Converting Psionic Creatures

[Cleon]

There seems to be a bit of confusion over on the Forgotten Realms thread about what a "Walking Egg" is.

Ahhh, sorry, "Walking Egg." But here, I thought Cleon suggested using "Walking Egg" for the transformed version.

Just to be clear,I'm thinking the ten-tentacled "wonderblast" version is a "Wingless Wonder" (since it has the rod of wonder power) and the eight-tentacled "forceburst" version is a "Walking Egg", and they're both an "Alkada".

A "Transformed Wonder" is someone who's been polymorphed into a "Wingless Wonder" - I'm not sure we need bother with that, since we can use standard Alternate Form rules, but I suppose we could do it as a Template or stat up a sample Transformed Wonder if we really wanted too...

 

[freyar]

I slightly prefer the standard monster Cha-based DC for the wonderblast. Just seems better. But then let's add a racial bonus, I suppose.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

There seems to be a bit of confusion over on the Forgotten Realms thread about what a "Walking Egg" is.



Just to be clear,I'm thinking the ten-tentacled "wonderblast" version is a "Wingless Wonder" (since it has the rod of wonder power) and the eight-tentacled "forceburst" version is a "Walking Egg", and they're both an "Alkada".

A "Transformed Wonder" is someone who's been polymorphed into a "Wingless Wonder" - I'm not sure we need bother with that, since we can use standard Alternate Form rules, but I suppose we could do it as a Template or stat up a sample Transformed Wonder if we really wanted too...

We could probably convert the wonderform spell.

 

[freyar]

More of this monster? AAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

But you're right, we could and probably should.

 

[Cleon]

More of this monster? AAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

But you're right, we could and probably should.

Reading it, we could probably get away with converting the baleful polymorph and shapechange spells rather than having to go the whole hog and template it up.

I might be willing to stat up a sample transformed wonder, though.

 

[freyar]

That's probably a good idea.

 

[Cleon]

That's probably a good idea.

Well unless you really want to make it a template?

 

[freyar]

No, not really.

 

[Cleon]

No, not really.

So where are we again?

Oh yes, the "Wonderblast" DC. Current proposal is standard half HD + Charisma mod with an added racial bonus.

A rod of wonder goes from DC 13 to 18, so what racial bonus shall we use?

 

[freyar]

These aren't very tough aside from the mind blast, so the CR shouldn't be very high. A racial bonus of +2 should be enough for the wonderblast.