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Gaah! An earlier draft started "Scarlet deaths" and I missed the s when I singularised the first sentence. I'm not in favour of keeping it. We can give it to the Crimson Death Mist.

How's this: Advanced Ihagnim Ihagnim don't advance like normal monsters but increase in Hit Dice by using their devour special attack. For each Hit Dice it gains, an ihagnim grows roughly a foot in diameter and its Intelligence score increases by +1, up to a 16 feet diameter and Intelligence 16...

I didn't, but that doesn't take long to whip up: A transparent mass of colorless flesh. It body seems more fluid than solid, flowing from one shape to another before settling briefly on a disc-like form two or three yards across. One of the few lifeforms native to the Astral Plane, ihagnim...

Hmm… A scarlet death is a vaporous undead that haunt marshes, moors and other locales that are naturally misty or foggy. It is so named because the normally whitish creature flushes red after draining blood. This undead resembles a small cloud with a vaguely humanoid top half with two arms that...

Yup. It's not that surprising that Utahraptor ostrommaysi turned up in a D&D publication so quickly. Lots of RPG fans and dinosaur fans too, and Utahraptor got a lot of press from being compared to the Jurassic Park Velociraptors.

Okay… Updating the Scarlet Death Working Draft. In that case that's the mechanics done, so we just need a Description.

Second Edition lasted until 2000 AD. The Utahraptor conversion is based on 2E AD&D stats from Dragon Magazine #54 (1995). The conversions include source credits where appropriate that should hopefully clear up the confusion.

Updating the Efreeti Firelord Working Draft.

So do you still want to add a necrotic area-of-effect attack for them? I'm fine with Shifting Mists but am not bothered about inventing an ability the original didn't have. Would be more inclined to give something akin to Wave of Lethargy to the high CR interpretation of the Crimson Death Mist.

Updating the Scarlet Death Working Draft. Come to think of it, two 3d6+5 tendrils is 31 DPR not 30, not that it makes much difference.

Come to think of it, will we be using 5 ft. for the range like a Salamander or make it 10 ft. because this firelord's a big lad? Did a bit of tweaking to get the following: Body of Smokeless Flame #2. A creature that touches the efreeti firelord or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 or...

Let's stick in 2d8 for now, we can always change it later.

Works for me. Shall we make the escape DEX-based, so DC 16, with the save vs. HP reduction CON-based for DC 15? That just leaves damage and to hit. I reckon its tendrils will also be DEX-based, for +8 to hit and #d# + 5 damage, although I can see an argument for making the damage CON-based too...

Yeah, I'd rather keep it fairly vague. Maybe cut out the first sentence fragment and have a generic paragraph about their life cycle plus a more detailed one for each colour. A mystaran dragonfly closely resembles a regular dragonfly about 3 to 4 feet long. Its head has subtle draconic features...

A 3E Efreeti has something equivalent, its Heat ability, that does 1d6 fire damage. Was thinking of keeping the base damage of its fire body relatively modest since it'll have its actions to inflict the big ouches. Maybe 2d8 fire so it's less intense than its Fiery Falchion but a bit better...

Come to think of it, isn't the Noble Genie ability called Wishes not Wish Granting. Will add the following in the next Efreeti Firelord Working Draft update: Wishes. The efreeti firelord can grant wishes to a creature that isn't a genie. Once the genie has granted its limit of three wishes, it...

That seems a bit too specific, as if there's some technique a wizard can use to create them. How about: Magical crossbreeds of normal dragons and insects, a mystaran dragonfly closely resembles a regular dragonfly about 3 to 4 feet long. Its head has subtle draconic features as well as a...

Yeah, it'll need that but I hadn't gotten around to adding it to the Working Draft. Should the "efreeti noble" in the above be changed to efreeti firelord?

Same here, although I'm having second thoughts about the "and the scarlet death regains hit points equal to that amount" for a couple of reasons. Namely (1) it's not something the original monster had and (2) it makes it a bit trickier to figure out the Challenge Rating. Might be better without...

Works for me. I'd like to get the Special Traits sorted out before starting on the Actions. So far we've just got Elemental Demise, Innate Spellcasting and Magic Resistance.