Converting Forgotten Realms monsters

[Shade]

That all works.

Updated.

Gaunds live in groups of up to twenty members, although large colonies of many groups have sometimes been found.

Organization: Solitary, x (2-20), or colony (x-x)?

Challenge Rating: 3? They are slightly tougher than a centaur at that CR.

Gaunds hoard gems and pretty stones of all types, and have been known to trade these for food with adventuring parties too strong for them to overcome.

In combat, gaunds do not use weapons of any sort

Although they do not build, use tools, or seem to have any type of social structure

Treasure: No coins, double goods (gems only), no items?

Alignment: Usually neutral?

Advancement: x

 

[Cleon]

That all works.

Organization: Solitary, x (2-20), or colony (x-x)?

Well the original has "Organization: Group", so I would suggest:

Organization: Solitary, group (2-20), or colony (20-50)

Challenge Rating: 3? They are slightly tougher than a centaur at that CR.

Challenge Rating 3 is fine.

Treasure: No coins, double goods (gems only), no items?

Alignment: Usually neutral?

Yes to both.

Advancement: x

A gargoyle's advancement of 5-6 HD (Medium); 7-12 HD (Large) would suit me. These creatures don't strike me as very likely to gain class levels.

 

[freyar]

All sounds good here, and that would make them basically done.

 

[Shade]

Updated.

A gaund stands 6 feet tall and weighs x pounds.

And we need to tackle the variant underbar:

Frost Gaund: This gaund variation lives only in very cold regions. Its color is bluish-gray or slate-gray. Its eyes are a glowing blue. Its ray has the effect of chill metal, as the 2nd-level clerical spell. The creature resists cold-based attacks and is susceptible to fire-based attacks. Its eggs are encased in a slime that protects them from extreme cold. It is otherwise identical to the normal gaund.

 

[Cleon]

Updated.

A gaund stands 6 feet tall and weighs x pounds.

Going by the picture they're pretty stocky and they've got that heavy tail. 200 to 250 lbs like the SRD Lizardfolk?

And we need to tackle the variant underbar:

That's just a matter of using chill metal instead of heat metal for the eye ray.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

And giving it cold resistance instead of fire resistance.

 

[freyar]

Agreed on the frost gaund. Just a one or two sentence underbar, I think.

Frost Gaund
This variety of gaund lives in regions of deep cold and has slate-gray skin with incandescent blue eyes. Frost gaunds have a frost ray instead of a heat ray, which mimics the effect of the spell chill metal, cold resistance instead of fire resistance, and vulnerability to fire rather than vulnerability to cold.

 

[Cleon]

Agreed on the frost gaund. Just a one or two sentence underbar, I think.

Frost Gaund
This variety of gaund lives in regions of deep cold and has slate-gray skin with incandescent blue eyes. Frost gaunds have a frost ray instead of a heat ray, which mimics the effect of the spell chill metal, cold resistance instead of fire resistance, and vulnerability to fire rather than vulnerability to cold.

That looks fine to me.

Do we want to mention the cold-resisting slime frost gaund cover their eggs with?

 

[freyar]

Feel free to add a sentence.

 

[Shade]

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