Converting Monsters from Polyhedron Magazine

[Cleon]

Yes, that's the rule set I should have been thinking about!

What LA do you fancy for them as Cohorts, then?

Cocoadaemons were originally created by daemon rulers as a way of tempting spellcasters onto the path of evil. Sometime shortly after, the angels devised chocodevas in answer to do the reverse.

Neither cocoadaemons or chocodevas are terribly effective combatants, but, as cohorts to clerics, they often serve as advisors and at times carry out the same tasks as an arcane caster's familiar.

Can we have something a bit more elegant than "Sometime shortly after, the angels devised chocodevas in answer to do the reverse"?

 

[freyar]

Please feel free to edit my flavor text as you see fit! I can never write it as evocatively as I'd like.

I'm also not terribly familiar with LA, especially as applied to cohorts. But I can't imagine it would be much. Maybe +1 for both of them?

 

[Cleon]

Please feel free to edit my flavor text as you see fit! I can never write it as evocatively as I'd like.

I'll see what I can come up with.

I'm also not terribly familiar with LA, especially as applied to cohorts. But I can't imagine it would be much. Maybe +1 for both of them?

Hmm, the closest match I can find in the SRD is the Mephit (or, rather, Mephits).

They're LA +3 (cohort), so are effectively 6th level creatures as henchmephits.

That seems a bit high, although I suppose the Chocodeva's Chocolaty Goodness is quite handy for its master or allies.

 

[freyar]

True. What about +2 LA for the cocoadaemon and +3 LA for the chocodeva?

 

[Cleon]

True. What about +2 LA for the cocoadaemon and +3 LA for the chocodeva?

I'd rather keep them the same LA.

We could give the Chocodaemon a dubious benefit it can grant to an ally, I suppose, or just say the Fattening and distraction is close enough in utility to the Chocolaty goodness.

 

[freyar]

It doesn't matter too much to me. Do you prefer +2 or +3 in that case?

 

[Cleon]

It doesn't matter too much to me. Do you prefer +2 or +3 in that case?

Tricky. Are they more or less useful than a Mephit cohort?

Well mephits can fly and they have fast healing, plus they're a bit more useful in a fight as far as their AC & damage output goes.

Let's make it +2 LA then.

 

[freyar]

Fair enough.

 

[Cleon]

Fair enough.

Updating Cocoadaemon Working Draft and Chocodeva Working Draft.

 

[freyar]

Shall we work on the background or the summoning spells first? I kind of like the red text you have in the spell as the background flavor.