Converting monsters from Dungeon Magazine

[demiurge1138]

Well, the Epic Level Handbook has the elder treant. What makes these so different?

 

[Shade]

These fit nicely in a treant "hierarchy".

Treant = 7 HD, Huge
Elder Treant (WotC site version) = 32 HD, Colossal
Epic Elder Treant = 50 HD, Colossal

These appear to be Gargantuan, 16 HD.

They've also got the additional SLAs.

 

[demiurge1138]

True. Let's give it a whirl, then.

 

[Shade]

Let's work on ability scores.

Other treants scores...

Treant: Str 29, Dex 8, Con 21, Int 12, Wis 16, Cha 12
Elder Treant (non-epic): Str 42, Dex 10, Con 39, Int 17, Wis 23, Cha 18
Elder Treant (epic): Str 48, Dex 8, Con 42, Int 19, Wis 33, Cha 35

Upsizing Treant to Gargantuan: Str 37, Dex 8, Con 25, Int 12, Wis 16, Cha 12

Downsizing nonepic elder treant to Gargantuan: Str 34, Dex 10, Con 35, Int 17, Wis 23, Cha 18

Int is listed as 15-16, which puts it between the two.

So how about Str 34, Dex 8, Con 31, Int 15, Wis 18, Cha 16?

 

[demiurge1138]

Stats sound pretty good!

 

[Shade]

Added to Homebrews.

Greater treants have the ability to animate and control normal trees. A greater treant can animate up to 10 normal trees at a time. It takes one round for a tree to be animated. The trees found within a greater treant’s forest are unusually large and have superior combat abilities: 14 Hit Dice, two attacks, 5d6 hp damage per attack, and MV 1.

A normal treant's ability essentially creates more treants. Should we come up with a stat block for these stronger trees?

In addition to their magic resistance, greater treants are immune to all charm-related spells.

Immunity to charms?

Greater treants have many magical abilities which they employ as a 16th-level priest. Once per round, a greater treant may use the following spell-like abilities: detect magic, entangle, know alignment, messenger, neutralize poison, and animal growth. In addition, they may also use the following abilities once per day: animal summoning III, call woodland beings, charm person or mammal, dispel magic, reflecting pool, and remove curse.

Spell-Like Abilities: At will—animal growth (DC 18), animal messenger, detect chaos/evil/good/law, detect magic, entangle (DC 14), neutralize poison (DC 17); 1/day—charm monster (DC 17), greater dispel magic, remove curse, summon nature's ally III. Caster level 16th. The save DCs are Charisma-based.

Any idea what to do with reflecting pool?

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Added to Homebrews.


Any idea what to do with reflecting pool?

Scrying.

 

[Shade]

Ahh that makes sense. I'll add it to the list.

 

[demiurge1138]

Summon nature's ally III is pretty bad for a creature of this level. Remember, back in the day III was actually pretty good (they didn't correspond to the spell level). Let's replace it with SNA VI or VII.

 

[Shade]

That works for me.

Thoughts on the animated trees?