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This is enormous for a water table creature.
Does the reproductive template need to specify "male and female", or is that presumed the default, and only specified if something is unusual?

This is in violation of the diet transition rule. A species cannot go directly from carnivore to herbivore.

Also, I think there was a size limit of 50 cm for cave creatures? It's not in the rules anymore but it was before

This post has been edited by Disgustedorite: Dec 1 2020, 12:00 PM

Hm, I thought the size limit was a 1 meter. The only reason why its so large is because some of its food (the ghost crystal) is rather large as well. The tasseled phibi is actually the same size as the ghost crystal.

I was kind of dubious about the sudden switch myself. I couldn't find a proper transition, though. I can probably make it a generalist that can replace the cave phibi. Its ancestor is woefully underequipped to navigate the water table anyways.

Yeah a replacement could work, or maybe adding ovivory of the eggs of Dogelaro and relatives? Or maybe an opportunistic scavanger?

I was thinking of something more like a basic omnivore that shared its ancestor's diet of anipedes and prickworms, but also eats the many unexploited crystal 'fungi' that inhabit the water table. The tasseled phibi was supposed to be a species that filled the empty 'herbivore' niche in the water table. Though, the whole opportunistic scavenger thing could also work. I think the ovivore niche should go to a descendant of the waterworms that inhabit the water table. Those eggs might be too small to sustain something as large as the tasseled phibi.

I meant more that it can be mainly herbivorous but is an opportunistic ovivore as a protein supplement, like how cows or horse will occasionally eat small creatures or eggs and such as a calcium source