Converting monsters from Dragon magazine

[Cleon]

Oh, yeah, I missed that one.

CR 7 seems a bit low compared to the remorhaz and purple worm. CR 9 or 10 maybe?
Are these ready for flavor and tactics?

They don't have poison or swallow whole, and their lack of tremorsense makes them easier to hide from.

I'd be willing to up them to CR 9.

 

[freyar]

CR 9 will work for me.

Let's see. Tactics? Maybe they grab likely prey and carry it away while gnawing?

 

[Cleon]

CR 9 will work for me.

Updating Super Otter Working Draft.

Hmm, it looks like I miscounted and we're still short a feat. (Forgot the Spring Attack's a bonus).

Lightning Reflexes?

Let's see. Tactics? Maybe they grab likely prey and carry it away while gnawing?

Yes that'd fit.

Then they float on their backs and tear their victims apart in the cutest manner they can contrive.

 

[freyar]

Lightning Reflexes will work.

Tactics: Super otters prefer to avoid a prolonged fight. Instead, they grab likely prey and swim off with it, devouring it at their leisure.

 

[Cleon]

Lightning Reflexes will work.

Updating Super Otter Working Draft.

Tactics: Super otters prefer to avoid a prolonged fight. Instead, they grab likely prey and swim off with it, devouring it at their leisure.

I'd like a slight rephrasing to that. "Super otters prefer to avoid prolonged fights. Instead, they try to grab likely prey and swim off with it to devour at their leisure."

 

[Cleon]

I think I'll call it a night. Hopefully I might come up with some background info and a description in a day or two.

 

[freyar]

I think I'll call it a night. Hopefully I might come up with some background info and a description in a day or two.

Your revised tactics are fine, but I guess your hopes didn't work out. Hmmm. Why don't we say 60 ft and 10-12 tons?

 

[Cleon]

Your revised tactics are fine,

Updating Super Otter Working Draft.

...but I guess your hopes didn't work out.

A sinuous beast of prodigious length, maybe equal to a dozen humans lying head-to-toe. It has a long flat head with beady eyes, stubby web-footed legs and an elongated tail that tapers to a point. The creature's body seems as slim and flexible as a serpent, flexing up to form half-a-dozen humps on the water's surface. Its pale grey-brown hide appears rough and wrinkly.

Hmmm. Why don't we say 60 ft and 10-12 tons?

I prefer the range in the Working Draft.

Let's see...

Super otters may be primitive kin to ancient marine mammals such as the zeuglodon in Frostburn. They are found only in arctic waters and mostly prey upon fish and marine mammals far smaller than themselves, such as cod, halibut, or seals.

A super otter is 60 to 100 feet in length, including their tails, and typically weighs from 8000 to 25000 pounds.​

That OK? I didn't want to have much in the background info, since we have very little to go on.

 

[freyar]

This all works. Can we also drop the red text and move to the next one?

 

[Cleon]

Can we also drop the red text and move to the next one?

Updating Super Otter Working Draft.

Can we also drop the red text and move to the next one?

Sure!

Let's see, Father-of-all-the-Turtles is first on our batches to come list alphabetically, while the Merhorse is the only one with a full 2E stat block.

I fancy Daddy Turtle next, since we did a bunch of turtles a while back and it's the only one we had left over.