Balor, or D&D Beat Up Mythology and Took Its Stuff

[Fifth Element]

That's another story. The description states it's a SoD effect. But, if you don't like SoDs (I recall there are some people who don't ), you could change it to "Save or take a lot of damage". I can imagine 4E designers doing this, because they already told us they were doing it, but it's the same thing as a Medusa's sight causing Dex damage instead of just turning you into stone.

Hold on, I don't see saves mentioned anywhere in that description. It may imply a SoD effect if you're looking at it from a 3E perspective, but it does not actually state anything about game mechanics in that article. Because it's not an article about game mechanics.

 

[Betote]

Hold on, I don't see saves mentioned anywhere in that description. It may imply a SoD effect if you're looking at it from a 3E perspective, but it does not actually state anything about game mechanics in that article. Because it's not an article about game mechanics.

Well, then it's a "just die" effect

 

[WhatGravitas]

That's another story. The description states it's a SoD effect. But, if you don't like SoDs (I recall there are some people who don't ), you could change it to "Save or take a lot of damage". I can imagine 4E designers doing this, because they already told us they were doing it, but it's the same thing as a Medusa's sight causing Dex damage instead of just turning you into stone.

And the thing with "Thus his deadly eye beam burned a hole into the earth." pretty much sounds like a kind of energy damage!

Cheers, LT.

 

[DandD]

And the thing with "Thus his deadly eye beam burned a hole into the earth." pretty much sounds like a kind of energy damage!

Cheers, LT.

Which means (le gasp) that it isn't an Save-or-die-effect? Oz noes, my dreams to mock about D&D 4th edition that a monster like Balor, king of the Fomorians, couldn't be used. Crushed and burned away.

*sheds tear*

 

[Betote]

And the thing with "Thus his deadly eye beam burned a hole into the earth." pretty much sounds like a kind of energy damage!

Or a Disintegrate, which is the most famous example of a SoD turned "Save or take a lot of damage".

Not trying to mock or bash anything here, just trying to figure how would the same creature be "translated" to different rulesets and different playstyle assumptions.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Given that cyclopses, fey and formorians are supposed to all be linked in 4E (presumably via the feywild), I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a Balor-like figure in the new edition.

 

[hong]

The Balrog from Lord of the Rings is awesome, and I want them to keep a demon like it. But I'd also like to see one inspired by the actual Balor.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balor

Terrible eye beams of death are so anime.

 

[DandD]

Especially if they set the ground aflame like in Castlevania.

 

[Fifth Element]

Terrible eye beams of death are so anime.

I think you're in the wrong thread.

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=209602

 

[Merlin the Tuna]

Terrible eye beams of death are so anime.

Now it's not that my sarcasm detector isn't turned on or anything, but I'm trying to figure out what an anime-style beholder would look like. Any ideas?