Special Conversion Thread: Lycanthropes and their ilk

[Cleon]

Oh, I like chocolate, too, but I feel like the loup du noir would enjoy hunting "the most dangerous game," you know?

Most dangerous game, eh.

So you want to give it Outsider and Dragon as favoured enemies!

 

[freyar]

Is that your proposal, then? I don't think we should leave it blank.

 

[Cleon]

Is that your proposal, then? I don't think we should leave it blank.

Well more seriously I'd support Animals and Humanoid (human), since they would be the stereotypical victims of a "man-eating wolf".

 

[freyar]

In that case, let's pick those two.

 

[Cleon]

In that case, let's pick those two.

Updating the Loup du Noir Working Draft. I put the +4 favored enemy bonus in human, since that seemed to make the most sense.

 

[freyar]

And here's that draft.

Let's get the ? off of human. Do you agree that we're ready for skills and feats on this sample?

Also, I don't think we usually repeat all the SA and SQ descriptions under the sample statblock.

 

[Cleon]

And here's that draft.

Let's get the ? off of human. Do you agree that we're ready for skills and feats on this sample?

Also, I don't think we usually repeat all the SA and SQ descriptions under the sample statblock.

I'll remove the question marks and most of the Red Brackets from the Loup du Noir Working Draft.

Don't recall us ever having a clear policy either way as to repeat the descriptions for sample monsters. We've got examples of both in the CC. I'd rather leave them in, since it means DMs can use the entry as a "cut out and keep" monster with all the special abilities spelled out.

 

[freyar]

Well, might as well leave it in. Hopefully, not too many people are actually printing out the CC web page entries.

Skills: Survival 6, Hide 2, Listen 2, Move Silently 2, Spot 2?

 

[Cleon]

Well, might as well leave it in. Hopefully, not too many people are actually printing out the CC web page entries.

Skills: Survival 6, Hide 2, Listen 2, Move Silently 2, Spot 2?

Hold on a mo, the SPs in the working draft are wrong. I didn't change the numbers when we changed class to Ranger.

It should have Skills: 40 ranger plus 6 dire wolf.

As I believe I mentioned earlier, the SRD Dire Wolf has its skills wrong - its ranks are Hide 0, Listen 2, Move Silently 0, Spot 2, Survival 1, so it's missing 4 SPs. It'd work out OK it it had some other feat instead of Alertness and those points were in Listen and Spot.

How about putting 8 apiece in Hide, Listen, Move Silently, Spot and Survival plus 6 in Handle Animal?

 

[freyar]

That'll work for me.

Feats: something for the battleaxe? I was thinking Weapon Focus and maybe Improved Crit, but the crit range is already pretty big. Maybe Weapon Focus (battleaxe) and Power Attack.