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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6285048" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Updating <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?290367-Converting-monsters-from-Dragon-magazine&p=6274927&viewfull=1#post6274927" target="_blank"><strong>Great Orm Working Draft</strong></a>.</p><p></p><p>I added darkvision 60 ft., as its a standard Vermin ability.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm fine with flat Dex and -2 Cha for Cha 7, which would gives its Loathsome Appearance a nice round DC of 18.</p><p></p><p>So what are we doing regarding the Strength boost and/or acid bite?</p><p></p><p>As I said earlier, an AD&D Elasmosaurus had a 4-24 bite (average 14 damage), and the Great Orm has 3-30 (average 16.5 damage).</p><p></p><p>Come to think of it, that's not <em>that</em> much of an increase - it's just under 18%. The SRD Elasmosaurus gets more of a damage boost just from a size increase - 2d8+12 to 3d8+18 is a 50% boost.</p><p></p><p>So maybe we should reduce the Strength or bite damage a bit? It depends on whether we're using the Huge Elasmosaurus of the Gargantuan one as the "base damage" to which we're adding the 18% boost too. If the former we want an average bite damage around 25 hit points (e.g. Str 32 and bite 2d8+16) or 37 points (e.g. Str 36 and bite 4d8+19).</p><p></p><p>Should we have its bite include exposure to its poisonous secretions? I'm thinking it wouldn't, since it's not listed as a SPECIAL ATTACK in the original stats, but is a SPECIAL DEFENSE that only affects attackers who "touch it with bare flesh".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6285048, member: 57383"] Updating [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?290367-Converting-monsters-from-Dragon-magazine&p=6274927&viewfull=1#post6274927"][B]Great Orm Working Draft[/B][/URL]. I added darkvision 60 ft., as its a standard Vermin ability. I'm fine with flat Dex and -2 Cha for Cha 7, which would gives its Loathsome Appearance a nice round DC of 18. So what are we doing regarding the Strength boost and/or acid bite? As I said earlier, an AD&D Elasmosaurus had a 4-24 bite (average 14 damage), and the Great Orm has 3-30 (average 16.5 damage). Come to think of it, that's not [I]that[/I] much of an increase - it's just under 18%. The SRD Elasmosaurus gets more of a damage boost just from a size increase - 2d8+12 to 3d8+18 is a 50% boost. So maybe we should reduce the Strength or bite damage a bit? It depends on whether we're using the Huge Elasmosaurus of the Gargantuan one as the "base damage" to which we're adding the 18% boost too. If the former we want an average bite damage around 25 hit points (e.g. Str 32 and bite 2d8+16) or 37 points (e.g. Str 36 and bite 4d8+19). Should we have its bite include exposure to its poisonous secretions? I'm thinking it wouldn't, since it's not listed as a SPECIAL ATTACK in the original stats, but is a SPECIAL DEFENSE that only affects attackers who "touch it with bare flesh". [/QUOTE]
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