Converting "Real World" Animals and Vermin

[demiurge1138]

With secondary attacks, those damage bonuses should be +6 and +3 for gore and hooves respectively.

 

[Shade]

With secondary attacks, those damage bonuses should be +6 and +3 for gore and hooves respectively.

Do they need to be secondary attacks, though? They seem just as mean as bison.

Wanna use this?

Arctic Adaptation (Ex): A musk-ox does not need to make Fortitude saves to avoid taking nonlethal damage in conditions between 40 degrees and -20 degrees. In conditions of extreme cold (below -20 degrees) it must make Fortitude saves like any other creature, but gains a +4 racial bonus on this save.

 

[demiurge1138]

Well, I'd rather make the hooves secondary attacks if we give them hooves at all. I'd be just as content to give it gore only.

Arctic adaptation looks perfect!

 

[Shade]

Oh, I see it now. I gave the primary Str and 1/2. Duh.

I'm cool with ditching the hooves, too, unless someone strongly wants them.

Trample 1d8+9?

 

[demiurge1138]

I'm alright with the hooves, so long as they get a +3 Str bonus. I wasn't suggesting that all of their natural attacks be secondary, but I can see how that impression came across. Trample 1d8+9 looks right.

 

[Shade]

Muskoxen have a distinctive defensive behavior: when the herd is threatened, the bulls and cows will face outward to form a stationary ring around the calves. This is an effective defense against predators such as wolves, but makes them an easy target for human hunters.

Wanna do something mechanically with this?

 

[demiurge1138]

Defensive stance is a possibility, but I think it works fine as flavor. Overruning is hard enough in D&D that the wolves wouldn't be able to reach a calf surrounded by a ring of angry oxen.

 

[freyar]

These look pretty good! I'm abivalent on something like defensive stance, as these probably break off to trample from time to time, too.

These are still probably CR 2, though perhaps a little weaker than bison. Advancement is fine.

 

[Shade]

Updated.

Anything left?

 

[freyar]

Looks good!