Converting monsters from Imagine Magazine

[Shade]

Good question. Do we want to go with frightful presence for the horseman, and unnatural aura for the mount?

 

[demiurge1138]

Hm... on second thought, that sounds pretty good.

Demiurge out.

 

[freyar]

Agreed, that's kind of how I imagined these things.

 

[Shade]

Shall we modify this from the death knight?

Fear Aura (Su): Death knights are shrouded in a dreadful aura of death and evil. Creatures of less than 5 HD within 15 feet of a death knight that look at the death knight must succeed on a Will save or be affected as though by a fear spell from a sorcerer of the death knight's level. A creature that successfully saves cannot be affected again by the same death knight's aura for 24 hours.

 

[freyar]

That sounds about right.

 

[demiurge1138]

Do we want to keep the limitation of HD? This would fit with the death knight and the lich, to be sure, but would be little more than flavor for the sorts of PCs who'll end up fighting one.

Demiurge out.

 

[Shade]

I've never been a fan of the arbitrary max HD/levels on effects, so I'm fine with jettisoning it if the rest of you feel that way.

 

[demiurge1138]

I'm for ditching it.

Demiurge out.

 

[freyar]

Fine with me, too. What else do we need for the main h.h. template?

 

[Shade]

Updated.

I think we just need to work on the mount.

We mentioned upthread...

- Call mount
- Skeletal horse with better DR
- Unnatural aura for the mount