Converting monsters from Second Edition Monstrous Compendiums

[Shade]

Updated.

Challenge Rating: 6?

Advancement: x

A moor hound is about x feet long and weighs x pounds.

 

[freyar]

CR 6 seems about right.

9-16 HD (Large)?

10 ft and 50 lb (since it's somewhat gaseous)?

Rather than mud and straw, maybe it should be made from peat filled with swamp gas?

 

[Shade]

Updated.

Add gaseous form to prereqs?

CL 9th?

10,000 gp?

 

[freyar]

All that sounds right!

 

[Shade]

Updated. Finished?

 

[demiurge1138]

Some problems I see.

1) The mention that the moor hound's gaseous body is immune to critical hits is redundant, as all constructs are.

2) The moor hound is, as written, technically immortal, since constructs are also immune to non-lethal damage. We should just say, "when a moor hound is reduced to 0 hit points...", rather than mucking about with nonlethal damage.

 

[freyar]

Good catch! Let's change that.

 

[Shade]

Indeed. Updated.

 

[demiurge1138]

Is the reference to bog hounds in pack tactics intentional?

 

[freyar]

Looks pretty good. Let's tack on "and can therefore be destroyed" to the end of the Vulnerability to Sunlight, and then I think it's done.