Converting monsters from Dungeon Magazine

[Filby]

About the quesar... Planes of Conflict noted that a group of aasimon/angels went to Elysium and created the quesar from the earth of Belierin, the second layer, not energy.

 

[BOZ]

see, that's what i mean.

 

[Shade]

Thanks filby, that sheds some light on the situation!

 

[BOZ]

i think the next thing we need to figure out is their ability scores.

Str and Con can be average (10-11) or they can be higher if that seems to make sense.

Dex should be higher than average.

Wis could be average, or higher.

Cha should probably be lower than average.

none of the attacks they have so far give saving throws, so the ability scores don't seem terribly important.

 

[Shade]

I'm thinking Str 10, Dex 15, Con 11, Wis 11, Cha 1.

 

[Filby]

Thanks filby, that sheds some light on the situation!

Hehe! Glad to be of some help.

 

[BOZ]

Yep, those ability scores go with what I was thinking.

more stuff:

They often go unnoticed until they coalesce into man-sized but irregular forms, just before attacking.

should we assume that they spend most of their time discorporated into an energy form?

The wraths are unaffected by cold or electrical attacks and cannot be turned (as undead), nor will a dispel magic spell eliminate them.

how much of this needs to be explained, and how much is irrelevant?

additionally:

However, a banishment spell will send them back to the Inner Planes from whence they came. When confronted with protective spells and wards such as protection from evil, wall of force, wall of iron, etc., or with physical barriers, the wraiths can become ethereal and penetrate most barriers (movement at half speed), then coalesce back into physical form and attack once more.

we need something like:

Shimmering wraths are only summoned through a specific curse uttered by an elemental against a being that has angered it. Such an elemental cannot be bound, and must be on the same plane as the being it wishes to curse. The only way to break this curse while any victim still lives is to destroy the elemental who summoned the shimmering wraths, or bind the elemental. Binding the elemental will force it to withdraw the curse, but this may not prevent the elemental from restarting the curse if it should escape the binding.

Cursed Summons (Su): When an elemental places the curse of the shimmering wrath upon another being, a process begins which summons shimmering wraths to hunt those specific creatures. All shimmering wraths are able to recognize their target and will pursue it relentlessly. On the day after the curse is laid, a single shimmering wrath appears within X feet of the cursed victim and attacks. If the shimmering wrath is destroyed, it reappears the next day and every day following with more of its kind, their numbers increasing exponentially every day (2 wraths on the second day, 4 the third, 16 the fourth, 256 the fifth, etc.). The wraths continue to come every day in greater numbers until the victim is destroyed or the curse is stopped.

 

[BOZ]

also, CR shouldn't be more than 2 or 3.

 

[Shade]

should we assume that they spend most of their time discorporated into an energy form?

We could do that. Should it be like gaseous form, etherealness, incorporeality, or something else?

how much of this needs to be explained, and how much is irrelevant?

Really, only the cold and electrical immunity, and it can be handled on the SQ line.

The bypassing barriers will depend on our answers to your first question.

The cursed summons looks good!

 

[BOZ]

it does mention becoming ethereal.

and why would they mention dispel magic as a threat - does/did that spell affect summoned creatures?