Converting monsters from First Edition modules

[freyar]

Those two, Appraise, and Tumble. Somehow Appraise just feels appropriate, given their greedy nature and any potential need to guard the most valuable item.

 

[Shade]

Updated.

Organization: Solitary?

Challenge Rating: 4-5? (Canoloths seem a bit deadlier at CR 5)

Treasure: Standard?

Advancement: 7 HD (Small) (Lesser version starts at 8 HD)

Did we ever decide on DR? I'd recommend 5/evil like the canoloth.

 

[freyar]

That all sounds right. It's a good CR 4, but probably CR 4 is ok.

 

[demiurge1138]

You mean DR 5/good?

Love Appraise, by the way.

Oh, and the claw damage in the Attack line is very, very wrong.

 

[Shade]

Oops...yeah, DR/good.

Updated.

I added some flavor text. Feel free to expand upon it.

A lesser guardian yugoloth is x feet tall and weighs x pounds. Their appearances very, but are most often horned and froglike.

 

[freyar]

What is/was wrong with the claw damage? The original text lists claws as 1-10, bites as 1-6.

The flavor you have is excellent!

3 ft tall, 50 lb?

 

[Shade]

I had the attack line as 1-3 or something else wonky.

Bite is 1d4 for the least.

Suggested size sounds good.

 

[freyar]

Yeah, you're right on the bite, just remembered wrong on typing that.

Ready for the lesser one?

 

[demiurge1138]

Looks good to me!

 

[Shade]

Lesser Yugoloth
Lesser yugoloths are usually found guarding treasures of 25,000 gold pieces or more. They have a 80% chance of being impervious to one additional attack form.

So we can just modify the table to allow greater chances of additional immunity. Like so?

1-2 - cold
3-4 - electricity
5-6 - fire
7-8 - sonic
9-10 - force
11 - death effects
12 - ability damage/drain
13 - stunning and paralysis
14 - critical hits
15 - spells and effects with the good descriptor
16-20 - No additional immunity

Lesser and greater yugoloths are also impervious to weapons with less than a +2 bonus.

Add "and magic" to the DR 5/good? Or silver like some of the high-end yuguloths?

Upthread, we decided upon Medium, Str 18, Dex 12, Con 19, Int 11, Wis 14, Cha 12.

Fire breath is listed as 5d6.