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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6515937" data-attributes="member: 57383">Okay, these look like they shouldn't take too long.Magical Beast is the obvious choice for creature type. They may resemble dragons in appearance, but if a Dragonne does not have the possibly Dragon type, I don't see why a Skykine would.They're similar in size and shape to a Whale, and I'm tempted to give them some stats in the same ballpark as a Whale.A Baleen Whale has 132 hit points. If we give our Skykine Con 28 its 9 Hit Dice would produce 130 hit points, which seems about right. Str 35 and Dex 13 like a Baleen Whale also seems OK.The original has a 2d12 bite and a 2d10 tail slap. I'm thinking we'd better change those to their closest equivalent in the standard natural weapon damage progressions, which would be a 3d8 bite and a 3d6 tail slap.The original's Armour Class of 5 would translate to a natural armour bonus of +8. That seems too low - somewhere around NA +14 seems more appropriate (it's the NA bonus a Dragonne or Triceratops would have if they were Advanced to Gargantuan).&quot;Kine&quot; means &quot;cows&quot;, so I'm tempted to give them the mental stats of the Bison (Int 2, Wis 11, Cha 4), although we might want to slap a +2 to that Wisdom to give them the same Wis modifier as an SRD Whale.Hmm, the above sounds pretty good. I think I'll stat it up to see what it looks like.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6515937, member: 57383"] Okay, these look like they shouldn't take too long. Magical Beast is the obvious choice for creature type. They may resemble dragons in appearance, but if a Dragonne does not have the [I]possibly[/I] Dragon type, I don't see why a Skykine would. They're similar in size and shape to a Whale, and I'm tempted to give them some stats in the same ballpark as a Whale. A Baleen Whale has 132 hit points. If we give our Skykine Con 28 its 9 Hit Dice would produce 130 hit points, which seems about right. Str 35 and Dex 13 like a Baleen Whale also seems OK. The original has a 2d12 bite and a 2d10 tail slap. I'm thinking we'd better change those to their closest equivalent in the standard natural weapon damage progressions, which would be a 3d8 bite and a 3d6 tail slap. The original's Armour Class of 5 would translate to a natural armour bonus of +8. That seems too low - somewhere around NA +14 seems more appropriate (it's the NA bonus a Dragonne or Triceratops would have if they were Advanced to Gargantuan). "Kine" means "cows", so I'm tempted to give them the mental stats of the Bison (Int 2, Wis 11, Cha 4), although we might want to slap a +2 to that Wisdom to give them the same Wis modifier as an SRD Whale. Hmm, the above sounds pretty good. I think I'll stat it up to see what it looks like. [/QUOTE]

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