Converting Oriental Adventures creatures

[freyar]

This all seems fine to me.

CR 10 is probably fair, though I could see CR 11 in comparison to the hezrou and hamatula.

 

[freyar]

6ft, 175 lb like the Paper Warrior? I didn't notice anything about size in the original. Most of these have been 6ft and in the 150-200 lb range.

Speaks Common only since Int is 10?

Tactics: The Keeper prefers to close to melee quickly to make use of its large array of combat options. ???

 

[Cleon]

6ft, 175 lb like the Paper Warrior? I didn't notice anything about size in the original. Most of these have been 6ft and in the 150-200 lb range.

Speaks Common only since Int is 10?

Yeah, let's just go for the average for male humans as we don't have anything else to go on.

Tactics: The Keeper prefers to close to melee quickly to make use of its large array of combat options. ???

How about:

The Keeper of the Keys and uses ghost step to maneuver around the battlefield with little risk of being struck by enemies. It favors melee combat but will use missiles and spells to soften up its opponents before closing to fight. Should its foe prove formidable the Keeper will not hesitate to activate its ki krenzy.

The Keeper has no fear of death but if seriously injured it may temporarily withdraw from combat to use spontaneous inflict spells to heal itself. Once it returns to the fray is normally fights to the finish.
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Updating The Keeper of the Key Working Draft.

 

[freyar]

Looks good, other than a couple of typos:
"The Keeper of the Keys and uses ghost step..."
and
"Once it returns to the fray is it normally fights to the finish."

Thoughts for a description?

 

[Cleon]

Looks good, other than a couple of typos:
"The Keeper of the Keys and uses ghost step..."
and
"Once it returns to the fray is it normally fights to the finish."

Will include the fixes in the next update.

Thoughts for a description?

Well there's no description in the original so shall we just make something up?

Hmm… how about we base it on a stereotypical Sohei:

We can make the robes all white (the colour worn at funerals), have nothing but have emptiness or a black void inside the headdress, like a Lord of the Ring's Nazgul.

There's also the old Japanese artistic cliché of ghost's having no feet, so maybe the Keeper appears to be hovering over a pair of wooden clogs or just fades into mist past where his calves should be.

Or a combination of the two, and instead of feet the undead has mist streaming from the legs of its trousers to pour through its footwear and dissipate.

 

[freyar]

I like the mist going through the sandals! And the nazgul-like void. That all sounds great.

 

[Cleon]

I like the mist going through the sandals! And the nazgul-like void. That all sounds great.

So:

A figure dressed in white clerical robes with a turban-like headdress wrapped around its head and neck. The open front of its headgear shows no face, but just an empty black void. The being clutches a set of dagger-shaped crystal chimes in hands with skin whiter than bleached bone. It stands on a pair of simple wooden sandals, but no feet can be seen. Instead, pillars of pale mist stream down from where its calves should be and pour through its shoes before dissipating into nothingness.
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That looks OK to me.