5E: Converting Monsters from White Dwarf Magazine for Fifth Edition

[Cleon]

Other ones I mused on converting were/are the Ice Maiden and Gazer (from WD14), Melodemon (WD20), Shim-Shari (WD29),

It doesn't make much difference to me, so which one would you like to start with?

Don't remember much about the Ice Maiden or Shim-Shari, would have to look them up.

The Gazer was a one-trick pony, plus the original statistics and description are so bare-bones we don't have much to work with. Although I guess that'd help make it a quick conversion!

I've long thought the Melodemon was a cool monster, so if you want a tiebreaker I'd pick that one over the beholderkin.

 

[Cleon]

okay - I can't get the damn stray comma out of the movement section so this will have to do

https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/4182553-weresnake

We'll just make do with that then.

Will update the Indexes.

EDIT: I included a "Variant: Weresnake Serpentcaller" entry in the Indexes as its Challenge Rating is different from a regular Weresnake.

 

[Casimir Liber]

Yeah I liked the Melodemon...will take a look at it once we've cleared finished some of the half-done critters.

 

[Cleon]

Yeah I liked the Melodemon...will take a look at it once we've cleared finished some of the half-done critters.

Yeah. There's quite a backlog.

Some have been left unfinished for a while, like the Black Locust.

At least we're getting through the 5E conversions faster than Freyar and I have been working on the 3E ones. Some of those were started literally years ago.