5E: Converting Monsters from White Dwarf Magazine for Fifth Edition

[Cleon]

sqaarg is here

Armour Class should be 17, not 19.

There's an unsightly gap in the Description before the "There are unverified reports" paragraph.

Rest looks fine.

Hold on, I think Power Building could do with a rewording.

Now I read it again "The gray sqaarg increase its Might score by 5 or increase the Might score of another gray sqaarg by 5 by applying its own Strength to the sqaarg's Waxing Might" is really clunky.

How about:

Power Building. The sqaarg applies its +5 Strength modifier to a sqaarg's Waxing Might ability, either its own or another sqaarg within 5 feet. This increases the Might score by 5.​

 

[Casimir Liber]

updated here

 

[ilgatto]

minor correction to the updated grey sqaarg:

which may requires

which requires?
which may require?

 

[ilgatto]

Found another one:

Gray sqaargs generally only uses lethal force

Sqaargs use.

 

[Cleon]

minor correction to the updated grey sqaarg:



which requires?
which may require?

Found another one:



Sqaargs use.

Dang it…

…Updating the Gray Sqaarg.

I kept on switching between a singular sqaarf and plural sqaargs until I could decide which usage I preferred. Guess it was inevitable the grammar would get messed up.

 

[Casimir Liber]

gah! to here

 

[Cleon]

gah! to here

Double dang it, I forgot to mention one.

Its Languages should have Dwarvish capitalized.

Apart from that it's good to go.

 

[ilgatto]

Three more?

One:

Example: if a druid (...)

Hold. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: If the target (...)

": if" or ": If"?

Not really sure how this works in English, but shouldn't it be either the one or the other?


Two:

It appears to be crudely moulded out of clay but is actually made of solid stone.

(...) more types of sqaarg than the grays, with other colors of sqaarg filling (...)

I was wondering about the use of British/Canadian/Australian spelling and American spelling. Shouldn't it be "molded" (wiktionary) if you use "colors" (and "gray sqaarg" instead of "grey sqaarg")?


Three:

Gray sqaargs were created by a long extinct dwarf dwarf culture.

Double "dwarf" > single "dwarf"

 

[Cleon]

": if" or ": If"?

Not really sure how this works in English, but shouldn't it be either the one or the other?

It's OK either way, and whether to go uppercase or lowercase is more a matter of personal preference (or a style guide if you're writing for an organization).

That said, I should really be consistent and prefer uppercase for both, and the Chicago Manual of Style appears to agree with me.

I was wondering about the use of British/Canadian/Australian spelling and American spelling. Shouldn't it be "molded" (wiktionary) if you use "colors" (and "gray sqaarg" instead of "grey sqaarg")?

I aim to use US spelling in posted monster conversions since that's what the Creature Catalog uses, but in my other posts I use "English English" so to speak.

So it should be molded rather than the UK/Canadian moulded.

Will change that.

As for the "Gray" issue, that's how the original monster spelled it and D&D has US publications with it, such as the Gray Ooze, so I wouldn't change them all to Grey.

Double "dwarf" > single "dwarf"

Triple Dang it…

…Updating the Gray Sqaarg.

 

[Casimir Liber]

Ok to here

As far as finishing that issue - micemen (micefolk I guess) are really vanilla as is..cyclops I quite like but too close to cyclops that already exist and would require some explanation/change to differentiate.

Dragon Warriors are interesting - as a monster, trap or one-shot magic item so I think they have legs