Converting Creatures from Other Campaign Settings

[Shade]

Looks pretty good! Added to Homebrews.

 

[Cleon]

Looks pretty good! Added to Homebrews.

What do we have left to do? Just flavour?

 

[Shade]

What do we have left to do? Just flavour?

If we're happy with the abilities, we need to stat out the other sizes.

 

[Cleon]

If we're happy with the abilities, we need to stat out the other sizes.

After you, my good sir...

 

[freyar]

We're just using the elementals, right? So it just means changing DCs, etc?

 

[Cleon]

We're just using the elementals, right? So it just means changing DCs, etc?

Yes, numberwise they're basically Earth Elementals.

 

[freyar]

I suppose this is giving Shade more work, but can we just copy them directly into homebrews in that case?

 

[Cleon]

I suppose this is giving Shade more work, but can we just copy them directly into homebrews in that case?

Well it's easy enough to do, here's the smaller ones...

Living Ash, Small
Small Ooze (Earth, Extraplanar)
Hit Dice: 20 ft. (4 squares)
Initiative: -1
Speed: 20 ft. (4 squares)
Armor Class: 17 (+1 size, -1 Dex, +7 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 17
Base Attack/Grapple: +1/+0
Attack: Slam +5 melee (1d6+4)
Full Attack: 2 slams +5 melee (1d6+4)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Death throes (DC 12), earth mastery, push
Special Qualities: Blind, blindsight 60 ft., earth glide, ooze traits, tomb-tainted
Saves: Fort +1, Ref -1, Will +0
Abilities: Str 17, Dex 8, Con 13, Int 4, Wis 11, Cha 11
Skills: Listen +3, Spot +2
Feats: Power Attack
Environment: Negative Energy Plane
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 1
Treasure: None
Alignment: Usually neutral
Advancement: 3 HD (Small)
Level Adjustment: —

Living Ash, Medium
Medium Ooze (Earth, Extraplanar)
Hit Dice: 4d8+12 (30 hp)
Initiative: -1
Speed: 20 ft. (4 squares)
Armor Class: 18 (-1 Dex, +9 natural), touch 9, flat-footed 18
Base Attack/Grapple: +3/+8
Attack: Slam +8 melee (1d8+7)
Full Attack: 2 slams +8 melee (1d8+7)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Death throes (DC 15), earth mastery, push
Special Qualities: Blind, blindsight 60 ft., earth glide, ooze traits, tomb-tainted
Saves: Fort +4, Ref +0, Will +1
Abilities: Str 21, Dex 8, Con 17, Int 4, Wis 11, Cha 11
Skills: Listen +4, Spot +3
Feats: Cleave, Power Attack
Environment: Negative Energy Plane
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 3
Treasure: None
Alignment: Usually neutral
Advancement: 5–7 HD (Medium)
Level Adjustment: —

 

[Shade]

Updated.

Do we need greater and elders as well? I'm leaning toward "no", as they just resemble earth elemenals mechanics-wise, and aren't actual variants. I could see adding a Gargantuan (monolith) version, but it isn't absolutely necessary.

 

[Cleon]

Updated.

Do we need greater and elders as well? I'm leaning toward "no", as they just resemble earth elemenals mechanics-wise, and aren't actual variants. I could see adding a Gargantuan (monolith) version, but it isn't absolutely necessary.

If we're following the Elementals I was thinking we should add the Greater and Elder Living Ashes.

Having them speak Terran feels wrong to me. Since there isn't a language for negative energy creatures then "Living ash do not speak" would suit me better.

Besides, living spells don't talk.