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Originally Posted by Anthony
Musta been lightweight, which isn't unreasonable if 150m was tip to tail for something kinda serpentine; BL of 1225 tons implies mass of 1,400 tons, which is on the high end for a SM +8 humanoid (typical mass 750T) or low end for SM +9 (typical mass 2,500T).
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Fully half is tail and the bones and muscles are much lighter than equivalent natural creatures.
It's SM +10 (ignore the tail, it's not really relevant) and 1,400 tons.
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Originally Posted by Anthony
That's pretty low. If you give a man-sized crocodile or komodo dragon DR 1-2, equivalent strength materials will result in DR 350-700 for the body as a whole.
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Proportionally much thinner scales, as the creature wants to fly. Yes, it has supermuscles and magic providing lift, but the less we have to trick physics, the better. One day, physics might be in a position to get us back.
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Originally Posted by Anthony
Eye DR depends on structure, but nictitating membranes are quite common for reptilian creatures (and a lot of creatures don't have a straight path between eye and brain), and a vanilla nictitating membrane is DR 1 in GURPS, so that scales up into the hundreds at least.
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Inner Nictitating Membrane with DR 12 + 20 (Limited Defence: Non-magical weapons). Outer eyelid with DR 28 (Hardened 2) that adds on top, but requires a Dodge roll at +4 to close on attacks.