lol: Now all we need is its weight and CR. One resource I found says it weighs "quite a bit more than one ton." One and a half tons maybe? CR 4?

Those are all good. Let's go with Listen and Spot for the skills. Advancement 8-12 HD (Large), 13-14 HD (Huge)? When we're done with the camels, I request that we convert Sarkastodon.

Here's what I've come up with. I know that the flavor text is a bit short...the Wikipedia article is mostly about its anatomy and I don't have Zoo Tycoon 2 installed on my laptop. Camel, Giant (Titanotylopus) Large Animal Hit Dice: 7d8+28 (59 hp) Initiative: +3 Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares) Armor...

Titanotylopus is the giant camel. There is no real-world equivalent of a dire camel. Also, Aepycamelus (or Alticamelus if you prefer) is in a third-party supplement called Animal Archives: Prehistoric Animals I, a PDF by Blackdirge Publishing.

I think Titanotylopus should get forefoot attacks no matter what we call them. I like the ability scores.

*giggle* Well certainly Titanotylopus is bigger than a modern camel, so we should give it better Str. Let's take the war camel abilities and bump the Str up to 20 or more.

OK. What's next?

Lol I just realized I misspelled it! I don't know why, but for some reason I just keep wanting to omit the last H. Those are fine for the skills, how about its feat? Here's some basic flavor text: This pudgy lizard-like creature has a short, triangular head and a bird-like beak. Rhynchosaurs...

Actually, i forgot about their size bonus (they're Small), so they only need +2 natural armor and +1 dex to add up to 14. Rhyncosaur Small Animal Hit Dice: ½d8 (2 hp) Initiative: +1 Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares) Armor Class: 14 (+1 size, +1 Dex, +2 natural), touch 12, flat-footed 13 Base...