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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7858986" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Well I guess we should start work on the Worry-Wart conversion.</p><p></p><p>Due to the paucity of stats I don't think it's worth statting it up as a full monster, I'm more inclined to write it up as a "beneficial Hazard" of sorts.</p><p></p><p>In mechanical terms its pretty much a living graft which warns its host if it notices an approaching threat. Its multiple eyestalks suggest the worry-wart has All-Around Vision, so it might provide some benefits of that ability to its host (i.e. the wart warns its host to defend themselves if an enemy tries to flank-attack or backstab them).</p><p></p><p>The AC 20 suggests a Fine Creature (+8) with a +2 AC from Dexterity 14-15.</p><p></p><p>Type is most likely either Aberration or Outsider (although that doesn't matter much).</p><p></p><p>Intelligence ought to be 12, so its other mental abilities would be similar.</p><p></p><p>I'd only bother giving it observational skills - definitely Spot and maybe a few ranks in Search. The <em>nibish-riule</em> might have other skills it can use with its extraplanar main body, whereever that may be, but they're irrelevant for its "wart(s)". It won't have Sense Motive or Knowledge skills, since the flavour text suggests they are completely ignorant of the normal Prime Material. I guess it could have some ranks in Listen, although the text doesn't indicate whether it has a sense of hearing (or smell etc.) - it only says the warts can see their surroundings and have infravision (darkvision in 3E terms).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 7858986, member: 57383"] Well I guess we should start work on the Worry-Wart conversion. Due to the paucity of stats I don't think it's worth statting it up as a full monster, I'm more inclined to write it up as a "beneficial Hazard" of sorts. In mechanical terms its pretty much a living graft which warns its host if it notices an approaching threat. Its multiple eyestalks suggest the worry-wart has All-Around Vision, so it might provide some benefits of that ability to its host (i.e. the wart warns its host to defend themselves if an enemy tries to flank-attack or backstab them). The AC 20 suggests a Fine Creature (+8) with a +2 AC from Dexterity 14-15. Type is most likely either Aberration or Outsider (although that doesn't matter much). Intelligence ought to be 12, so its other mental abilities would be similar. I'd only bother giving it observational skills - definitely Spot and maybe a few ranks in Search. The [I]nibish-riule[/I] might have other skills it can use with its extraplanar main body, whereever that may be, but they're irrelevant for its "wart(s)". It won't have Sense Motive or Knowledge skills, since the flavour text suggests they are completely ignorant of the normal Prime Material. I guess it could have some ranks in Listen, although the text doesn't indicate whether it has a sense of hearing (or smell etc.) - it only says the warts can see their surroundings and have infravision (darkvision in 3E terms). [/QUOTE]
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