Casimir Liber
Adventurer
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5E: Converting Monsters from White Dwarf Magazine for Fifth Edition
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Cleon
Hero
Updating the Chthon.
So that's it for the mechanical elements right?
Just the Description to do…
A chthon is a bizarre elemental lifeform resembling an enormous boulder with a face set in its front. This face resemble an old man with skin split by fissures, baleful black eyes, and a large jagged-edged mouth. Chthons are sedentary creatures who never (or almost never) move from the spot they've claimed as the center of their territory. The base of a chthon's boulder-like body is partially buried in the ground, rooting the creature to the bedrock.
Mineral Tyrants. All chthons despise non-elemental lifeforms and have an implacable paranoia about intelligent flesh-and-blood creatures more mobile than they are, particularly humanoids and sapient beasts. A chthon always strives to murder any "intelligent animal" that enters its territory.
Control of Flora and Fauna. A chthon has a strange control over non-intelligent animals and plants that live in its vicinity. It telepathically commands these creatures to become its spies and fighters. A chthon will callously send its minions to attack intelligent lifeforms without a care whether they live or die.
Casimir Liber
Adventurer
looks good. Going to bed now. Will check on Chthon enworld page when I wake up, align and publish....
Cleon
Hero
ilgatto
How inconvenient
Very interesting info indeed on the Howard connection!
However, if I may so bold, I would argue against describing the shadowdancers as having "hawk-like" faces and then some.
Albie Fiore doesn't describe them as such (to my knowledge, at least, so please correct me if I'm wrong) and I'd say that one could see the iron/ebon thing as "further evidence that we're dealing with different entities", as it were.
And then, last but not least, there is that I've always pictured shadow dancers as having only hints of facial features ever since I first met (and ran) them.
Gentlemen, you have shattered a cherished memory!
Casimir Liber
Adventurer
Ilgatto were they lethal when you ran the adventure? AC-5 at lvl 1 in AD&D....ouch...
anyway.....Chthon published here
as far as next...been working on converting Sunfire's Heart but now not an immediate chore (hence buggane), will most likely be using Adonides next weekend.....also keen on adding my own weresnake as ilgatto's buff is good. Then I got an inspiration on how to do Grey Sqaarg this week (lightbulb goes on....)
anyway.....Chthon published here
as far as next...been working on converting Sunfire's Heart but now not an immediate chore (hence buggane), will most likely be using Adonides next weekend.....also keen on adding my own weresnake as ilgatto's buff is good. Then I got an inspiration on how to do Grey Sqaarg this week (lightbulb goes on....)
ilgatto
How inconvenient
ilgatto
How inconvenient
Now that you mention it, I do seem to recall numerous speedy retreats...
As well as a sense of "I beg your lamping pardon AC -5 at 1st level!?" when I first ran into them - even with the meager experience I had at the time.
Grey Sqaargs? Be interesting to see where these come from.
Casimir Liber
Adventurer
Well...they're smooth and ebon when passive....
(you're gonna hate it when I post a svart 5e conversion as I've just re-read Weirdstone of Brisingamen)
Cleon
Hero
Okay let's see…
Saving Throws should have DEX -1 not +-1.
Stealth is +1 not +3.
Passive Perception should be 10 not 11 (that one's a holdover from when we had a slightly higher Wisdom. Must have forgotten to adjust it).
The rest of it looks fine.
Better correct that passive Perception Snafu… …done!
Casimir Liber
Adventurer
I can't do anything about the +-1 glitch...except ask WOTC...will correct others
Cleon
Hero
Reading through the Chthon conversion again I did wonder about adding another language to, well, Languages so the PCs would have an easier time communicating with it, e.g. making it Common, Terran.
However upon due consideration it seems unlikely that a creature that absolutely despises intelligent animals would have much interest in learning to speak with them unless it has some reason to.
Unless Chthons particularly love mocking their victims or spying on them to discover better ways to kill them…
However upon due consideration it seems unlikely that a creature that absolutely despises intelligent animals would have much interest in learning to speak with them unless it has some reason to.
Unless Chthons particularly love mocking their victims or spying on them to discover better ways to kill them…
Cleon
Hero
Oh well, if it's an issue with the D&D Beyond software there's not much we can do about it.
Casimir Liber
Adventurer
Cleon
Hero
That looks fine, so another one bites the dust!
All that's left is deblueing the Enworld version and updating the Indexes.
What's the next White Dwarf conversion for this thread?
ilgatto
How inconvenient
Point taken.
As long as the svart conversion doesn't involve books titled "Embarrassing Facts about Hobbits with an appendix of 101 Ways to Insult a Hobbit" (the one minor blemish on Mr. Fiore's otherwise spotless record); deities by the name of "A'Gallamuill"; and the notion that "Hobbits delight in staging combats between groups of Svarts and Kobolds", I think I'll be fine with it.
re Attachment: Although I do make a point of sticking to whatever is said in the original texts, there are some exceptions - obviously.
Casimir Liber
Adventurer
Ok Cleon, what tickles yer fancy out of Buggane, Grey Sqaarg, Weresnake or svart
Cleon
Hero
Updating the Chthon.
Updating the Completed Fifth Edition Creatures Index and the White Dwarf Conversion Index.
Cleon
Hero
Would prefer to continue with the One Eyed Canyon conversions, which makes it the Sqaarg.
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