Converting prehistoric creatures

Added to Homebrews. We just need weight, methinks.

Hmm, I think their underslung jaws are probably hidden beneath their body so oughtn't to be in the description. They also aren't that big compared to the size of the animal.

The "Wiwaxia are primarily scavengers, but capture smaller prey if given the chance." doesn't jibe very well with "Wiwaxia is a simple predator, crawling toward prey and biting with its large jaws."

It also wouldn't hurt to say what shape it is...

This three-foot creature has a square-sided elliptical body covered in hard, scaly plates. Seven pairs of long, bladelike spines run down each side of its body. It oozes along like a slug.

Wiwaxia is a primitive marine vermin. It spends most of its time crawling across the muddy ocean floor looking for food.

Wiwaxia are primarily scavengers, but devour live prey if given the chance. Wiwaxia have a backwards-slanted mouth hidden beneath their body, just in front of their slug-like foot. Folded inside this mouth are two or three flexible rows of conical teeth, the wiwaxia can push these jaws out of its mouth to scrape away food.

A wiwaxia is 3 feet long and weighs 50 pounds or more.

COMBAT

Wiwaxia crawl toward anything that smells edible and then bites with powerful snaps of its tooth-rows.
 

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Ottoia
FREQUENCY Uncommon
NO. APPEARING: 1-6
ARMOR CLASS: 7, 3 (head)
MOVEMENT 2, Br 6
HIT DICE: 6
THAC0: 15
NO. OF ATTACKS: 1
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 2d8
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Swallow whole
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Spines
SIZE: G (30’ long)
MORALE: Fearless (20)
XP VALUE: 975

Ottoia is a priapulid (a type of primitive worm) that is strictly carnivorous, burrowing in the sand and waiting for prospective prey to come to it. The creature senses the approach of prey by feeling the vibrations generated by its movement, and its head is several feet below the top of the hole that is its ambush point. When a victim is close enough, Ottoia extends its proboscis up to six feet and bites (doing 2d8 damage). In the AD&D game, if the beast’s attack roll is four or higher than what was needed, the victim is swallowed whole. In the BUGHUNTERS game, the creature has a Success Margin of 7 to determine if its prey has been swallowed. Swallowed victims have one chance to break free (make a Strength or a Fitness roll); anyone swallowed will take 1d10 points of damage from digestive juices until he dies. To make matters worse, these worms often live together in clusters of six, with their burrows arranged in a circular formation, so getting hit by one Ottoia is equivalent to stepping on one mine in a minefield. As usual, swallowed victims take half damage from any attacks on the swallower, but this shouldn’t happen too often. Remember, the animal is completely buried under up to ten feet of sand, save for its head. Once the proboscis is withdrawn, the head presents a blank, roughly spherical front, and is covered with short spines that do 1d6 damage to any characters coming in contact with them. BUGHUNTERS PCs also remove three damage points and two lethality ratings to any attack on the head.

Originally appeared in Dragon Magazine #204 (1994).
 

Didn't we convert another tube worm like this sometime? We should just be able to borrow the attack from that, maybe just tweak it.
 


Seems like we just used their normal reach and gave them Imp Grab and Chew. Here, maybe change that to Imp Grab and Swallow Whole. Nothing special for the tubes, so I guess we assumed normal cover rules.
 



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