5E: Converting Monsters from White Dwarf Magazine for Fifth Edition
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Cleon
Legend
All of the Dragon Warriors have DEX, CON, WIS & CHA save proficiencies, but by some glitch the Red has STR, DEX, CON & CHA in D&D Beyond.
The Red Dragon Warrior should have Saving Throws DEX +3, CON +6, WIS +5, CHA +5.
The Brass, Bronze, Copper and White look fine.
The Gold is fine, but the Silver Dragon Warrior has a 1d4 mastery dice, not the 1d6 of a Gold so its damage is one less, like so:
Dragonscale Weapon Master. The silver dragon warrior deals 2 (1d4) extra damage when it hits with a dragonscale weapon (included in the attack).
Actions
Longsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (1d8 + 1d4 + 4) slashing damage, or 12 (1d10 + 1d4 + 4) slashing damage if used with two hands.
Actions
Longsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (1d8 + 1d4 + 4) slashing damage, or 12 (1d10 + 1d4 + 4) slashing damage if used with two hands.
Cleon
Legend
Those both look fine now, which means all the D&D Beyond Dragon Warriors are finished.
Have places to go and things to do, so will update the Indexes later.
Cleon
Legend
Updated the Completed Fifth Edition Creatures Index and White Dwarf Conversion Index with the Dragon Warriors.
So back to the Weresnake Working Draft?
The last post was this one:
So back to the Weresnake Working Draft?
The last post was this one:
Casimir Liber
Adventurer
Ok yes happy with the multiattack. Musing on whether 22hp (4d8 + 4) is too weak but can always make leader types/alphas later.
Cleon
Legend
Updating the Weresnake Working Draft.
The original monster had Hit Dice 2d8 + 3, which might suggest it has few HD but a high Constitution bonus.
Snakes have rather mediocre CON scores in 5E though. Even a Giant Constrictor is only CON 12 (+1).
It'd feel a bit iffy to give it more than the current CON 13 (+1) which matches a Yuan-ti Malison or a Giant Poisonous Snake, both of which seem salient comparisons.
Shall we leave it at 4d8+4 and figure out whether we want to tweak it later?
Casimir Liber
Adventurer
Yeah sure
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Cleon
Legend
The only thing left to figure out is the poison and lycanthropy effects.
According to the CR Calculator, we need a DPR from 15 to 32 for Challenge 2, which seems rather high. A Wererat only has DPR 11.
Hmm, plugged a Wererat's numbers into the CR Calculator and it came out Challenge 1 so maybe that's were the problem lies?
If there's some arbitrary +1 CR for being a Lycanthrope the Weresnake can have a DPR of 6 to 14.
Think I'll run the other standard Lycanthropes through the calculator and see how they come out.
Werebear (Challenge 5) CR Calculator says CR 8.
Wereboar (Challenge 4) CR Calculator says CR 4.
Wererat (Challenge 2) CR Calculator says CR 1.
Weretiger (Challenge 4) CR Calculator says CR 7.
Werewolf (Challenge 3) CR Calculator says CR 2.
Wereboar (Challenge 4) CR Calculator says CR 4.
Wererat (Challenge 2) CR Calculator says CR 1.
Weretiger (Challenge 4) CR Calculator says CR 7.
Werewolf (Challenge 3) CR Calculator says CR 2.
Yeesh! They're all over the place. Either the 5e Tools CR Calculator is screwy or the official SRD Challenge Ratings are.
Might need to mull this over a bit.
Casimir Liber
Adventurer
I suspect the latter - Mike Shea talks about this often (official dnd monsters doing too low damage for their CR) - but clearly some are the other way. Maybe they rushed them...who knows
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