Nicknamed ‘terminator hogs’ or ‘hell pigs’, entelodonts superficially resembled long-legged wild boar or warthogs, but were actually more closely related to hippos and cetaceans. Their long jaws were capable of both gaping wide and biting with extreme force. They are believed to have been omnivores, favoring nuts, fruit, roots, and carrion, but able and willing to take live prey when the opportunity arose. Wounds apparently inflicted by others of their kind indicate considerable social competition, suggesting they lived in groups.
Early Enteleodonts were fairly small. Brachyhyops was a pig-sized animal which emerged in South Asia during the middle Eocene and spread from there across Asia and into North America by the late Eocene. In North America, it may have evolved into Archaeotherium, which varied in size by species and lived from the late Eocene to the early Oligocene. A. mortoni was no larger than most deer, but A. zygomaticus was the size of a moose.
Entelodon thrived throughout Eurasia from the late Eocene to the early Oligocene. Most species within the genus were donkey-sized, but E. major and E. gobiensis from east Asia were the size of horses.
As the Oligocene climate cooled, even larger genera evolved, including the giant Paraentolodon of Central Asia and its slightly smaller North American relative Daeodon. The latter managed to survive into the early Miocene, while the Eurasian lineages were all extinct by the end of the Oligocene.
Brachyhyops
ST 10;
DX 12;
IQ 3;
HT 12.
HP 10;
Will 10;
Per 12;
FP 12;
Speed 6.00;
Dodge 9;
Move 8.
SM 0, 140 lbs.
Bite (14): 1d−1 cutting. Reach C.
Traits: Acute Smell 3; Bad Sight (Low Resolution); Born Biter 3; Chummy; Discriminatory Smell; DR 1 (Tough Skin); Night Vision 1; Parabolic Hearing 1; Reduced Consumption 2 (Cast-Iron Stomach); Striking ST 1 (Bite Only); Quadruped; Wild Animal.
Skills: Brawling-14; Stealth-13; Survival (Woodlands)-13.
Entelodon
ST 16;
DX 11;
IQ 3;
HT 11.
HP 16;
Will 12;
Per 11;
FP 11;
Speed 5.50;
Dodge 8;
Move 6.
SM 0 (2 hexes), 500 lbs.
Bite (13): 2d cutting. Reach C.
Trample (11): 1d+3 / 1d−1 crushing. See GURPS Basic Set, p. 404.
Traits: Acute Smell 3; Bad Sight (Low Resolution); Born Biter 3; Chummy; Discriminatory Smell; DR 2 (Tough Skin); Enhanced Move 1 (Ground Speed 12); Night Vision 1; Parabolic Hearing 1; Reduced Consumption 2 (Cast-Iron Stomach); Striking ST 3 (Bite Only); Quadruped; Wild Animal.
Skills: Brawling-13; Survival (Woodlands)-12.
For E. major (1,000 lbs.) increase ST and HP to 20, SM to +1 (3 hexes), and DR to 3. Damage increases to 2d+2 with a bite, 2d+3 / 1d with a trample. E. gobiensis (1,400 lbs.) increases ST and HP to 22, SM to +1 (3 hexes), and DR to 3. Damage increases to 2d+3 with a bite, 2d+4 / 1d+1 with a trample.
For Archaeotherium mortoni (330 lbs.) reduce ST and HP to 14, dropping damage to 1d+2 with a bite, 1d+2 / 1d−1 with a trample. A. zygomaticus (1,100 lbs.) increases ST and HP to 21, SM to +1 (3 hexes), and DR to 3. Damage increases to 2d+3 with a bite, 2d+4 / 1d with a trample.
For Paraentelodon (2,000 lbs.) increase ST and HP to 25, SM to +2 (4 hexes), DR and Striking ST to 4. Damage increases to 3d+2 with a bite (which has Reach C, 1), 2d+6 / 1d+1 with a trample.
For Daeodon (1,500 lbs.) increase ST and HP to 23, SM to +2 (4 hexes), DR and Striking ST to 4. Damage increases to 3d+1 with a bite (which has Reach C, 1), 2d+5 / 1d+1 with a trample. Change Survival specialty to (Plains).