Converting Creatures from Other Campaign Settings

[Cleon]

Yes, this appeals.

Good! Add it to the writeup then.

 

[freyar]

Good! Add it to the writeup then.

Agreed with that!

 

[Cleon]

Agreed with that!

Is that it for them mechanically?

I wouldn't mind riffing off the "their minds are alien and their thoughts are incomprehensible to humans" of the Xeg-Yi in their flavour text.

Something like this...

Living Ashes are intelligent but cannot speak. Their minds are so alien they do not understand any language comprehensible to humanoids, but intelligent creatures native to the negative material plane are able to communicate with them (usually via telepathy).

 

[Shade]

Looks good.

So how are we handling the trigger for creating one? Any conjuration (healing) spell of the appropriate level cast...

...in an area of negative energy?
...on the Negative Energy Plane?

Any other ideas?

Obviously, the Ashen Wastes are unique to the Dragonlance setting.

 

[Cleon]

So how are we handling the trigger for creating one? Any conjuration (healing) spell of the appropriate level cast...

...in an area of negative energy?
...on the Negative Energy Plane?

Any other ideas?

Obviously, the Ashen Wastes are unique to the Dragonlance setting.

Something like this?

There are areas of the Elemental Plane of Earth were negative energy leaks through rifts from the Negative Material Plane. Sometimes, the substance of the Earth plane absorbs this energy, creating a field of a black, powdery soil called death ash which is imbued with a weird pseudo-life (or, to be technical, pseudo-unlife). A death ash field is normally passive, but should it be exposed to a burst of positive energy, such as a healing spell, some of the ash field animates into an amorphous, elemental-like entity known as a living ash. Living ashes are driven to destroy the positive energy source that triggered their creation, much as a living organism creates antibodies to combat a disease. Normally, a living ash only exists briefly before dissolving back into the ash field it formed from, but in rare circumstances (usually involving a sudden influx of negative energy) a living ash can achieve a permanent existence independent of the ash field that spawned it.

Living ashes can be summoned by X.

 

[freyar]

Not sure I want them to be summoned.

Shade, when you have a minute, can you update homebrews, so we can see all of this together?

 

[Cleon]

Not sure I want them to be summoned.

I'd be happy to cut it out, or change it to a "there are rumors of spells that summon living ash elementals" type statement.

 

[freyar]

I think I'd prefer cutting it.

Also, where are we going to put the bit that they do their death throes when their time runs out?

 

[Cleon]

I think I'd prefer cutting it.

Also, where are we going to put the bit that they do their death throes when their time runs out?

In the death throes, I suppose.

Maybe together with a note in whatever "Spawned by healing" SQ we end up with.

 

[freyar]

Yes, sounds right. Really need an updated homebrews to knock out the last few changes.