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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8529024" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Well I haven't tackled a high-level 5E monster conversion yet so it'll take me even longer than usual to comment.</p><p></p><p>It'd help if you included an original source, especially as I was temporarily confused as to whether this guy came from the DragonQuest RPG's <em><strong>College of Greater Summonings</strong></em> or the Dragon Quest computer game.</p><p></p><p>Something like "Inspired by the villain of the computer game <em>Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation</em> (1995) by Heartbeat."</p><p></p><p>My first impressions are he's too weak for a high-level boss monster. He's roughly analogous to a Demon Lord or Arch Devil right? So his Challenge Rating should be in the 20s surely. There are multiple rank-and-file fiends above Challenge 15 in the <em>Monster Manual</em> (i.e. Balor, Goristro, Marilith and Pit Fiend) who aren't unique threats like a Dragon Quest Dread Fiend.</p><p></p><p>He may be the weakest of them, as there's three other Dread Fiends above him and their boss Mortamor at the top, but that sounds like he's about par with, say, the Arch-Devils Bel or Dispater compared to their boss Asmodeus. In 3E's <em>Fiendish Codex II</em> Bel is CR 20 and Dis is CR 21 while Asmodeus is CR 27.</p><p></p><p>I couldn't find official or non-official 5E stats for those Archfiends with a brief rummage around the internet, but Kostchtchie is CR 21 in 3E according to <em>Fiendish Codex I</em> and he at least has an 5E SRD writeup in Tome of Horrors as a Challenge 22 menace (see <strong><a href="https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/kostchtchie-demon-lord-of-wrath/" target="_blank">Demon Lord, Kostchtchie, Demon Lord of Wrath</a></strong>).</p><p></p><p>Guess you could say these stats represent a lower-power Avatar of Murdaw rather than the full strength version. I believe he powers-up between encounters in the CRPG, which could be interpreted as different-strength avatars.</p><p></p><p>Although even at Challenge 15 Armour Class 12 is way too low for a respectable fiend. By contrast, a CR 14 <strong><a href="https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/devil-ice/" target="_blank">Ice Devil</a></strong> and CR 16 <strong><a href="https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/marilith/" target="_blank">Marilith</a></strong> both have AC 18.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8529024, member: 57383"] Well I haven't tackled a high-level 5E monster conversion yet so it'll take me even longer than usual to comment. It'd help if you included an original source, especially as I was temporarily confused as to whether this guy came from the DragonQuest RPG's [I][B]College of Greater Summonings[/B][/I] or the Dragon Quest computer game. Something like "Inspired by the villain of the computer game [I]Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation[/I] (1995) by Heartbeat." My first impressions are he's too weak for a high-level boss monster. He's roughly analogous to a Demon Lord or Arch Devil right? So his Challenge Rating should be in the 20s surely. There are multiple rank-and-file fiends above Challenge 15 in the [I]Monster Manual[/I] (i.e. Balor, Goristro, Marilith and Pit Fiend) who aren't unique threats like a Dragon Quest Dread Fiend. He may be the weakest of them, as there's three other Dread Fiends above him and their boss Mortamor at the top, but that sounds like he's about par with, say, the Arch-Devils Bel or Dispater compared to their boss Asmodeus. In 3E's [I]Fiendish Codex II[/I] Bel is CR 20 and Dis is CR 21 while Asmodeus is CR 27. I couldn't find official or non-official 5E stats for those Archfiends with a brief rummage around the internet, but Kostchtchie is CR 21 in 3E according to [I]Fiendish Codex I[/I] and he at least has an 5E SRD writeup in Tome of Horrors as a Challenge 22 menace (see [B][URL='https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/kostchtchie-demon-lord-of-wrath/']Demon Lord, Kostchtchie, Demon Lord of Wrath[/URL][/B]). Guess you could say these stats represent a lower-power Avatar of Murdaw rather than the full strength version. I believe he powers-up between encounters in the CRPG, which could be interpreted as different-strength avatars. Although even at Challenge 15 Armour Class 12 is way too low for a respectable fiend. By contrast, a CR 14 [B][URL='https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/devil-ice/']Ice Devil[/URL][/B] and CR 16 [B][URL='https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/marilith/']Marilith[/URL][/B] both have AC 18. [/QUOTE]
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