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  1. Cleon

    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...
  2. Cleon

    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.
  3. Cleon

    5E: Converting AD&D Monsters to Fifth Edition

    Works for me. Updating the Efreeti Firelord Working Draft.
  4. Cleon

    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.
  5. Cleon

    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...
  6. Cleon

    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?
  7. Cleon

    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.
  8. Cleon

    5E: Converting AD&D Monsters to Fifth Edition

    'Ere we go… Incandescent Rebuke (Recharge 5–6)[#1 Incendiary]. When a creature within 50 feet damages the efreeti firelord with an attack, the firelord can use its reaction to engulf the attacker with a surge of incandescent sparks from its Body of Smokeless Flame. The attacker takes 9 (2d8)...
  9. Cleon

    5E: Completed Fifth Edition Creatures Index

    If you like. I'd have to update the links in the Indexes, which'd be a bit of a pain but (hopefully) won't take too long.
  10. Cleon

    5E: Converting AD&D Monsters to Fifth Edition

    Giving it Parry is OK by me. Shouldn't a Reaction express its triggering condition more clearly? Something like so: Incendiary Rebuke (Recharge 5-6). The efreeti firelord points its finger at a creature that damages it. The creature is momentarily surrounded by flames and must make a DC...
  11. Cleon

    Converting True Dragons

    That's all fine. Updated the Opal the Sun Dragon Working Draft. So are we done with the abilities? If so, I can remove the [plus others TBD?] note.
  12. Cleon

    Converting monsters from Tales From The Infinite Staircase

    Dark Dweller Size Type Hit Dice: d+ ( hp) Initiative: +– Speed: ft. ( squares) Armor Class: 1 (+– size, Dex, + natural), touch 1, flat-footed 1 Base Attack/Grapple: +/+ Attack: X + melee (d+); or Z + ranged (d+) Full Attack: X + melee (d+) and Y + melee (d+); or Z + ranged (d+) Space/Reach: ft./...
  13. Cleon

    Converting monsters from Tales From The Infinite Staircase

    Sure. The original stats are in the linked post above, and the Cleon Homebrew hopefully provides enough information about the nature of that entity that I don't have to transcribe chunks of text from the adventure. EDIT: Adding a link to the Cleon Special Dark Dweller so it's on the same page...
  14. Cleon

    Special Conversion Thread: Lycanthropes and their ilk

    Yes, this is going to need some serious thought. I'm thinking some of the Special Abilities will need tweaking, particularly the Breath Weapon. The original stats has "They can also use the dragon’s breath weapon once each day." Which is a bit problematic since it doesn't give a size or...
  15. Cleon

    Converting monsters from Dragon magazine

    In AD&D a standard Ogre is AC 5, one point worse than the Fachan's AC 4. The 1E illustration shows two fachan that are bare-arse naked, while the 2E illustration's Fachan is dressed in normal clothes that have been ripped up to fit its inhuman anatomy. It has a jacket with the front open so its...
  16. Cleon

    Converting Planescape monsters

    Agreed. It's pretty much as you predicted. Valran has all the decaton's abilities apart from its spellcasting. It can even use a decaton's SLAs and telepathy. Here's the "modronoid version" statblock: VALRAN STONEFIST (Pl/Ø modronoid/M13/N): AC 2; MV 15, Fl 3(E); HD 10+10;hp 90; THAC0 11...
  17. Cleon

    Converting original D&D and Mystara monsters

    So we're adding Crook (Ex) and Immobilizing Net (Ex and Su) special attacks?
  18. Cleon

    Converting Oriental Adventures creatures

    Let's stick to the current Beetle and Carnivorous Beetle then, since that's the names used in the original text. Hmm… isn't the first question what Size to make them? The Swarms are vulnerable to normal weapons in the original, which means they'd have to be Tiny by the 3E rules. Happily, a...
  19. Cleon

    Kraken Variants

    Updating the Male Krakentua Working Draft and Female Krakentua Working Draft. Well it'd be eight Colossal 2H weapons if this theoretical abomination used its hands as well.
  20. Cleon

    Converting True Dragons

    Hold on a moment, we've already got 18/day blink in the Opal the Sun Dragon Working Draft. I already treated it as a stackable SLA! EDIT: Although I did miscalculate the number of uses, based on three dragons rather than four. If they stack it should be 24/day. :ENDEDIT
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