Converting Monsters from Polyhedron Magazine

[Cleon]

For the amazon, how about this?

Organization: Solitary, party (10-20 plus 1 leader of 5th-6th level, and 1 emezon cleric, adept or wizard of 1st-2nd level), party (20-50 plus 1-4 leaders of 5th-6th level, 1 captain of 7th-8th level, and 1-4 emezon clerics, adepts or wizards of 1st-2nd level) or clan (30-100 plus 4-8 leaders of 5th-6th level, 1 captain of 7th-8th level, 1 queen of 9th-12th level, 30-100 male 1st level warriors, 60-200 noncombatants, 2-5 emezon clerics, adepts or wizards of 1st-2nd level, and 1 emezon cleric or wizard of 2nd-5th level).

Looks fine.

I'm wondering whether it wouldn't be better to replace "cleric, adept or wizard" with "spellcaster", but I slightly prefer it with defined classes.

 

[freyar]

In that case, let's go with that. I guess we'll need to edit that into homebrews eventually.

No org is listed in the original emezon text. Maybe something like:
Family (1 plus amazon and 1-4 children), nursery (1-3 emezon experts and 6-24 children), clan (20-100 emezon experts of varying levels and 2-5 emezon clerics, adepts or wizards of 1st-2nd level, and 1 emezon cleric or wizard of 2nd-5th level plus 40-100 other noncombatants and 36-110 amazons including leaders).

 

[Cleon]

In that case, let's go with that. I guess we'll need to edit that into homebrews eventually.

I've updated the Amazon Working Draft with the revised organization.

It had two groups called a "party" so I renamed the larger one, which seemed to be a "raiding party" in the original so it's now an "expedition".

Do you think she's done now?

No org is listed in the original emezon text. Maybe something like:

Family (1 plus amazon and 1-4 children), nursery (1-3 emezon experts and 6-24 children), clan (20-100 emezon experts of varying levels and 2-5 emezon clerics, adepts or wizards of 1st-2nd level, and 1 emezon cleric or wizard of 2nd-5th level plus 40-100 other noncombatants and 36-110 amazons including leaders).

I think the clan should use the same numbers as the regular amazon clan, but with the male warriors and noncombatants replaced by emezons.

Not sure about having a "nursery" in the organization. Wouldn't that be part of a a larger group, such as a clan? Surely it makes more sense calling the intermediate group a "settlement" or something like that?

Also, the original Emezon has a No. Appearing of 1-4, so I'd like that number in the Org somewhere.

Hmm, I think I'll also tweak the emezon spellcaster levels to be closer to the amazons' levels.

Organization: Solitary, family (1-4 plus 1-3 amazons and 0-4 children), settlement [?] (10-20 plus 5-40 children and 1 cleric, adept or wizard of 1st-2nd level; plus 10-20 amazons and 1 amazon leader of 5th-6th level) or clan (30-100 plus 60-200 non-combatants, 2-5 clerics, adepts, or wizards of 2nd-8th level, and 1 cleric or wizard of 7th-12th level; plus 30-100 amazons, 4-8 amazon leaders of 5th-6th level, 1 amazon captain of 7th-8th level, and 1 amazon queen of 9th-12th level).

 

[freyar]

That works basically. I was aiming for the same thing without typing out all the amazon stuff again. But I'd prefer the family to have only one amazon. Somehow I imagine they'd be polyandrous.

 

[Cleon]

That works basically. I was aiming for the same thing without typing out all the amazon stuff again. But I'd prefer the family to have only one amazon. Somehow I imagine they'd be polyandrous.

They could be polyandrous with sisters who share...

 

[freyar]

Let's leave that kinky stuff for the drow, k?

 

[Cleon]

Let's leave that kinky stuff for the drow, k?

Sometimes you're no fun at all.

I guess I can live with that, so shall I the update the Emezon Working Draft with:

Organization: Solitary, family (1-4 plus 1 amazons and 0-4 children), settlement (10-20 plus 5-40 children and 1 cleric, adept or wizard of 1st-2nd level; plus 10-20 amazons and 1 amazon leader of 5th-6th level) or clan (30-100 plus 60-200 non-combatants, 2-5 clerics, adepts, or wizards of 2nd-8th level, and 1 cleric or wizard of 7th-12th level; plus 30-100 amazons, 4-8 amazon leaders of 5th-6th level, 1 amazon captain of 7th-8th level, and 1 amazon queen of 9th-12th level)

Anything else to do?

 

[freyar]

That looks good to me. We can also get rid of the red question marks.

On to the cocoadaemon and chocodeva?

 

[Cleon]

That looks good to me. We can also get rid of the red question marks.

On to the cocoadaemon and chocodeva?

We've still got domain access for Emazon clerics to finalize. It currently has "An emezon cleric has access to two of the following domains: Culinary, X, Y, or Z. [Charm?, Community?, Protection?, Magic?, Liberation? Artifice?]"

I'm liking "Charm, Community, Culinary, and Protection".

 

[freyar]

Agreed, those seem the best. I'd also like to change the "cocoadaemon" entry in the Culinary domain to "cocoadaemon/chocodeva" to let good emezons use it.