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Lediblock2 [2016-10-01 17:27:16 +0000 UTC]

Name time!

#73) Thundersong - This elephant-sized herbivore roams the land in herds of up to 150 animals, using the specialized structures on their snouts to create booming 'songs' that sound like a mix of a whale's song and crashing thunder. (Ideas: Replace the structures on the snout with 'knobs' like those of the extinct Uintatherium, except they're curved inwards at the top like a goblet; more tusks; rhino-like hide, replace the sail with a ridge of muscle a la Acrocanthosaurus)
#74) Squidwurm - 3-foot-long ancient cephalopods from the same recently-opened underwater cavern as the slashrak, squidwurms have developed a long, thin body that they use to propel themselves like a fish's tail, their tentacles held together in a sort of cone shape. (Could stand to have a smooth body instead of a ringed one; maybe make it steel grey with lines of bioluminescent lights along the sides? Fins could also be a bit bigger)
#75) Scalamander - Reaching lengths of over 8 feet long, these immense carnivorous amphibians make their homes in a surprising location: desert oases. In times of drought, the scalamander's tough armored hide keeps it from drying out, and the creature can put itself into a dormant state to weight out the rains. Tales tell of a much larger, sleeker subspecies with no limbs or eyes that 'swims' beneath the sands, bursting out from the soil to attack animals on the surface.
#76) Geckidrak - These tiny cat-sized winged reptiles are also known as 'lesser dragons,' much to the chagrin of larger species. Non-sapient, geckidraks make their homes in tropical rainforest environments, often in large flocks of several dozen animals, roasting insects with their ability to belch a short-range blast of embers and superheated air. Lesser dragons make popular pets, but their ability to fly means that they often escape into the wild. Multiple populations exist in different locales that have adapted to their environments, from nearly blind serpentine sewer-dwellers to vicious predator urban predators that stalk pigeons and feral cats.
#77) Evisceraptor sounds like a good enough name, but the design could be improved upon. I'm thinking some inspiration from feathered raptors, replacing the plumage on its arms, spine, and tail with dozens of long, flat blades. I'd say to make it a bit slinkier as well-maybe some inspiration from Coelophysis and the WWD Ornitholestes?
#78) Timbernipper - These forest carnivores may only be the size of a squirrel, but they more than make up for it with swiftness, numbers, and sheer aggression. Stories abound of timbernippers skeletonizing fully-grown deer within just a few minutes, swarming onto unlucky animals in the dozens and tearing into them with their razor-sharp fangs, which are sharp enough to crush bone with ease. Fortunately, the reputation that these little mammals have earned for themselves is actually largely undeserved; timbernippers typically only go for animals that are clearly about to die and will offer little resistance - they may be deadly, but they're still very small. A marten or a cat could kill a timbernipper pretty easily in a one-on-one fight, and a simple punch is more than enough to send it flying.
#79) Snippernipper - Mouse-sized relatives of the pillbug that live on the forest floor of the Underdark's mushroom forests. They mainly feed on fallen plant matter, but they're also fully capable of eating carrion and even live animals, their shearing mandibles tearing through flesh with ease. (Design ideas: Axe the long antennae and the butt pincers, shrink the eyes a little bit, and make the mandibles a bit bigger)
#80) Night Glider - A species of nocturnal cat the size of a mountain lion, night gliders are nocturnal felines that live on forested mountainsides, feeding on pretty much anything that they can catch. The squirrel-like flaps of skin that give the night glider its name don't allow for true flight, but they do allow the creature to glide for several hundred feet - an extremely useful ability in its rocky, uneven habitat. (Design suggestions: Fangs could be a bit longer, and Thylacoleo forepaws would work well for it. The tail could be a bit thinner as well; maybe give it a flattened shock of stiff hairs on the tip shape like the skin vanes of pterosaurs that's used for steering.
#81) Dolphigator - One of the very few inhabitants of the swamp that doesn't want to kill you, the dolphigator is a 10-foot-long fish-eater that lives in small 'pods' of up to eight or nine animals. Unlike dolphins, these reptiles do not navigate via sonar; instead, they see through the murky waters of their habitat via electroreceptory organs within their snouts and going down their sides. Also unlike dolphins, they don't kill for fun, and they don't rape-dolphigators mate for life, and have been known to exact revenge on those who kill their mates. (Design notes: Try to make it more serpentine, maybe elongate the snout and neck a little bit)
#82) Grunter - Large cow-sized reptiles named for the deep grunting noises they make to one another to communicate, these surly omnivores live in small family groups of five or six animals, eating any plant matter that they can find. This willingness to eat almost anything, as well as the large amounts of meat that they produce, make grunters favored livestock items of orcs and other monstrous humanoids. (Design ideas: Bigger tusks, slightly longer snout. Take inspiration from rhynchosaurs.)
#83) Wirosswel (Alt. name - Tan brute) - Seven-foot-tall creatures from another world, these powerfully-built brutes were genetically engineered by them mysterious beings known as 'greys' for use as shock troops, bodyguards, and labor. A wirosswel is strong enough to match blows with an ogre, and its thick shell-plated body is strong enough to withstand the breath of a fully-grown red dragon, but the creature is, for lack of a kinder term, incredibly stupid, seemingly incapable of doing anything more mentally taxing than eat and sleep when not being ordered around. The creatures are also incredibly loyal; they will obey any and all commands given to them in the language of the greys without question and to the letter, but the incredibly complex combination of clicks, beeps, subsonic frequencies, and telepathically transmitted sensations of color and shape that makes up the grey tongue makes it next to impossible for any non-grey to try and 'hijack' a wirosswel.
#84) Soapslime worm - An huge fungus-eating worm the size of a sleeping bag from the depths of the underdark that earns its name from the immense amounts of thick, extremely slippery whitish slime that it excretes, making the soapslime worm and anything it touches incredibly slippery to the touch. This essentially makes the worm nearly impossible to get a hold of and guarantees that anything attempting to pursue it is going to have a very hard time doing so.

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