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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7612835" data-attributes="member: 57383">I'd pretty much follow the original idea:So take the SRD Rhinoceros with its Powerful Charge SA and bolt on a standard Trample attack. Increase the HD to 12 and tweak the Strength up a bit - maybe to 28 or 30?I'd probably make them Huge as well, since these beasties are &quot;elephant sized&quot;. That'd help the Trample attack.The <s>Titanothere's</s> Megacerops damage is higher in both BECMI (2d6 gore &amp; 3d8 trample vs. the Rhino's 2d4 &amp; 2d8 in BECMI) and AD&amp;D (2d8 gore &amp; 2d6/2d6 trample vs 2d6 or 2d4 gore &amp; 2d4/2d4 trample*). That difference is accounted for if we give it a size upgrade, although I'd be happy to give it a 2d8 gore like the original too.*In AD&amp;D the 9 HD &quot;two-horned rhino&quot; has a 2-12 gore and the 8 HD &quot;one-horned rhino&quot; has 2-8.That'd probably do. The AC and Move already match the standard AD&amp;D/BECMI Rhinoceros so I wouldn't fuss around much with those beyond maybe adding a point of natural armour to balance out the size penalty of upsizing a Rhino to Huge.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 7612835, member: 57383"] I'd pretty much follow the original idea: So take the SRD Rhinoceros with its Powerful Charge SA and bolt on a standard Trample attack. Increase the HD to 12 and tweak the Strength up a bit - maybe to 28 or 30? I'd probably make them Huge as well, since these beasties are "elephant sized". That'd help the Trample attack. The [S]Titanothere's[/S] Megacerops damage is higher in both BECMI (2d6 gore & 3d8 trample vs. the Rhino's 2d4 & 2d8 in BECMI) and AD&D (2d8 gore & 2d6/2d6 trample vs 2d6 or 2d4 gore & 2d4/2d4 trample*). That difference is accounted for if we give it a size upgrade, although I'd be happy to give it a 2d8 gore like the original too. *In AD&D the 9 HD "two-horned rhino" has a 2-12 gore and the 8 HD "one-horned rhino" has 2-8. That'd probably do. The AC and Move already match the standard AD&D/BECMI Rhinoceros so I wouldn't fuss around much with those beyond maybe adding a point of natural armour to balance out the size penalty of upsizing a Rhino to Huge. [/QUOTE]

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