Converting "generic setting" Second Edition monsters

[Shade]

Wizards aren't proficient with morningstars.... Edit: I can see the use of ghost touch, sort of, but it would be weird that it needs to manifest to fight incorporeal critters with a ghost touch weapon!

That would be odd!

It's got 35,000 gp to spend. How about we combine its melee and ranged weapon into one? How about a +1 ghost touch returning dagger? That would total 18,302.

Throw in a headband of intellect +4?

 

[freyar]

That works well enough, though I still think ghost touch is a bit weird.

 

[Cleon]

That would be odd!

It's not for attacking other incorporeals. If I remember correctly ghost touch works both ways, allowing an incorporeal creature to attack a corporeal one without any miss change.

It's got 35,000 gp to spend. How about we combine its melee and ranged weapon into one? How about a +1 ghost touch returning dagger? That would total 18,302.

Throw in a headband of intellect +4?

Suits me.

Oh, I suggested a morningstar because I thought our sample was a Sorcerer for some reason.

 

[Shade]

Updated.

Thanks to the headband, it now gets an additional 1st, 4th, and 5th-level spell.

Do we want to make it a specialist wizard?

 

[Cleon]

Updated.

Thanks to the headband, it now gets an additional 1st, 4th, and 5th-level spell.

Do we want to make it a specialist wizard?

I would rather keep it a general-purpose wizard.

How about mage's private sanctum, enervation and either mage armor or shield for the additional spells?

 

[Shade]

Sounds good. Updated. All done?

 

[Cleon]

Sounds good. Updated. All done?

Hold on, if it's got a wand of spectral hand, does it need a spectral hand spell prepared as well?

Swap it for ghoul touch or touch of idiocy?

Shouldn't its incorporeal touch be +5 vs ethereal foes, not +4? (BAB +6 plus -1 for Str 8)

The Manifestation has a "spectral wizards are still etheral" which should be "ethereal".

Save for those quibbles I think hope we're finished.

 

[Shade]

Let's go with touch of idiocy.

Updated. Finished?

 

[Cleon]

Let's go with touch of idiocy.

Updated. Finished?

Looks sound.

 

[freyar]

It's good, but ghost touch is a waste for the weapon, if you ask me. This thing can manifest fully and can attack corporeal creatures with normal, material weapons. And we didn't give it "ghostly equipment." So the only use would be for it to fully manifest and use the ghost touch weapon to attack incorporeals. Granted, without the incorporeal equipment, it has no weapons to fight other ethereal critters, but that's what its spells are for!

To put it shortly, I think we should give it a more useful weapon enhancement for attacking material beings. Like shocking, frost, etc.