Converting "Real World" Animals and Vermin
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Cleon
Legend
I just realized we left out the mother-of-pearl jaws. Do we want to include them in the Treasure?
The description indicates they're worth 25-80gp for the lower jaws, 15-90 for the upper. So that's 40-170 gp, or 105 on average.
So would that be something like Treasure: 1/3 gems (mother of pearl) ?
Cleon
Legend
I'm a bit doubtful about the 8HD, since it's at the upper range of the Huge Diopatra's HD spread and they are supposed to be close kin. Also, I though the point was smaller Eunice were the same size as smaller Diopatra, but the larger species of Eunice were bigger.
After doing some Googling a big Diopatra seems to be 15-30cm+ long, while the largest Eunice grow to a metre or more. Thus, having the Eunice Advance to a size category larger than Diopatra seems to fit.
So, I'd be tempted to drop Eunice to a Large creature with 3-4 HD and Advancing up to 16-24 HD or so, and reduce the Diopatra's Advancement somewhat (2-8HD or maybe 2-12 HD range), or make Eunice a Huge creature with 5 or 6 base HD (full range 5-20 or 6-24HD) instead of the proposed 8.
I'm also increasingly of the opinion we may have erred in not making the 2HD Diopatras Medium sized, so Diopatra can go 2HD (Medium); 3-4 HD (Large); 5-8 HD (Huge) and Eunice adds 9-16 HD (Gargantuan) and maybe 17-24 HD (Colossal).
Shade
Monster Junkie
Good suggestion on treasure for diopatra. I'll add it.
I'd like to stick with the Huge, 8 HD Eunice, since they're modeled off the more specific Bobbit worm (of which 4-foot or longer real-world specimens have been found). Sure, other members of eunicidae are smaller, but this one seems to make the best D&D encounter.
When making giant varieties of real-world creatures, we have a bit of wiggle room (in a worm thread...hah!) to make the creatures work well as encounters. We should have a good range of worm sizes by the time we're done.
I'd like to stick with the Huge, 8 HD Eunice, since they're modeled off the more specific Bobbit worm (of which 4-foot or longer real-world specimens have been found). Sure, other members of eunicidae are smaller, but this one seems to make the best D&D encounter.
When making giant varieties of real-world creatures, we have a bit of wiggle room (in a worm thread...hah!) to make the creatures work well as encounters. We should have a good range of worm sizes by the time we're done.
Cleon
Legend
Well I was more concerned about making the worms HD fairly consistent with each other, but if no-one else fancies trimming the Eunice HD I'll stop whinging about it.
So, what Advancement shall we give an 8HD version?
I'm thinking it'll have the same sixfold advancement as Diopatra, to max at 48HD, presumably reaching Colossal size. Something like:
Advancement: 9-15 HD (Huge); 16-31 HD (Gargantuan); 32-48 HD (Colossal)
That way a Gargantuan Eunice has the same Hit Dice as a Purple Worm, which seems appropriate.
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