Converting Monsters from Polyhedron Magazine

[Shade]

Updated.

Anything else, or is it hippo time?

 

[Cleon]

Org: Solitary, Nest (1-2 plus 2-4 mummies), or Congregation (1-2 plus 6-10 crocodiles plus 2-4 giant crocodiles plus 2-4 mummies) (Congregation is a RW group of crocodiles, btw.)

I would like them to appear in groups with other kinds of Composite Mummy, like they do in the Polyhedron adventure, which has 2 of each kind.

CR 14 or 15? Can't make up my mind on how it compares to the mummy lord.

That seems far too high. Not only is the Mummy Lord is arguably too weak for a CR15 it's got 10 levels in a spell casting class.

Eyeballing it, I'd guess CR11 is enough for the Croc Mummy, but I'll go for 10 if the rest of you prefer it.

Double standard.

Agreed.

1d8 crocs or 1d4 giant crocs?

CR 10 seems fair. If it's the equivalent of a 5th level spell, the mummy should be able to summon 1d3 giant crocodiles or 1d4+1 regular ones. Let's give the regular crocs a bit of a boost, to 1d6+1?

That looks OK to me. Regular crocs are a lot weaker than giant ones. A summon nature's ally IV can summon 1 giant crocodile or 1d4+1 crocodiles, and bumping the "spell level" up by one should give something like 1d3 & 1d6+1.

 

[Shade]

I would like them to appear in groups with other kinds of Composite Mummy, like they do in the Polyhedron adventure, which has 2 of each kind.

Add "or divine council (3d4 composite mummies of various types)" to the Org line?

 

[freyar]

That's all good.

 

[Shade]

Hippo time!

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The Hippo-Mummy could have incredible Strength, Say Str 30 like an elephant, so it has 2 slams doing 1d6+10 as its primary attacks and a 2d6+5 damage bite as a secondary attack. All with added mummy rot, obviously. That way it has 2 slams that each do the same damage as a standard mummy (1d6+10 in 3E, 1-12 in AD&D).

If we want to get really crazy, we could give the hippo mummy something that ties into Taweret's fertility...like a curse where the victim gives birth to a scorpion swarm.

For the hippo mummy, I like the idea of them being twisted fertility things--perhaps they cannot injure a pregnant woman? Perhaps they appear to avenge deeds done against expecting mothers?

Unfortunately there aren't many water-based spells or powers in the SRD. We could give them something like control Water, water walk, fog cloud, the ability to summon a hippopotamus, giant crocodile or water elementals (1 Large or 1d4+2 Medium?) or the ability to create a whirlpool like an H20 elemental.

 

[Cleon]

Add "or divine council (3d4 composite mummies of various types)" to the Org line?

That'll do.

It's Hippo time!

 

[Shade]

Besides increasing the Str to 30, do we want to change any other stats from the croc mummy (Str 27, Dex 13, Con —, Int 12, Wis 14, Cha 15)?

I'd like to keep the HD the same for all three.

 

[demiurge1138]

To compensate for the increased Str, lower Dex a bit.

 

[Shade]

Good call, especially since hippopotami have poor Dex.

Added to Homebrews.

Shall we work on the "twisted fertility" power?

 

[demiurge1138]

My twisted fertility suggestion was all flavor-text. They "protect" pregnant women by stalking their rivals and oppressors and killing them, regardless of the actual desires of those protected.