Converting monsters from First Edition modules

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Shade said:
Feats: Cleave, Improved Bull Rush, Power Attack, Weapon Focus (bite), Weapon Focus (sting) [It must lose one of these]
How about losing Weapon Focus (bite) as, at least the tame ones, never bite anything except by accident.

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Mortis
 

Shade said:
Large Magical Beast
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Swallow Whole (Ex): A chomper can try to swallow a grabbed opponent of a smaller size than itself by making a successful grapple check. Once inside, the opponent takes 1d8+4 points of crushing damage plus 8 points of acid damage per round from the worm’s gizzard. A swallowed creature can cut its way out by using a light slashing or piercing weapon to deal 25 points of damage to the gizzard (AC 14). Once the creature exits, muscular action closes the hole; another swallowed opponent must cut its own way out. A Large chomper's interior can hold 2 Small, 8 Tiny, or 32 Diminutive or smaller opponents. [We should probably lessen the acid damage and the amount of damage to cut out]
Should it be able to swallow creatures two sizes smaller or hold 2 Mediums etc?

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Mortis
 

Mortis said:
How about losing Weapon Focus (bite) as, at least the tame ones, never bite anything except by accident.

Good call.

Mortis said:
Should it be able to swallow creatures two sizes smaller or hold 2 Mediums etc?

I think the former is probably truer to the original. What do you think?
 



Just a few things before we can finish this one up.

Poison (Ex): Injury, Fortitude DC 17, initial damage paralysis for X, secondary damage paralysis for X. The save DC is Constitution-based. [2-12 turns was a long time]

What should the paralysis duration be? 2-12 turns equals 20-120 minutes. Maybe 2d6 rounds initital, and 2d6 minutes secondary?

Swallow Whole (Ex): A chomper can try to swallow a grabbed opponent up to two size categories smaller than itself by making a successful grapple check. Once inside, the opponent takes 1d8+4 points of crushing damage plus 8 points of acid damage per round from the worm’s gizzard. A swallowed creature can cut its way out by using a light slashing or piercing weapon to deal 25 points of damage to the gizzard (AC 14). Once the creature exits, muscular action closes the hole; another swallowed opponent must cut its own way out. A Large chomper's interior can hold 2 Small, 8 Tiny, or 32 Diminutive or smaller opponents. [We should probably lessen the acid damage and the amount of damage to cut out]

For the cut out, does 15 points seem reasonable for a downsized purple worm? That's essentially a 5-point reduction per size category.

We also need its CR. If we reverse advance a purple worm, it goes down 2 CRs for the drop in size category, and 2 more for the HD reduction. That would make it CR 8. Does that seem about right?
 

Shade said:
Maybe 2d6 rounds initital, and 2d6 minutes secondary?
Looks reasonable.

For the cut out, does 15 points seem reasonable for a downsized purple worm? That's essentially a 5-point reduction per size category.
Again, looks good.

Reduce acid damage to 4 points?

We also need its CR. If we reverse advance a purple worm, it goes down 2 CRs for the drop in size category, and 2 more for the HD reduction. That would make it CR 8. Does that seem about right?
I'm tempted to go down to 7 - most pc's are immune to it's Swallow Whole ability.

Regards
Mortis
 


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