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Hmm, I wonder how big the largest Meganisoptera would become if scaled up at those ratios? Estimates of Meganeuropsis and Meganeura appear to go up to 35cm length, 75 cm wingspan, and 150g weight. That's roughly 14 inches long, 30 inch wingspan, and about a third of a pound. If I use the...

A word on scale. My general rule-of thumb for Giant Arthropods is to scale them up by ×72 or ×100. The former turns an inch-long bug int a 6-foot bug, while with the latter a centimetre-long spider becomes a metre-long spider. However, I might warp the scaling up or down a bit (e.g. ×36, ×50...

I'll slap Perception on the next Updates. Just to be clear, by "cool variants" I was talking about Variants of the Giant Odonatids, as in "Variant: Some-Cool-Thing Damselfly" or "Variant: I-Wanna-Kill-Your-PC Nymph." I wasn't planning on doing a "Variant: Draconic Odonatic" subentry just adds...

This is what I've got so far: Description Helicopter damselflies include the longest and widest of all Odonata, with even the mundane species growing up to 6 inches in length (The giant helicopter Mecistogaster linearis) or an 8 inch wingspan (The blue-winged helicopter Megaloprepus...

I'm wondering about giving some of the Giant Odonatids proficiency in Perception, since they're said to have the best vision of any insect. Maybe drop their Wisdom a couple of points to WIS 10 (+0) and give them Skills Perception +2 (the same as a Giant Poisonous Snake, Octopus, or Shark and...

EDIT: And the answer is… might as well! Started a Converting BECMI Monsters to Fifth Edition thread and updated the Completed Fifth Edition Creatures Index to account for it. Which reminds me, would you mind doing a D&D Beyond version my Grassling conversion so I can update the Indexes? The...

This thread is a placeholder for Fifth Edition conversions of monsters unique to the Basic-Expert-Companion-Master-Immortal series of Dungeons & Dragons rules. Finished conversions will be added to the Completed Fifth Edition Creatures Index. Note the Index of 5th Edition BECMI Conversions...

Renamed them from the original BECMI "Dragonfly" to "Dragon Fly" to further distinguish them from the fully insectile "Odonatid, Giant (Giant Dragonfly)". Also added five subentries for each colour of Dragon Fly. Should I create a thread for BECMI conversions to do them in? Assuming we ever...

Just remembered you said we "have to do" the BECMI Dragonfly, so I've added those to the Want List. Look, I'm only doing Arthropods here, the other spineless wonders will have to wait! :p

I've replaced this post with a Want List of Monstrous Arthropods.

I'd copy-and-pasted some of the lengths and weighs into the wrong Odonatids and had to edit the previous post. Speaking of which. Glanced through that paper and it includes some figures for bodyweight of regular dragonflies. That's very handy, since I can use them to fact check whether my...

Decided to go for: Giant Damselfly 6 feet long, 6 to 8 foot wingspan, weight 50 pounds;  Variant: Small Giant Dragonfly 4 to 4½ foot long, 7 foot wingspan. Giant Dragonfly 7 to 8 feet long, 10 to 12 foot wingspan, weight 250 pounds;  Variant: Big Giant Damselfly 10 foot long, 10 to 14 foot...

Okay, I've been checking my proportions and I've definitely got some of the wingspans off. The damselflies tend to have proportionally shorter wings than dragonflies as their abdomens are so elongated, and some tropical damselflies have even thinner bodies in proportion to their length...

Okay, fixed a couple of very minor typos in the Giant Dragonfly and Giant Damselfly, namely a "Giant Giant", an "average" that should be "averages" and a superfluous "sized". Updating the Imperial Giant Dragonfly with the following: Description Apart from its size an imperial giant dragonfly...

Dang it, how could I forget the prerequisite. Blind-Fight doesn't do much for me but would accept either of the other two. Let's see, Lightning Reflexes would act as a sort-of substitute for Combat Reflexes which two of the 3.5 Modrons have, and give the Modronoid: Saves: Fort +4, Ref +4...

Y'okay. I've started on the Master. Once I apply the changes to the base Slaiyith we get the following: It only needs some additional Feats, Skills and Spells to be finished. Any preferences?

Certainly not a Template. There aren't a whole range of different creatures that become Master Slaiyiths. Updating the Slaiyith Working Draft.

Upon reflection, I prefer "7 or 8 feet" for the length. Updated the Giant Dragonfly Working Draft.

Just revised the Giant Damselfly to Small and added a Description I'd whipped up. EDIT:Just noticed that I had pasted VARIANT: BIG GIANT DAMSELFLY in during my edit instead of the VARIANT: SMALL GIANT DRAGONFLY it should have been. Gaah! It's fixed now.[/EDIT]

Have revised the Description slightly and added a Damselfly underbar, then added the result to the Giant Dragonfly Working Draft as follows: I think that'll do. In the end I used the Giant Grasshopper as the flying insect prey item. It may still be a Working Draft, but the conversion is...