InsanePsychoRabbit
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Those all sound good.
Converting prehistoric creatures
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Shade
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Sure. Shall we start with this one, and work our way up?
demiurge1138
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Sure!
Shade
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Ability scores of some other Diminutive animals...
Bat: Str 1, Dex 15, Con 10, Int 2, Wis 14, Cha 4
Toad: Str 1, Dex 12, Con 11, Int 1, Wis 14, Cha 4
Chipmunk: Str 1, Dex 16, Con 11, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 4
Ferret: Str 3, Dex 15, Con 10, Int 6, Wis 12, Cha 5 (familiar stats)
Hedgehog: Str 3, Dex 12, Con 10, Int 6, Wis 12, Cha 5 (familiar stats)
Bat: Str 1, Dex 15, Con 10, Int 2, Wis 14, Cha 4
Toad: Str 1, Dex 12, Con 11, Int 1, Wis 14, Cha 4
Chipmunk: Str 1, Dex 16, Con 11, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 4
Ferret: Str 3, Dex 15, Con 10, Int 6, Wis 12, Cha 5 (familiar stats)
Hedgehog: Str 3, Dex 12, Con 10, Int 6, Wis 12, Cha 5 (familiar stats)
demiurge1138
Inventor of Super-Toast
Let's go for something akin to a hedgehog. Bump the Con to 13--I see high Con as a theme throughout the lineage. Give it move speed 10ft, burrow 10ft? Or do we see these guys living above ground? I know Diictodon was a burrower.
InsanePsychoRabbit
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I imagine them as burrowers as well. According to the Diictodon article, deserts were "the dominant environment on the continent of Pangaea in the Late Permian Period." Also, both Diictodon and Robertia were found in South Africa.
demiurge1138
Inventor of Super-Toast
...am I the only one who wants to get speculative with these guys?
We know Diictodon survived the Permian extinction, which killed off 90% of all life on Earth. That's why I made their familiar bonus a bonus to Survival checks, and when we get to them, I'm going to suggest they get a massive racial bonus to Survival. Robertia, on the other hand, didn't make it, which raises the possibility that its life style was too specialized to survive a period of hardship.
Which is a roundabout way of saying that I want Robertia to be analogous to naked mole rats. Colonial hive structure with only one reproductive female, vast burrow complexes under the baking desert. I'd feel more vindicated in this view if we had multiple Robertia specimens from the same locality. Unfortunately, I can only find citations of the original paper describing Robertia, but not the paper itself.
We know Diictodon survived the Permian extinction, which killed off 90% of all life on Earth. That's why I made their familiar bonus a bonus to Survival checks, and when we get to them, I'm going to suggest they get a massive racial bonus to Survival. Robertia, on the other hand, didn't make it, which raises the possibility that its life style was too specialized to survive a period of hardship.
Which is a roundabout way of saying that I want Robertia to be analogous to naked mole rats. Colonial hive structure with only one reproductive female, vast burrow complexes under the baking desert. I'd feel more vindicated in this view if we had multiple Robertia specimens from the same locality. Unfortunately, I can only find citations of the original paper describing Robertia, but not the paper itself.
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RavinRay
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ISR and demiurge, you're so pat on the dicynodonts! 
I like these critters, in my Dinosaurs: A Global View by Stephen and Sylvia Czerkas, a lavishly-illustrated coffee-table book (it's like the Draconomicon of paleo books in my collection 
), there's a group of Diictodon emerging from their burrows, and a dead Kannemeyeria being savaged by a pack of tiger-striped cynodonts, its throat torn open.
I've never made a connection with the naked mole rats (they're far less warm-blooded than almost any other mammal), but that's an interesting twist for Robertia. demiurge if you're really interested I can ask at the Vertebrate Paleontology Mailing list for a Robertia PDF.
Deserts dominated Pangaea because much of the supercontinent was so far away from the cooling and humidifying effects of the ocean.
I like these critters, in my Dinosaurs: A Global View by Stephen and Sylvia Czerkas, a lavishly-illustrated coffee-table book (it's like the Draconomicon of paleo books in my collection ), there's a group of Diictodon emerging from their burrows, and a dead Kannemeyeria being savaged by a pack of tiger-striped cynodonts, its throat torn open.I've never made a connection with the naked mole rats (they're far less warm-blooded than almost any other mammal), but that's an interesting twist for Robertia. demiurge if you're really interested I can ask at the Vertebrate Paleontology Mailing list for a Robertia PDF.
Deserts dominated Pangaea because much of the supercontinent was so far away from the cooling and humidifying effects of the ocean.
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