Dingonek

Armored poisonous dinosaur with a deadly bite and a deadlier tail. A large beast.

Imagine a large lumbering armadillo. It is covered in pangolin-like brown scales. Its head is topped by a two feet-long single horn and two long canines frame its snout like sabers. Its tail is lined on all sides by irregular spikes. Many pieces of vegetation are stuck on it.


 
HD: 4 Armor: as plate
Hit it: easy Dodge it: normal
Move: normal, swim normal  

It can hold its breath 15 minutes.

Attacks (2/round)

Defensive Crouch. The dingonek can’t move next turn and damage against it is rolled with disadvantage.

Tail Swipe. The dingonek makes a melee attack against two adjacent creatures (1D6) behind it. On a hit, they fall prone and must save against poison or take Strength damage (1D6).

Gore. The digonek makes a melee attack with its horn (1D6). On a hit, the target is thrown behind the dingonek and falls prone.

Bite. The digonek makes a melee attack (1D6). On a hit, the target is grappled.



Random Encounter
  1. Monster: 1 dingonek.
  2. Lair: Big mound of overturned moss and earth. 50% chance that there are 1D12 eggs.
      OR
    Omen: The noise of a slow, giant rake.
  3. Spoor: A dead predator, its flesh bludgeoned, pieced and cut.
  4. Tracks: Flattened, roughly raked vegetation.
  5. Trace: Large pangolin scale.
  6. Trace: Distinctive musk on a mossy rock.
Salvaging the body

Killing a dingonek is very dangerous but it can feed a village and many weapons can be made from its hide: scale armor, clubs and spears, etc. but the most precious is without doubt its poison.

Dingonectar. Poison. Save or be poisoned, save again each day to cure. Lowers Strength by 1D8.

D6 Symbolism

In local cultures the arassas is a symbol of …

  1. Warriors
  2. City walls
  3. Stubbornness
  4. Stupidity
  5. Patience
  6. Sacred


Credits

The dingonek is a cryptid from kenya described as a giant saber-toothed semi-aquatic armadillo. Richard J. Leblanc Jr’s adaptation in the Creature Compendium chooses to give it poison. I imagined it like some sort of hippo-ankylosaur. — SaltyGoo </details>

Written on November 14, 2020