Converting monsters from the second edition Monstrous Compendiums

[Krishnath]

nah, linnorms are dragons and you know how much my lazy-@$$ likes to do dragons. but, if krishnath doesn't have the stats for them, i can furnish them for him...

Gimme, gimme, gimme! And add the amber, brine, jacint, jade, and pearl dragons as well

As for requests:

Genie, Tasked, Administrator*
Genie, Tasked, Deceiver
Genie, Tasked, Harim Servant
Genie, Tasked, Messenger
Genie, Tasked, Miner
Genie, Tasked, Oathbinder

* I actually have a conversion I made of the tasked administrator, if you are interrested?

 

[BOZ]

If you're interested, I know I converted some of the monsters from the Annuals to 3.0. I don't remember how many, I'll have to go check. But it could make a good starting point for some conversions.

Sure! If they’re posted somewhere, give us a link. If not, just list what you’ve done – or make a new thread in the Homebrews forum and post them there.

 

[BOZ]

Ahh...but linnorms don't have age categories (at least not in 3E), so we should be able to do 'em and you can post 'em with no difficulty.

Well, golly! They sure don’t have age categories in 3E. strange, because the 2E linnorms (at least the ones in MC annual 1) do! Well, I would not be averse to converting the remaining linnorms into 3E without age categories, if that’s what you want to see.

 

[Shade]

Well, golly! They sure don’t have age categories in 3E. strange, because the 2E linnorms (at least the ones in MC annual 1) do! Well, I would not be averse to converting the remaining linnorms into 3E without age categories, if that’s what you want to see.

YES! YES! and, um...YES!

 

[BOZ]

okay! i'll make it happen ASAP, most likely sometime this week.

 

[Shade]

Sweetrock n' roll.

 

[BOZ]

before we get started actually converting them, some Linnorm observations:

The 3 linnorms in the MM2 had the same HD as a base linnorm from MCA1. therefore, to make things easy on us, we may as well make the remaining linnorms with their base-HD as well.

The only real exception we might want to consider would be the Midgard linnorm. It is probably the offspring of the Midgard Serpent, and we might want to consider it an epic creature. Corpse Tearer was originally a unique dragon as well, but he was changed into a type of linnorm instead in the MM2. The Midgard Linnorm had 25 HD, but was 500 feet (!) long.

The remaining 6 linnorms would be as follows:

Flame – 20 HD, Gargantuan
Forest – 11 HD, Huge
Frost – 15 HD, Gargantuan
Land – 13 HD, Gargantuan
Rain – 10 HD, Huge
Sea – 13 HD, Gargantuan

 

[Shade]

Check out the swamp linnorm for inspiration as well:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fw/20030822a

Regarding the Midgard linnorm, perhaps we could convert the Midgard Serpent as well, and then tie them together? I think you had it up for conversion in the Epic thread. Maybe after the titans?

 

[BOZ]

i could check it out if i wasn't at work.

 

[Krishnath]

Damn, no comments to my other post... (feels rejected).