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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7272996" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Updating the <strong><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=7224537#post7224537" target="_blank">Land Urchin Working Draft</a></strong>.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I guess so. I believe we agreed not to give them clairvoyance like the "greater" urchins we're also converting.</p><p></p><p>Hold on, there was one thing - treasure. Land urchins can have "pearls" worth 100-600 gp, numbering up to 2d6 for particularly old specimens.</p><p></p><p>However, that raises a couple of issues. Firstly, that's a spread of 100 to 7,200 gp, which is maximum treasure a lot higher than a CR 2 monster's "Treasure per encounter" value of 600 gp.</p><p></p><p>That said, the 1d6×100gp of a single pearl is a pretty good match to 600 gp.</p><p></p><p>SO maybe we should change the "<strong>Advancement:</strong> None" to a more reasonable range and say they contain pearls with a value roughly proportional to their CR treasure value?</p><p></p><p>The maximum spread of 12d6×100 gp averages to 4,200 gp, which translates to a Encounter Level of 9.</p><p></p><p>A challenge rating 9 Land Urchin would be what, 18 HD (Large) or 15 HD (Huge) according to the standard Advancement guidelines. That seems conceivable.</p><p></p><p><strong>Treasure:</strong> See below</p><p><strong>Advancement:</strong> 4-6 HD (Small); 7-9 HD (Medium); 10-18 HD (Large)</p><p></p><p>Land urchins sometimes create greenish-black pearls around irritants they have swallowed in a similar way to oysters. A land urchin's pearl is worth from 100 to 600 gold pieces. Particularly old urchins may contain up to a dozen pearls, but most contain only a few, one, or none at all. The market value of a land urchin's pearls never exceeds the urchin's "treasure per encounter" value (600 gp for an ordinary CR 2 land urchin and ranging up to 4,500 gp for a CR 9 Huge 18 HD land urchin).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 7272996, member: 57383"] Updating the [B][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=7224537#post7224537"]Land Urchin Working Draft[/URL][/B]. I guess so. I believe we agreed not to give them clairvoyance like the "greater" urchins we're also converting. Hold on, there was one thing - treasure. Land urchins can have "pearls" worth 100-600 gp, numbering up to 2d6 for particularly old specimens. However, that raises a couple of issues. Firstly, that's a spread of 100 to 7,200 gp, which is maximum treasure a lot higher than a CR 2 monster's "Treasure per encounter" value of 600 gp. That said, the 1d6×100gp of a single pearl is a pretty good match to 600 gp. SO maybe we should change the "[B]Advancement:[/B] None" to a more reasonable range and say they contain pearls with a value roughly proportional to their CR treasure value? The maximum spread of 12d6×100 gp averages to 4,200 gp, which translates to a Encounter Level of 9. A challenge rating 9 Land Urchin would be what, 18 HD (Large) or 15 HD (Huge) according to the standard Advancement guidelines. That seems conceivable. [B]Treasure:[/B] See below [B]Advancement:[/B] 4-6 HD (Small); 7-9 HD (Medium); 10-18 HD (Large) Land urchins sometimes create greenish-black pearls around irritants they have swallowed in a similar way to oysters. A land urchin's pearl is worth from 100 to 600 gold pieces. Particularly old urchins may contain up to a dozen pearls, but most contain only a few, one, or none at all. The market value of a land urchin's pearls never exceeds the urchin's "treasure per encounter" value (600 gp for an ordinary CR 2 land urchin and ranging up to 4,500 gp for a CR 9 Huge 18 HD land urchin). [/QUOTE]
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