Converting monsters from Dragon magazine (Part Two)

[Shade]

Added to Homebrews using those ability scores.

 

[freyar]

Sea titans have the ability to summon and control creatures of the sea through charm monsters spell use (by touch, usable five times per day). Sea titans have the additional ability to use as many first- to third-level spells as a 6th-level magic-user (but at the 12th level of ability).

Innate casting as a sorcerer? Do we just want to give it charm monster 5/day as an SLA or bump to dominate monster given its HD? (I think I prefer dominate.)

 

[Shade]

Yes to innate spellcasting, and I tend to agree about dominate.

 

[demiurge1138]

I think we should give it more casting than a 6th level sorcerer, since this guy is probably going to be very high CR. We might even consider switching sorcerer for druid casting.

 

[freyar]

Agreed about the bump to how many spells. It should be 12th level at a minimum (like the listed CL), but probably around 20th. It would be interesting to compare the titan's SLAs to sorc casting. The switch to druid is an intriguing idea; I'll think about that.

Sea titans have titan strength (a rating of 25).

Just noticed that. Should we bump to Str 43, Dex 12 to put them more like a normal titan?

 

[Shade]

Good suggestions on all that.

I definitely think we should up the Str and Dex based on that text.

Per the 2e Monstrous Manual...

"All titans are able to employ both mage or priest spells (dependent on the individual titan -- only one, not both) as a 20th-level spell caster."

Since titans lost their spellcasting and retained only their SLAs in 3e, I'd recommend we simply create a list of SLAs for them, based largely on druidic spells. Thoughts?

 

[demiurge1138]

I like the idea of SLAs only. For one thing, that's less paperwork for us.

 

[Shade]

Some suggestions:

Call Lightning
Call Lightning Storm
Control Weather
Control Winds
Elemental Swarm (water only)
Greater Dispel Magic
Repel Wood
Storm of Vengeance
Warp Wood

The wood spells are to mess with ships.

 

[demiurge1138]

Chain lightning and telekinesis still fit, I think. I like the wood-destroying spells, and the weather control.

 

[freyar]

This all sounds good. The regular titan has 16 SLAs (good or evil ones get 4 more), and we have 11 so far. What about also a high-level Summon Nature's Ally, Hold Monster, Water Breathing (for allies?), Whirlwind, Antilife Shell? The good and evil ones could get the same additional SLAs as good and evil normal titans, if we want.