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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8469995" data-attributes="member: 57383">Well I'll leave that to someone else.&nbsp; Still got hundreds of creatures to convert to 3E for the Creature Catalog.The Micemen seem the least interesting of the One-Eye Canyon monsters. Statwise they're yet another weak mob small human-like monster, of which their are PILES in AD&amp;D, such as the Xvart.We'd want to work out what makes them distinct from, say, a Goblin in light armour. Their backstory has some RPG hooks in it but it doesn't mean anything mechanically.Suppose we could give them a &quot;spook people into a trap&quot; ability and make them unusually stealthy. Brownies are so stealthy they're (literally and I mean literally) practically invisible in forests, so it makes sense for a half-brownie to be sneaky, especially with the mention they like to &quot;silently surround their intended victim&quot;.Presumably they're pretty small, since they've got &quot;mice&quot; in the name. Brownies are 2 feet tall in AD&amp;D, so I guess they might be between that and a Kobold's 3 feet?&nbsp; An Orc is 6 feet, but I wouldn't average that with a Brownie's height to make them 4 feet as that's the same as a Goblin, who they are already uncomfortable close to in their stats.Anyhow, I'd better not get too carried away since we have Pine Kindred to finish first!Oh, but I will add that after a night's sleep &quot;Micemite&quot; is definitely my favourite of the proposed names.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8469995, member: 57383"] Well I'll leave that to someone else. Still got hundreds of creatures to convert to 3E for the Creature Catalog. The Micemen seem the least interesting of the [I]One-Eye Canyon[/I] monsters. Statwise they're yet another weak mob small human-like monster, of which their are PILES in AD&D, such as the Xvart. We'd want to work out what makes them distinct from, say, a Goblin in light armour. Their backstory has some RPG hooks in it but it doesn't mean anything mechanically. Suppose we could give them a "spook people into a trap" ability and make them unusually stealthy. Brownies are so stealthy they're (literally and I mean [I]literally[/I]) practically invisible in forests, so it makes sense for a half-brownie to be sneaky, especially with the mention they like to "silently surround their intended victim". Presumably they're pretty small, since they've got "mice" in the name. Brownies are 2 feet tall in AD&D, so I guess they might be between that and a Kobold's 3 feet? An Orc is 6 feet, but I wouldn't average that with a Brownie's height to make them 4 feet as that's the same as a Goblin, who they are already uncomfortable close to in their stats. Anyhow, I'd better not get too carried away since we have Pine Kindred to finish first! Oh, but I will add that after a night's sleep "Micemite" is definitely my favourite of the proposed names. [/QUOTE]

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