Converting Creatures from Other Campaign Settings

[Shade]

Agreed to elemental.

I'm fine with either statting the master spider or making it an underbar of the diamond spinner.

Here's a somewhat similar creature we might use for ability score inspiration:
Crystal Spider

 

[freyar]

I remember that one. That was kind of weird.

Shall we start with the regular space spiders? Mental stats appear pretty good due to the listed Int (16 to 20 range), and we can compare to the average and elder xorn for physical stats (HD are like average xorn, size is like elder).

 

[Shade]

Sounds good, but we should probably shift some points from Str to Dex for these things, or even swap the xorn's Str and Dex scores.

 

[freyar]

Swapping Str and Dex works.

 

[Shade]

Average Xorn: Str 17, Dex 10, Con 15, Int 10, Wis 11, Cha 10
Elder Xorn: Str 25, Dex 10, Con 19, Int 10, Wis 11, Cha 10

So maybe...Str 10, Dex 21, Con 17, Int 16, Wis 15, Cha 16?

 

[demiurge1138]

Way too weak. I like them being weaker and more dexterous than xorn, but these guys were worth 2000xp! Likewise, I'd recommend I'd recommend boosting their HD. As we all know, outsider and elemental types were often over-XPed and under HDed, and we should bring these guys up to snuff.

I'd put the Str and Dex at 16 and 18, or something like that.

 

[freyar]

Yeah, I like Str 16, Dex 18 better. As for HD, I don't have much of an opinion.

 

[Shade]

Boost to 10 HD for standard, 12 HD for spinner?

 

[freyar]

Sounds fine.

 

[Shade]

I just realized that xorns are actually outsiders, not elementals. Do we want to make these outsiders as well?