Converting Creatures from Other Campaign Settings

[freyar]

There's one in the proposed flavor text and also in the italicized descriptive text in the working draft.

 

[Cleon]

There's one in the proposed flavor text and also in the italicized descriptive text in the working draft.

Oh right, in that case how's this?

A bizarre fusion of equine and arachnid, the creature has a horse-like body supported on eight legs - four normal-looking horse legs and four spider legs. It has an equine head with venom-dripping fangs, and a spider's spinnerets on its tail end.

Spider-destriers are an unnatural hybrid of warhorse and monstrous spider. Their origins are attributed to priestesses of Lolth, and they are favored mounts in many drow communities.

Herds of spider-destriers roam large subterranean web pastures, where the webs of spiders have accumulated over centuries. In the wild, their social organization is identical to that of horses.

Spider-destriers are carnivorous, preying primarily on small subterranean herbivores. If food grows scarce, spider-destriers are known to devour their own weak and young.

In Dragonlance
In the Dragonlance campaign setting, spider-destriers dwell in the demiplane known as the Deathdark, where Jiathuli, Queen of the drow, was exiled.

 

[freyar]

Looks great to me!

 

[Shade]

Looks great to me!

Agreed. Finalize your Working Draft, and I'll transfer it to Homebrews.

 

[Cleon]

Agreed. Finalize your Working Draft, and I'll transfer it to Homebrews.

Finalisation Complete.

The Spider-Destrier was missing a length, height and weight. I set height & weight to 66 inches and 1750 pounds - a reasonable weight for a large horse like a Percheron.

It's 2½ times heavier than the Phase spider (8' long and 700 pounds), which would scale up to 10'10". I thought about making it "10 or 12 feet in length", but I thought it made more sense to round it down to 10 ft., since war horses are heavily built.

The Initiative didn't include its Improved Initiative feat.

Oh, and I fixed a bunch of "spider destriers" that were missing the hyphen.

 

[Shade]

Excellent! Transferred.

 

[Cleon]

Excellent! Transferred.

Goodie!

What's up next?

 

[freyar]

Mayhaps this thread can lie fallow for a bit to let me catch up on the others.

 

[Shade]

Mayhaps this thread can lie fallow for a bit to let me catch up on the others.

For he's a jolly good fallow...

 

[Cleon]

For he's a jolly good fallow...

I'm agreeable to the notion if it'll give a better crop 'o monsters next growin' season.