Converting Oriental Adventures creatures

[Cleon]

Just blindsense, not blind, since there's no mention that they're immune to gaze attacks.

Full-round it is.

Updated Working Draft.

I'm up to suggestions for the flavour.

 

[freyar]

Maye doing the construction will suggest some flavor.

Ok, so it needs paper. Let's make it special paper of some kind, worth quite a bit. Ethereal jaunt seems right, erase, gust of wind?

 

[Cleon]

Maye doing the construction will suggest some flavor.

Ok, so it needs paper. Let's make it special paper of some kind, worth quite a bit. Ethereal jaunt seems right, erase, gust of wind?

Ethereal jaunt seems a bit high level for the Challenge Rating.

Maybe blink, erase, and gust of wind?

 

[Shade]

Blink is a good fit.

 

[freyar]

There's a long tradition of spells too high for the required caster level, even if I don't usually like it. Besides, I'm not sure I want a 5th or so level caster making these and sending up to an enemy per day to the ethereal plane. They're really a quandary since that one ability is pretty nasty. I guess blink is ok; I'm just in a real quandary about the CR on these. They're like an extreme cockatrice.

What caster level do we want? The minimum for the spells required?

 

[Cleon]

There's a long tradition of spells too high for the required caster level, even if I don't usually like it. Besides, I'm not sure I want a 5th or so level caster making these and sending up to an enemy per day to the ethereal plane. They're really a quandary since that one ability is pretty nasty. I guess blink is ok; I'm just in a real quandary about the CR on these. They're like an extreme cockatrice.

If it bothers you a lot why not add a duration, so the shunted victim "pops back" into the Prime Material at whatever point they left it after a few hours or days?

What caster level do we want? The minimum for the spells required?

Yes, CL 5th seemed about right to me.

 

[freyar]

The duration is a neat idea. I should probably just stop worrying about it, though. Maybe for the Pathfinderized version. Unless the rest of you prefer the duration?

Ok, CL 5 it is.

 

[Cleon]

The duration is a neat idea. I should probably just stop worrying about it, though. Maybe for the Pathfinderized version. Unless the rest of you prefer the duration?

Ok, CL 5 it is.

I like the duration, suppose we could mention it as an alternative.

 

[freyar]

Leaving aside the ethereal swallow for a minute, how about the cost? Special papers and inks, total cost around 2000 gp sound ok?

 

[Cleon]

Leaving aside the ethereal swallow for a minute, how about the cost? Special papers and inks, total cost around 2000 gp sound ok?

Is that cost to make? I don't think they have a sale price, since they're the personal creation of a wizard, similar to a homunculus.

2 grand to create seems in the right ball park compared to a homunculus (which is 1050 gp). The ethereal shunt power is worth the extra.

100 gold for the parchment and inks?

What about the "wu jen typically create four gohe ip'oh at a time" bit from the original MC6 version? Do we want to include that?

For that matter, do we want to use the "pages from a book of evil lore" flavour from the original?

Putting it together using the homunculus as a model...

CONSTRUCTION
A gohei p'oh is created from a sheet of the finest parchment or silk paper. Pages from a book of evil lore are written upon this sheet in rare inks. The materials cost 100 gp. Creating this sheet of paper requires a DC 13 Craft (calligraphy) or a DC 13 Craft (papermaking) check.

After the page of evil lore is prepared, it is animated through an extended magical ceremony that requires a specially prepared library or workroom, similar to an alchemist's laboratory and costing 500 gp to establish. If the creator is personally constructing the creature's body, the building and ceremony can be performed together. Up to four gohei p'oh can be created simultaneously as part of the same ceremony, simply combine the cost of materials. As the ceremony is performed the writing upon the sheet of paper slowly fades, disappearing entirely as the gohei p'oh is animated.


A gohei p'oh with more than 2 Hit Dice can be created, but each additional Hit Die adds +2,000 gp to the cost to create.

CL 5th; Craft Construct, blink, erase, gust of wind, caster must be at least 5th level; Price — (never sold); Cost 2,100 gp + 156 XP.