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I prefer Pearl's spell selection to swapping out veil.

Come to think of it, how about limited wish instead of vision for the 7th-level spells known? Being a monster there's not much need to worry about the XP cost.

Reupdated the Index and just noticed I'd accidentally overwritten Post #2 with Post #1 the last time I did the update. No irreparable harm done. I have an archive of this thread to I just reoverwrote Post #2 with the original text.

The old Creature Catalog had really kludged together coding that required a server running obsolete PHP and going by the backup Darjr sent me all those years ago it lost some of its data during one of those crashes, which is why a few of the older monster entries went AWOL. After looking into...

Works for me. If I recall the original story accurately the Grey Mouser cracked open the egg with one blow, suggesting it wasn't that tough since he is more a finesse fighter than a muscular powerhouse like Fafhrd. So how about we go for hardness 5 and split the difference on the health to...

Why would we need to shift the spell selection for Metamagic feats? Sorcerers cast them spontaneously. Of the standard Metamagic, I don't find them very tempting but I'll listen to counterarguments. I was thinking more of giving it Spell Focus (illusion) since most of the non-enchantment spells...

It's the principle of the thing! Also, you're forgetting that the template includes Giants, so a Huge giant can turn into a Huge dragon even if the base dragon is a Tiny wyrmling: Updating the Weredragon (True Drakanthrope) Working Draft.

Also realized another issue. Giving it +16 to Hide on the Astral Plane isn't much help since there's little to no Concealment on the astral so how would it make a Hide check? Should we give it a Special Quality to either (a) make Hide checks without anything to hide behind, like the ranger's...

I'll change the first paragraph from: Devour (Su): An ihagnim can try to devour a grabbed opponent its own size or smaller size by making a successful grapple check. Once devoured, the opponent is consumed in 1 round. The ihagnim destroys the victim's body and prevents any form of raising or...

We've still got the Bielgorad and their demon lord Bielgorna to stat up, but at least those don't have Goat Magic and Resonance like the caprine. So would you like to start on the Bielgorad? I'll post the original Goatmen of Kavaja text here for reference: Bielgorad Armour Class: 0 Hit Dice...

The AD&D stat blocks listed 7 tentacle attacks plus 2 fist attacks in NO. OF ATTACKS, its just the Combat text omitted to say how much the female's fists did. Anyhows, I'm fine giving both sexes the same base fist damage. We gave the 3.0 conversion 2d6 damage for the slams, which is the same as...

Yeah, I wondered about that too but opted to keep the first draft simple. The original text didn't say anything about limits of distance or plane regarding the link, nor whether it was possible to sever the link or restore either or both of the creatures to their previous state. Presumably...

Agreed. Updating Opal the Sun Dragon Working Draft. I'm happy to swap out a spell, but baleful polymorph seems superfluous to a creature with polymorph any object. How about giving it true seeing instead of mirage arcana and swap the Cleric Spells Prepared's true seeing for death ward or...

Yes, I too was thinking of making it Challenge Rating 7 since it's equivalent to two CR 5 lizards. How about making it equivalent to a 7th-level geas with CL 15th and Will save DC 20. Such as? I can't think of anything they need mechanically and am reluctant to invent flavour text that isn't...

Works for me too. Don't care for banishment but greater shadow conjuration is good. For "knock out of combat" applications, don't forcecage or symbol of stunning have more general functionality? Also, these are revered elder statesmen among the Slaiyith so how about a divination spell to...

I thought we were making the Hybrid form's bite do damage as a one size smaller dragon too. That is: Damage: Same as base creature or base dragon, depending on which form the weredragon is using. In hybrid form, the claw attacks have the damage of a dragon of the same size, while the bite, wing...

That's odd. I'm sure I posted a reply but it appears to have vanished. Anyhows, its interior is pretty tough as it has full Natural Armour on its stomach. Also, the swallowed victim only has one round to cut their way out before they're annihilated so the question is, how much chance do we want...

I think the current 2nd-level spells of darkness and hold person have far more utility than death knell so I'd leave them as-is, but change the bane to doom. With a +15 bonus from Acrobatics we don't need that many ranks for respectable modifiers in those skills. I'd rather give it some...

Updating the Caprine Working Draft. So I guess we can put this thread to bed for a while and move on with some other conversions?

Works for me. So which of the two do you prefer, or are you proposing giving the genders different base damage for the slams? The 2E AD&D Monstrous Compendium entries for the monster didn't list a punch damage for the female krakentua, but just says "A male krakentua can attack with his fists...