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I started writing up a rough and ended up basically statting up the whole thing. It needs damage figures for its attacks and I might need to tweak the Hit Points to make it Challenge 2, but it's good enough to put in the Giant Dragonfly Working Draft. So I will!

Okay, let's get this show on the road. I think the Giant Dragonfly should be on the upper range of lethality for a Medium beast, since the original monster was exceptionally nasty for a M sized animal. Its AC and HD were considerably higher than an AD&D Lion! Although Lion's made up for that...

The Giant Tropical Damselfly has some unusual behaviour compared to a regular Odonatid, so I'm inclined to start with the Giant Dragonfly and basically scale it up and down from there for the others. As for Challenge Rating, I'm thinking the Nymphs will have roughly the same CR as the Adults...

Been dithering about what to call these, as "Helicopter Damselfly" sounds a bit odd for D&D unless tinker gnome flying machines are common in the campaign! Maybe Giant Tropical Damselfly as a call-back to AD&D having tropical giant dragonflies be stronger versions of giant dragonflies? Heck...

Odonatid, Giant (Mammoth Damselfly Naiad) Huge beast, unaligned Armor Class 15 (natural armor) Hit Points 76 (8d12 + 24) Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 22 (+6) 14 (+2) 17 (+3) 1 (–5) 12 (+1) 5 (–2) Skills Stealth +6 Senses blindsight 30 ft., passive Perception 11...

Odonatid, Giant (Mammoth Helicopter Damselfly) Huge beast, unaligned Armor Class 15 (natural armor) Hit Points 68 (8d12 + 16) Speed 10 ft., fly 60 ft. (hover) STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 20 (+5) 17 (+3) 14 (+2) 1 (–5) 12 (+1) 5 (–2) Saving Throws DEX +6 Skills Perception +4 Senses blindsight...

Odonatid, Giant (Imperial Giant Dragonfly Nymph) Large beast, unaligned Armor Class 15 (natural armor) Hit Points 52 (7d10 + 14) Speed 30 ft., swim 10 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 20 (+5) 14 (+2) 15 (+2) 1 (–5) 12 (+1) 5 (–2) Skills Stealth +6 Senses blindsight 30 ft., passive Perception...

Odonatid, Giant (Imperial Giant Dragonfly) Large beast, unaligned Armor Class 15 (natural armor) Hit Points 45 (7d8 + 7) Speed 10 ft., fly 60 ft. (hover) STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 18 (+4) 18 (+4) 13 (+1) 1 (–5) 12 (+1) 5 (–2) Saving Throws DEX +6 Skills Perception +3 Senses passive...

I'd much rather do the "ordinary" Giant Dragonflies first, if only to have a CR 3 arthropod to add to the Exalted Thrall of Pazuzu's giant insect options. After further mulling, I now fancy doing three sizes of giant Odonata. The original AD&D version was Man-Sized, but came in two strength...

Odonatid, Giant (Giant Damselfly Naiad) Small beast, unaligned Armor Class 14 (natural armor) Hit Points 18 (4d6 + 4) Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 12 (+1) 15 (+2) 13 (+1) 1 (–5) 12 (+1) 5 (–2) Skills Stealth +6 Senses blindsight 20 ft., passive Perception 11...

Odonatid, Giant (Giant Damselfly) Small beast, unaligned Armor Class 14 Hit Points 14 (4d6) Speed 10 ft., fly 50 ft. (hover) STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 10 (+0) 18 (+4) 11 (+0) 1 (–5) 12 (+1) 5 (–2) Saving Throws DEX +6 Skills Perception +3 Senses passive Perception 13 Languages — Challenge...

Odonatid, Giant (Giant Dragonfly Nymph) Medium beast, unaligned Armor Class 15 (natural armor) Hit Points 39 (6d8 + 12) Speed 30 ft., swim 10 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 16 (+3) 15 (+2) 14 (+2) 1 (–5) 12 (+1) 5 (–2) Skills Stealth +6 Senses blindsight 20 ft., passive Perception 11...

…and placeholder is planted. Will need to stat up their Nymphs too, possibly at different sizes. The AD&D version has Dragonfly Larva smaller than the adults, but they actually grow slightly bigger before metamorphosing into the winged adult form. Also, a half-grown Giant Dragonfly Nymph would...

Odonatid, Giant (Giant Dragonfly) Medium beast, unaligned Armor Class 15 (natural armor) Hit Points 27 (5d8 + 5) Speed 10 ft., fly 60 ft. (hover) STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 15 (+2) 18 (+4) 12 (+1) 1 (–5) 12 (+1) 5 (–2) Saving Throws DEX +6 Skills Perception +3 Senses passive Perception 13...

This list is mainly so I remember the Monstrous Arthropods I fancied converting. It's easy to think of one and then forget about it months or years later when it's time for another conversion. The Want List includes links for creatures with statistics that match the Index of 5E Monster...

Okay, I've done an Index of 5E Monster Arthropods.

I think it'd be easier starting a new thread and having an Index of all the 5E Giant Arthropods we've done as the first post. Might as well do that now…

This thread will include giant versions of "normal" arthropods, such as Giant Spiders, and similar monstrous creepy-crawlies. Some of these will be conversions of creatures from earlier editions of Dungeons & Dragons, but others will be entirely new monsters mostly based on arthropods that do...

I've got time! Okay, it still looks way more complicated than it needs to be, but to each their own. If you're lowering the CON to 14 (+2) it'll have Hit Points 55 (10d6 + 20), not the old version's 65 hit points. The Pathfinder version of Bleed does not stack. That is, if a creature has...

That was a step too far for me. I was assuming the original author(s)* meant it when they made the grassling a Fey, and changing it might have consequences they didn't want. For example, spells that affect plants would now affect the grassling. * Whoever that was. The Pathfinder #129 credits...