Converting monsters from Dragon magazine

[Shade]

Good call on Track as a bonus feat. Should we give it wolflike tracking bonuses via scent as well?

Let's stick with Imp. Init and Combat Reflexes for the non-bonus feats.

I agree on leaving off outsiders on canid empathy. Most (if not all) canine outsiders will have a language or telepathy anyway. And hound archons have tongues, so they can speak with anything.

Updated.

 

[freyar]

I'd say yes on the scent tracking bonus.

Looks pretty good. I'm thinking CR 4 is about right, though the baleful polymorph may be worth a boost.

For org: pack?

Advancement: I'm not opposed to HD advancement, though I definitely want character class advancement.

 

[Shade]

Advancement: I'm not opposed to HD advancement, though I definitely want character class advancement.

Why's that? They lack opposable thumbs, after all.

 

[freyar]

Basically, they really sound like good cohorts (for a highish level party) or just sort of planar wanderers. Plus, they seem to spend a good deal of time shapeshifted into humanoid form anyway.

 

[Shade]

Fair enough. Let's go with both HD advancement and "by character class". LA looks quite high...+7 or +8 by my estimates.

 

[freyar]

And racial HD. Wow, that's gonna hurt.

6-10 HD (Medium), 11-15 HD (Large)?

 

[Shade]

Updated.

A rummele is x feet long, stands 3 feet tall at the shoulder, and weighs x pounds.

Blink dogs have no height/weight given?

A typical hell hound stands 4-1/2 feet high at the shoulder and weighs 120 pounds.

A shadow mastiff is slightly more than 2 feet high at the shoulder and weighs about 200 pounds.

A yeth hound stands 5 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs about 400 pounds.

 

[freyar]

Shadow mastiffs are rather dense, aren't they? And hell hounds seem rather anorexic.

Shall we drop the length and go with 80lb? That comes from scaling the yeth hound.

 

[Shade]

That works for me. Updated. Finished?

 

[freyar]

I think so.