Converting monsters from Dungeon Magazine

[BOZ]

he's a poopy head. we've been doing just fine without him. [/taunt]

 

[Shade]

deadpan sarcasm, to cover my embarrassment over my mistake.

Gotcha. That was very, very deadpan. And Knight is right (isn't that an old adage?)...it should be ranged touch.

should we keep the “withdraws from combat” line anyway? If it’s immobile, where would it go?

An excellent observation. We should be able to ditch that statement.

1d6 days is fine – this fellow should heal pretty well with a high Con and its ability to draw sustenance and heal from flames.

My thoughts exactly.

here’s the line from the original text: “Swallowed PCs take 10-100 hp damage per round due to both acid and heat, and can escape only by doing 50 hp damage to the draknor's interior, which is AC 2.”

The minimum of 10 shouldn’t be a problem. I would like to be able to achieve 100 points total with the crushing, acid, and fire.

For the tarrasque, crushing bonus damage is ½ Str bonus, so if we use that here it would be 6. given your current values, the crushing would do a maximum of 22, and the acid and fire would have a max of 16 each. That gets us about halfway there. So there should be higher die ranges, and/or damage bonuses on each.

50 points of damage to get out is fine, as that was in the original text anyway.

How would these numbers work out?: crushing 4d6+6, acid 4d8, fire 4d8...that gives us a range of 18-102.

he's a poopy head. we've been doing just fine without him. [/taunt]

That's "Mr. Poppy head" to you. You guys have been doing fine work without me. I've actually got a project of my own that I've been scrambling to complete, hence my limited posting of late. My ol' buddy Draknor called in a few favors.

 

[BOZ]

Gotcha. That was very, very deadpan.

the excessiveness should have been a dead giveaway.

And Knight is right (isn't that an old adage?)...it should be ranged touch.

see the last time I posted the stat block…

How would these numbers work out?: crushing 4d6+6, acid 4d8, fire 4d8...that gives us a range of 18-102.

perfecto!

That's "Mr. Poppy head" to you. You guys have been doing fine work without me. I've actually got a project of my own that I've been scrambling to complete, hence my limited posting of late. My ol' buddy Draknor called in a few favors.

oh…?

 

[Shade]

the excessiveness should have been a dead giveaway.

Yeah, I must've been distracted by something shiny.

see the last time I posted the stat block…

I still see just ranged not ranged touch, unless I'm lookin' in the wrong place. Or is this more of your brilliant deadpan humor?

perfecto!

Sweet! This guy should be about done, then. I guess we can't post it in Homebrews, or it will violated Dragon's "nothing already posted" rule, eh?

oh…?

"Oh?" to which part...the fact that I demand the "Mr.", the fact that I have a project, or the fact that draknor called in a favor?

 

[BOZ]

I still see just ranged not ranged touch, unless I'm lookin' in the wrong place. Or is this more of your brilliant deadpan humor?

let's call it brilliant and move on.

Sweet! This guy should be about done, then. I guess we can't post it in Homebrews, or it will violated Dragon's "nothing already posted" rule, eh?

i was thinking that posting it in homebrews might be a bad idea. i will create a separate thread for completed conversions for the article, which will be a "throwaway" that i will delete when it is completed.

"Oh?" to which part...the fact that I demand the "Mr.", the fact that I have a project, or the fact that draknor called in a favor?

the first one should be expected, the second i'm unsure of, and the third i'm clueless on.

 

[Shade]

let's call it brilliant and move on.

Brilliant!

i was thinking that posting it in homebrews might be a bad idea. i will create a separate thread for completed conversions for the article, which will be a "throwaway" that i will delete when it is completed.

Brilliant!

the first one should be expected, the second i'm unsure of, and the third i'm clueless on.

Brilliant!

 

[BOZ]

you still didn't tell me about your oh-so-special project, or draknor's "favors"

 

[Shade]

NDA...on both counts!

 

[BOZ]

ooh, why you dirty --! well then, dish the details when you can!

 

[Shade]

I'd like to request that we convert "Demon" from Dungeon #14 when an opportunity arises. It is not actually a demon, but is an extraplanar creature with very powerful spell-like abilities, poisonous saliva, acidic sweat, regeneration, numerous immunities, and great spell resistance. I've got the original issue.