Converting Monsters from Dungeon Magazine

[Shade]

That works for me.

Updated.

 

[Cleon]

That works for me.

Updated.

That about does it for the Special Abilities I think.

Put the extra skill point in Spot?

Same "Solitary or pair" organisation as a standard Bulette?

Challenge Rating 8, since they're meaner than a regular CR 7 Bulette?

Oh, and can we increase the bite damage? The Dungeon 37 version has a bite which does 4d12 damage instead of a standard 2E Bulette's 4d6.

3d8 or 2d12 damage instead of 2d8?

While my dodecahedraphilia tempts me with the 2d12, I think I prefer the 3d8.

 

[Shade]

I would leap at d12s, but will tend to agree with your assessment.

Updated.

Standard bulettes lack length and weight. Do we want to leave them off as well, or try to come up with something?

We made the smaller gohlbrorn 5-7 feet long and 5 feet high, and 450-500 pounds.

 

[Cleon]

I would leap at d12s, but will tend to agree with your assessment.

Updated.

Hold on, I've just checked the Monstrous Manual and their bulette has a 4-48 damage bite too. Maybe I was thinking of the 1st edition version?

Still, I quite like it with a 3d8 bite, so shall we keep it?

Standard bulettes lack length and weight. Do we want to leave them off as well, or try to come up with something?

We made the smaller gohlbrorn 5-7 feet long and 5 feet high, and 450-500 pounds.

That might mean something if I could remember what a Gohlbrorn was...

Oh yes, the beast from the Illithiad. Those weights seem OK to me. Gohlbrorn and bulette's are hefty creatures after all, and I'd guess they weigh about as much as an equivalent sized boar - around 500 pounds for a 6 foot long one.

A 12-foot bulette should weigh 8 times that much, or 3600-4000 pounds. Round it to 3500-4000 pounds?

We've already got the average length (12 feet) and height (9.5 feet).

"A typical bulette-mutation is 12 feet long, 9½ feet high, and weighs 3500 to 4000 pounds".

 

[freyar]

I'll take Cleon's size and weight and call it done.

 

[Cleon]

I'll take Cleon's size and weight and call it done.

A few little things to fix.

The Undermine special attack doesn't have a damage. Structures have a lot of hit points, so something like 3d12+16, or double that with a full attack?

Also, the description has "and as such is a great threat to farmers and ruids. Because the bulette-mutation was able to breed with regular bulettes, its kind has propogated."

I suspect the first word's missing a "d" (unless it's a monster I'm unfamiliar with ).

Propagated has two "a"s, not two "o"s.

 

[Shade]

Ruids are druids who dwell in ruins.

Fixed.

 

[Cleon]

Ruids are druids who dwell in ruins.

Oh, I remember those Ruinous Druids from Slainé.

Fixed.

Looks done then!

 

[Shade]

We might as well get these off the docket...

Undead-puppets (8): INT non-; AL N; AC 7; MV 12; HD 1; hp 6 each; THACO 19; #AT 1; Dmg 1-6; SD see below; MR nil; SZ M; ML special; XP 65; MM/315.

Undead are immune to sleep, charm, hold, and cold-based spells. They never check morale.

Jerretiere uses her animate dead ability to animate the warrior-puppets, recreating them into undead. Even if the PCs have already encountered and destroyed the puppets, the shattered parts are rejoined and rise as 1 HD undead. If still attached to their machine, they break free of their wires before attacking.

Originally appeared in Dungeon Magazine #64 (1997).

The puppets to which it refers are these:
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[Cleon]

We might as well get these off the docket...

Undead-puppets (8): INT non-; AL N; AC 7; MV 12; HD 1; hp 6 each; THACO 19; #AT 1; Dmg 1-6; SD see below; MR nil; SZ M; ML special; XP 65; MM/315.

So 1HD Small Construct with Tomb Tainted I guess.

They look like mindless zombie-like creatures with a 1d6 slam attack.

Not much to them, really.