Converting prehistoric animals
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demiurge1138
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I'd go with Weapon Focus (bite) over Alertness, but otherwise, looks good.
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Cyclotosaurus
CLIMATE/TERRAIN: Swamps, marshes,
rivers
FREQUENCY: Common
DIET: Carnivore
NO. APPEARING: 3d8
ARMOR CLASS: 8
MOVEMENT: 2, SW 10
HIT DICE: 5
No. OF ATTACKS: 1
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1d12
SPECIAL ATTACKS: + 1 to surprise foes in
swampy terrain
SPECIAL DEFENSES: None
SIZE: L (14’ long)
MORALE: Steady (11)
Cyclotosaurus is something of a successor to Eogyrinus in the "amphibian-crocodile" line. Possibly appearing in the mid-to-late Permian period, it is found most often in the Triassic period in the Mesozoic era. Unlike the eel-like Eogyrinus, Cyclotosaurus is built like a conventional crocodile with about the same body proportions. Only the lack of scales on its smooth skin betrays its real ancestry, and a character caught in its jaws might not appreciate such subtleties.
Cyclotosaurus hunts in the same manner as a crocodile, lurking near riverbanks and ambushing anything that comes by to drink. Its great jaws do enough damage to kill the toughest 1st-level character with a single snap. The creature's durability is testimony to its efficient hunting methods; it did not become extinct until real reptilian crocodiles evolved from a branch of the archosaurs.
Originally apperead in Dragon Magazine #176 (1991).
CLIMATE/TERRAIN: Swamps, marshes,
rivers
FREQUENCY: Common
DIET: Carnivore
NO. APPEARING: 3d8
ARMOR CLASS: 8
MOVEMENT: 2, SW 10
HIT DICE: 5
No. OF ATTACKS: 1
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1d12
SPECIAL ATTACKS: + 1 to surprise foes in
swampy terrain
SPECIAL DEFENSES: None
SIZE: L (14’ long)
MORALE: Steady (11)
Cyclotosaurus is something of a successor to Eogyrinus in the "amphibian-crocodile" line. Possibly appearing in the mid-to-late Permian period, it is found most often in the Triassic period in the Mesozoic era. Unlike the eel-like Eogyrinus, Cyclotosaurus is built like a conventional crocodile with about the same body proportions. Only the lack of scales on its smooth skin betrays its real ancestry, and a character caught in its jaws might not appreciate such subtleties.
Cyclotosaurus hunts in the same manner as a crocodile, lurking near riverbanks and ambushing anything that comes by to drink. Its great jaws do enough damage to kill the toughest 1st-level character with a single snap. The creature's durability is testimony to its efficient hunting methods; it did not become extinct until real reptilian crocodiles evolved from a branch of the archosaurs.
Originally apperead in Dragon Magazine #176 (1991).
demiurge1138
Inventor of Super-Toast
I don't think that converting this is necessary.
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