Converting "generic setting" second edition monsters

[freyar]

Ok, good idea. So, Improved Sunder as a bonus feat. Do we want to give it Combat Reflexes as a bonus or some special ability to give it more chances to sunder magic weapons? Probably also ought to give it an ability to bypass hardness, too.

Enchantment Consumption (Su): When a xaren destroys a magic weapon with a sunder attempt, it devours it. The xaren immediately gains 1 point of Constitution per point of enchantment bonus of the weapon (including bonuses due to weapon properties such as keen or flaming). The xaren loses these points of Constitution at the rate of one per hour.

 

[demiurge1138]

The bite attack of a xaren counts as adamantine for the purposes of overcoming damage reduction and hardness.

Demiurge out.

 

[Shade]

Updated.

 

[freyar]

I think it looks pretty good. Should we give it Combat Reflexes as a bonus feat (so it can sunder those weapons more often), or is it nasty enough?

 

[Shade]

With Dex 12, that won't make a difference, right?

 

[freyar]

You get to make an additional AoO per round per point of Dex bonus, so they'd still get one extra AoO. But we could always bump Dex to 14 or more if you want.

 

[Shade]

OK, let's raise Dex to 14. Rather than making it a bonus feat, let's just drop Toughness, since they seemed to be intended to be a bit weaker than xorn.

They like to snack on metal, even in ore form, and they can smell ore at 20 feet and magic metal at 40 feet.

Xorns do not attack fleshly beings except to defend themselves or their property, since they cannot digest meat. Xorns are indifferent to creatures of the Material Plane—with the sole exception of anyone carrying a significant amount of precious metals or minerals, which xorns eat. They can smell food up to 20 feet away. A xorn can be quite aggressive when seeking food, especially on the Material Plane, where such sustenance is harder to find than it is on its native plane.

Does the xorn's flavor text suffice? Or is this more appropriate?

Metal Scent (Ex): Xaren can smell nonmagical metal within 20 feet, and magically-enhanced metal within 40 feet. This functions exactly as the scent ability, except it only applies to metal.

 

[freyar]

Sounds good.

I think the xorn flavor text is ok, though we should add that xaren can smell magical metal from a greater distance.

 

[Shade]

Updated.

Stick with CR 3 like the minor xorn or are they improved enough to warrant CR 4?

Anything else?

 

[demiurge1138]

The adamantine bite plus the higher AC suggest to me that CR 4 may be warranted.

Demiurge out.