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Converting Al-Qadim creatures

Cleon

Legend
Updated standard and jann varieties.

You know, there's nothing in the original stats that suggests they drag down Huge opponents. Indeed it says "Saluqi greyhounds hunt small game and are good at flushing antelope or other grazing animals from cover".

Maybe we should reduce the size steps so they can overrun creatures up to Large size? Antelopes go up to large size for the biggest species, such as the Eland.

e.g.:

Pack Overrun (Ex): A pack of four or more saluqi may use the overrun attack. The pack overrun prevents a Medium-sized or smaller opponent from avoiding the overrun and does not provoke an attack of opportunity. In addition, if the pack successfully overruns its opponent the pack may immediately end its movement in the opponent's square and pin the opponent. Pinning in subsequent rounds still requires successful opposed grapple checks. Furthermore, if the pack pins the opponent, any saluqi participating in the grapple can make a bite attack against the overrun opponent.

For the overrun attempt and subsequent grapple checks, treat the saluqi pack as a single Medium creature with strength equal to that of the strongest saluqi in the pack (thus the pack cannot overrun creatures larger than Large). The saluqis' overrun and grapple checks also receive a bonus equal to the number of saluqi in the pack surrounding their target (that is, up to +8 for targets up to Medium, +12 for Large targets, and +16 for Huge targets).
 

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Cleon

Legend
Updated standard and jann varieties.

Environment: Warm deserts and plains?

For the jann saluqi:

Challenge Rating: x

Advancement: x

Challenge Rating 1? A jann saluqi is a bit tougher than the SRD Wolf, but a good deal weaker than a Worg.

Advancement: 3 HD (Small); 4-6 HD (Medium) ?

For the "standard saluqi" I'd make them CR 1/2 since they're tougher than a standard Dog.

I'm also tempted to change the Advancement to 2 HD (Medium).

There doesn't seem to be much variation in the size of a purebred saluqi, but the biggest males can be 50-65 pounds, which is within Medium.

Besides, doesn't the Al-Qadim entry say that jann saluqi sometimes breed with ordinary dogs, the resulting animals being mundane but superior hunting hounds? A 2 HD standard saluqi might have jann saluqi in its ancestry.
 

Shade

Monster Junkie
Updated saluqi.

Shall we work on the desert hounds variant of the jann saluqi now?

Jungle Hound
It is said that a related breed of hound has been created by jungle dwellers. These hounds use similar tactics, but are much better at tracking by smell than by sight – so much so that they can follow a trail up to a week old. They are smaller than the saluqi hounds, with orange and yellow patches of fur dappling their dark coats instead of gray.
 

Cleon

Legend


The jann saluqi still needs skills.

I'd put the extra skill rank in Survival, and give them a racial bonus to Survival checks when following tracks by sight. Maybe +8, since it's supernatural? If their eyesight's supernaturally keen they probably have a racial bonus to Spot as well:
Skills: Jump +12, Listen +5, Spot +9, Survival +2*

Skills: Saluqis have a +4 racial bonus on Jump and Spot checks.

*A jann saluqi has a +8 racial bonus on Survival checks when following tracks by sight.
Shall we work on the desert hounds variant of the jann saluqi now?

Apart from the differences in appearance, I'd give them a racial bonus to Survival checks when following tracks by scent:
Skills: Jump +12, Listen +5, Spot +5, Survival +2*

Skills: Saluqis have a +4 racial bonus on Jump checks.

*A jungle hound has a +8 racial bonus on Survival checks when tracking by scent.​
What do you think?
 


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