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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6931205" data-attributes="member: 57383">Updating the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=6662081#post6662081" target="_blank">Monarch Scorpion Working Draft</a>.It matters naught to me, so shall we just go through them in order?Assuming you're OK with the expanded &quot;court &amp; palace&quot; Organization and Double Treasure in the stat block that puts the Poison question at the head.Giving them both 2d6/2d6 Con poison works. If we do go for having the master's venom be deadlier I'd be willing to consider reducing the damage of the Monarch's poison rather than increase the Master's still more. Regular Monstrous Scorpions only do 1d6/1d6 Con at Huge, 1d8/1d8 at Gargantuan and 1d10/1d10 at Colossal, so giving the regular Monarch 1d8/1d8 or 1d10/1d10 might be enough.However, the original Monarch's venom is very nasty for an AD&amp;D poison. There are very few poisons nastier than a -4 save vs. death.So maybe make the master 2d8/2d8 Con? Or keep the 2d6/2d6 and give it a racial bonus to the DC?Contrariwise I'm equally happy leaving it at 2d6/2d6.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6931205, member: 57383"] Updating the [B][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=6662081#post6662081"]Monarch Scorpion Working Draft[/URL][/B]. It matters naught to me, so shall we just go through them in order? Assuming you're OK with the expanded "court & palace" Organization and Double Treasure in the stat block that puts the Poison question at the head. Giving them both 2d6/2d6 Con poison works. If we do go for having the master's venom be deadlier I'd be willing to consider reducing the damage of the Monarch's poison rather than increase the Master's still more. Regular Monstrous Scorpions only do 1d6/1d6 Con at Huge, 1d8/1d8 at Gargantuan and 1d10/1d10 at Colossal, so giving the regular Monarch 1d8/1d8 or 1d10/1d10 might be enough. However, the original Monarch's venom is [B][I]very[/I][/B] nasty for an AD&D poison. There are very few poisons nastier than a -4 save vs. death. So maybe make the master 2d8/2d8 Con? Or keep the 2d6/2d6 and give it a racial bonus to the DC? Contrariwise I'm equally happy leaving it at 2d6/2d6. [/QUOTE]

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