Converting Psionic Creatures

[Cleon]

How about 2hp, so the wonder loses 1hp each time a tentacle is severed?

I'd prefer if its tentacles had 1 hit point and the wonder took 1 point of damage if a tentacle is severed.

Maybe there's a "minimum 1 damage" rule for arm severing.

 

[freyar]

Well, usually tentacle hit points don't count fully toward critter hp, but I'll give in if you both want that.

 

[Cleon]

Well, usually tentacle hit points don't count fully toward critter hp, but I'll give in if you both want that.

Let's wait to see which Shade prefers.

 

[Shade]

Let's wait to see which Shade prefers.

I don't have a strong preference for either. Whethe it comes down to 1 or 2 hp, it's going to get severed on every strike.

 

[Cleon]

I don't have a strong preference for either. Whethe it comes down to 1 or 2 hp, it's going to get severed on every strike.

No, there's still the possibility of rolling 1 damage against a 2 hit point tentacle. I'd rather eliminate the chance altogether by making them 1 hp tentacles.

 

[Shade]

No, there's still the possibility of rolling 1 damage against a 2 hit point tentacle. I'd rather eliminate the chance altogether by making them 1 hp tentacles.

Maybe if you're a halfling wizard or a rat.

 

[Cleon]

Maybe if you're a halfling wizard or a rat.

Well that's quite possible in D&D!

 

[freyar]

I suppose we could do 1 hp per tentacle, wonder loses 1 hp per 2 tentacles severed, but that seems like extra bookkeeping.

 

[Cleon]

I suppose we could do 1 hp per tentacle, wonder loses 1 hp per 2 tentacles severed, but that seems like extra bookkeeping.

Why not simply 1 hit point per tentacle, wonder takes 1 damage if tentacle sundered? Or, even simpler, no damage on tentacle sundering.

 

[freyar]

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.