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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BOZ" data-source="post: 3160696" data-attributes="member: 1241">OK folks, sorry about the delay.  Now that we got our 20 conversions out of the way, it's time to get to our two “bonus” creatures.The challenge is not only that a lot of people have stated how much they hate them, but that many people think they are outright stupid and useless (namely the biggest obstacle to overcome, Erik Mona), despite the outcome of our poll.  I have an idea for the tirapheg (I’ll share it with you later, but the stwinger needs some TLC first if it’s going to have a hope of surviving).  So, you can see, it’s no small challenge!  Here is the original blurb I wrote for them awhile back:Stwinger Fey, CR ½These nauseatingly cute faeries like to swing from other creatures’ hair – which is more harmful than it sounds.  After charming a creature into helplessness, this swinging deals nonlethal damage which can ultimately leave a creature unconscious.  They are so incredibly cute that it requires a Will save to even attack one.Originally found in Monstrous Compendium MC14 - Fiend Folio Appendix (1992)Now be honest with yourself, if you were one of the people who voted for the stwinger.  While it is a cute, silly idea, what could possibly make the average DM want to use one of these creatures?That’s right – absolutely nothing.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />However.  This can change, with the right application of, well, something.  Here is my challenge to you.  Find some way to make people stand up and take notice, and say, hey now I never looked at them that way…Maybe they have a unique element to their origin (maybe they’re made form pure chaos, or descendents of some powerful beings, or emissaries to some god or something).  Maybe they have a dark and hidden secret.  Maybe they have unique alliances.  Maybe a combination of the above, or something else entirely different.  They’re enigmatic enough already that finding something to work with them shouldn’t be all that difficult.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Now, of course, you may have to accept the fact that no amount of tweaking (other than changing the name and completely changing the creature into something else, thus defeating the purpose of conversion) will impress the Dragon staff, and they will ultimately reject it.But might as well at least give it the old college try, dammit!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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