Converting Creatures from Other Campaign Settings

[Shade]

Let's leave off the tomb-tainted part. How does this look?

Blinding Rot (Su): Supernatural disease—bite, Fortitude DC x, incubation period 1 minute; damage 1d6 Cha and permanent blindness. The save DC is Charisma-based.

Unlike normal diseases, blinding rot continues until the victim reaches Charisma 0 or is cured as described below. A beholder or beholderkin that reaches Charisma 0 immediately becomes a standard kasharin (regardless of its original size and subrace). All other creatures reduced to Charisma 0 simply perish.

Blinding rot is a powerful curse, not a natural disease. A character attempting to cast any conjuration (healing) spell on a creature afflicted with blinding rot must succeed on a DC 20 caster level check, or the spell has no effect on the afflicted character.

To eliminate blinding rot, the curse must first be broken with break enchantment or remove curse (requiring a DC 20 caster level check for either spell), after which a caster level check is no longer necessary to cast healing spells on the victim, and the blinding rot can be magically cured as any normal disease.

An afflicted non-beholder who dies of blinding rot withers while its skin blackens and cracks until it eventually crumbles into a broken husk.

 

[demiurge1138]

Looks good to me, although it occurs that the disease might also/instead affect Con. A beholder'll die a lot faster from Con damage than Charisma.

 

[freyar]

Let's go with Con damage, I think.

Shouldn't it have 42 skill ranks? Like other beholders, Spot, Search, Hide, and Knowledge (arcana) would be good choices.

 

[Shade]

Let's go with Con damage, I think.

Sure. Stick with 1d6 or tone in back to 1d4?

Shouldn't it have 42 skill ranks? Like other beholders, Spot, Search, Hide, and Knowledge (arcana) would be good choices.

You are correct, and that skill set sounds good.

Vary from the beholder feats at all?
Alertness (B), Flyby Attack, Great Fortitude, Improved Initiative, Iron Will

 

[demiurge1138]

Let's stick to 1d6, and beholder feats seem alright to me.

 

[freyar]

Agreed to the feats.

Skill ranks: Hide 10, Knowledge (arcana) 12, Search 10, Spot 10?

 

[Shade]

Updated.

Challenge Rating: 13? (Now that blinding rot is Con damage, I think it's almost on par with a regular beholder)

 

[demiurge1138]

Let's go 12. The beholder's versatility of death is really what boosts it to CR 13.

 

[Shade]

Updated. Finished?

 

[freyar]

Looks good. Ironic that this is probably a legit OGL beholder but the normal one isn't...