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<blockquote data-quote="Crusher" data-source="post: 5973645" data-attributes="member: 6697285"><p>I've been slowly reading through the various threads y'all have done converting the various monsters from old issues of Dragon magazines and its been great fun for me.</p><p></p><p>While I do intend to eventually read through all of them (and of course they keep getting longer as I read with new posts) I've got a favor to ask that's hopefully not too much of an imposition. I've got a question that someone who has been a regular in these threads might be able to answer. My apologies if its already been asked.</p><p></p><p>I'm working on... well, its almost a scavenger hunt, with a number of other people. I'm looking for an extremely obscure monster with a fairly specific set of abilities. Here's a link: <a href="http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231404" target="_blank">MitD V: MitD and the Templates of Doom (Please Read the First Post) - Giant in the Playground Forums</a> to the current version of the thread and the background.</p><p></p><p>We've gone through all of the regular reference books (at least, I believe so) but we haven't really gone through the issues of Dragon because no one seems to have them. But the folks here probably have, so I figured I'd ask.</p><p></p><p>In a nutshell, the monster has to be:</p><p></p><p>1) Powerful - Min CR of 14-16 and really probably 18+</p><p>2) Not terribly big - Huge or smaller, ideally Large</p><p>3) Extremely strong - Minimum STR of 30 or so (alternatively, really powerful telekinesis or the like could work)</p><p>4) Very tough to injure - Near Epic or Epic defenses against physical attacks, though some combination of high DR, extremely high HP or high AC</p><p>5) Able to teleport others at a distance - So, access to greater teleport though something like Wish or equivalent would arguably work better</p><p>6) Really freaky looking (no specifics, but it must be hard to recognize and fills viewers with a strong sense of fear or disgust. However, its not so strong as to be an actual effect aura)</p><p>7) Must eat and sleep and be sentient (so not a construct or undead or elemental. Outsider is probably ok, though)</p><p></p><p>There's a ton more detail in the link but I wanted to get the key points across here. So, anything ring bell?</p><p></p><p>Edit - To be clear, the stats are of a 3.5 version of the monster (no un-updated monsters from Dragon will have a STR of 30, obviously). Also, its not the Tarrasque with a bunch of templates. Or if it is, we're all going to be really upset.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crusher, post: 5973645, member: 6697285"] I've been slowly reading through the various threads y'all have done converting the various monsters from old issues of Dragon magazines and its been great fun for me. While I do intend to eventually read through all of them (and of course they keep getting longer as I read with new posts) I've got a favor to ask that's hopefully not too much of an imposition. I've got a question that someone who has been a regular in these threads might be able to answer. My apologies if its already been asked. I'm working on... well, its almost a scavenger hunt, with a number of other people. I'm looking for an extremely obscure monster with a fairly specific set of abilities. Here's a link: [url=http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231404]MitD V: MitD and the Templates of Doom (Please Read the First Post) - Giant in the Playground Forums[/url] to the current version of the thread and the background. We've gone through all of the regular reference books (at least, I believe so) but we haven't really gone through the issues of Dragon because no one seems to have them. But the folks here probably have, so I figured I'd ask. In a nutshell, the monster has to be: 1) Powerful - Min CR of 14-16 and really probably 18+ 2) Not terribly big - Huge or smaller, ideally Large 3) Extremely strong - Minimum STR of 30 or so (alternatively, really powerful telekinesis or the like could work) 4) Very tough to injure - Near Epic or Epic defenses against physical attacks, though some combination of high DR, extremely high HP or high AC 5) Able to teleport others at a distance - So, access to greater teleport though something like Wish or equivalent would arguably work better 6) Really freaky looking (no specifics, but it must be hard to recognize and fills viewers with a strong sense of fear or disgust. However, its not so strong as to be an actual effect aura) 7) Must eat and sleep and be sentient (so not a construct or undead or elemental. Outsider is probably ok, though) There's a ton more detail in the link but I wanted to get the key points across here. So, anything ring bell? Edit - To be clear, the stats are of a 3.5 version of the monster (no un-updated monsters from Dragon will have a STR of 30, obviously). Also, its not the Tarrasque with a bunch of templates. Or if it is, we're all going to be really upset. [/QUOTE]
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