Converting prehistoric creatures

[freyar]

The slime does sound protective (slippery and gill-clogging), but I think a lot of them making "visco-elastic" goop would be possibly entangling. Sounds like it tangles up gills.

The write up looks good, too!

 

[demiurge1138]

Slime looks good.

 

[InsanePsychoRabbit]

Slime looks good, but there's the following issue with Consume:

Consume (Ex): ...Once scarabs have entered a creature...

 

[Shade]

Updated.

 

[freyar]

Make swarm and consume damage the same? I'm thinking 1d6 or 2d6, as I don't know quite how nasty these should be.

Compared to the dire lamprey we just did, does +1 natural or even no natural armor seem appropriate?

 

[Shade]

Consume deals double the swarm damage for the death scarabs.

2d6 is probably about right for a swarm of that HD range.

 

[freyar]

So 2d6 and 4d6 respectively? Sounds ok.

Let's go with no natural armor based on size comparison (and just to make it a tiny bit easier to damage these, they're mean!).

 

[demiurge1138]

I'm okay with no natural armor. They're soft.

 

[Cleon]

Agree on the 2d6 damage and no NA.

Swarms tend to do 1d6 per four HD (round up) and hagfish are mighty squishy.

 

[xidoraven]

Off-topic question

I apologize, but need to interject on the current animal topic and ask the experts a question:

Is there a precedent for stats on a skunk's spray somewhere? I am making a draft of Eomanis (a prehistoric, semi-armored Pangolin) and was trying to bring up the idea of a noxious spray with it on the other forum...

I swear, I am working directly from common knowledge, and pangolins can spray. It is said that it can be nauseatingly potent and can be acidic and/or dry to be quite tacky - that last bit I got from animal planet channel on tv.

So maybe when there is a need for a next-up creature, Eomanis might get a go-round for consideration? A link to something skunkly at least?



Btw, I really have learned some things since watching this thread... I never knew about a hagfish before this discussion took place. HOWEVER, after watching natgeo channel - I also propose a write-up for the Snakehead fish. That shiite is some wicked crazy fish, and needs a good statting (amphibious, land-waddling, big-toothed, air-breathing fish? Seriously!)