Supersaurus
by Cab Davidson
| Stat | Supersaurus |
| AC: | 3 |
| HD: | 39** |
| Movement: | 120’ (40’) |
| Attacks: | 1 trample or 1 bite/1 tail |
| Damage: | 4d10 or 2d8/6d6 |
| Number Appearing: | 0 (1d10) |
| Save As: | F20 |
| Morale: | 9 |
| Treasure Type: | Nil |
| Intelligence: | 1 |
| Alignment: | Neutral |
| XP Value: | 18500 |
Among the largest of dinosaurs, supersaurus is a sauropod related to apatosaurus, but built on a much larger scale. Reaching 115’ in length, weighing well over 40 tons, it is one of the largest land animals ever to have lived, with a long tail and neck making up the bulk of its body. Being strictly herbivorous but entirely unfussy, requiring masses of vegetable matter to maintain their bulk, supersaurus grazes from treetops, being able to reach the highest branches with ease. While not in the least bit aggressive they are highly dangerous, with two distinct forms of attack. Initially, if threatened, they try to trample any foes who seem small enough (being almost everything, even most larger carnivorous dinosaurs) and attempt to run off. Any creature in front of a supersaurus as it moves at its full running speed must make a save vs. dragon breath to get out of the way or suffer 4d10 damage. If forced to fight supersaurus is even more deadly, being able to crush foes with its massive peg like teeth with a bite attack for 2d8 damage, but also able to whip its tail at foes in an attack form known only from the largest sauropods. When attacking a foe alongside it with its tail, the tip thereof can exceed the speed of sound and cause terrible damage. On a normal hit, 6d6 damage is inflicted, but on a roll of 19-20 this whip-crack effect causes double damage.
When young supersaurus can be vulnerable, but little threatens full grown, mature specimens of supersaurus. The wise choose to keep out of their way.
Note that while there have been research papers making claims that the tail points of such dinosaurs should theoretically be able to break the sound barrier, there have been other papers refuting the notion that they actually did do this. But obviously that's just too damned epic not to include in a D&D monster description, right?