Converting original D&D and Mystara monsters

[freyar]

I think the one-legged mountain imps sound right, as the original monsters are also mountainous. Besides, it's a great description.

 

[Shade]

It is a great description...I just wish I could find more on them.

 

[Shade]

Since we never really got going on those "faeries", lets move on to a plant...

Snap Dragon, Flower
Armor Class: 9
Hit Dice: 1 hp*
Move: 3’ (1’
Attacks: Pollen cloud
Damage: Special
No. Appearing: 0 (5-20)
Save As: Fighter: 1
Morale: 12
Treasure Type: Nil
Intelligence: 1
Alignment: Neutral
XP Value: 0

Snap Dragon, Pollen Dragon
Armor Class: 3
Hit Dice: 2+2*
Move: 120’ (40’)
Attacks: 1 bite or 1 breath
Damage: 1-6 or 1-10
No. Appearing: Special
Save As: Fighter: 6
Morale: 12
Treasure Type: Nil
Intelligence: N/A
Alignment: N/A
XP Value: 35

Snap dragons are small attractive flowers which grow in the midst of other small plants. Despite their appearance, and their inability to make any form of physical attack, these plants are both carnivorous and dangerous.

The ability of snap-dragons to kill creatures for food comes from a special, magical, hallucinogenic pollen which they release into the air. Any creature coming within 20 feet of a bed of snap-dragons must make a saving throw vs. poison or be intoxicated by the pollen. The effect on the victims is to make them (as a group) believe that each of the snap dragon flowers is, in fact, a small, fierce dragon (see above for statistics). These imaginary “pollen dragons” will seem to attack the group of intoxicated victims and, unlike the products of a phantasmal force spell, andy damage they seem to do has full effect. The pollen dragons can attack with a bite or (once only each) with a breath weapon of choking dust (10’x10’x10’) which inflicts 1d10 points of damage (halved by a successful saving throw vs. breath). As each pollen dragon is reduced to zero hit points or less, it vanishes and the corresponding snap dragon plant withers and dies. Only once all dragons are destroyed will the illusion be broken.

Creatures unaffected by the pollen cannot see or hear the illusory dragons, and cannot affect them in any way. Even killing the snap dragon plants will not harm the illusions (since these exist in the victims’ minds).

Originally appeared in ST1 - Up the Garden Path (1986).

 

[freyar]

Yeah, there just wasn't enough on those, but we can return to them later.

These snap dragons are cool! So, shall we start with the flowers? Fine plants, maybe, 1/4 HD?

 

[Echohawk]

Woot! One of the critters from the ultra-rare adventure ST1 is finally up for conversion.

<does a happy dance>

 

[GrayLinnorm]

We could use shadow conjuration as a guideline for the pollen dragons.

 

[Shade]

Woot! One of the critters from the ultra-rare adventure ST1 is finally up for conversion.

<does a happy dance>

And only because you found the scan of the monsters page on an eBay auction. Oh, happy fate!

These snap dragons are cool! So, shall we start with the flowers? Fine plants, maybe, 1/4 HD?

That sounds reasonable.

We could use shadow conjuration as a guideline for the pollen dragons.

That seems like a good plan.

 

[freyar]

All I think we'd need to change from shadow conjuration is dropping the 20% to 0% for creatures that succeed on their save.

 

[Shade]

Hmmm...if we're reducing the disbelief to totally negating it, then it can be simplified greatly.

Here's a start...

Pollen Dragon (Su): A snap dragon continually releases a magical, hallucinogenic pollen in a 20-foot-radius. Any creature entering this area must succeed on a DC X Will save or believe that small, fierce dragons are attacking them. This is a mind-affecting, illusion effect. The save DC is Charisma(?)-based.

Pollen dragons have the following statistics:

Tiny dragon?

 

[demiurge1138]

Treat them like non-venomous psuedodragons, perhaps? Or white wyrmlings?