Converting Greyhawk monsters

I'm still standing by CR 1. They are swift in the water, can wallcrawl to get the drop on victims, and only need a single hit to really mess up a 1st-level character.

Oh, if you insist. Shame we can't split the difference and call them CR 2/3.:]

1d6 rounds and a blood drain "fill limit" appeal. Stirges "fill up" at 4 points drained...maybe 6 points for a yphoz since they are bit more amorphous?

6 points is OK by me.
 

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I can find a couple of quibbles.

First, it's still got "weighs about x pounds".

4 pounds? They're longer than a stirge and probably heavier built too.

Second, "While only a single yphoz can attach itself to creature up to Tiny size" is clumsy, how about "While only a single yphoz can attach itself to a Tiny-sized creature, up to 2 yphozs can attach to a Small creature, up to 4 for a Medium creature, 8 for Large creature, 16 for a Huge creature, 32 for a Gargantuan creature and 64 for a Colossal creature."
 



Considering that "a swarm of Tiny creatures consists of 300 nonflying creatures", I'd say HD should be quite high! That would be 600 HD if taken literally! :confused:

Maybe 30 HD?
 

Considering that "a swarm of Tiny creatures consists of 300 nonflying creatures", I'd say HD should be quite high! That would be 600 HD if taken literally! :confused:

Well by that argument a Rat Swarm would have 75 Hit Dice and a Bat Swarm 1,250 Hit Dice!

Maybe 30 HD?

30 HD seems awful high. I don't fancy them having 250% the HD of a Hellwasp Swarm! Indeed, somewhere around a Hellwasp's HD feels about right to me, hence the proposed 13 HD.
 

Alright, fair enough!

While I love swarms, limiting them to all being the exact same size makes for some oddities, doesn't it?
 



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