Converting Oriental Adventures creatures

[Cleon]

Dang it. The General's got Improved Unarmed Strike, so I should add that to the attack line on the off chance it gets disarmed.

 

[freyar]

How about something like 30 ft for the dimension door as well? It shouldn't be too far, I think.

Leaving Imp Disarm is also fine. I'm not terribly worried about the feats.

Given his Dex bonus, a breastplate would make sense. Given he's a general, it might make sense to give it some magic property, too.

 

[Cleon]

How about something like 30 ft for the dimension door as well? It shouldn't be too far, I think.

I'd rather make it a bit longer. Not the 920 foot range of a CL 13th dimension door, but at least more than he can make with a single move action.

Something like 60 or 100 feet maybe?

Come to think of it, I'll check the size of the room in the original adventure. That should give us a minimum scale for it.

Leaving Imp Disarm is also fine. I'm not terribly worried about the feats.

Yes, let's just leave it as is.

Given his Dex bonus, a breastplate would make sense. Given he's a general, it might make sense to give it some magic property, too.

Well traditionally AD&D Samurai have roughly the equivalent to banded armour, but then in AD&D heavy armour didn't curb your max Dex bonus and magic armour didn't slow you down, so high-Dex characters like the General were more likely to wear heavy armour.

The General in the adventure has Move 12 and AC 2, so in 3E terms he's likely got light armour.

How about a +2 mithral breastplate?

 

[freyar]

+2 mithral breastplate it is! As for the dimension door range, I could go to 100 ft, but I'd rather not extend it beyond that.

 

[Cleon]

+2 mithral breastplate it is!

Agreed.

Updating The General Working Draft.

dimension door[/I] range, I could go to 100 ft, but I'd rather not extend it beyond that.

I don't mind 60 feet range too, which would you prefer?

 

[freyar]

Hmmm. 60 ft sounds good. Did you find a size for that room in the adventure?

 

[Cleon]

Hmmm. 60 ft sounds good. Did you find a size for that room in the adventure?

Oh yes, I was going to check that ...

Let's see, the General is in room 27, which OA2's "Ito-jo, the Ghost Castle map" shows to be 45 feet by 25 feet.

 

[freyar]

So 60 ft should work. The AC of a normal mirror should be 3, I guess, since it's Medium-sized.

He looks about CR 11 to me, maybe CR 12. What do you think?

 

[Cleon]

So 60 ft should work. The AC of a normal mirror should be 3, I guess, since it's Medium-sized.

Sure, AC 3 is what the rules say. The original scenario gave the mirrors AC 5, which is AC 15 in 3E, so I suppose we could give it some NA or something.

Oh, and how many hit points are we giving them? They had 20 apiece in the AD&D adventure, but our placeholder uses the 1 hp of an inch of glass.

Hmm, come to think of it, what are the mirrors made of? It just describes them as being "rose tinted". In real-life ancient Japan the mirrors were polished metal, but the adventure says they "do not crack, but shatter when destroyed", which sounds more like glass.. Still, we could give them respectable hit points if we wanted to.

He looks about CR 11 to me, maybe CR 12. What do you think?

I was thinking a little lower than that, maybe Challenge Rating 10, since it's not that much nastier than the CR 8 Reaper and Veiled Maidens. It certainly doesn't feel like the +4 CR difference that CR 12 would require.

The General's got 4 HD more than the Reaper, which'd be +2 CR if they were dragon/outsider/nonassociated class levels, which seems about right.

 

[freyar]

Well, since the stats are for a "typical" mirror, I'd stick with the 1 hp and AC 3. If we want to say he hangs around with magically treated mirrors, we could add some hp or even a bit of hardness.

CR 10 is fine by me.