Converting monsters from Dragon magazine (Part Two)

[demiurge1138]

Are we going for dominate monster as an SLA? I like freyar's suggestion, but would also like to offer up sunburst, transmute metal to wood and antipathy as options as well.

 

[freyar]

Ah, forgot about dominate monster. Ok, here's a suggested list (can work out uses/day in a bit):

Call Lightning Storm
Control Weather
Control Winds
Elemental Swarm (water only)
Greater Dispel Magic
Repel Wood
Storm of Vengeance
Warp Wood
Chain lightning
Telekinesis
Dominate Monster
Water Breathing
Whirlwind
Sunburst
Transmute Metal to Wood
Antipathy

I swapped Hold Monster for Dominate Monster, dropped Call Lightning (seemed kind of low-level, and we can bump the uses of Call Lightning Storm if we want), dropped SNA, and dropped Antilife Shell (since Antipathy more or less covers that). But we could add one more more back in. These have more HD than normal titans and could probably therefore use a little more in the SLA department.

 

[Shade]

Suggested usage:

Call Lightning Storm - 3/day
Control Weather - 3/day
Control Winds - at will
Elemental Swarm (water only) - 1/day
Greater Dispel Magic - at will
Repel Wood - 3/day
Storm of Vengeance - 1/day
Warp Wood - at will
Chain lightning - at will
Telekinesis - at will
Dominate Monster - 5/day
Water Breathing - at will
Whirlwind - 1/day
Sunburst - 1/day
Transmute Metal to Wood - 3/day
Antipathy - 1/day

 

[demiurge1138]

Looks pretty good to me.

 

[freyar]

I like it too. Do we want to add the extra SLAs for good and evil sea titans a la the normal titan? These are as follows.

In addition, titans of good or neutral alignment can use the following additional spell-like abilities. Caster level 20th. The save DCs are Charisma-based:

At will - daylight, holy smite (DC 21), remove curse (DC 21);
1/day - greater restoration.

Titans of evil alignment can use the following additional spell-like abilities. Caster level 20th. The save DCs are Charisma-based:

At will - bestow curse (DC 21), deeper darkness, unholy blight (DC 21);
1/day - crushing hand (DC 26).

 

[Shade]

I like it too. Do we want to add the extra SLAs for good and evil sea titans a la the normal titan?

I'm thinking "no", since they are usually neutral, with about a quarter being evil. It seems like the standard titan is more alignment-focused.

That said, I'm not strongly opposed to the extra SLAs if anyone is strongly for them.

 

[freyar]

It's fine with me to leave off the SLAs for the good and evil sea titans, but I think we should have a few more in general, then, just because these should be at least as tough as a normal titan (given the HD).

 

[Shade]

How about adding one or more fog spells, like acid fog, fog cloud, obscuring mist?

Crushing hand from the evil titan's list seems useful too, for putting the squeeze on sailors.

 

[demiurge1138]

Incendiary cloud would be mean... fun, but mean. Fog cloud would be good too. Are we giving these guys blindsight?

 

[freyar]

Even though incendiary cloud is maybe more fun, acid fog is probably more in line with the rest of the flavor. Blindsight isn't unreasonable, and I like crushing hand, too.