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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5863587" data-attributes="member: 57383">Agreed.Shade said he didn't have any monsters left on his Greyhawk list, but did he include all the adventures and supplements?That reminds me, I recently came across mention of a new monster, the Aurotyugh, from an encounter in the Dungeon Geomorphs: Set Two.The <a href="http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/gh_geomorphs.html" target="_blank">relevant text</a> can be found on the Greyhawk Online website. It looks worthy of conversion:13D. The Pile of Gold. Upon entering the area, the party will notice that there has been a fight. First, they will see a dragon skeleton and human remains. Then they will notice that there is still a large pile of gold left by whomever looted the room. As they approach the pile it comes to life, suprising them all, and attacks! It is a metal creature (the Aurotyugh) and so has some suprising abilities. It takes 18 hit dice (88 HP) and is Armor Class 3. It does 3-18 HP every time it hits, and its special attack abilitity is that it softens hard things. Every time it hits, its opponent goes down one Armor Class (so +2 armor becomes +1, or a Wyvern with Armor Cass 3 goes to 4). This creature is worth 25,000 GP---the teeth are made of diamonds and if carefully and time-consumingly taken out are worth 30,000 gold pieces (but only 5,000 gold pieces if hastily pulled).So, it's an 18 HD creature with diamond teeth that looks like a pile of gold. The name suggests some relationship with the Otyugh. Maybe we could rework some of the stuff I did in &quot;<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-monster-talk/251885-modifying-under-performing-system-reference-document-monsters-building-better-otyugh.html" target="_blank">Building A Better Otyugh</a>&quot;?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 5863587, member: 57383"] Agreed. Shade said he didn't have any monsters left on his Greyhawk list, but did he include all the adventures and supplements? That reminds me, I recently came across mention of a new monster, the Aurotyugh, from an encounter in the Dungeon Geomorphs: Set Two. The [URL="http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/gh_geomorphs.html"][B]relevant text[/B][/URL] can be found on the Greyhawk Online website. It looks worthy of conversion: [B]13D.[/B] The Pile of Gold. Upon entering the area, the party will notice that there has been a fight. First, they will see a dragon skeleton and human remains. Then they will notice that there is still a large pile of gold left by whomever looted the room. As they approach the pile it comes to life, suprising them all, and attacks! It is a metal creature (the Aurotyugh) and so has some suprising abilities. It takes 18 hit dice (88 HP) and is Armor Class 3. It does 3-18 HP every time it hits, and its special attack abilitity is that it softens hard things. Every time it hits, its opponent goes down one Armor Class (so +2 armor becomes +1, or a Wyvern with Armor Cass 3 goes to 4). This creature is worth 25,000 GP---the teeth are made of diamonds and if carefully and time-consumingly taken out are worth 30,000 gold pieces (but only 5,000 gold pieces if hastily pulled). So, it's an 18 HD creature with diamond teeth that looks like a pile of gold. The name suggests some relationship with the Otyugh. Maybe we could rework some of the stuff I did in "[URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-monster-talk/251885-modifying-under-performing-system-reference-document-monsters-building-better-otyugh.html"][B]Building A Better Otyugh[/B][/URL]"? [/QUOTE]

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