Converting Epic Level Beings

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Alrighty eanough rambling from me as it tends to paralyze threads. But what are we doing next? How about the thunder bird from native american mythology it is in Dieties and demigods first edition. What do ya say?

Nah, you don't paralyze threads. Stun 'em maybe...

A thunderbird showed up in Sandstorm, and is clearly modeled after the thunderbird. However, we could probably do the original as well.

 

[Mortis]

A thunderbird showed up in Sandstorm, and is clearly modeled after the thunderbird. However, we could probably do the original as well.

Thunderbird 2?

Thunderbirds are go!

Now back to our original schedule...

Regards,
Mortis

 

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I'll bust out the marionettes.

 

[BOZ]

gaze skyward for the next conversion...

 

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gaze skyward for the next conversion...

Yeah, they are kinda tall.

Did you want to stat out the generic gigantes race as you did before, or just do the two uniques?

 

[BOZ]

does it seem like a good idea?

 

[Shade]

I dont' see why not, since they were treated as such in Legends & Lore.

 

[Clifford]

May as well itt'ill save us from haveing to do it later when Boz get a wild hair to do it. JK these sem sorta interesting maybe it wont be as bad as i thought. HEH anyway on with the conversion.

>=)

 

[Shade]

Alrighty. Getting the ball rolling...

Gigantes
Large Giant
Hit Dice: 16d8+X (X hp)
Initiative: +X
Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares)
Armor Class: 20 (–1 size, +X Dex, +X natural), touch X, flat-footed X
Base Attack/Grapple: +12/+X
Attack: Slam +X melee (2d8+X) or rock +X ranged (2d6+X)
Full Attack: 2 slams +X melee (2d8+X) or rock +X ranged (2d6+X)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./10 ft.
Special Attacks: Rock throwing
Special Qualities: Low-light vision, rock catching
Saves: Fort +X, Ref +X, Will +X
Abilities: Str X, Dex X, Con X, Int 5-7, Wis X, Cha X
Skills: 38
Feats: 6
Environment: Any land
Organization: Solitary or pair
Challenge Rating: X
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Always chaotic evil
Advancement: By character class
Level Adjustment: +X

 

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In Greek mythology, the Gigantes were a race of giants. They were born of Gaia, who was fertiziled by the blood of Ouranos that resulted from his castration by Cronus.

The Gigantes attacked the Olympians in what is known as the Gigantomachia. Led on by Alcyoneus and Porphyrion, the Gigantes hoped to reach the top of Mount Olympus by stacking the mountain ranges of Thessaly, Pelion and Ossa, on top of each other. The Olympians called upon the aid of Heracles after a prophecy warned them that he was required to defeat the Gigante. Heracles slew not only Alcyoneus, but dealt the death blow to the Gigantes who has been wounded by the Olympians.

The Gigantes were Alcyoneus or Alkyonios, Athos, Clytias or Klytias, Enceladus, or Enkelados, Echion, and Pallas.

In Greek mythology, Enceladus was one of the Gigantes, who was defeated in battle by Zeus's thunderbolts and buried under Mount Etna by Athena. Mount Etna's fires were supposed to be the breath of Enceladus, and its eruptions were caused by his rolling his injured side inside the mountain. Some believe that he is the same as Typhon.

Interesting...Antaeus wasn't actually a true gigante.

Antaeus in Greek mythology was a giant of Libya, the son of Poseidon and Gaia, and his wife was Tinjis. He was extremely strong as long as he remained in contact with the ground (his mother earth), but once lifted into the air he became as weak as water. He would challenge all passers-by to wrestling matches, kill them, and collect their skulls, so that he might one day build out of them a temple to his father Poseidon. Heracles, finding that he could not beat Antaeus by throwing him to the ground, discovered the secret of his power and held Antaeus aloft until he died (Apollodorus ii. 5; Hyginus, Fab. 31). The fable of Antaeus has been used as a symbol of the spiritual strength which accrues when one rests his faith on the immediate fact of things. The struggle between Antaeus and Heracles is a favourite subject in ancient sculpture.

In the Divine Comedy, Antaeus is a giant who guards the ninth circle of Hell, and lowers Dante and Virgil down to the iced-over Cocytus.