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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7556341" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Oh dang it, I must have still been thinking Wizard Spell rules.</p><p></p><p>I'm not in favour of the <em>acid splash</em> and <em>touch of fatigue</em>. How about swapping them?</p><p></p><p>Maybe for <em>ghost sound</em> and <em>prestidigitation</em>?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There's no need to do that. The immunity is only to dragon's own freezing fog's SLA's <em>grease</em> effect, not all grease effects.</p><p></p><p>We only need to change the line "The dragon is immune to the grease effect because of its icewalking ability" to make it "its spider climb ability".</p><p></p><p>We can also add a line to the Spider Climb ability "This ability also renders Pearl immune to grease effects such as that left by her <em>freezing fog</em> spell-like ability."</p><p></p><p>Which reminds me, Sometime I should go through the text and replace a bunch of "its" with "her" as Pearl is a lady dragon.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The 1d3 is in the original so I would rather include a dice variable. How about we increase it to 1d12 instead?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>We should give her an SR comparable to the other Dragon Rulers. We have Bahamut (CR 25, SR 30), Gruaghlothor (CR 25, SR 30), Tiamat (CR 25, SR 30) and Sardior (no CR given, SR 40).</p><p></p><p>So I guess CR 25 and SR 30 looks appropriate!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Oops!</p><p></p><p>Rahab and Ahi had "Standard" magic resistance in their original AD&D versions, but we should give the upgraded versions Spell Resistance.</p><p></p><p>A standard SRD Dragon has a Spell Resistance of CR plus 6, which would give the CR 22 Rahab and Ahi SR 28.</p><p></p><p>However, these are unique dragons so could/might/should have a bit higher SRs.</p><p></p><p>For example, Sardior's Thanes have SRs of CR +6, +7, +8, +7, +7 and +11, while in the CC conversions we have An-Ur +11, Dhrakoth +12, Fafnir +15, Gaumahavi +6, Medrinia +9, Midgard +14, Mordukhavar +10, Nidhogg +11, Vanathor +11 and Vore Lekiniskiy +18.</p><p></p><p>So we've got numbers between CR +6 and CR +18 with CR +11 being the most common in the CC conversions.</p><p></p><p>I'd be OK with that (SR 33) or +10 for SR 32 or even +8 for SR 30.</p><p></p><p>Spell Resistance 33 or 32 feels more appropriate for Rahab or Ahi, although it does make Pearl's SR feel a little low.</p><p></p><p>Then, Pearl has that nifty "immunity to spells up to 6th level" thing going on as well.</p><p></p><p>Still, if you fancied tapping Pearl's Spell Resistance up a bit from the official 3E Dragon Ruler stats' SR 30 standard to, say, SR 36 I would make no great objection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 7556341, member: 57383"] Oh dang it, I must have still been thinking Wizard Spell rules. I'm not in favour of the [I]acid splash[/I] and [I]touch of fatigue[/I]. How about swapping them? Maybe for [I]ghost sound[/I] and [I]prestidigitation[/I]? There's no need to do that. The immunity is only to dragon's own freezing fog's SLA's [I]grease[/I] effect, not all grease effects. We only need to change the line "The dragon is immune to the grease effect because of its icewalking ability" to make it "its spider climb ability". We can also add a line to the Spider Climb ability "This ability also renders Pearl immune to grease effects such as that left by her [I]freezing fog[/I] spell-like ability." Which reminds me, Sometime I should go through the text and replace a bunch of "its" with "her" as Pearl is a lady dragon. The 1d3 is in the original so I would rather include a dice variable. How about we increase it to 1d12 instead? We should give her an SR comparable to the other Dragon Rulers. We have Bahamut (CR 25, SR 30), Gruaghlothor (CR 25, SR 30), Tiamat (CR 25, SR 30) and Sardior (no CR given, SR 40). So I guess CR 25 and SR 30 looks appropriate! Oops! Rahab and Ahi had "Standard" magic resistance in their original AD&D versions, but we should give the upgraded versions Spell Resistance. A standard SRD Dragon has a Spell Resistance of CR plus 6, which would give the CR 22 Rahab and Ahi SR 28. However, these are unique dragons so could/might/should have a bit higher SRs. For example, Sardior's Thanes have SRs of CR +6, +7, +8, +7, +7 and +11, while in the CC conversions we have An-Ur +11, Dhrakoth +12, Fafnir +15, Gaumahavi +6, Medrinia +9, Midgard +14, Mordukhavar +10, Nidhogg +11, Vanathor +11 and Vore Lekiniskiy +18. So we've got numbers between CR +6 and CR +18 with CR +11 being the most common in the CC conversions. I'd be OK with that (SR 33) or +10 for SR 32 or even +8 for SR 30. Spell Resistance 33 or 32 feels more appropriate for Rahab or Ahi, although it does make Pearl's SR feel a little low. Then, Pearl has that nifty "immunity to spells up to 6th level" thing going on as well. Still, if you fancied tapping Pearl's Spell Resistance up a bit from the official 3E Dragon Ruler stats' SR 30 standard to, say, SR 36 I would make no great objection. [/QUOTE]
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