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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 9248865" data-attributes="member: 57383">Okay, looked up the Robber Fly and the Basic D&D versions are quite wimpy: AC 6, HD 2, MV 90/180, bites for 1d8. Their special abilities are immunity to poison (since they specialize in attacking giant bees), improved surprise, and leaping up to 30 feet.That wouldn't be a CR 3 monster in 5E.There are several D&D editions with Giant Praying Mantis stats, which are all far more formidable than that. The AD&D version has AC3, HD 10 and either claws for 2d6 or bites for 3d4, while the BECMI version grows from 2 HD for a nymph up to 12 HD as a full adult, and the largest version attacks with a 1d8/1d8/1d12 routine.There's also a 3E version of the <a href="https://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/giantPrayingMantis.htm" target="_blank">Giant Praying Mantis</a> in that edition's SRD, which defaults to 4 HD but can advance up to 12 HD.The Giant Water Bug doesn't have any official D&D stats as far as I know, but there are a couple of versions of the Assassin Bug.The AD&D version is a weird little bugman that lives in mated pairs. The male paralyzes creatures with a venomous bite after which the female implants eggs in the victim, then the larvae eat the victim alive a day or two later.I know of two approaches to the Assassin Bug fin 3E sources that could be considered semi-official as they had some blessing from Wizards of the Coast.Firstly, the Athas.org website and first Tomb of Horrors hardback book have the ectoparasitic AD&D version (the latter conversion originally appeared as a 3.0 conversion in our Creature Catalogue).Secondly, the Ravenloft Denizens monster bestiaries have a Giant Assassin Bug that's based on an actual Reduviid.Some Reduviids can be of a respectable size, some reaching an inch and a half or so (up to 4cm) though most are less than half that length. The aquatic Belostomatids are the largest bugs, with the biggest species of Giant Water Bug growing up to four inches long (12cm or longer)!Most water bugs are no larger than Reduviids though.Still, an inch or so is a comparable size to the majority of Scorpion species, so I would feel justified in statting up a Giant Carnivorous Bug as a Large beast like the 5E Giant Scorpion.</blockquote>

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