Seastars with high AC - 5e idea?

Cleon

Legend

• May 31, 2022

• #131

Casimir Liber said:

Brittle star uodated here (you made one typo) "20 of fewer" --> "or"

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Okay, the words match apart from it doesn't have a Reactions section anymore. The VARIANT: BRITTLE LIMBS subsection now appears in Actions.

However, I noticed I've missed another typo!

The "an target" in Multiattack should be "a target" and has been corrected in the Brittlestar. The Landstar had the same typo which I also just fixed.

The VARIANT: SIX-ARMED BRITTLE STAR lacks the Italic Formatting where the Enworld version refers to other traits, i.e. the six-armed star's "Regrowth" "Shed Arms" and "Fragile Arms" are non-italic in the D&D version but "Regrowth" "Shed Arms" and "Fragile Arms" in Enworld.

Casimir Liber said:

landstar here

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That link is broken, I found a D&D Beyond landstar here but it doesn't match the updated Landstar with all the changes to Shed Arms.

If there's a newer version on D&D Beyond I couldn't find it.

 

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Casimir Liber

Adventurer

• May 31, 2022

• #132

I forgot to update it - fixed "an target" and is here noiw

brittle star is here

 

Last edited: May 31, 2022

Cleon

Legend

• Jun 2, 2022

• #133

Casimir Liber said:

I forgot to update it - fixed "an target" and is here noiw

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Got it! That's an exact match to the Enworld version.

Unfortunately, I realized there's a slight problem as I compared them…

I should have tweaked the last sentence of its Arm attack so "(unless it lost some to a Shed Arm reaction)" becomes "(unless it loses some due to its Shed Arm trait)".

Do you mind if I tweak the wording in the Landstar?

Casimir Liber said:

brittle star is here

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It still has two minor errors:

A stray space has appeared in the Arm attack before a closing parentheses. The "(unless it loses some )" ought to be "(unless it loses some)".

The "so its is lowered" in Six Arms should be "so it is lowered".

 

Casimir Liber

Adventurer

• Jun 4, 2022

• #134

getting to it...madly prepping DnD for DMing tonight, pokemon go fest this weekend and had to do extra work this week to pay bills...sigh

 

Cleon

Legend

• Jun 4, 2022

• #135

Casimir Liber said:

getting to it...madly prepping DnD for DMing tonight, pokemon go fest this weekend and had to do extra work this week to pay bills...sigh

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No hurry.

We've doing the giant basket star next, right?

 

Casimir Liber

Adventurer

• Jun 4, 2022

• #136

rejigged land star as requested to here

brittle star here


basket star yeah should finish it...and gurgohemoth. My party went a different direction so didn't need pine kindred or tabanids yet..

 

Cleon

Legend

• Jun 4, 2022

• #137

Casimir Liber said:

brittle star here

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The giant brittle star looks good to go to me.

Casimir Liber said:

rejigged land star as requested to here

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Okay, I've updated the Enworld version since you agreed to the tweak to the Arms text.

That means they're both in sync and completed, so I'd better update the Index.

EDIT: Updated the Completed Fifth Edition Creatures Index.

 

Cleon

Legend

• Jun 4, 2022

• #138

Casimir Liber said:

basket star yeah should finish it...and gurgohemoth. My party went a different direction so didn't need pine kindred or tabanids yet..

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Well there's no hurry with the Gurgohemoth. If your PCs are of a level to be meeting a regular PIne Kindred than a Demonic Juggernaut Elephant is probably a little beyond them!

So is Huge size enough for the Gorgonocephalid?

Real life basket stars are the biggest of ophiuroids, growing up to a couple of feet across and 10 pounds or so in weight. They're filter feeders that gather miniscule food items with their branched limbs, so if the monstrous version feeds on prey of similar proportions than, assuming we want them to eat adventurers, it might be better to make them Gargantuan.

Should we make them a bit more "fantastical" they could easily devour Medium-sized victims and still be Huge, but if we want to keep the original's food-to-diner size ratio than Gargantuan seems more appropriate.

 

Casimir Liber

Adventurer

• Jun 6, 2022

• #139

Just looked up sizes - as my initial thinking of "gargantuan" is kaiju, but 20x20 is fine conceptually. So yeah "garagantuan" - also making it more different to the other starfish to mix it up a bit

 

Cleon

Legend

• Jun 8, 2022

• #140

Updated the Basket Star with that size.

Also changed the name from "Gorgonocephalid, Giant (Basket Star)" to "Basket Star, Giant (Gorgonocephalid)" to match the Brittle Star, Giant (Ophiuroid) of the previous conversion.