Converting Al-Qadim and Oriental Adventures creatures

[freyar]

Make it a minor ring of spell storing, and it's good. We should also give him a couple spells listed in the flavor. Maybe 2 magic missiles and something else the opawang knows?

Definitely Reckless Offense; it will help with the touch attacks.

Maybe Knowledge (arcana)? I'm open to better ideas, though.

 

[Shade]

Updated.

I gave it shield as the final spell, as the Opawang has a spell called "deflection".

 

[freyar]

Looking good! Ready for the last one?

 

[Shade]

Sure!

The Air Ochimo blows a blast of air from the mouth of its mask. This reduces the target to fine dust, which it inhales.

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

The Air Ochimo wields the blades of excellent damage. These blades are a katana and wakizashi that are +2 to hit, are unbreakable, and always inflict maximum damage. These blades were used by the Black Leopard Priest's best warrior in the battle against the Shou Lung, but their origin predates that time. They radiate a strong sense of evil, and those of good alignment feel a need to destroy the blades and their wielder.

FYI, the air elemental, when we get to the air ochimo, has the same Str and Con as fire, but even higher Dex.

Take fire ochimo, add +2 to Dex?

 

[freyar]

+2 Dex is fine.

Interesting weapons. +2 enhancement bonus, I think. Do you want to keep the maximum damage property or add some bonus dice? I kind of like the maximization, just because it's so unusual. Same with the unbreakability: keep it, or go with a bonus vs sundering? Make them intelligent and evil?

 

[Shade]

We could make them unbreakable, like artifacts.

I'm torn on the max damage. It's kind of cool, but I have a nagging thought that it's somehow unbalanced. Reassure me.

If not max damage, I could see going with keen.

 

[freyar]

Keen or wounding would work, but is maximized damage really worse than Maximize Spell?

Unbreakable like artifacts makes sense. What do you think about giving them some limited intelligence to explain the evil aura?

 

[Shade]

What the hell, it's unique after all. We'll go with max damage. I'm fine with Intelligence. Go with the least version (Two mental scores at 12, one at 10, Empathy, One lesser power, 30 ft. vision and hearing)?

Added to Homebrews

 

[freyar]

They look good.

You know, if we can specify that they have an evil aura, maybe they don't need to be intelligent -- I'm not sure I want these to be so much cooler than the other unique items for the other Ochimo. What do you think is a weakish lesser power for them?

BTW, looking back at the water ochimo, I think we should change the last sentence of the talisman to "Additionally, the possessor of the talisman can automatically command all the skeletons it has animated in the past 24 hours." to prevent abuse if a PC gets it.

 

[Shade]

Sure, an evil aura but unintelligent is just fine. In that case, we won't need a lesser power.

Updated.

Replace Reckless Offense with Two-Weapon Defense?

I will fix the water ochimo.