Converting Psionic Creatures

[Cleon]

Because every other monster with a sunderable tentacle I can find in the SRD loses half the tentacle's hp when the tentacle is sundered. Even hydras do that. A roper's strands do seem to be the exception (no damage), but strands are very thin and don't seem precisely to be part of a roper's body the way a tentacle would be.

An udoroot has "crowns" with 7 hp apiece and takes no damage if one is severed.

I'd much rather a Walking Wonder and take no damage on sundering than increase the hp to 2 so you feel better about it suffering 1 damage if it loses a tentacle.

 

[Shade]

How about they just die when hit?

 

[Cleon]

How about they just die when hit?

Not just die, make them explode! Everything's better with explosions!

 

[freyar]

Last I checked, udoroots aren't in the SRD. Shade, what are your thoughts?

 

[Cleon]

Last I checked, udoroots aren't in the SRD. Shade, what are your thoughts?

Ahem.

 

[Shade]

Not just die, make them explode! Everything's better with explosions!

YES!

Now that the udoroot's been pointed out, I favor the "no damage" approach. These thing just have so few hp to begin with...

 

[freyar]

Ahhh, one of them psionic monsters. OK, then, I'm satisfied too.

 

[Cleon]

Ahhh, one of them psionic monsters. OK, then, I'm satisfied too.

Hallelulah!

Now can anyone remember where we left the working draft? Or who's responsible for it, for that matter...

Hey look, it's a Shade Homebrew.

Good, I felt like putting my feet up.

 

[Shade]

Hallelulah!

Now can anyone remember where we left the working draft? Or who's responsible for it, for that matter...

Hey look, it's a Shade Homebrew.

Good, I felt like putting my feet up.

No rest for the wicked!

I just noticed its parenthetical name. Should it's organization be "cell"?

Updated.

We've been debating tentacles so long I forget...did we decide on whether to use the typical "mind blast" of illithids for its psionic blast?

 

[Cleon]

No rest for the wicked!

I just noticed its parenthetical name. Should it's organization be "cell"?

Updated.

We've been debating tentacles so long I forget...did we decide on whether to use the typical "mind blast" of illithids for its psionic blast?

I don't remember us deciding on what version of its dying mind blast to use.

The two earliest have a Mind Flayer mind blast, the most recent does 8d4 force damage with its mind blast.

That suggests to me we give the regular (9-tentacled) wonder a Mind Flayer's Mind Blast Death Throes and the lesser (8-tentacled) wonder a Force Blast Death Throes.