Converting Al-Qadim and Oriental Adventures creatures

[freyar]

Umm, let's go with 4 claws, I guess.

 

[Shade]

Any other opinions?

 

[Big Mac]

Any other opinions?

I'd guess this was built off of the type of dragon that has six limbs instead of four limbs.

The picture shows the second arms having spikey elbows. Should they do anything (i.e. alternate attack method with less damage), or are they just there to look good?

The extra arms at the top don't look quite so strong as the other arms. Maybe they are for tweaking noses!

But four claw attacks seems OK. Would you want to make the second pair of claw attacks do less damage? Or is that just over-complicating things?

How about the third eye? Should that provide a bonus to spot checks (and a penalty against gaze attacks)? What happens with other multiple eye creatures?

 

[freyar]

Probably 4 equal claw attacks is sufficient.

I could see a slight racial bonus to Spot and similar penalty on saves vs gazes, sure.

 

[demiurge1138]

Agreed to four claws.

 

[freyar]

Ok, 4 claws and demiurge's Disrupting Attack?

The yau-mor can spit a gout of flame 30 feet long, inflicting 3-18 points of damage and causing combustible materials to ignite. It can do this every third round if it needs to. This is, however, painful for the yau-mor, so most avoid using this weapon unless they are hard pressed.

Breath Weapon: 30 ft line of fire, 3d6 damage, every 3 rounds, DC X (Constitution-based)?

 

[Shade]

Updated.

I'm fine with the bonus on Spot checks due to the extra eye, as that is common to creatures with mulitple eyes, but not with the penalty on gaze attacks, as it is not common among multi-eyed creatures.

+4 bonus?

 

[freyar]

Let's remember these have from 1-4 eyes. So maybe +2 per extra eye and -2 for the 1-eyed variant? Or is this getting too complicated?

 

[demiurge1138]

I'd say too complicated. Let's give them a net +2 to Spot, regardless of how many eyes they have.

Do we want to keep the bit about how their breath weapons are painful? Seems sort of weird to me, especially since the breath weapon isn't that strong in the first place.

 

[freyar]

Well, their CR certainly isn't going to be too high, so I think the breath weapon is reasonable. But I do agree that we can ditch the painful bit. There's probably no need for that.