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  1. Cleon

    Converting monsters from Tales From The Infinite Staircase

    Fine. Updating the Slaiyith Working Draft. Happy with antimagic field but freezing sphere does little for me. How about contingency or legend lore?
  2. Cleon

    Special Conversion Thread: Lycanthropes and their ilk

    The start of that looks fine, but if we give the hybrid form wing & tail attacks I'd treat them as a size smaller than the dragon form.
  3. Cleon

    Converting monsters from Dragon magazine

    Will sort that out with the next update… …Updating the Ihagnim. There's no rule about cutting your way free in the original monster. The only method to escape that's mention is applying poison to its interior. So presumably the victim would have to do enough damage to kill the Ihagnim to...
  4. Cleon

    Converting Oriental Adventures creatures

    Updating The Keeper of the Key Working Draft with the fighter feats. So you're proposing Improved Initiative, Power Critical (chimes), Rapid Shot, Stand Still and dropping Reckless Offense as an option? That's four feats, so we still need a fifth. I'd lean towards a spell-enhancing feat like...
  5. Cleon

    Converting original D&D and Mystara monsters

    Agreed. I'd add Search to that list as it has a racial bonus in that skill. So Concentration, Know (nature), Hide, Listen, Move Silently, Perform, Search, Spot, Tumbling. Hmm… suitable comparisons would be: Elf (Int 10): Elves speak Elven, and most also know Common and Sylvan. Dryad (Int...
  6. Cleon

    Converting Creatures from Other Campaign Settings

    It would be easier if I just write up a rough draft and we tweak it from there. Will try to whip something up later. EDIT: Got distracted by life. Have to wait 'til later. :ENDEDIT
  7. Cleon

    Kraken Variants

    I proposed that to be more-or-less close to the original, which has male tentacles doing 1d4 slam and female tentacles doing 1d8 (so a 2-step difference), while the constriction did 1d10 for males and 2d6 for females (a ½-step difference). Also, I did wonder about making the slam attacks...
  8. Cleon

    5E: Monstrous Arthropods for Fifth Edition

    Works for me. Have updated the Mystaran Dragonflies collected post. I fancy giving them another Save Proficiency and am leaning towards CON. We also need to decide on Skills. I'm thinking Perception might be enough. Next is Special Traits. I'd like to trim them down from the rather...
  9. Cleon

    Converting Planescape monsters

    Come to think of it, doesn't a Modronoid need some kind of "Modron Link" special quality since if the Modron its parts come from dies the Modronoid dies too. Also, if the Modronoid is killed the link to the donor Modron is broken and all its parts vanish from the Modronoid. Note that the...
  10. Cleon

    Converting Planescape monsters

    Updating the Modronoid Working Draft. Well there isn't any illustration in the original source, so all we have to work with is an encounter description: Hmm, perhaps… A stocky man-shaped thing covered in gleaming metallic plates. Shorter and heavier than an average human, the gaps in its...
  11. Cleon

    5E: Monstrous Arthropods for Fifth Edition

    Okay, if the save-or-half does count as 150% damage then the Challenge Ratings are a bit different than 1/2/3 if I use the First Arrangement of Breath Weapon damages: Dragonflies Combat Table Type Defensive/Offensive CRs Bite Breath Weapon Black DCR 1/2; OCR 3 (DPR 16¼ of 15–26) +5, 6 (1d6...
  12. Cleon

    5E: Monstrous Arthropods for Fifth Edition

    I think I still prefer the Challenge 1 to 3 arrangement in the post before the previous one rather than the Challenge 2 to 4 arrangement above. Mystaran Dragonflies aren't that tough of a monster. The Red Dragonfly was XP 270 in AD&D and an XP 175 in BECMI, which is not terribly formidable in...
  13. Cleon

    5E: Monstrous Arthropods for Fifth Edition

    So some sort of "Agile Flyer" style trait where it gets advantage on Acrobatics checks and DEX saves when flying? Also, I think we can give it at least one more Save Proficiency, since all Wyrmlings have Saves in DEX, CON, WIS, and CHA. Giving it 3 or 4 Save Proficiencies would require us to...
  14. Cleon

    5E: Monstrous Arthropods for Fifth Edition

    Dang it, I got the CRs for the Blue and Gold swapped over in my previous post. Should be Challenge 1 for the weakest pair (White/Black), Challenge 2 for the middle (Blue/Green) and Challenge 3 for the most powerful (Gold/Red). Just updated it. My original plan was to have each of them have a...
  15. Cleon

    5E: Monstrous Arthropods for Fifth Edition

    For the sake of argument, how about keep these creatures simple and use an extra-high regular AC like a dragon rather than a medium-high base AC plus a few AC boosting abilities like we did for the Odonatids. How about using these stats for the next draft: Dragonflies Statistics Table Type...
  16. Cleon

    Converting True Dragons

    Updating Opal the Sun Dragon Working Draft. There are very few creatures what 10 HD of would pose any real opposition to Opal, so that seems like a waste of a slot. Maybe go for a druid spell? There aren't that many that would have much point though. I guess he could use neutralize poison or...
  17. Cleon

    Converting monsters from Tales From The Infinite Staircase

    Works for me. Also, I just noticed I can't count. It should have five leftover feats, not six. Of those, only mind fog really works for me. How about dream, feeblemind and shadow evocation?
  18. Cleon

    Converting True Dragons

    These threads got displaced after a server crash so most of the older links are broken, including the link to Part One of Converting True Dragons on post #1 of this thread. That thread still exists though. It got warped to General Tabletop Discussion > Dungeons & Dragons. Here's a working...
  19. Cleon

    Converting True Dragons

    Hmm, eagle's splendor for the ability booster? I'd say barkskin and lesser restoration have the greatest utility but we've already picked those as cleric spells. How about giving it one or both of barkskin and lesser restoration as sorcerer spells so Opal can use them multiple times and...
  20. Cleon

    Converting True Dragons

    It's a term for a "proper dragon" that matures through age categories or a Unique dragon with an equivalent level of power, like Bahamut. For example, a 3E True Dragon hatches out as a Wyrmling and can grow through twelve age categories, with the final one being Great Wyrm. If you're old...
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