Converting Al-Qadim and Oriental Adventures creatures

[Shade]

It looks like the preferred term for a grouping of samurai is "clan".

Samurai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[freyar]

Clan it is, then. With those additions, are we ready for the next one? I don't think we need to make things too different, just change up the unique items, perhaps a couple abilities, natural armor, and skills.

 

[Shade]

We'll still need to determine CR, height/weight, and languages.

Also, Ride-by Attack requires Mounted Combat as a prereq. Replace RBA w/Mounted Combat, or something else?

 

[freyar]

Ooops, yes, make that replacement. I think Mounted Combat makes a lot of sense for it, don't you? Plus this way we can keep one feat for customization of the Ochimos.

CR 8 or maybe 9 (comparing to bodak).

6 ft tall, 230 lb?

speaks Common and some nice OA language? Shou lung or whatever the right language is?

 

[Shade]

It looks like it is simply "Shou".

Updated.

Ready for the next ochimo?

 

[freyar]

Ready!

 

[Shade]

It looks like the Water Ochimo is next in the original text.

The Water Ochimo converts its target into a human-shaped vessel of water, which is then sucked through the eyeholes of the mask.

The Earth Ochimo has a red disc, the Fire Ochimo yellow, the Water Ochimo green, and the Air Ochimo blue.

The Water Ochimo wears a talisman of the restless dead. This device looks like a small birds-foot charm on a leather thong. It forces spirits to animate the bones of any long-dead humans and humanoids that are available (these are similar to western skeletons, and may be turned, though they are also affected by spells that deal with spirits). Up to 20 such skeletons may be animated in a single day.

 

[freyar]

I think the way we wrote up Capture Spirit, we don't really need to change that, don't you agree?

For the talisman, maybe it acts as animate dead (skeletons only) 3/day at CL 5? That's 30 HD of skeletons.

Want to tweak the ability scores? I could see improving Dex a little, maybe decreasing Int or Wis a little.

 

[Shade]

Talisman sounds good.

If we follow the usual elemental approach, a water creature will have higher Dex and lower Str than an earth creature. I don't think we need to tinker with mental stats between the types.

 

[freyar]

Let's go with the usual approach for elemental types then. Sounds good. Maybe +/- 2 on those two stats?