Converting Medusa to a PC Race

[RaZZer99]

How would I go about using a medusa as a playable race? What would her ECL be?

 

[Roland Delacroix]

For a female player? Because the male ones, in the 2e MM anyway, weren't nearly as potent. They were basically bald guys with 18 Str who were immune to the medusa Gaze attack. Maybe in 3e they would have the Imp Unarmed feat too.

The females, dunno, pretty high. An unlimited-use save-or-die attack will do that.

 

[RaZZer99]

For a female player? Because the male ones, in the 2e MM anyway, weren't nearly as potent. They were basically bald guys with 18 Str who were immune to the medusa Gaze attack. Maybe in 3e they would have the Imp Unarmed feat too.

The females, dunno, pretty high. An unlimited-use save-or-die attack will do that.

Yes this would be a female one. In the MM, she's listed as a CR 7 but her petrifying gaze didn't seem all that powerful. I knew the ECL might be pretty high, but this character would be a high level campaign

 

[RogueJK]

According to Dragon Magazine 293, the Medusa is ECL +10.
Soldarin is a little more forgiving, assigning it an ECL of +6.

For more information on how to use monsters as PC races, you might want to take a look at this site: http://www.webspawner.com/users/soldarin/index.html

 

[RaZZer99]

Thank you RogueJK, thats just what i needed