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    Special Conversion Thread: Lycanthropes and their ilk

    How's this: Special Attacks: A weredragon retains the special attacks of the base creature or base dragon, depending on which form it is using, and also gains the special attacks described below. In hybrid form a weredragon retains the special attacks of the base creature and gains the special...
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    Converting monsters from Dragon magazine

    Also, if we're giving it standard giant Rock Throwing it'd have a +1 racial bonus to attack rolls so we'd need to make its poor depth perception penalty –3 if we want it to have a –2 total penalty like the original. It'd be simpler to just not give it the racial bonus to attack when chucking...
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    Converting monsters from Dragon magazine

    A quick check of official sources isn't having much luck. There's a Special Quality called Poor Depth Perception but can't find an official creature with it. The CC version of the Cyclopskin was a pertinent ability: Want to use that if we can't find anything better?
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    Converting monsters from Dragon magazine

    Works for me. Agreed. Will include that in the next update. There are one-eyed creatures in official sources such as Cyclopes. Do they have a SQ we can "borrow"? Nope. An AD&D Hill Giant can hurl a rock up to 200 yards, which is considerably further than the 60 yards of a Fachan. A 3E...
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    Converting Planescape monsters

    Come to think of it, I haven't added either of these Modronoids, or the Bielgorad for that matter, to the conversions Index thread. Updating Completed Creatures Index & Current Conversions.
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    Converting Planescape monsters

    The modronoid version of Valran has an identical statblock to a regular Decaton apart from lacking the clerical spellcasting, so if we follow that example the template should retain the modron's SAs and SQs apart from spells, such as All-Around Vision, Damage Reduction, Resistances, Telepathy et...
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    5E: Converting AD&D Monsters to Fifth Edition

    Okay, for the Legendaries we can start by picking out what Standard/Bonus/Reaction Actions to include and then think about whether to add any more. So I was thinking Purifying Pyre from Actions plus both Fiery Eyes and Flash Step from Bonus Actions. As for Reactions, we could give it a...
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    Converting original D&D and Mystara monsters

    The statblock has "2 fists or 1 weapon" as its Attacks, and the weapon does 1d10+5 (+3 from its Strength, +2 from magic). Bielgorad "wield +2 magical weapons" and "these oversized weapons include a crook" so I'm presuming that it's a polearm with some kind of hooked mancatcher attached to it...
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    Converting Oriental Adventures creatures

    Well the text doesn't say how big these beetles are, but if we want to keep the original's vulnerability to regular weapon damage and poor Armor Class we can't make them smaller than Tiny since Fine and Diminutive swarms are immune to weapon damage and would have a +4 or +8 size adjustment to...
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    5E: Converting AD&D Monsters to Fifth Edition

    By the way, are you OK with the Fiery Eyes saving throw being Constitution? Assuming so, unless you have some other abilities to propose we can move on to Legendary Actions.
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    5E: Converting AD&D Monsters to Fifth Edition

    Works for me. Updating the Efreeti Firelord Working Draft.
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    Kraken Variants

    The versions we've already got in the CC have 8d12 trample damage, which is just a tad higher than the slam damage. For reference, the original monster trampled for 1d100 damage.
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    5E: Completed Fifth Edition Creatures Index

    The 2024 Giant Spider doesn't have a save for its poison, but just does damage. I like the 2014 version's paralyzing poison better. So how will we be Indexing these? I'd rather not delete the links to the old versions from the Index considering the effort we spent on them, so shall I add...
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    5E: Converting AD&D Monsters to Fifth Edition

    Making it 3b is fine by me. We'll need a duration for the period of blindness. Maybe 5 (1d10) or 6 (1d12) rounds?
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    5E: Completed Fifth Edition Creatures Index

    Better get cracking then, Will update the Indexes as you post the 2024 formatted versions. I plan to give them a quick eyeball to check for errors, just in case.
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