demiurge1138
Inventor of Super-Toast
They do sound LN to me.
Blindsight 30ft, frightful presence, a number of SLAs and evasion?
Blindsight 30ft, frightful presence, a number of SLAs and evasion?
Converting Oriental Adventures creatures
Shade
Monster Junkie
Sounds good. Let's try to figure out some ability scores.
Int is given as 11-12.
Similarly-sized and HD spirit creatures and outsiders:
Go-zu Oni: Str 25, Dex 10, Con 19, Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 17
Me-zu Oni: Str 27, Dex 10, Con 21, Int 14, Wis 16, Cha 19
Doc Cu'o'c: Str 13, Dex 11, Con 12, Int 12, Wis 18, Cha 18
Sword Archon: Str 25, Dex 17, Con 14, Int 12, Wis 14, Cha 17
Ursinal: Str 19, Dex 14, Con 17, Int 18, Wis 17, Cha 18
Int is given as 11-12.
Similarly-sized and HD spirit creatures and outsiders:
Go-zu Oni: Str 25, Dex 10, Con 19, Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 17
Me-zu Oni: Str 27, Dex 10, Con 21, Int 14, Wis 16, Cha 19
Doc Cu'o'c: Str 13, Dex 11, Con 12, Int 12, Wis 18, Cha 18
Sword Archon: Str 25, Dex 17, Con 14, Int 12, Wis 14, Cha 17
Ursinal: Str 19, Dex 14, Con 17, Int 18, Wis 17, Cha 18
Cleon
Legend
'Cause I remember reading at least one translated Chinese stories were evil spirits were struck down by lightning bolts from heaven, which wouldn't do much if they were immune to electricity - well, unless they were holy lightning bolts...
Cleon
Legend
Medium Outsider (Spirit) with Blindsight, frightful presence and evasion suits me too. If I remember the mythology correctly the Frightful Presence should be particularly effective against evil creatures.
As for the stats, I think the Sword Archon looks a good fit.
I'd be happy to use the Sword Archons stats as is, or maybe tweak the Constitution and Charisma up a bit - perhaps to Con 18 and Cha 19?
Men-Shen: Str 25, Dex 17, Con 14-18, Int 12, Wis 14, Cha 17-19 ?
Shade
Monster Junkie
Added to Homebrews.
Men-shen speak Common, Celestial, and x.
Add an underbar for "In Kara-Tur"?
Add improved uncanny dodge and a racial bonus on Listen and Spot checks?
For the ESP, I borrowed the doppelganger's continuous detect thoughts ability.
Greater invisibility (self only) at will? Astral projection at will? Follow the 3.5 lead of most outsiders and replace polymorph self with change shape or alternate form?
Repurpose this ability again?
Summon Weapon (Su): An aurumach can be armed in an instant by magically summoning a a golden, Huge +3 halberd. When separated from the aurumach, the weapon vanishes. An aurumach can summon or dispel its own weapon as a free action.
Immunity to mind-affecting spells and abilities? Does evasion sufficiently cover the latter, or should we give it spell resistance as well?
Although the original creature lacked it, I'd fancy giving them DR 10/chaotic as well.
Men-shen speak Common, Celestial, and x.
Add an underbar for "In Kara-Tur"?
Add improved uncanny dodge and a racial bonus on Listen and Spot checks?
For the ESP, I borrowed the doppelganger's continuous detect thoughts ability.
Greater invisibility (self only) at will? Astral projection at will? Follow the 3.5 lead of most outsiders and replace polymorph self with change shape or alternate form?
Repurpose this ability again?
Summon Weapon (Su): An aurumach can be armed in an instant by magically summoning a a golden, Huge +3 halberd. When separated from the aurumach, the weapon vanishes. An aurumach can summon or dispel its own weapon as a free action.
Immunity to mind-affecting spells and abilities? Does evasion sufficiently cover the latter, or should we give it spell resistance as well?
Although the original creature lacked it, I'd fancy giving them DR 10/chaotic as well.
Cleon
Legend
Add in Draconic?
That all looks good to me.
Wouldn't that need quite a lot of repurposing to match the sword's "crumbling to dust" and "losing one attack plus per day spend outside Heaven" traits.
Hmm, I think we can do without the losing pluses away from heaven bit, and if we throw in the rest of the traits we could get something like this:
Summon Weapon (Su): A men-shen can summon its (+4 axiomatic longsword?) to its hand as a swift action, even if the sword is on another plane or being held by an enemy. The sword can only be wielded by the men-shen, if any other creature tries to attack with it the weapon will vanish. If the men-shen dies, its sword crumbles into dust.
Do we want a dimensional anchor or the like preventing the sword from being summoned?
Might as well, it's the easiest solution and seems appropriate.
That would seem to fit, an Astral Deva is of a similar power level and has DR 10/evil.
demiurge1138
Inventor of Super-Toast
I like that dimensional anchor suggestion. The half damage from damaging spells was why I suggested evasion in the first place. I think they should stick to polymorph--there are a number of outsiders with it, like succubi and efreet.
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