Converting Monsters from Polyhedron Magazine

[freyar]

Interesting. Sort of like an LG revenant, but tied to a location rather than a person.

Template or monster? I'd lean toward monster, just because this almost seems like a unique critter.

Incorporeal with manifestation, maybe the mutable kind like the scavenger spirit. All those SLAs and some kind of fear effect (maybe a frightful presence or a gaze).

 

[Shade]

Tough call. The wording sounds like a template, but the sample creature is very unique.

I'm leaning toward unique.

 

[freyar]

Yeah, I think so too. What do you think about the mutable manifestation?

Regarding SLAs, I could almost see these casting as adepts or clerics instead of having SLAs. Any thoughts?

 

[Shade]

The line "Ilmater has granted Sunshine an array of priest spells" convinced me to your suggestion of using clerical spellcasting rather than just SLAs.

I'm not really convinced that they need to manifest. They seem more like spectres to me. What am I missing?

 

[freyar]

I see what you mean about manifestation. Incorporeal but not ethereal. I think I got a little confused due to the other undead we've been converting. However, I do think these should have some kind of "alter self" type of ability.

For casting, maybe like a 9th-10th level cleric (some of the spells listed are 5th level in 3.5). Use the list above to start the "typical spells prepared" list? One trick is that she could only get some of those spells through domains, and Ilmater doesn't have all of the necessary domains. For reference, his domains are Good, Healing, Law, Strength, and Suffering (from FRCS). I'm not sure how much we care about that precisely, though. What do you think?

 

[Shade]

Int is the same as a spectre. Shall we use the spectre's other ability scores?

 

[freyar]

How about we bump Wis and drop Cha to improve the spell DCs?

Also, +2 turn resistance, like spectre.

 

[Shade]

Added to Homebrews.

AC translates to 20. We'll need to either bump Dex and Cha, add a sacred bonus, or use the typical spells prepared list to include some AC-boosting spells.

Another thought: Do we want to make these deathless rather than undead?

 

[Echohawk]

Yes! D&D needs more deathless

 

[Shade]

So be it...updated to deathless.