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  1. Cleon

    5E: Converting AD&D Monsters to Fifth Edition

    That 120 average DPR needs to include Legendary Actions, remember. Okay, to start with a Huge Scimitar normally does 3d6 base damage. Guess we could upscale it to a Longsword or Greatsword with flavour text that it's an oversized curvy scimitar-style blade rather than the usual straight sword...
  2. Cleon

    5E: Fifth Edition Monster Variants Inspired by Fourth Edition Sources

    Updating the Scarlet Death Working Draft. Guess we should pencil in the pre-ability stats. Armor Class 15 is OK by me. The listed Hit Points use a +3 CON modifier but it has +4 now, suggesting it should either have 102 (12d8 + 48) if we keep the HD the same or maybe 93 (11d8 + 44) if you'd...
  3. Cleon

    5E: Fifth Edition Monster Variants Inspired by Fourth Edition Sources

    Updating the Scarlet Death Working Draft. I'm fine giving it the Darkvision in your current draft. Proficiency in Perception and Stealth is OK too. Not fussed about the WIS save proficiency. With all those immunities I'm not sure the Scarlet Death needs it, but the Vampiric Mist has it so its...
  4. Cleon

    Converting Planescape monsters

    Works for me. Care to do the honours, or shall I whip something up later?
  5. Cleon

    5E: Fifth Edition Monster Variants Inspired by Fourth Edition Sources

    Updating the Scarlet Death Working Draft. After reviewing the 3E version in Monster Manual II, it doesn't have any languages listed and there's no mention of a voice in its description so we could make the Undead version speechless with Languages —. Or, if we want to jazz it up a bit...
  6. Cleon

    Converting Oriental Adventures creatures

    So: A figure dressed in white clerical robes with a turban-like headdress wrapped around its head and neck. The open front of its headgear shows no face, but just an empty black void. The being clutches a set of dagger-shaped crystal chimes in hands with skin whiter than bleached bone. It...
  7. Cleon

    Converting True Dragons

    Likewise! Agreed. While spell turning is a good pick I'm not fond of fire storm. How about forcecage instead?
  8. Cleon

    5E: Fifth Edition Monster Variants Inspired by Fourth Edition Sources

    Okay, so we're agreed on the ability scores at least. The above Working Draft doesn't look much different from how I remembered it, however many months ago that was. If it's an Undead, I think it needs necrotic and charmed immunity. Oh, and Death Mists can speak in AD&D so there should be...
  9. Cleon

    5E: Converting AD&D Monsters to Fifth Edition

    Are we okay keeping all the Abilities/Actions/Bonuses/Reactions/Legendaries in the Efreeti Noble Rough Draft or are there powers you'd like to remove or add? EDIT: Upon reflection, how about allowing the Firelord's Multiattack to include Flaming Punch and Immolating Touch as well as the...
  10. Cleon

    5E: Monstrous Arthropods for Fifth Edition

    Have updated the Mystaran Dragonflies collected post.
  11. Cleon

    5E: Monstrous Arthropods for Fifth Edition

    Come to think of it, do these things have "Senses: blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft." like a Wyrmling true dragon?
  12. Cleon

    5E: Monstrous Arthropods for Fifth Edition

    Right-ho. So are we giving it Dashing Flight still? What about the CON save proficiency and Perception proficiency question above?
  13. Cleon

    Converting monsters from Tales From The Infinite Staircase

    Dang it, I forgot the Sorcerer skills. That's why it had 231 total SPs in the Slaiyith Working Draft instead of 189. Sorcerer has proficiency in Bluff, Concentration, Craft, Knowledge (arcana), Profession, and Spellcraft. I think we should max out Concentration and Spellcraft, so that's 6 SPs...
  14. Cleon

    Converting Creatures from Other Campaign Settings

    There's a bit of a contradiction in the Lankhmar - City of Adventure (1993) version that says "They seem never to need food or other nourishment" while having "DIET: Carnivore" in the stats. We'll have to pick one or the other, but I'm leaning towards them not needing to eat. How's this...
  15. Cleon

    Special Conversion Thread: Lycanthropes and their ilk

    That seems overly elaborate. Wouldn't it be easier changing the last sentence to "if the dragon form has those attacks" or "provided it has those attacks in dragon form"? Like so: A weredragon in hybrid form gains two claw attacks and a bite attack as natural weapons. A Large or larger hybrid...
  16. Cleon

    Converting monsters from Dragon magazine

    That feels a bit too thick and heavy for me. The illustration in Dragon #89 shows an ooze-like creature that's quite "flat" and wide. Assuming the human wizard in the picture is 6 foot tall, I'd guesstimate the illustrated Ihagnim is about 14 feet in diameter with pseudopods that are 6 inches...
  17. Cleon

    Converting original D&D and Mystara monsters

    Giving them both the Construct and Planar Monster Type is a bit bizarre and I can't offhand think of any official BECMI monster that has such. It also has a logical clash with their description: Bielgorad die rather than submit to mind-control but in BECMI, like 3E, creatures of the Construct...
  18. Cleon

    Kraken Variants

    Let's use 4d8 then. Updating the Male Krakentua Working Draft and Female Krakentua Working Draft.
  19. Cleon

    Converting Planescape monsters

    How much do we want to use from the Great Modron March? That specifies who the Modronoids' creator was (Valran Stonefist), what group ended up backing him (the Tacharim) and how he ended up (as a Decaton Modronoid). We could put that in the Background and add a sentence or two that "demented...
  20. Cleon

    Converting Oriental Adventures creatures

    Will include the fixes in the next update. Well there's no description in the original so shall we just make something up? Hmm… how about we base it on a stereotypical Sohei: We can make the robes all white (the colour worn at funerals), have nothing but have emptiness or a black void...
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