Converting prehistoric creatures

[Cleon]

Oh, and some Aetosaurs lacked these shoulder/back spines. Should we include a "spineless option"?

Hmm, or we could make "spined aetosaurs" the option and cut the spines from the basic model.

I'll need to check whether spined or spineless species are more numerous, but I'm starting to lean towards a spineless default, since that's what the Dragon #112 article uses.

EDIT: I think I'll modify the Working Draft with a spined version.

 

[Mortis]

Should we include a "spineless option"?

Will that give it a penalty to fear checks?

Regards
Mortis

 

[Cleon]

Will that give it a penalty to fear checks?

Regards
Mortis

It'd also subtract from rolls to resist Intimidation.

 

[Shade]

It'd also subtract from rolls to resist Intimidation.

And since it's now invertebrate, should we switch the type to Vermin?

 

[Cleon]

And since it's now invertebrate, should we switch the type to Vermin?

Nah, it's still a reptile but is somehow miraculously able to live without a spine.

That suggests Magical Beast or Aberration.

 

[freyar]

You folks clearly have too much time on your hands.

Anyway, this is looking pretty good. Anything else for them?

 

[Cleon]

You folks clearly have too much time on your hands.

Anyway, this is looking pretty good. Anything else for them?

We've got to decide on the Organization - it's currently the same as the SRD crocodile - and add some flavour.

 

[Shade]

We've got to decide on the Organization - it's currently the same as the SRD crocodile - and add some flavour.

Since I know next to nothing about these guys, I'll defer to the experts.

 

[freyar]

Since I know next to nothing about these guys, I'll defer to the experts.

Same here, but I don't have a problem leaving it the same as the croc by default.

 

[Cleon]

Since I know next to nothing about these guys, I'll defer to the experts.

Well, there are some mass death assemblages of Aetosaurs (e.g. lots of fossil aetosaurs that seem to have died at the same time), suggesting at least some of them gathered in groups. There's a mass death assemblage with 24 specimens of Aetosaurus.

I think that's enough to give them "herd" organization. Maybe 4-24?