Converting monsters from Dragon magazine

[freyar]

SR 20 is good.

For the sake of moving along, I'd be ok with removing the question marks on Treasure and Alignment.

These are probably copy-paste errors, but don't they get 6@17 for skills and 5 feats?

 

[Cleon]

SR 20 is good.

For the sake of moving along, I'd be ok with removing the question marks on Treasure and Alignment.

Updating the Priest of Ythog-Nthlei Working Draft.

These are probably copy-paste errors, but don't they get 6@17 for skills and 5 feats?

That was a holdover from before we raised its Hit Dice.

Skills and Feats next?

They'll need Spellcraft for epic chant magic and priests ought to have Knowledge (religion) but I'm open minded as to what other skills we give them.

 

[freyar]

Let's max out Concentration, Know (religion), Know (the planes), Listen, Spellcraft, Spot. Sound good?

For feats, how about some Spell Focus and Spell Penetration, maybe metamagic?

 

[abe ray]

Maybe next we could do the worrywart? It’s found in issue 294.

 

[Cleon]

Let's max out Concentration, Know (religion), Know (the planes), Listen, Spellcraft, Spot. Sound good?

That'd give it:

Skills: Concentration +20, Knowledge (religion) +21, Knowledge (the planes) +21, Listen +20, Spellcraft +21 (+23 decyphering scrolls), Spot +20

Hmm… I'm tempted to give it some ranks in Use Magic Device as well.

Maybe trim down the Knowledge skills to 11 ranks to pay for it?

Let's see, that'd make it…

Concentration 17 ranks, Knowledge (religion) 11 ranks, Knowledge (the planes) 11 ranks, Listen 17 ranks, Spellcraft 17 ranks, Spot 17 ranks, Use Magic Device 12 ranks.

Skills #2: Concentration +20, Knowledge (religion) +15, Knowledge (the planes) +15, Listen +20, Spellcraft +21 (+23 decyphering scrolls), Spot +20, Use Magic Device +15 (+17 with scrolls)

Which do you prefer?

For feats, how about some Spell Focus and Spell Penetration, maybe metamagic?

We could give it Spell Focus several times since there's a wide selection of harmful save-required spells in the Priest's prepared list:

Enchantment—bane, bolts of bedevilmentᴰ, greater command, enthrall, lesser confusionᴰ, touch of madnessᴰ
Necromancy—cause fear, death knell, poison, slay living
Illusion—silence
Evocation—flame strike, sound burst, unholy blightᴰ

That's six Enchantment spells, four Necromancy, three Evocation and one Illusion.

So how about Spell Focus in Enchantment and Necromancy plus Spell Penetration and a Metamagic feat.

For the Metamagic how about Heighten Spell since it'll let them Chant Cast spells with augmented save DCs?

That leaves one feat and I fancy spending it on something combat related rather than more magic boosts.

Perhaps Improved Critical (tentacles) or Combat Reflexes?

 

[Cleon]

Maybe next we could do the worrywart? It’s found in issue 294.

The Worry-Wart is in Dragon #259 not 294.

Do you fancy joining in the conversion or is this just a request? So far the CC only has the Skullcap Ivy converted from that issue's Symbiotes and Parasites article so we have three left to do.

If you and/or Freyar fancy working on those for the next Dragon Magazine monsters I'm game.

There are plenty of other choices though. I have a bunch of creatures from the original Dragon #89 Creature Catalog as well as Dragon #111 Creature Catalog III, Dragon #238 Spawn of the Sewers, Dragon #265 Earthstokers, Dragon #238 Dungeon Monsters, Dragon Annual #2 Arctic Monsters and Dragon Annual #3 Urban Monsters on my Want List.

 

[abe ray]

The Worry-Wart is in Dragon #259 not 294.

Do you fancy joining in the conversion or is this just a request? So far the CC only has the Skullcap Ivy converted from that issue's Symbiotes and Parasites article so we have three left to do.

If you and/or Freyar fancy working on those for the next Dragon Magazine monsters I'm game.

There are plenty of other choices though. I have a bunch of creatures from the original Dragon #89 Creature Catalog as well as Dragon #111 Creature Catalog III, Dragon #238 Spawn of the Sewers, Dragon #265 Earthstokers, Dragon #238 Dungeon Monsters, Dragon Annual #2 Arctic Monsters and Dragon Annual #3 Urban Monsters on my Want List.

It’s a request

 

[Cleon]

It’s a request

In that case I'll wait to see if Freyar has any preferences for the next Dragon magazine conversion.

 

[abe ray]

Any new thoughts on the subject?

 

[freyar]

Sorry, I'm just way behind on these posts! We can do the worry wart and the rest of the symbiotes and parasites next if you like.

Back to the priests, let's go with skill suggestion number 2. All the feat suggestions are good, and I'll go with Imp. Crit. (tentacles) for the last one.

Advancement: by character class ?
Organization: solitary or chorus ?? (4-8) ?
CR: maybe 11? I think they have more damage potential (esp with spells) than CR 11 barbed devils, but they're not as well defended.