Converting Monsters from Polyhedron Magazine

[freyar]

That all sounds good to me. Perfect maneuverability in flight?

 

[Shade]

Added to Homebrews.

 

[freyar]

Until the PCs defeat the creatures, they suffer a -4 penalty to attacks and saving throws. In order to stand, a PC must roll under half his or her Constitution score. Alternately, a PC may elect to attack while prone, suffering an additional -2 penalty to attack and allowing the creature a +4 to attack.

Vertiginous (Su): A 10 ft radius aura surrounds a snow mischief at all times. Any creature that enters this aura becomes sickened for 5 rounds due to the intense feeling of vertigo created by this aura. In addition, the creature must make a DC 13 Fortitude save or fall prone immediately. A creature is only affected once by the vertiginous aura of a given snow mischief once in a twenty-four hour period. The save DC is Charisma-based.

Their cold touch drains one point of Constitution each time they hit with a claw attack. The effect lasts one turn per successful claw hit, assuming that measures are taken to warm the affected victim. If the victim's Constitution reaches zero, he falls unconscious for a turn and awakes weak and unable to move until his Constitution reaches half of its original score. At that point, the victim can begin to move around again.

Ability damage (Su): The claw attack of snow mischiefs deal one point of Con damage on each hit. Unlike normal ability damage, the character regains one point of ability score for each ten minutes spent in a moderate or warmer temperature. In addition, if a creature's Constitution is reduced to zero by a snow mischief's claw attack, the creature is not killed but rendered unconscious for one minute, after which its Constitution returns to 1. Upon returning to consciousness, the creature is staggered until its Constitution reaches half its normal value.

 

[Shade]

Nice!

For the mirror image ability, it looks like they get around 3 images each, which would put the caster level at a max of 8 (at CL 9, the minimum # of images is 4).

So CL 8?

For the cold touch, I think they should do some cold damage as well. Maybe 1d4 like a similarly-sized ice paraelemental?

 

[freyar]

Agreed with all of that! So claw damage is 1d4+1d4 cold+Con damage. What do you think about cold damage on the bite and tail, also?

 

[Shade]

Sounds good.

 

[Shade]

Skills: 15

Bluff 5, Sleight of Hand 5, Tumble 5?

Feats: Ability Focus (vertigionous aura)?

Organization: Solitary or lark (2-6)?

Challenge Rating: 2? (They are deadlier than a CR 1 Small ice paraelemental with the same HD)

Treasure: None?

Advancement: 4-6 HD (Small)?

 

[freyar]

I like all that, but shouldn't the advancement be from 3-6 HD?

 

[Shade]

Indeed!

A snow mischief is x feet tall and weighs x pounds.

Snow mischiefs speak Aquan and Auran?

 

[freyar]

3ft and 40lb? Languages sound right.