Converting original D&D and Mystara monsters

[Cleon]

Fair point. I agree that the net is an additional SA requiring a second bielgorad within reach I guess, who presumably needs to expend some kind of action to hold the net open. Maybe a readied action or an immediate action.

So we're adding Crook (Ex) and Immobilizing Net (Ex and Su) special attacks?

 

[freyar]

Yes.

I think the crook should borrow text from trip weapons (ie, flails or dire flails) as well as the Improved Grab SA. But can it do damage or just grapple?

 

[Cleon]

Yes.

I think the crook should borrow text from trip weapons (ie, flails or dire flails) as well as the Improved Grab SA. But can it do damage or just grapple?

The statblock has "2 fists or 1 weapon" as its Attacks, and the weapon does 1d10+5 (+3 from its Strength, +2 from magic).

Bielgorad "wield +2 magical weapons" and "these oversized weapons include a crook" so I'm presuming that it's a polearm with some kind of hooked mancatcher attached to it. Maybe it's got a blade end for normal polearm attacks and a crook end to snag opponents?

We could have it not do any damage when used to entrap opponents, or we could have do nonlethal damage.

In any case, I was thinking the Bielgorad would have to deliberately choose to try to capture a target with the crook. I don't think snagging a humanoid's target neck isn't something that happens automatically whenever the Shepherd wacks a human sized opponent with its polearm.

 

[freyar]

The statblock has "2 fists or 1 weapon" as its Attacks, and the weapon does 1d10+5 (+3 from its Strength, +2 from magic).

Bielgorad "wield +2 magical weapons" and "these oversized weapons include a crook" so I'm presuming that it's a polearm with some kind of hooked mancatcher attached to it. Maybe it's got a blade end for normal polearm attacks and a crook end to snag opponents?

I can agree to that. And the blade can be 1d10 damage.

We could have it not do any damage when used to entrap opponents, or we could have do nonlethal damage.

Since the crook is basically a grapple, it could do nonlethal damage when holding after the initial grapple (like the normal grapple rules).

In any case, I was thinking the Bielgorad would have to deliberately choose to try to capture a target with the crook. I don't think snagging a humanoid's target neck isn't something that happens automatically whenever the Shepherd wacks a human sized opponent with its polearm.

That would be similar to a trip weapon, I believe (you can attack normally or make a trip attempt with a flail, for example). So I'd support that.