Converting Epic Level Creatures

[Shade]

I think Hover is more important than Flyby Attack, and Multiattack over Wingover, so let's blend the two and go with...

Cleave, Devastating Critical (bite), Dire Charge, Great Cleave, Hover, Improved Critical (bite), Improved Initiative, Multiattack, Overwhelming Critical (bite), Power Attack, Snatch, Weapon Focus (bite)

Look OK?

 

[freyar]

Yeah, I actually meant to include Multiattack and got carried away with flight. I'm ambivalent on Wingover vs Hover, so this is good!

 

[demiurge1138]

Looks good to me.

 

[Shade]

Updated (with flavor).

The grey dragon attacks with the usual claw/claw/bite routine but gets two additional swings with his claws because of his tremendous speed. The latter two claw attacks are at -1 "to hit" and do only 1-4 points of damage.

We still need to address that. How about...

Alacritous Claws (Su): When making a full attack, Rahab may make two additional claw attacks with a -2 penalty.


While working on the flavor text and looking at the image in the original article, I kept thinking "black panther". Maybe we should give him pounce, and ditch the Dire Charge feat in favor of one of the others we dropped earlier?

I think we should also switch some ranks into Move Silently and give him a racial bonus. Thoughts?

 

[demiurge1138]

Ranks in Move Silently I agree to. And pounce is sounding pretty tempting. Could Rahab use alacritous claws and a pounce in the same turn? That might be a bit much.

 

[freyar]

Yes to Move Silently, then. Could swap out Intimidate, or else take half from Intimidate and half from UMD.

Pounce with alacritous claws wouldn't be much worse than pounce with rake, though most true dragons don't get pounce for this reason, I guess.

What feat could we swap back in for Dire Charge? Anything epic that might work?

 

[Shade]

How about Demiurge's suggestion of Fast Healing?

 

[freyar]

Either that or give him Fast Healing as an SQ and whatever the epic initiative feat is.

 

[Shade]

Let's just go with the feat since he's already stacked with abilities.

CR 21-22? He seems somewhere between great wyrm white and black dragons.

The grey dragon is 48 feet long weighs x tons.

Rahab speaks Draconic and X.

 

[freyar]

CR 22 is probably fine.
Uh, 50 tons? Do we have a dragon weight chart somewhere?
Abyssal, Undercommon?