Converting Creatures from Other Campaign Settings

[Shade]

Updated space spider and diamond spinner.

Feats: Combat Reflexes, Improved Sunder, Multiattack, Power Attack, 2 more

Advancement: 16-x HD (Huge)

Diamond spinners are 15 feet in diameter and weigh x pounds.

 

[freyar]

Before the feats, do we want to give them any kind of web ability? They are spinners after all.

 

[Shade]

Yeah...that's odd that they don't have one.

That said, I'm not sure that they use webs:

The master spider guides the construction of the lair, a bubble-like maze, through mental commands.

Perhaps they spin a diamond-colored crystal that is used to make something similar to a paper wasp's nest?

We could borrow the secrete crystal from one of the tohr-kreen we converted.

 

[demiurge1138]

I like the crystal paper wasp thing.

Feats: Combat Expertise and Imp. Initiative?

 

[Shade]

Feats sound good.

Here is the secrete crystal...

Secrete Crystal (Ex): A j'hol can secrete a liquid that quickly hardens into a crystalline substance. A j'hol can produce up to 5 pounds of crystal each day, which may be used as raw materials in the creation of any item that could normally be crafted from wood, stone, or metal. Multiple j'hol can combine their crystal to create larger objects. A weapon or armor created with this crystal functions exactly the same as its wood, stone, or metal counterparts, except the crystal has hardness 8 and 25 hit points per inch of thickness. Crystalline items may be enhanced my magic as if they were a wood, stone, or metal item. Crystalline items are more susceptible to shatter spells (see the shatter spell description) and similar effects.

A j'hol can craft a weapon or similar-sized item out of its newly excreted crystal in 1 minute, and a suit of armor or similarly-sized item in 5 minutes. Larger items follow the normal rules found in the Craft skill description.



Do we need to modify that at all?

 

[demiurge1138]

Well, I don't think the spider's going to be making weapons and armor, so we may wish to drop that paragraph.

 

[freyar]

Yes. Instead, let's say

"Diamond spinners use this material to build their maze-like hives."

Maybe we should talk about the maze hives under the master spinner (whether that gets a separate statblock or underbar).

 

[Shade]

Modifying it a bit to fit the diamond spinner's purposes....

Secrete Crystal (Ex): A diamond spinner can secrete a liquid that quickly hardens into a crystalline substance. A diamond spinner can produce up to 50 (?) pounds of crystal each day, which may be used as raw materials in the creation of any item that could normally be crafted from wood, stone, or metal. Multiple diamond spinners can combine their crystal to create larger objects (such as the walls of their hives). A weapon or armor created with this crystal functions exactly the same as its wood, stone, or metal counterparts, except the crystal has hardness 8 and 25 hit points per inch of thickness. Crystalline items may be enhanced my magic as if they were a wood, stone, or metal item.

A typical hive wall is one-foot thick, having 300 hit points per 10-ft.-by-10-ft. section. The break and climb DCs are both 30. Crystalline walls and items are more susceptible to shatter spells (see the shatter spell description) and similar effects.

 

[freyar]

I like it.

 

[Cleon]

Modifying it a bit to fit the diamond spinner's purposes....

Secrete Crystal (Ex): A diamond spinner can secrete a liquid that quickly hardens into a crystalline substance. A diamond spinner can produce up to 50 (?) pounds of crystal each day, which may be used as raw materials in the creation of any item that could normally be crafted from wood, stone, or metal. Multiple diamond spinners can combine their crystal to create larger objects (such as the walls of their hives). A weapon or armor created with this crystal functions exactly the same as its wood, stone, or metal counterparts, except the crystal has hardness 8 and 25 hit points per inch of thickness. Crystalline items may be enhanced my magic as if they were a wood, stone, or metal item.

A typical hive wall is one-foot thick, having 300 hit points per 10-ft.-by-10-ft. section. The break and climb DCs are both 30. Crystalline walls and items are more susceptible to shatter spells (see the shatter spell description) and similar effects.

You'll need to up the quantities significantly. If it is as dense as rock crystal (specific gravity 2.65) the crystal would weigh ~165 pounds per square feet and it would take a diamond spinner spider 82.5 days to create a single 5 by 5 foot section of hive wall. Diamond is denser (p=3.52 => 220lbs per cubic foot), so it would require 110 days to secrete the same size piece of wall.

I'd suggest changing it to "50 cubic feet of crystal each day" - that's two 5*5 ft. sections per day, and you don't have to fiddle about specifying a weight.