Converting Al-Qadim and Oriental Adventures creatures

[freyar]

Let's not forget their breath weapon! Do we want to go with charm monster as the effect or stick to the original text, which is basically beguile?

 

[Cleon]

Let's not forget their breath weapon! Do we want to go with charm monster as the effect or stick to the original text, which is basically beguile?

My proposal was modifying a Harpy's Captivating Song, something like:

Mesmerising Breath (Su): Three times a day, a sea bonze can breathe a 20 foot cone of hypnotic gas. All creatures within the area must succeed on a DC X Will save or become captivated. This is a mind-affecting charm effect. A creature that successfully saves cannot be affected again by the same sea bonze’s breath for 24 hours. The save DC is Charisma-based [and includes a +X racial bonus?].

A mesmerised victim dives towards the sea bonze's lair, taking the most direct route available. The creature gets a second saving throw if the path leads into a danger (through a shark feeding frenzy, a bed of venomous corals and the like), which means the victim gets a second saving throw if (when) they run out of air. Captivated creatures can take no actions other than to defend themselves. (Thus, a fighter cannot run away or attack but takes no defensive penalties.) Once they reach the sea bonze's lair, the victim stands there and offers no resistance to the monster’s attacks. The effect normally lasts X minutes, but ends immediately if the sea bonze dies or releases its victim.
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[freyar]

Pretty much exactly what I was thinking, except I thought we've been calling that ability beguile for one of the other undead recently.

 

[demiurge1138]

It was beguile for the amiq rasol.

 

[Cleon]

Pretty much exactly what I was thinking, except I thought we've been calling that ability beguile for one of the other undead recently.

So call it Beguiling Breath then?

There's something pleasantly alliterative about that. "Brought down to their doom by the Bonze's beguiling breath".

 

[freyar]

So call it Beguiling Breath then?

There's something pleasantly alliterative about that. "Brought down to their doom by the Bonze's beguiling breath".

Sounds good to me!

 

[Shade]

Consider me beguiled.

Updated.

Suggested duration?

Racial bonus on Ability Focus?

 

[freyar]

I'm not sure it needs a racial bonus, especially if we give it ability focus. 1 or 2 minutes?

 

[Shade]

I meant an "or" there! Ability Focus should suffice.

 

[Cleon]

Consider me beguiled.

Updated.

Suggested duration?

Racial bonus on Ability Focus?

I feel its duration should either be pretty long (long enough to drown, say around 10 minutes) or the Bonze can sustain it somehow - maybe it normally lasts 1 minute, but the bonze can chant "hell-sutras" that extend its duration (standard action, extends any existing beguilement by 1 minute to any victim within X feet, sonic mind-affecting charm effect?).

I don't mind dropping the racial bonus if we think we can afford Ability Focus.