Converting "generic setting" Second Edition monsters

[Cleon]

Do you want to update your working draft? It hasn't made it to Homebrews yet.

Will do, I'll add some background and tactics.

What about the idea of changing it to Advancement --?

I'll leave the spell out until we finish working in it.

Updating Working Draft.

 

[Shade]

Advancement "-" appeals.

 

[Cleon]

Advancement "-" appeals.

Same here.

Updating Working Draft.

 

[Shade]

Throw the spell in there and we're essentially finished.

I'm tempted to expand the flavor a bit just to jazz 'em up. Maybe they're not fully-formed fire elementals, or the form on the fringes of the Elemental Plane of Fire's borders where the elements are diluted? Something to explain their "phantom" moniker. In the description, perhaps they don't burn as brightly as normal flames, or are somewhat translucent?

 

[Cleon]

Throw the spell in there and we're essentially finished.

How's this for the spell, then?:

Summon Fire Phantom
Conjuration (Fire, Summoning)
Level: Brd 3, Clr 3, Drd 2, Rgr 2, Sor/Wiz 3
Components: V, S, F/DF
Casting Time: 1 round
Range: 30 ft.
Effect: One summoned creature
Duration: 3 rounds/level (D)
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

This spell summons a fire phantom. It appears where you designate and acts immediately, on your turn. It attacks your opponents to the best of its ability. If you can communicate with the creature, you can direct it not to attack, to attack particular enemies, or to perform other actions. The phantom must always remain within 30’ of the spellcaster; if it moves beyond this range the spell expires.

Fire phantoms are subservient toward more powerful fire elementals. A fire elemental can easily dismiss a summoned fire phantom back to the elemental plane of fire.

A summoned monster cannot summon or otherwise conjure another creature, nor can it use any teleportation or planar travel abilities. Creatures cannot be summoned into an environment that cannot support them.

Arcane Focus: A pint of oil which must be poured out and ignited during the casting of the spell.

I'm tempted to expand the flavor a bit just to jazz 'em up. Maybe they're not fully-formed fire elementals, or the form on the fringes of the Elemental Plane of Fire's borders where the elements are diluted? Something to explain their "phantom" moniker. In the description, perhaps they don't burn as brightly as normal flames, or are somewhat translucent?

Maybe their flames include strange, ghostly colours (green-blue?). I quite like the somewhat translucent bit, too.

A vaguely humanoid figure formed out of fire. The bulk of its flames are green-blue and translucent, but hot streaks of red or orange occasionally burn through its body.

As for the "phantom" moniker, I'd rather leave it undecided, but don't mind fleshing out some "sages theories", e.g.:

There are conflicting explanations as to why they are called fire phantoms. It may be because their eldritch green-blue colour matches the natural atmospheric phenomena known as "ghostlights" or "corpse candles". Some scholars believe they are called phantoms because they're not fully formed fire elementals, having been born in areas of the elemental plane of fire where the fire energies are weak and diluted. A few sages theorize they are masses of elemental fire that have absorbed the psychic "impressions" or "residue" of fire elementals and thus animated. The latter theory would explain their subservience to the will of true fire elementals.

 

[Shade]

I like it! I blended the flavor with your working draft and added to Homebrews.

Ready to move on?

 

[freyar]

Nice! Let's move on.

 

[Cleon]

Nice! Let's move on.

Agreed.

 

[Shade]

Sand Warriors: AC 5; MV 15; HD 2; #AT 1; THAC0 18; Dmg 1d10; SW Take double damage from water-based attacks; SZ M.

Sand Warriors (Conjuration/Enchantment)
Sphere: Elemental Earth or Silt
Range: 30 yards
Components: S, M
Duration: 1 round per level
Casting Time: 1 round
Area of Effect: Special
Saving Throw: NA
Material Component: A cup of water

The conjurer can summon 1d4 warriors from beneath the sand to fight in his stead. The warriors are completely loyal and cannot be controlled or stolen, although they can be banished by dispel magic. They have an armor class of 5, 2 Hit Dice, and wield terrible swords of compressed, fine sand that cause 1-10 points of damage whenever they hit. THAC0 is 18, and movement is 150 feet. The sand warriors take double damage from water based attacks.

To use this spell, a cup of water poured onto the sand where the warriors are to rise.

Originally appeared in Priest's Spell Compendium, Volume Two (1999).

 

[Cleon]

Sand Warriors: AC 5; MV 15; HD 2; #AT 1; THAC0 18; Dmg 1d10; SW Take double damage from water-based attacks; SZ M.

Any preference for type?

Native Outsider? Elemental? They could be Extraplanar Earth Constructs for all we know, since they "are completely loyal and cannot be controlled or stolen, although they can be banished by dispel magic".