Ideas for new Megafauna Creatures


Pathfinder First Edition General Discussion

Scarab Sages

Here's some thoughts on what could be the next creatures labeled as Megafauna:

-Therocephalian: A mammal-like reptile that looks like a combination of a Komodo Dragon and a dog. Although the size of a coyote it has a poisonous bite as strong as a large snake.

-Dunkleosteous: This immense, 35 foot long fish has an armored head and teeth-like bony plates that can crunch through the armor of large sea turtles and easily kill larger prey like small whales.

-Sea Scorpion (Eurypterid): While not truly scorpions, these aquatic creatures range in size from the 3-foot long Megalograptus to the 11-foot long Pterygotus. No matter what size, though, sea scorpions are bold predators.

-Gorgonops: This rhino-sized predator looks like a reptilian wolf. It has 4-inch saber fangs used to bring down larger prey.

What do you guys think?


The Dunkleosteous and Eurypterids are already Pathfinder beasties. It would be neat to see the Gorgonops statted out, maybe even as a mount. I love megafauna, and I populate my homebrew worlds with several different extinct creatures as "replacements" for many ordinary animals. No dinosaurs, though. I'm tired of dinosaurs.

Dark Archive

Considering that they included dimetrodons as dinosaurs, the same would probably also apply to other non-mammal synapsids.

Scarab Sages

DungeonmasterCal wrote:
The Dunkleosteous and Eurypterids are already Pathfinder beasties. It would be neat to see the Gorgonops statted out, maybe even as a mount. I love megafauna, and I populate my homebrew worlds with several different extinct creatures as "replacements" for many ordinary animals. No dinosaurs, though. I'm tired of dinosaurs.

I can see it now...a half-orc riding a Gorgonops...that would be AWESOME!!

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