Converting original D&D and Mystara monsters

[demiurge1138]

Sure! Should we just do the abilities for the four core nagas and suggest that DMs invent their own abilities for other naga species along the same lines?

 

[demiurge1138]

Perhaps for spirit nagas, tomb-tainted and:

Carrion Breath (Su): A spirit master naga can, once every 1d4 rounds, breathe a 30 foot cone of toxic gas. All creatures caught within the cone must make a successful Fortitude save or take 1d4 points of Constitution damage and be sickened for 1 minute. The save DC is Constitution based.

 

[Shade]

Sure! Should we just do the abilities for the four core nagas and suggest that DMs invent their own abilities for other naga species along the same lines?

Yeah, I think that's reasonable.

Perhaps for spirit nagas, tomb-tainted and:

Carrion Breath (Su): A spirit master naga can, once every 1d4 rounds, breathe a 30 foot cone of toxic gas. All creatures caught within the cone must make a successful Fortitude save or take 1d4 points of Constitution damage and be sickened for 1 minute. The save DC is Constitution based.

Looks great!

For the water naga, maybe spines like a howler?

For the dark naga, something like this?

Implant Thoughts (Su): Once every 1d4 rounds, a dark master naga may attempt to implant a thought into a single creature's mind within 60 feet. This functions as the modify memory spell, except only a new memory may be implanted. A successful Will save negates this effect. This is a mind-affecting, compulsion effect. The save DC is Charisma-based.

 

[freyar]

Those look good as long as we think they're all roughly equivalent.

As for Eschew Materials, I didn't mean that they carried components around but that the gem spell foci substitute also as components. But no matter.

 

[demiurge1138]

Nice implant thoughts! I think that each of them should get a SA and a SQ. So what should a dark naga's SQ be?

 

[Shade]

Hmmm....dark nagas are immune to "mind reading" and gain a bonus on saves vs. charm effects, so maybe upgrade the master to full immunity to mind-affecting spells and abilities?

Alternatively, they could have a "backlash" quality for anyone who attempts to read their mind or fails to charm them.

 

[freyar]

I like the backlash idea, and I feel like there are some precedents, right. Or we could base it off Hostile Mind from the psionic section.

Water nagas also need an SA, but I'm blanking on a good idea.

 

[Shade]

Here's one "backlash" example...

Alien Mind (Su): While a minion of chaos is not immune to mental attacks, anyone targeting it with a mind-affecting or telepathic effect makes direct contact with its utterly alien mind. The attacker must make a DC 34 Will save or take 1d4+1 points of Wisdom damage. An attacker is subject to Wisdom damage on every attempt, whether the attack is successful or not. The save DC is Charisma-based.

For the water naga, I could see spines for the SA. For the SQ, something based on this?

Water nagas prefer to stay mostly concealed in a body of water while they launch a spell attack.

They currently have no special bonuses for doing so, and in fact lack the Hide skill entirely!

 

[GrayLinnorm]

How about giving them effective greater invisibility as long as they're completely submerged?

For a special attack, they could animate and control water.

 

[demiurge1138]

I like the spines for the SA and concealment when in water for the SQ.