Converting First Edition monsters from DRAGON magazine

[Shade]

That seems kinda steep for its CR...but I really don't know, so why not?

 

[BOZ]

we could go lower. 80,000?

 

[Shade]

How about 70,000? That's a little bit higher than halfway between clay and stone.

 

[BOZ]

OK, with a price of 70,000, that would give us a creation cost of 38,750 using the formulas. The XP cost would be 2,800.

Check my math, please.

 

[Shade]

Math class is hard!

Yes, that seems to be correct, although my math skill checks are untrained.

 

[BOZ]

heh, same here. so therefore, since we don't know any better, we can go with:

CONSTRUCTION
A necroton's body is sculpted from 2,000 pounds of pure iron, smelted with rare tinctures and admixtures costing at least 7,500 gp. Assembling the body requires a DC 20 Craft (armorsmithing) check or a DC 20 Craft (weaponsmithing) check.

CL 16th; Craft Construct, detect magic, fireball, geas/quest, limited wish, polymorph any object, caster must be at least 16th level; Price 70,000 gp; Cost 38,750 gp + 2,800 XP.

 

[Shade]

That works for me.

 

[BOZ]

updating.

 

[Shade]

It looks good.

 

[Shade]

How about the devil spider (issue #55) next (assuming nothing else was in the queue)?