Converting monsters from Imagine Magazine

[freyar]

Looking pretty good. I'd say let's stick with the poison dedicated power (still 1/day?), but perhaps it is a +3 wounding lance? That gives some flavor of poison. Or it could have prevenom weapon x/day as a lesser power instead of Spellcraft? Not sure.

 

[Shade]

The prevenom weapon idea is fantastic!

So...

The Venom Lance: The tip of this +4 lance appears to be a dragon's claw. The haft is covered in green scales. This lawful evil intelligent artifact has Int 10, Wis 18, Cha 18, and Ego X. The venom lance can use detect good at will, can cause fear in an enemy at will, and use water breathing on its wielder 1/day. Additionally, the venom lance can produce a mild venom 3/day. On the next successful melee attack, the venom deals 2 points of Constitution damage (Fortitude DC X negates). Like the other Taumet relics, its special purpose is to join with the other relics to form the Taumet. Its special purpose dedicated power allows it to use poison (heightened to 4th level) once per day as a touch attack.

The venom lance has darkvision, blindsense, and hearing to a range of 120 ft.. It can speak Common and communicate telepathically with its wielder, and can read all languages as well as use read magic at will. Caster level 20th(?).

 

[GrayLinnorm]

The lance should have a higher intelligence than 10; it had 13 in the original description.

 

[Shade]

The lance should have a higher intelligence than 10; it had 13 in the original description.

True, but we've decided to shoehorn them into the 3e intelligent item format (2 scores at 17, 1 at 10 in this case). I suppose we could swap Wis and Int for this one. Is that preferable?

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Yes.

 

[freyar]

Swapping Int and Wis works for me, too. That would make it the smartest of the bunch, I guess.

How should we set the DC for the 3/day mild toxin? DC 14 as the prevenom weapon power?

 

[Shade]

Int for Wis it is!

For the DC, it looks like it should be 24 (10 + 1/2 your caster/manifester level + Cha mod).

 

[freyar]

Wait, where's that come from? I thought it was 10+power level+stat modifier. Are we treating it as a Psi-like ability?

 

[Shade]

Check it out: prevenom

 

[freyar]

Oh, weird, it has a nonstandard DC (interestingly, the poison spell has the same nonstandard DC). Ok, sure, let's treat the manifester level as 20, same as caster level (which is also the CL to create?). But let's stick both to Wis, or else we'll end up with a lower DC for poison than the venom.