Converting Creatures from Other Campaign Settings

[freyar]

Yeah! More tables!

Why not?

 

[Shade]

Fill in the blanks...

Wings
1 - Gossamer
2 - Butterfly
3 - Bat
4 -
5 -
6 - None?

Head
1 - Humanoid
2 - Pumpkin
3 - Animal
4 -
5 -
6 -

Head Adornment
1 - Horns
2 - Antennae
3 - Feathers
4 -
5 -
6 -

Hair
1 - Ivy
2 - Silken
3 -
4 -
5 -
6 - Bald

Tail
1 - Catlike
2 - Rabbitlike
3 - Foxlike
4 -
5 -
6 - None

Feel free to add more categories!

 

[freyar]

Let's split humanoid heads into elf, human, and goblin, and animal heads into canine and deer/elk.

I'd add more, but I'm guessing most of what I'm coming up with now is better for unseelie.

 

[demiurge1138]

I like the idea of a frog head.

Wings--bird, bee

Tail--none on a 4-6

Hair--changes color, spikey

 

[Shade]

Great ideas...keep 'em coming.

Also, we don't have to stop at 1d6. That's just what the hordeling template used.

Legs
1 - Humanoid
2 - Insectile
3 - Goatlike
4 - Mermaid tail
5 - Cluster of vines
6 -

Feet
1 - Humanoid
2 - Humanoid, but six-toed
3 - Cloven
4 - Clubfoot
5 - Talons
6 -

 

[freyar]

Legs - Serpent tail?
Feet - Feline
Head adornment - leaves, blooms, motes of light?

 

[Shade]

Updated.

We can keep filling in those tables as inspiration strikes, but let's visit the abilities...

They can cast any priestly enchantment/charm spell of 1st or 2nd level, plus create water, entangle, faerie fire, light, protection from evil, purify food and drink, shillelagh; barkskin, goodberry, produce flame, speak with animals, warp wood; continual light, create food and water, pyrotechnics, seelie spell of forgetting, tree, water walk. They can cast five spells per day, and the seelie spell of forgetting an unlimited number of times.

Simplify it to "pick five SLAs from this list"? Make seelie spell of forgetting a unique SLA?

Though the Seelie Court comprises hundreds of faeries, travelers generally encounter them individually, far away from the court. Cerilian encounters are almost always single, particularly in the case of changelings (see separate entry). The fair folk don’t like to be seen; they can become invisible at will and often move about thus hidden from view. Detect invisibility, detect magic,or similar magic reveals them, as does a perception score within 10 points of the faerie’s Seeming score. A faerie might freely choose to reveal itself for some purpose, but never to an evil creature. Seelie faeries have the innate ability to discern the nature of those they encounter (per the know alignment spell).

Invisible as an at-will SLA, or greater invisibility like the pixie?

Detect chaos/evil/good/law always active?

The fair folk are especially vulnerable to iron weapons; such instruments inflict an additional 3 points of damage per hit. Salt thrown on a faerie renders it unable to turn invisible for 1d4 turns.

Stick with usual DR/cold iron?

Salt vunerability could be rolled into the invisiblity.

 

[demiurge1138]

Regular invisibility, DR/cold iron, pick any five from the list. I like the salt thing a lot.

 

[freyar]

I like all that, too. Spell of forgetting should definitely be a unique SLA. While I'm not sure about the pick 5 SLAs, but that seems simpler than other alternatives I can come up with.

 

[Shade]

We could also have "packages" of spell-like abilities based upon the fey's theme, like deceiver, protector, and whatnot.