Converting Greyhawk monsters

[Shade]

Updated.

Anything left?

 

[freyar]

Let's see what anyone else thinks about CR.

 

[demiurge1138]

CR 6 seems pretty fair.

 

[Shade]

All done?

 

[Cleon]

CR 6 seems pretty fair.

Well the giant sea anemone it's based on is CR6. The Polyp is a bit nastier but not that much nastier, so it may be a strong CR 6 too.

I would still like to increase the acid damage of its Swallow Whole, since the original could dissolve its victims very quickly.

 

[Shade]

Suggested increase?

 

[demiurge1138]

Boosting the acid to 1d6 or 1d8 would be good.

 

[Shade]

Let's go with 1d8 since it was so fast to digest things.

Updated.

Finished now?

 

[Cleon]

Boosting the acid to 1d6 or 1d8 would be good.

I was thinking of something higher than that. 2d6 or 2d8 acid damage, maybe even 3d6.

The original completely digests a victim in 5 rounds - how many hit points of acid damage does it take to liquefy a corpse?

Hmm, a Tendriculos does 2d6 acid damage plus paralysing digestive secretions but no crushing, a Purple Worm 8 acid and 2d8+12 crushing.

I think the Tendriculos is a better model.

 

[demiurge1138]

To be fair, a corpse probably doesn't have many hit points. Let's use, for the sake of comparison, a human zombie. Which has 16, and three of those are from a feat.