More prehistoric beasts

[hcobb]

Saurosuchus: Land dwelling crocodile like creature. Same stats as dragon of the same size, but without wings or fire, and IQ is 5. Uses bite instead of claw, but damage is the same. Waits on the ground next to trees or brush to ambush prey, and favors halflings

Spinosaurus: 7-hex version of Uncle Teeth that will eat humans if these are offered. ST 85, scales stop 3 hits, MA 6 on land, 12 in the water. Getting hit by its tail strike in the water causes 1d6 damage in addition to the dunking roll.

[Helborn]

There's a wonderful book about dinosaurs that my grandson loves: (National Geographic Kids: Little kids First Big Book of Dinosaurs) which divides them up into Small, Medium, Big and Giant.
Small would be anything from .5 hex to 3 hex, Medium 7+ hex, Big 14+ hex, and Giant 28+ hexes. It also shows them relative to a human being and gives nice color pictures.

Gives a variety of names that are not as familiar as the usual ones. New names means that most won't be able to tell if it's a carnivore or herbivore just from the name....
Of course a giant herbivore tromping on you still means you go splat...

[David Bofinger]

I think when counting hexes for dinosaurs only count the parts that are close enough to the ground they can be got at and don't move around too much. So generally don't count most of the tail, that's represented by giving them a thrash attack. In the case of a sauropod, same thing for the neck. So most dinosaurs have probably got a few less hexes than putting a picture of them on a hex grid would make you think.

[hcobb]

Spinosaurus keeps the reach attack of Uncle Teeth, as it is 50 feet from tip to tip

[Bill_in_IN]

Originally Posted by hcobb

Spinosaurus keeps the reach attack of Uncle Teeth, as it is 50 feet from tip to tip

I concur. I we usually preferred to consider the space on the hex map to be the ground footprint and allowed for reach of extremities as "X" number of hexes from the base counter. Uncle Teeth is an excellent example as a 4 hex base with reach for the long neck/bite attack and tail length.

[hcobb]

I wouldn't give Pistosauroidea such as Uncle Teeth any tail attack.