Converting monsters from Dragon magazine (Part Two)

[demiurge1138]

I like diminishing the blindsense and keen senses.

 

[Shade]

Updated.

All lindworm hunting methods are essentially variants on the ambush: hiding in thick brush or woods, waiting behind boulders, sitting submerged in murky water, or burying itself in sand or snow (depending on the lindworm’s parentage and environment). Lindworms eat anything they can catch and are almost always hungry, a state that only adds to their generally bad dispositions. They don’t value treasure for its own sake as their parents do, but often leave the spoils of a previous hunt as bait for intelligent prey.

Skills: 32
Hide 8, Listen 8, Move Silently 8, Spot 8?

Feats: 2
Multiattack, Stealthy?

 

[Leopold]

Skills look fine.

Stealthy works. Give it some flavor as it's an ambusher not a full frontal assault critter.

 

[demiurge1138]

Either Stealthy or Ability Focus (breath weapon) work for me, but Multiattack is a must.

 

[Shade]

Updated.

CR 4? They aren't as good as a CR 5 ambush drake, and a fairly comparable to a stone drake.

Treasure: Standard?

 

[demiurge1138]

I don't know if the MM3 is really a good place to be drawing CR comparisons from--it's notoriously broken, and I remember ambush drakes specifically being too good for their CR. I think 5 is appropriate.

I don't think we should keep that "only one claw attack" thing. They can lie on their bellies and move like snakes, if depictions of linnorms in other media has anything to say about it.

 

[Shade]

Good point! My hatred for MM3 has cooled significantly over time (supplanted by 4e rage ).

CR 5 and 2 claw attacks sounds good.

Updated.

An adult false lindworm is x feet long and weighs x pounds.

 

[Cleon]

Updated.

Skills: 32
Hide 8, Listen 8, Move Silently 8, Spot 8?

Feats: 2
Multiattack, Stealthy?

The skills work for me. I'd be tempted to give it some racial bonus to Hide, Listen or Spot, but true dragons don't get any so I guess it'd be inappropriate. Besides, its got maxed-out skill ranks, so that should do.

Multiattack and Stealthy are fine.

 

[Cleon]

I don't think we should keep that "only one claw attack" thing. They can lie on their bellies and move like snakes, if depictions of linnorms in other media has anything to say about it.

I'd keep the one claw attack, it has to stand on one leg while kicking with the other, like the SRD Deinonychus/Megaraptor's talon attack.

 

[Cleon]

An adult false lindworm is x feet long and weighs x pounds.

20 feet nose to tail and 2000 pounds?