old sci fi monsters

[qstor]

anyone have any ideas for converting these old Traveller creatures to d20?

Tree Kraken-Looks like an evil land dwelling octopus, one meter tall.
Sea Bear-Imagine a vicious looking biped with 6 arms & just over a meter tall.
Crested Jabberwock-Picture a horse-sized wingless dragon.
Bloodvark-Looks like a large canine with an oversized armored head, front legs look as if the creature was once a biped.
Dagshark-Picture a flying manta ray with a 6-meter wingspan. It’s mouth is twice bisected, creating four equal parts coming together when the mouth is closed.
Grass Dog- Best described as a long-tailed dog with a Chinese dragon’s head.
Gratheudom- Large heavily armored mammalian body. The head and tail both sport impressive armor. Must be 6 meter long and nearly 2 meters at the shoulder.
Kian- Reminiscent of the two-legged riding beast used by Luke on Hoth, but without the tusks.
Bush Runner-One meter tall raptor.

Mike

 

[Doghead Thirteen]

Triffid - From the John Wyndham book. A three-legged carnivorous plant with a deadly whiplash stinger on the top.

 

[Shade]

Tree Kraken-Looks like an evil land dwelling octopus, one meter tall.

You could probably use an octopus and drop its swim speed, ink cloud, and jet abilities. Maybe replace with a climb speed.

Sea Bear-Imagine a vicious looking biped with 6 arms & just over a meter tall.

A girallon with an extra set of arms?

Crested Jabberwock-Picture a horse-sized wingless dragon.

If you have Draconomicon, the spiked felldrake would probably be close.

Bloodvark-Looks like a large canine with an oversized armored head, front legs look as if the creature was once a biped.

Maybe use the Deinonychus, but make the bite the primary (and only) attack.

Dagshark-Picture a flying manta ray with a 6-meter wingspan. It’s mouth is twice bisected, creating four equal parts coming together when the mouth is closed.

You could use the terlen from the Fiend Folio and just describe it differently. Alternately, use the manta ray stats, give it a fly speed of 30 ft (average) and a bite attack that deals 1d8 or more damage.

Grass Dog- Best described as a long-tailed dog with a Chinese dragon’s head.

Use the riding dog's stats as a baseline, increase the bite damage and possibly some of the ability scores.

Gratheudom- Large heavily armored mammalian body. The head and tail both sport impressive armor. Must be 6 meter long and nearly 2 meters at the shoulder.

Advance a dire tiger to Huge, increase natural armor by +5, drop pounce and rake, maybe give it DR 5/-.

Kian- Reminiscent of the two-legged riding beast used by Luke on Hoth, but without the tusks.

Any Large bipedal dinosaur or flightless bird would probably work.

Bush Runner-One meter tall raptor.

Is this a raptor in the dinosaur sense, or the bird sense?

 

[Echohawk]

Triffid - From the John Wyndham book. A three-legged carnivorous plant with a deadly whiplash stinger on the top.

AD&D stats for triffids actually appeared in Dragon #53 (p58), so they should be game for a 3.5 update .

 

[BOZ]

just not for the CC - i don't want to mess around with copyrights on things WotC doesn't own.