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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6582402" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Yeah, I was thinking the CR might be a bit tricky depending on whether it retains any of the powers of the original creature.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well the example creatures aren't listed with any special abilities, but human fighters don't have any such abilities in the first place. As for the Githyanki, in AD&D have an innate ability to <em>plane shift</em> and a special fast movement on the Astral Plane. The Phlegamor's servant entry makes no mention of either powers, but they wouldn't be of much use to Phlegamor. He probably wouldn't be able to control/animate a servant once it left his sub-plane anyway. Githyanki are also all psionic, but a servant presumably wouldn't as it doesn't have the same mind as the living creature.</p><p></p><p>I'd be OK with a servant keeping most Extraordinary powers, but am less certain about Supernatural powers. I could see it retaining the purely physical (Su) abilities like a Hell Hound's fiery bite, but not something like a Harpy's song.</p><p></p><p>Maybe say it loses any power that requires the original mind (i.e. that has a DC based on a mental ability)? That might also help explain why it can't use class powers.</p><p></p><p>Regarding regeneration, Constructs simply can't regenerate under RAW so the usual procedure is to give them the same amount of Fast Healing which stacks with any Fast Healing the base creature has.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6582402, member: 57383"] Yeah, I was thinking the CR might be a bit tricky depending on whether it retains any of the powers of the original creature. Well the example creatures aren't listed with any special abilities, but human fighters don't have any such abilities in the first place. As for the Githyanki, in AD&D have an innate ability to [I]plane shift[/I] and a special fast movement on the Astral Plane. The Phlegamor's servant entry makes no mention of either powers, but they wouldn't be of much use to Phlegamor. He probably wouldn't be able to control/animate a servant once it left his sub-plane anyway. Githyanki are also all psionic, but a servant presumably wouldn't as it doesn't have the same mind as the living creature. I'd be OK with a servant keeping most Extraordinary powers, but am less certain about Supernatural powers. I could see it retaining the purely physical (Su) abilities like a Hell Hound's fiery bite, but not something like a Harpy's song. Maybe say it loses any power that requires the original mind (i.e. that has a DC based on a mental ability)? That might also help explain why it can't use class powers. Regarding regeneration, Constructs simply can't regenerate under RAW so the usual procedure is to give them the same amount of Fast Healing which stacks with any Fast Healing the base creature has. [/QUOTE]
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