Converting Planescape monsters
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Cleon
Legend
I've got lots of stuff on at the moment too, so it'll have to wait for later.
Cleon
Legend
Well it's later! Finished work earlier than I expected, so might as well have a stab at the flavour text.
How's this for a start?
A sleek, silvery fish resembling a shark with long, powerful fins. Its body is adorned with intricate patterns, which appear to be tattoos scarified into its hide. A wide mouth is filled with sharp teeth.
Delphons, or "Songsharks" are extraplanar creatures that live in the river Oceanus. They are renowned for their beautiful, oddly discordant singing. This alien music confound the wits of many who hear it, but some creatures who succumb to the delphon's song learn some secret of the multiverse.
Delphons know many of the secrets of the River Oceanus and its multiplanar, multidimensional nature. They discuss these secrets with each other in their song. They are able to swim to any plane the river Oceanus touches, and can carry other creatures with them as they do so.
Songsharks are highly gregarious, intelligent creatures who live in tight-knit clans. Egalitarian creatures, they have neither leaders or inferiors, settling all their decisions and disputes via singing debates.
Delphons are carnivores, but prefer fish. They only attack humanoids out of self-defense or starvation. A few exceptional non-delphons have learned to understand enough of their song to form partnerships with them.
The majority of delphons have bodies like polished silver, but a few have scales or fins of different color - brilliant red, deep blue, or vibrant green. Delphons often carve beautiful tattoos into their skin by rubbing themselves against rocks.
A typical delphon is 8 feet long and weighs 500 pounds.
Delphons speak, or rather sing, their own language. A delphon that partners with another creature could learn other languages (they prefer Aquan and Draconic).
Cleon
Legend
Always Neutral is fine. I feel they'd be most closely tied to the Beastlands out of the planes touched by Oceanus, which is a "True Neutral" plane.
How's this...
Delphons seldom attack intelligent creatures unless they are desperate with hunger. They try to bewilder opponents with their song first, then close and concentrate their attacks on whichever enemies are worse affected by their singing. A threatened or injured delphon will use its oceanic jaunt ability to flee to an adjacent plane of existence.
Cleon
Legend
Cleon
Legend
the "including it's own song" at the end should be an "its".
There's a doubled "the the" in the #12 result of the Song table.
I've Updated the draft with those corrections.
Oh, and my Microsoft Word doesn't like the "affects" in the Song description, but I have scant faith in that program's knowledge of grammar, so I'm not changing it.
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