Special Conversion Thread: Microscopic Monsters

[Cleon]

Umm...yes?

Indeed. Its got so many feats it's going to end up with a bunch that are gonna feel "tacked on" so might as well give it something it can use.

Its niche is essentially slams n' spells. So I fancy boosting the hell out of its slam attack, and giving a decent assortment of metamagic and spell booster feats. At the very least, I like Maximize Spell, and I like the Automatic Quickens freyar suggested. Widen and Enlarge wouldn't be bad, either.

How about Automatic Silent Spell and Automatic Still Spell?

 

[freyar]

Automatic Silent might be useful, but I'm having a hard time thinking about when Protistron might need a Stilled spell. You going to tie it up?

 

[Cleon]

Automatic Silent might be useful, but I'm having a hard time thinking about when Protistron might need a Stilled spell. You going to tie it up?

I was thinking it would be useful if Protiston wishes to cast a spell without being noticed.

 

[freyar]

You think someone's not going to notice a giant slime mold?

 

[Cleon]

You think someone's not going to notice a giant slime mold?

It could disguise itself as something else - like a rock - and if it has Auto Still and Auto Silent it can cast spells surreptitiously.

 

[freyar]

If you both like, I guess I don't mind Auto Still since it has plenty of feats. But the Disguise bit seems like a bit of a stretch. Plus Protistron isn't supposed to recognize other creatures as being intelligent, so it wouldn't bother disguising itself or its spells, I'd think.

 

[Cleon]

If you both like, I guess I don't mind Auto Still since it has plenty of feats. But the Disguise bit seems like a bit of a stretch. Plus Protistron isn't supposed to recognize other creatures as being intelligent, so it wouldn't bother disguising itself or its spells, I'd think.

Protiston does not recognize other creatures as intelligent, but I believe it knows other beings can be aware of their surroundings. Protiston has hallucinatory terrain on its original spell list, which only makes sense if it's trying to mislead the senses of other creatures.

 

[freyar]

True, but, as noted above, hallucinatory terrain is useful against animal-intelligence creatures too. Critters of that level of intelligence, as Protistron views everything else, don't know what spells are.

 

[Cleon]

True, but, as noted above, hallucinatory terrain is useful against animal-intelligence creatures too. Critters of that level of intelligence, as Protistron views everything else, don't know what spells are.

So? An animal doesn't have to know it's a spell to react to a disturbance.

They still know that noise and motion are an indication something might be a nasty that wants to eat them.

Besides, in D&D-land smarter animals might have learned to avoid guys who chant and wave their arms, like some real-world wild animals avoid people with guns - and for similar reasons!

 

[freyar]

Oy vey, where's Shade when you need him?



More seriously, sure, let's do Auto Still and Auto Silent at least tentatively. But I don't think Disguise is the right place to put skill ranks unless we really run out of other ideas.