Converting monsters from Dragon magazine

[Cleon]

I'm not fond of "terror", but am OK with dropping pair. Freyar's pretty good with names for collectives of critters. Let's see what he suggests.

Well I'm not that attached to terror, so we might as well change it.

Assuming we can agree on something else!

Of the collective nouns of worms I don't mind a knot or squirm, if we can't come up with anything original.

Hmm, a twist of devil wyrms? A warp of devil wyrms?

I'm leaning toward squirm at the moment.

 

[Shade]

"Squirm" is fine.

 

[Cleon]

"Squirm" is fine.

So how many worms in a squirm? I was thinking 2-16 or 2-12, or do you really like 2-8?

 

[Shade]

So how many worms in a squirm? I was thinking 2-16 or 2-12, or do you really like 2-8?

Let's go with 2-16.

 

[Cleon]

Let's go with 2-16.

That's my preference too.

 

[Shade]

Great!

Should we give them the blind SQ since they have no true head?

Skills: 10
Hide, Listen? I'm not sure they need Move Silently, since it sounds like they just wait in ambush for prey to come near.

Feats: 3
Power Attack, Reckless Offense, Weapon Focus (bite)?

 

[Cleon]

Great!

Should we give them the blind SQ since they have no true head?

I'm leaning towards no, since there's no mention of them being unable to see. That said, I don't mind Blind if Freyar's OK with it.

Skills: 10
Hide, Listen? I'm not sure they need Move Silently, since it sounds like they just wait in ambush for prey to come near.

Feats: 3
Power Attack, Reckless Offense, Weapon Focus (bite)?

Those skills & feats are fine by me.

 

[Shade]

I'm leaning towards no, since there's no mention of them being unable to see. That said, I don't mind Blind if Freyar's OK with it.

We'll just skip it unless freyar chimes in before we finish up the rest.

Those skills & feats are fine by me.

Wanna update your working draft?

 

[Cleon]

We'll just skip it unless freyar chimes in before we finish up the rest.

Wanna update your working draft?

I don't wanna and ya can't make me!

Oh, very well...

Updating Working Draft.

 

[Shade]

I don't wanna and ya can't make me!

Oh, very well...

Updating Working Draft.

My persuasion skills have improved!

I think you can remove the red question marks. Those fields all look good.

A pink, fat wormlike creature, a foot-and-a-half in diameter, erupts from a hole in the wall. A serrated maw caps each end of its body, while thick chitin covers the segments between.

Devil wyrms are predatory, subterranean annelids that hunt anything they can catch. Whether their origin was actually influenced by denizens of the Nine Hells, as some sages speculate, has never been proven. The creatures demonstrate a diabolical cruelty that would seem to lend credence to such thoughts.

A typical devil wyrm is 20 feet long, 1-1/2 feet in diameter, and weighs x pounds.

COMBAT

Devil wyrms like in wait in their lairs, until prey is detected from scent or tremorsense. The creatures then strike swiftly from ambush, biting with their serrated maws. Devil wyrms spit a caustic, paralytic fluid at heavily armored opponents, or those out of reach of their mouths.