5E: Converting Monsters from White Dwarf Magazine for Fifth Edition
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Casimir Liber
Adventurer
ok...so just the description for the Young Cyclops?
Cleon
Legend
Yes, I'm happy slapping on a brief Description and calling it a day.
Unless there's something you fancy adding to the Amiraspian Cyclops Young?
Cleon
Legend
Came up with the following.
Description
A young Amiraspian cyclops resembles an exceptionally large and muscular human with a single eye in the center of its brow. This eye has a clear sea green pupil and appears eerily normal, but is considerably larger than a human eyeball. The creature's facial features are crude and ugly, with a shock of coarse black-green hair atop its head and an overly large and muscular jaw. Its fingernails and teeth are so thick and sharp they serve the brute as weapons.
Cyclopean Childhood. These monsters are born from pregnant human women captured and cursed in the cyclopes' den (see Cursed Births in the Amiraspian Cyclops entry). Young Amiraspian cyclopes are normally only encountered inside or very close to an Amiraspian Cyclops Lair and are often accompanied by adult cyclopes.
An infant Amiraspian cyclops is indistinguishable from a cyclopean-human hybrid of the same age (see Amiraspian Hybrid); both look exactly like human infants apart from the single eye. Amiraspians have similar lifespans to humans, but mature faster. When an infant cyclops approaches puberty its differences to a hybrid become obvious. Its growth rate accelerates and its jaws and hands become inhumanly enlarged and muscular, with teeth and nails developing into deadly claws and fangs. The infant has become a young cyclops with the game statistics presented above. By comparison, an Amiraspian Hybrid of similar age is considerably smaller and looks like a heavyset human teenager with a cyclopean face and maybe a green tint to its hair.
A young Amiraspian cyclops resembles an exceptionally large and muscular human with a single eye in the center of its brow. This eye has a clear sea green pupil and appears eerily normal, but is considerably larger than a human eyeball. The creature's facial features are crude and ugly, with a shock of coarse black-green hair atop its head and an overly large and muscular jaw. Its fingernails and teeth are so thick and sharp they serve the brute as weapons.
Cyclopean Childhood. These monsters are born from pregnant human women captured and cursed in the cyclopes' den (see Cursed Births in the Amiraspian Cyclops entry). Young Amiraspian cyclopes are normally only encountered inside or very close to an Amiraspian Cyclops Lair and are often accompanied by adult cyclopes.
An infant Amiraspian cyclops is indistinguishable from a cyclopean-human hybrid of the same age (see Amiraspian Hybrid); both look exactly like human infants apart from the single eye. Amiraspians have similar lifespans to humans, but mature faster. When an infant cyclops approaches puberty its differences to a hybrid become obvious. Its growth rate accelerates and its jaws and hands become inhumanly enlarged and muscular, with teeth and nails developing into deadly claws and fangs. The infant has become a young cyclops with the game statistics presented above. By comparison, an Amiraspian Hybrid of similar age is considerably smaller and looks like a heavyset human teenager with a cyclopean face and maybe a green tint to its hair.
Casimir Liber
Adventurer
Looks good - will add and publish. No I can't think of any extra stuff to add to it.
Amiraspian Cyclops, Young
Amiraspian Cyclops, Young
Cleon
Legend
Cleon
Legend
Hold on a sec, the Enworld versions of the Amiraspian Cyclops Chief and Amiraspian Cyclops Young are both monstrosities while the D&D Beyond versions are feys.
I vaguel recall us deciding on Fey as the type and that matches Enworld's standard Amiraspian Cyclops. Must have forgotten to change the other two!
Never mind, I'll just switch them both to fey so they match the D&D Beyond versions.
Let's see, apart from that…
The Amiraspian Cyclops Young has Armor Class 12.
The Poor Depth Perception should be "more than 5 feet away."
The Claw and Rock damage are missing a space between the average damage and parenthesis. That is, it should be "4 (1d4 + 2)".
Young Cyclopes do not have any Bonus Actions so the Aggressive and Hypnotic Glare should be cut out.
Hmm… how about giving the Young Cyclops Aggressive and modify the Description to mention that they only develop Hypnotic Glare as adults?
Like so:
Bonus Actions
Aggressive. As a bonus action, the cyclops can move up to its speed towards a hostile creature that it can see.
Description
[*]SNIP[*]
Young cyclopes are aggressively vicious and capable combatants but lack the Hypnotic Glare of a fully grown cyclops; an Amiraspian cyclops only gains this monocular power when it matures into adulthood.
Aggressive. As a bonus action, the cyclops can move up to its speed towards a hostile creature that it can see.
Description
[*]SNIP[*]
Young cyclopes are aggressively vicious and capable combatants but lack the Hypnotic Glare of a fully grown cyclops; an Amiraspian cyclops only gains this monocular power when it matures into adulthood.
Finally, the White Dwarf Magazine #21 in the Credit should be italicized.
Casimir Liber
Adventurer
Cleon
Legend
Still has this minor formatting issue.
I prefer the "Young cyclopes are aggressively vicious" bit as a separate one sentence paragraph.
It didn't stand out very well merged into the initial paragraph.
Also tried tagging it onto the end of Cyclopean Childhood. but it got even more lost there.
Cleon
Legend
Oh, and I updated the Amiraspian Cyclops Young to add the Aggressive bonus action and Description tweak.
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