5E: Converting Monsters from White Dwarf Magazine for Fifth Edition

Casimir Liber · Jul 30, 2022

Ok getting up to speed - did the mage, will do fighting ape in a sec

Casimir Liber · Jul 30, 2022

tree-vargr (descrption is as yrs) - yeah, go for it - for an ogre size one

Cleon · Jul 30, 2022

Casimir Liber said:
Ok getting up to speed - did the mage, will do fighting ape in a sec

The mage is finished but I'm not quite done with the fighting ape. There's the question of swapping the Yuan-ti Pureblood for something OGL and changing the greatsword to a longsword.

Cleon · Jul 30, 2022

Okay, checking the gu'en-deeko mage the hit points don't include the 6 bonus points from Brain-Eating but apart from that it's fine.

Is there any way D&D Beyond will allow you to include them or does it automatically fix the HP according to its HD and CON. Maybe have 6d8 + 30 listed instead of 5d8 + 24 + 6?

Cleon · Jul 30, 2022

Casimir Liber said:
tree-vargr (descrption is as yrs) - yeah, go for it - for an ogre size one

A fair few issues with this one, I'm afraid.

Tree-Vargr are Large undead (shapechanger), chaotic evil not Medium undead, neutral evil.

The Speed should have (in wolfbeast form) not (in beast form).

It has Languages Druidic, Worg.

The rest of the mechanical section looks OK, although I suspect you've got a stray linebreak after "the suggestion end on it." In Howling Wail judging from where the next sentence starts in the paragraph.

Casimir Liber · Jul 31, 2022

Cleon said:
Okay, checking the gu'en-deeko mage the hit points don't include the 6 bonus points from Brain-Eating but apart from that it's fine.

Is there any way D&D Beyond will allow you to include them or does it automatically fix the HP according to its HD and CON. Maybe have 6d8 + 30 listed instead of 5d8 + 24 + 6?

Has to be "+30" - hp add only allows for numeric entry

published here

Cleon · Jul 31, 2022

Casimir Liber said:
Has to be "+30" - hp add only allows for numeric entry

published here

Well that'll have to do.

Updating the Completed Fifth Edition Creatures Index and White Dwarf Conversion Index.

Cleon · Aug 1, 2022

I've finished a first draft of the Pine Kindred Tree-Jotun and posted it.

Casimir Liber · Aug 2, 2022

Of course I can't do that peircing resistance

Cleon · Aug 2, 2022

Casimir Liber said:
Of course I can't do that peircing resistance

Yes, we had that problem with some of the other Pine Kindred.

It's still a work in progress, I've thought of a couple of changes: an additional Trait and an extra paragraph for the Description.

Just updated the Pine Kindred Tree-Jotun with a second draft.

Also, I'll post a placeholder for less-powerful Large brutish version which I've decided to call a Root-Ogre.