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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 4959308" data-attributes="member: 57383">After some further rummaging through your index of links, I suspect there are a few creatures that more properly belong in <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/homebrews/264367-dinopriminals-phantasy-prehistorium-nym-omarka.html" target="_blank">Phantasy Prehistorium</a> rather than here, at least according to the criteria you proposed.For example, we statted up the Giant Titanoboa as an oversized version of that ancient reptile, not an accurate conversion, hence the "Giant". The SRD's giant constrictor snake is probably pretty close to a realistic Titanoboa.On a different track, there's no evidence for Microceratus being a colonial animal like the version on the Wizards' boards. While I like the idea of dinosaurs which live like ants, I think it should be relegated to the Phantasy thread.Incidentally, I can think of a couple of other interesting eusocial herbivorous dinosaur from fiction that I'm tempted to convert sometime.In Douglas Dixon's The New Dinosaurs there's a Pachycephalosaur which live in hanging "citadels" of brush resembling a giant version of a weaver bird's nest. One female is the breeding queen, the rest are workers, young males are warriors who defend the others using poisoned spines on their head, when the males grow old enough they lose the spines and become breeding drones for a short period, then die.Greg Bear's Dinosaur Summer has "Communisaurs" or "Fork-Tails" which live in fortresses built of earth and logs. They can produce an extremely strong scent (at least the largest ones in the book did, which may suggest some kind of Queen-pheromones), and have a powerful tail armed with a pair of spikes. According to Wikipedia these are some kind of Therapsid (a mammal-like reptile), but it doesn't give any sources to confirm this was Mr Bear's intent. When I read the book I assumed they were some kind of Thyreophora (The suborder of "Armoured dinosaur" which includes such beasts as Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus) because of their weaponised tail. They just don't feel like Therapsids to me, since most Therapsids use their jaws as their primary weapon, few of them have "saur" in their name, and I don't recall any mention of hair or whiskers in the book (not that we know for a fact that all Therapsids had such).</blockquote>

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