d20 slake-moths? (Warning! Getting into major Perdido Street Station Spoilers!)

[Desdichado]

From Perdido Street Station? Great, nasty monsters, and I'm thinking about using them in a d20 CoC game. So it's OK if they're really deadly; I'm thinking these babies should be up near CR 10 anyway. At least.

 

[Wombat]

...eeeep...

I dunno -- I think they'd be closer to CR 15 or so. I mean, them buggers are nasty, even in larval form!

I'll have to work on this when I get home...

 

[Liminal Syzygy]

Not sure about that, the Bodak is what, around CR7 or 8, with save or die gaze effect. So unless there was no save than the slakemoths wouldn't be that high. Notice the adventurers, while defeated, gave out to them quite a bit.

 

[Monte At Home]

Yeah, but they seemed to be able to exist in mutiple dimensions at once (in ways that aren't--thank goodness--fully explained), giving them amazing speed and reaction and making it really tough to hurt them.

They're a flying, much tougher, much faster, much smarter bodak, and the save DC is clearly very, very high.

 

[Pants]

From Perdido Street Station? Great, nasty monsters, and I'm thinking about using them in a d20 CoC game. So it's OK if they're really deadly; I'm thinking these babies should be up near CR 10 anyway. At least.

At least

I was thinking around 14 to 16 for these guys. I was thinking about doing a conversion of these, but I never got around to it

Ideas:
Anyone who sees their wings is fascinated, hypnotized, stunned, paralyzed, whatever.
They have really high fast healing, around 10 or so.
Their tongue attacks deal massive Int damage.
Damage reduction of some sort.
Probably some spell-like abilities (if using D&D) like ethereal jaunt, plane shift, blink at will (or something)

 

[Desdichado]

It's been a little while since I read the book; I can't remember specifically what abilities they even had anymore. What's the tongue attack like?

 

[Pants]

It's been a little while since I read the book; I can't remember specifically what abilities they even had anymore. What's the tongue attack like?

They stick the tongue in the heads of their victims and essentially, 'eat' their consciousness.

I'm pretty positive that Mieville described it as a tongue of some sort.

 

[Chaldfont]

You could have these things latch on and start causing int, wis or cha drain. There are a lot of monsters that have that kind of mechanic (vampires, sturges). It would also lead to interesting player choices. Do I run in there and rescue my helpless friend who is having his mind sucked and risk being fascinated? Or (like in the book) do I just bail on him and save my arse.

Hehe, I can't wait till you guys read The Scar. Stat up the anopheles!

 

[Monte At Home]

Stat up the anopheles!

Yeah, these creatures are ripe for a D&D game. I particularly like the aspect to them that makes them both terrifying and sadly pathetic at the same time. It's interesting to have a monster that you feel kinda sorry for, even as you kill it.

 

[Wombat]

There's also the notion that apparently the disturb the sleep of large numbers of people simply by flying around in the vicinity, and the hypnotic/destructive patterns on their wings, etc.

Very, very nasty. I'd say "Dragon-level" nasty.