Cleon
Legend
If you like.
How many monsters would you like to have on the go at once?
I'll promote the Aurotyugh on the Creatures Awaiting Upload thread.
Converting Greyhawk monsters
If you like.
How many monsters would you like to have on the go at once?
I'll promote the Aurotyugh on the Creatures Awaiting Upload thread.
Cleon
Legend
Okay, we can let some threads lie fallow once the current monster is finished.
Like this one!
Cleon
Legend
Welcome back!
According to our Unconverted D&D creatures index, the only one missing is the Monarch Scorpion from Rary the Traitor.
However, that index is incomplete.
We don't have a conversion for the Sea Sprite from Greyhawk Adventures, and there are probably a few other missing Greyhawk monsters in obscure corners, or ones that are on the Dragon Magazine list rather than the Greyhawk list.
Do either the Monarch Scorpion or Sea Sprite appeal to you as a conversion?
I guess the Monarch is the more interesting of the two (in the "may your PCs find interesting ways to die" sense)...
Cleon
Legend
Right-ho.
It'll take me a little while to transcribe the stats...
[EDIT]...and here I go.[/EDIT]
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Cleon
Legend
Monarch Scorpion Original Stats
Monarch Scorpion
Monarch Scorpion
CLIMATE/TERRAIN: Desert
FREQUENCY: Very rare
ORGANIZATION: Solitary
ACTIVITY CYCLE: Day
DIET: Omnivore
INTELLIGENCE: Low
TREASURE: D
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic evil
NO. APPEARING: 1-3
ARMOR CLASS: 2
MOVEMENT: 18
HIT DICE: 8 + 8
THAC0: 13
NO. OF ATTACKS: 3
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 2-20 (x2)/1-8 + poison
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Psionics
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Psionics
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Nil
SIZE: H
MORALE: Champion (15-16)
XP VALUE: 4,000
Psionics Summary
Telepathy: Sciences: domination; Devotions: contact, invisibility, life detection, psionic blast
Metapsionics: Sciences: ultrablast; Devotions: psionic sense, psionic inflation, psychic drain
Master Scorpion
CLIMATE/TERRAIN: Desert
FREQUENCY: Unique
ORGANIZATION: Solitary
ACTIVITY CYCLE: Day
DIET: Omnivore
INTELLIGENCE: Low
TREASURE: G
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic evil
NO. APPEARING: 1
ARMOR CLASS: 0
MOVEMENT: 18
HIT DICE: 12 + 12
THAC0: 9
NO. OF ATTACKS: 3
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 2-20 (x2)/1-8 + poison
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Psionics
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Psionics
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Nil
SIZE: H
MORALE: Fanatic (17-18)
XP VALUE: 10,000
Psionics Summary
Telepathy: Sciences: domination, mindwipe; Devotions: contact, ESP, inflict pain, mind thrust, psionic blast
Metapsionics: Sciences: ultrablast; Devotions: magnify, prolong, psionic inflation
Psychometabolism: Sciences: life draining; Devotions: body control, ectoplasmic form, immovability, suspend animation
Psychokinesis: Sciences: project force, telekinesis; Devotions: ballistic attack, control body, create sound, inertial barrier
Shattados the Cruel’s curse transformed him into a horrific creature, a great and powerful giant scorpion with awesome psionic abilities and a deep hatred for humanity. A new species of scorpion appeared in the desert soon thereafter. They were smaller versions of their deadly master. To this day the monarch scorpions, as the nomads call them, continue to cause woe throughout the desert.
Combat: While monarch scorpions’ psionic abilities are their most potent weapon, their normal attacks are devastating in their own right. Each powerful claw strike causes 2-20 points of damage, while the tail sting attacks cause 1-8 points of damage. Those struck by the tail must successfully save vs. poison at -4 or die.
Monarch scorpions like to lie in wait just beneath the sands of the Bright Desert, emitting a devastating psionic blast before emerging to attack when their prey walks nearby or above them.
Habitat/Society: Monarch scorpions have no real society, but dwell alone in the desert, although they are occasionally encountered as mated pairs or small family groups. The creatures seem to be another result of Shattados’s curse, magically altered normal scorpions now grown to enormous size. Their low intelligence reflects not a reasoning intellect, but rather an instinctive cunning which enables them to expertly ambush their prey.
Ecology: These vicious beasts are efficient predators, aiding their manscorpion cousins in eliminating many of the desert’s animal species, as well as much of its human population.
Master Scorpion: There is presently only one master scorpion, the immortal creature that is all that remains of the evil monarch, Shattados the Cruel. This creature dwells exclusively in the ruins of Shattados’s palace, guarding the scorpion crown.
Originally from WGR3 - Rary the Traitor (1992)
Note: I've reformatted this a bit from the original MC entry, which originally had a three-column stat block with the Monarch and Master Scorpions in side-by-side columns.
It's just a bit easier to read with the two monsters' stats separated out into their own stat blocks.
Monarch Scorpion
Monarch Scorpion
CLIMATE/TERRAIN: Desert
FREQUENCY: Very rare
ORGANIZATION: Solitary
ACTIVITY CYCLE: Day
DIET: Omnivore
INTELLIGENCE: Low
TREASURE: D
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic evil
NO. APPEARING: 1-3
ARMOR CLASS: 2
MOVEMENT: 18
HIT DICE: 8 + 8
THAC0: 13
NO. OF ATTACKS: 3
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 2-20 (x2)/1-8 + poison
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Psionics
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Psionics
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Nil
SIZE: H
MORALE: Champion (15-16)
XP VALUE: 4,000
Psionics Summary
| Level 8 | Dis/Sci/Dev 2/2/7 | Attack/Defense PB/M- | Score 12 | PSPs 100 |
Metapsionics: Sciences: ultrablast; Devotions: psionic sense, psionic inflation, psychic drain
Master Scorpion
CLIMATE/TERRAIN: Desert
FREQUENCY: Unique
ORGANIZATION: Solitary
ACTIVITY CYCLE: Day
DIET: Omnivore
INTELLIGENCE: Low
TREASURE: G
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic evil
NO. APPEARING: 1
ARMOR CLASS: 0
MOVEMENT: 18
HIT DICE: 12 + 12
THAC0: 9
NO. OF ATTACKS: 3
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 2-20 (x2)/1-8 + poison
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Psionics
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Psionics
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Nil
SIZE: H
MORALE: Fanatic (17-18)
XP VALUE: 10,000
Psionics Summary
| Level 12 | Dis/Sci/Dev 4/6/17 | Attack/Defense PB, MT/MB | Score 18 | PSPs 200 |
Metapsionics: Sciences: ultrablast; Devotions: magnify, prolong, psionic inflation
Psychometabolism: Sciences: life draining; Devotions: body control, ectoplasmic form, immovability, suspend animation
Psychokinesis: Sciences: project force, telekinesis; Devotions: ballistic attack, control body, create sound, inertial barrier
Shattados the Cruel’s curse transformed him into a horrific creature, a great and powerful giant scorpion with awesome psionic abilities and a deep hatred for humanity. A new species of scorpion appeared in the desert soon thereafter. They were smaller versions of their deadly master. To this day the monarch scorpions, as the nomads call them, continue to cause woe throughout the desert.
Combat: While monarch scorpions’ psionic abilities are their most potent weapon, their normal attacks are devastating in their own right. Each powerful claw strike causes 2-20 points of damage, while the tail sting attacks cause 1-8 points of damage. Those struck by the tail must successfully save vs. poison at -4 or die.
Monarch scorpions like to lie in wait just beneath the sands of the Bright Desert, emitting a devastating psionic blast before emerging to attack when their prey walks nearby or above them.
Habitat/Society: Monarch scorpions have no real society, but dwell alone in the desert, although they are occasionally encountered as mated pairs or small family groups. The creatures seem to be another result of Shattados’s curse, magically altered normal scorpions now grown to enormous size. Their low intelligence reflects not a reasoning intellect, but rather an instinctive cunning which enables them to expertly ambush their prey.
Ecology: These vicious beasts are efficient predators, aiding their manscorpion cousins in eliminating many of the desert’s animal species, as well as much of its human population.
Master Scorpion: There is presently only one master scorpion, the immortal creature that is all that remains of the evil monarch, Shattados the Cruel. This creature dwells exclusively in the ruins of Shattados’s palace, guarding the scorpion crown.
Originally from WGR3 - Rary the Traitor (1992)
Note: I've reformatted this a bit from the original MC entry, which originally had a three-column stat block with the Monarch and Master Scorpions in side-by-side columns.
It's just a bit easier to read with the two monsters' stats separated out into their own stat blocks.
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Cleon
Legend
Yes, it certainly looks like a Magical Beast.
We traditionally stat up a (Sp) version and add the (Ps) ones as part of a Psionics subentry. I was expecting we'd do that.
I guess the obvious thing to do is take a Monstrous Scorpion of a particular size and start warping it. A Huge Scorpion would seem to be the closest fit.
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