Converting monsters from Dragon magazine (Part Two)

[JiCi]

Looks good to me, and a bohun treat looks tasty.

Huh... what type of damage do the roots do ? blungeoning, piercing, both ?

 

[Shade]

Mmmm...that's a tasty typo!

Bludgeoning. Essentially, they're tentacles with a different name. But we should probably note that in the text somewhere.

 

[demiurge1138]

I'd lower the damage a bit. These guys have a very high output. Maybe 1d8?

 

[Shade]

Good point.

Updated.

Number of fruits in fruit barrage?

Duration for sleep from fruit? Normal suffocation rules for secondary damage (In the first round, she falls unconscious (0 hit points). In the following round, she drops to –1 hit points and is dying. In the third round, she suffocates)?

 

[freyar]

6 fruits?

I'm going to say 3d6 round for sleep. Suffocation works by requiring the first DC 10 Con check at the onset of secondary damage. The victim can breathe again when waking. What do you think?

 

[Shade]

That works. Updated.

Should we add DR/slashing like treants?

Let's revisit the fruit barrage...

The tree will deliberately cause 1 fruit to burst every other round if it is attacked.

Since it has such a large burst area, I'd recommend we cut it back to tossing a single fruit at a time. In fact, I'm not sure if it needs to be tossed at all, but rather just bursts on its stem. Thoughts?

 

[demiurge1138]

Bursting on the stem works. Agreed to DR/slashing. 5?

 

[freyar]

DR 5 is good.

Generally the fruit just bursts on the tree and is only thrown in the desperation barrage.

A bohun tree starts combat with 4d8 fruits? And they can regrow in 1d6 days?

 

[Shade]

That sounds like a good compromise. Updated.

Ninety percent of all elves, centaurs, and satyrs are immune to the effects of the tree's poison. Pixies, treants, stirges, and undead creatures are entirely immune.

Elves and fey gain a +2 racial bonus on saves vs. the fruit poison? Undead and plants (what about pesticide?) are already immune to poison. Stirges seem to much of an exception to bother.

The bohun tree has keen eyesight; hundreds of compound eyes stud fissures in the trunk and grow amid the fruit clusters. It uses this eyesight to home in on the targets of its thorn attacks and also to locate assailants that it can entrap with its roots.

All-around vision, racial bonus on Spot checks, and maybe superior low-light vision?

 

[freyar]

Hmm, does the poison count as a sleep effect? If so, elves are immune b/c they can't sleep. Possibly the same for fey? I agree that stirges are too small of a corner case.

Yes to all three vision effects.