Converting monsters from Imagine Magazine

[Shade]

Agreed to all that.

Updated.

CR 2?

 

[freyar]

This is a tough one to CR. With a druid in the party, it's probably pretty easy, but otherwise I think the Touch of Insanity is quite powerful. I had been thinking CR 5-ish.

Here's another question: when it's inside its bonded object, should it gain some protection from the hardness of the wood (5 for a little bit of the bark)?

 

[Shade]

They have poor hit points and can cause no harm outside of insanity, so I can't really see going higher than CR 3.

Sure, hardness 5 makes sense.

 

[freyar]

Sure, CR 3 it is! I guess having a completely insane party isn't quite the same as a TPK!

 

[Shade]

Another one done. Only three Imagine Magazine creatures left!

"The children's room has a small cage in one corner which contains four white mice and a small bowl of cereals stands next to it. If the cage is opened and the mice allowed to to get out they will become 4 giant white weremice, who will not attack anybody who fed them."

4 weremice: AC 6; HD 2; hp 7 each; # AT 1; D 1-4; SA Bite may cuase lycanthropy; SD needs silver or magical weapons to hit; AL N; S S; xp 79 each; Special monster -- cf other lycanthropes MM, FF, MM2.

Originally appeared in Imagine Magazine #17 (1984).

 

[freyar]

Oooh, lycanthropes, three statblocks. Fun, I think.

Should we start with wererats and modify?

 

[Big Mac]

Birch Tree Spirit typo

Sure, CR 3 it is! I guess having a completely insane party isn't quite the same as a TPK!

I wonder how you could continue with a game where everyone went insane.

Anyhoo. Great work guys. I only saw one misake and it was my fault. The first sentence in the Hierophobia ability is mangled.

Hierophobia (Ex): As part of ritual that summons a birch tree spirit and binds it into its tree, it is infused with an unnatural fear of anyone who can wield natural magic. Birch tree sprits fear druids, rangers and clerics with the Plant domain. However, they have no special ability to detect natural magic and only show their fear when a spellcaster does something that draws attention to their ability. After a birch tree spirit becomes aware of a spellcaster with such spells they immediately retreat into their bonded tree or wooden object.

It should say: "As part of the ritual..."

 

[Big Mac]

Oooh, lycanthropes, three statblocks. Fun, I think.

At least it isn't a "mouse dragon". That would be much more complex.

Should we start with wererats and modify?

I don't see an exact size in the original blurb. Can we make these guys the "hobbits" of the lycanthrope world?

 

[freyar]

I don't see an exact size in the original blurb. Can we make these guys the "hobbits" of the lycanthrope world?

My thought is that these should be a variant lycanthrope template, like at the end of the lycanthrope descriptions in the MM or SRD. But we could make the sample critter a halfling weremouse.

 

[Shade]

I fixed the birch tree spirit typo, and agree that we should follow the lycanthrope template.