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How inconvenient
I really had to read that four times before I could make sense of it. I guess my mind simply doesn't want to accept it, but it'll probably become second nature once I would have played some 5E. Still, I guess knowing that pP depends on WIS, I'm now even more in favor of WIS 9 (because of one eye and of what I remember from Odysseus and the cyclops).passive Perception is simply 10 plus the creature's Perception, so 9 if it only has the –1 modifier of its Wisdom.
It's what you roll against in 5E when trying to sneak past someone (or something) that isn't using an Action to look/see/hear/etc around itself but is just paying casual attention to its surroundings.
Well, that's not entirely true, [checking] hmm..., I could have sworn that this:Well personally I'd only give it a Bite and two Claw attacks for melee weapons, like the original.
... read "at -1 with a melee weapon".The cyclops' eye handicaps it in combat so that it strikes at -1. It similarly hurls missiles at -2 but it gains +2 on saves vs illusory magic.
But it doesn't.
Therefore, as a purist, I'd favor the claw/claw/bite routine although I rather like the idea of the club/greatclub so I wouldn't mind it.
Yup. Club and therefore greatclub because cyclops.I'd be quite happy to give the "Chieftain" an artificial melee weapon to reflect its greater cunning and as a sign of its status?
If the regular Hypno-clops has such a melee weapon, it doesn't make much difference to me whether it's a Morningstar or a Greatclub, although like you I prefer Greatclub as it's what Ogres and Hill Giants use.
I'd certainly prefer the big rocks!Although I'm thinking it ought to have a ranged weapon. What's the point of its Poor Depth Perception trait if it never chucks something deadly at an opponent? Either a Javelin like an Ogre uses for ranged attacks in later editions of D&D, or the sophisticated implement called "A Big Rock" preferred by a Hill Giant.
Agreed. 10 feet.Oh, I'm starting to wonder if Poor Depth Perception should have a shorter range than 30 feet.
If it threw javelins, for example, those have range 30/120 so the cyclops would get disadvantage on its attack rolls beyond 30 feet anyway, since that's the limit of a javelin's accurate range.
If we made the limit 10 feet, then basically all its ranged attacks would likely have disadvantage and if it's target was only within melee range of a weapon with the reach property like a halberd, glaive, pike.
Excellent thinking if that would mean its disadvantage for Poor Depth Perception comes into play! It would honor the original -1 penalty in melee.Hmm, maybe we could give the Chieftain a reach weapon like one of the above?
OK.I prefer Glare over Stare as that's the word a Mummy fear-inflicting glower uses.
OK.For the "If the target's saving throw is successful, the target can thereafter no longer be hypnotized by the same hypnoclops", I would recommend using the standard 5E solution for such attacks: have a target that saves become immune to that creature's attack for 24 hours.
As in "A target that successfully saves is immune to this cyclops’s glare for the next 24 hours."
Vicious! Fine by me. So I guess I'll have to go figure out what the wording's going to be now that it's no longer an "Action" as such.I think it'd work better if cyclopes could glare and melee attack in the same round. There's no rule that they must Hypnotic Glare at the same target as their melee attacks.
OK.The original text said it affects one target just like the spell hypnotic pattern, which can affect any creature able to see it, so I wouldn't restrict it to humanoids.
Yeah, there's that. Hypnotic and Eldritch don't really do it for me. "Cave" has been rejected by Casimir, and you gents are not in favor of Amiraspian, which is understandable. So, of all these, I probably wouldn't really mind Hypnotic, although it still feels awkward, but that can be my interpretation of the word.Still think we need to make its name "Something Cyclops" but we just need to agree on that something!
I think we've had Amiraspi, Amiraspian, Cave, Hypnotic and Eldritch proposed so far, but none of them won everyone's favour.