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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6136700" data-attributes="member: 57383">Updating the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?248731-Converting-Planescape-monsters&amp;p=6004215&amp;viewfull=1#post6004215" target="_blank">Ash Quasi-Elemental Working Draft</a>.Hold on, there's one final thing to fix: &quot;Environment: Elemental Plane of &quot;.Originally these creatures were native to a &quot;Quasi-Elemental Plane of Ash&quot;, but such a plane does not exist in the 3rd Edition Manual of the Planes cosmology. We could invent it, I suppose, or give them an Environment of &quot;An Elemental Plane with the Negative-Dominant trait&quot;?Come to think of it, as currently written they would take damage or negative levels when on a Negative-Dominant plane. Which seems wrong - they are Negative Elementals, after all. We should consider giving them resistance or immunity to negative energy damage and/or energy drain.If, say, they live on Planes with the Minor Negative-Dominant trait, they only need 6+ points of &quot;negative energy resistance&quot; to be immune to the planes 1d6 points of damage per round. Alternatively we could give them a SQ that protects them from the Negative-Dominant trait but does not otherwise protect them. Doesn't the Xeg-Yi have such an ability, being native to the Negative Energy Plane and all?Hmm, the Manual of the Planes version of the Xeg-Yi has no protection from negative energy or susceptibility to positive energy - oops!Ah! Here we are, we can give them the Negative Adaptation trait of the Entropic Creature from the Planar Handbook. That's a good fit:Negative Adaptation (Ex): <s>Entropic creatures</s> Ash quasi-elementals do not lose hit points or need to make Fortitude saves due to being in a negative-dominant environment.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6136700, member: 57383"] Updating the [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?248731-Converting-Planescape-monsters&p=6004215&viewfull=1#post6004215"][B]Ash Quasi-Elemental Working Draft[/B][/URL]. Hold on, there's one final thing to fix: "[B]Environment:[/B] Elemental Plane of ". Originally these creatures were native to a "Quasi-Elemental Plane of Ash", but such a plane does not exist in the 3rd Edition [I]Manual of the Planes[/I] cosmology. We could invent it, I suppose, or give them an Environment of "An Elemental Plane with the Negative-Dominant trait"? Come to think of it, as currently written they would take damage or negative levels when on a Negative-Dominant plane. Which seems wrong - they are Negative Elementals, after all. We should consider giving them resistance or immunity to negative energy damage and/or energy drain. If, say, they live on Planes with the Minor Negative-Dominant trait, they only need 6+ points of "negative energy resistance" to be immune to the planes 1d6 points of damage per round. Alternatively we could give them a SQ that protects them from the Negative-Dominant trait but does not otherwise protect them. Doesn't the Xeg-Yi have such an ability, being native to the Negative Energy Plane and all? Hmm, the [I]Manual of the Planes[/I] version of the Xeg-Yi has no protection from negative energy or susceptibility to positive energy - oops! Ah! Here we are, we can give them the Negative Adaptation trait of the Entropic Creature from the [I]Planar Handbook[/I]. That's a good fit: [B]Negative Adaptation (Ex):[/B] [S]Entropic creatures[/S] Ash quasi-elementals do not lose hit points or need to make Fortitude saves due to being in a negative-dominant environment. [/QUOTE]

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