And here are all the unconverted creatures that are probably "Plants". Creatures marked with a "*" are probably plant hazards rather than plant creatures.
I rembember that Boz did a conversion of the giant polyp on the Creature Catalog forums a few years ago, but never posted it to the CC because nobody else liked it.
How is the topiary plant different from the topiary guardians from MMIII?
It isn't terribly different, but does have a shapechanging ability which the MMIII versions lack...
Quote:
Topiary Plant
Here is an oddity among the wilds, a small thorny bush trimmed to resemble a dog. This is actually a living creature and if the party looks away, when they look back the bush appears to have moved, although at the moment it is motionless.
This is a topiary plant, a strange scavenger that can adopt the shape of anything it consumes, gaining 1 hit point per hit die of its prey, The plant's hit dice equal one-fourth of its hit points. A topiary plant may grow no larger than 0 [sic] hit dice. It takes one turn for a topiary plant to alter its shape. This plant is non-aggressive, preferring dead prey to living. Its thorns exude a weak poison (save at +4 to avoid its effects).
Any druid with a speak with plants spell may befriend this plant for one day.
"I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you." - Batman, Batman Begins "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight "Yeah, I can fly." - Tony Stark, Iron Man
Inside my hands these petals browned;
dried up falling to the ground,
but it was already too late now.
I pushed my fingers through the earth,
returned this flower to the dirt;
so it could live, I walked away now."
Rise Against - "The Good Left Undone"
"I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you." - Batman, Batman Begins "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight "Yeah, I can fly." - Tony Stark, Iron Man
Inside my hands these petals browned;
dried up falling to the ground,
but it was already too late now.
I pushed my fingers through the earth,
returned this flower to the dirt;
so it could live, I walked away now."
Rise Against - "The Good Left Undone"
Updated. I had four more marked as likely hazards: cushion fungus, death mold, explodestool and gray mold.
I've also added the vampire vine and the silver slime to this list, because I'd somehow managed to overlook them previously. That said, the silver slime might be an ooze instead of a plant, in which case I have a vague recollection that that might have already been converted.
"I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you." - Batman, Batman Begins "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight "Yeah, I can fly." - Tony Stark, Iron Man
Inside my hands these petals browned;
dried up falling to the ground,
but it was already too late now.
I pushed my fingers through the earth,
returned this flower to the dirt;
so it could live, I walked away now."
Rise Against - "The Good Left Undone"
So does that mean the silver slime remains unconverted? Here's the vampire vine:
Vampire Vine
Armor Class -- 8
Move: 0
Hit Points: 50
Magic Ability: (see below)
Fighter Ability: 10th Level
A vine with pointed leaves, crimson blossoms, and the ability to plant itself in the most severe environments. It grabs its victims and immediately begins to suck the blood out of them. This plant goes one step further in its play for survival in that it puts the victims in a stasis which keeps them alive. The plant can keep up to 4 being at the same time.
"I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you." - Batman, Batman Begins "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight "Yeah, I can fly." - Tony Stark, Iron Man
Inside my hands these petals browned;
dried up falling to the ground,
but it was already too late now.
I pushed my fingers through the earth,
returned this flower to the dirt;
so it could live, I walked away now."
Rise Against - "The Good Left Undone"
I think I decided that it was too complicated to be an ooze.
The silver slime is an artificial life form created by the Arcane, and it has a three phase life cycle: colony of amoeba-like blobs; slug-like aggregate creature called a "plasmodium" and then a stalked tree-like structure with fruiting bulbs. In the ecology section it is delightfully described as "a weird collective life form [that] functions as scavenger, repairman, and air freshener".
I think that given their similarity to slime molds and other fungi, plant is probably the best D&D fit. Even though, of course, fungi aren't really plants at all.
"I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you." - Batman, Batman Begins "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight "Yeah, I can fly." - Tony Stark, Iron Man
Inside my hands these petals browned;
dried up falling to the ground,
but it was already too late now.
I pushed my fingers through the earth,
returned this flower to the dirt;
so it could live, I walked away now."
Rise Against - "The Good Left Undone"
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