Converting monsters from Second Edition Monstrous Compendiums

[freyar]

Let's bump them to 15 ft wingspans at least, then.

At Large, a light load of upto 266 lb (the closest to 255 lb) is Str 20.

 

[Shade]

Sounds reasonable.

Str 20, Dex 17, Con 21, Int 13, Wis 14, Cha, 12?

 

[demiurge1138]

Those ability scores sound good.

 

[Shade]

Added to Homebrews.

Suggestions for a name for the venom? Like Demiurge, my first instinct was chaos poison...then I noticed they were neutral evil. Not that being neutral precludes any use of "chaos". Maybe "gloom venom"?

 

[demiurge1138]

Well, all of the effects are tied to the mind. So... madness venom? Unseelie essence? Mind poison?

 

[Shade]

Mindgloom?

 

[freyar]

Mindgloom is probably my favorite, but any of those work.

DR 2?

 

[demiurge1138]

DR 5 at least. These guys are hefty.

 

[freyar]

They're only 3HD, though, which doesn't usually suggest so much DR. OTOH, they are kind of hefty, so I wouldn't mind raising the HD a bit.

 

[Shade]

I was a bit concerned at first with 3 HD for a Large creature, although a Large viper does indeed have 3 HD. And some other Large magical mounts have similar HD (hippogriff=3 HD, pegasus=4 HD).

So let's stick with 3 HD, but go ahead and give them the DR 5/cold iron. Even a CR 1 Tiny grig has DR 5/cold iron.