Converting Epic Level Creatures

[demiurge1138]

Well... barkskin is neither a clerical or a wizard spell. 'tis druidic. Should we perhaps swap out cleric spells for druid in her accessibles? Would make sense, flavor-wise.

[Shade]

Yes, I think that would be appropriate.

[freyar]

Hmm, I think I was just reading druid in there due to the flavor. The nice thing is that the natural armor ought to stack, unlike mage armor. Magic vestment might help if we want cleric spells, too.

[Shade]

So..switch to druid spells, or allow her to gain barkskin from the Plant domain?

[demiurge1138]

Ooh. Domains is something I hadn't thought of. Let's give her clerical with access to the Animal, Plant and Trickery domains. Maybe Luck as well/instead of Trickery.

[Shade]

Sounds great! Let's give her all four domains.

Updated.

Do we want to saddle her with the 20% arcane spell failure chance of elven chain? Maybe give her an ability similar to some "battlemage" prestige classes wherein she naturally lowers/negates arcane spell failure chances?

[demiurge1138]

Yeah. Armored casting. Can cast all spells in light armor?

[Shade]

Like so?

Armored Casting (Ex): The Faerie Queen may ignore the arcane spell failure chance of light armor.

Let's work on her spell list.

Spells: The Faerie Queen casts spells as a 20th-level sorcerer. The Faerie Queen can also cast cleric spells and those from the Animal, Luck, Plant, and Trickery domains as arcane spells.

Sorcerer Spells Known (6/9/8/8/8/8/7/7/7/7, save DC 19 + spell level):
0—9;
1st—5;
2nd—5;
3rd—4;
4th—4;
5th—4;
6th—3;
7th—3;
8th—3;
9th—3.

[freyar]

Well, that all looks good!

0 - resistance, daze, dancing lights, ray of frost, message, detect magic, read magic, cure minor wounds, virtue?
1 - disguise self, calm animals, command, reduce person, charm person?
...

[Shade]

2nd—barkskin, hideous laughter, mirror image, silence, zone of truth;
3rd—create food and water, heroism, plant growth, wind wall;
4th—command plants, confusion, freedom of movement, sending;
5th—commune with nature, mind fog, seeming, wall of plants;
6th—greater dispel magic, geas/quest, repel wood;
7th—animal shapes, animate plants, control weather;
8th—control plants, irresistible dance, screen;
9th—mass heal, mass hold monster, shambler.

[freyar]

You had some time! Looks pretty good, about what I'd expect for her.

Since she's from Blood Spawn like the seelie fey we're converting, should we also give her the spell of forgetting SLA?

[demiurge1138]

Let's replace wind wall with suggestion, wall of plants with baleful polymorph and control plants with mass charm monster. I like where you're going with the spell list, but I think she needs a bit more of an offense.

[Shade]

Originally Posted by freyar

Since she's from Blood Spawn like the seelie fey we're converting, should we also give her the spell of forgetting SLA?

I was just in the process of adding it to her entry.

Great minds think alike!

[Shade]

Originally Posted by demiurge1138

Let's replace wind wall with suggestion, wall of plants with baleful polymorph and control plants with mass charm monster. I like where you're going with the spell list, but I think she needs a bit more of an offense.

Fair enough. Updated.

Suggested weapons?

[demiurge1138]

A rapier and longbow seem appropriately fey-ish to me.

[freyar]

Originally Posted by demiurge1138

A rapier and longbow seem appropriately fey-ish to me.

Sounds right to me, too.

[Shade]

That works for me. Magic 'em up a bit?

[demiurge1138]

Absolutely. +4 keen dancing rapier and a +3 mighty composite longbow of distance?

[freyar]

Those work for me, but what's the mighty bit doing in the longbow? Is that one of those words that's in the PHB but not the SRD? (And considering she's only Str 10, it's not that mighty! )

[demiurge1138]

Ah. I thought she had a higher strength than that (mighty = add Str bonus to damage. It's under the composite longbow entry).