Converting "Real World" Animals and Vermin

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Updated.

Challenge Rating: 4? (the equal HD stag beetle is CR 4)

Advancement: 8-14 HD (Large); 15-21 HD (Huge)?

A female culex giant mosquito is 9 feet long and weighs x to x pounds.

 

[freyar]

Umm, 20-25 lb? CR and advancement seem fine.

Flies off after doing 8 points of Con damage?

 

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1d4 points of Constitution damage like the stirge and anguillian?

 

[freyar]

Sounds good to me. With those changes, is the culex female done?

 

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I think so. Updated.

Here are the relevant differences with the anopheles...

Culex

NO. APPEARING: 2-20
MOVEMENT: 6, Fl 24(B)
HIT DICE: 7
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-8
SIZE: L (9' long)

Anopheles

NO. APPEARING: 2-16
MOVEMENT: 6, Fl 18(B)
HIT DICE: 8
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-12
SIZE: L (12' long)


Anopheles mosquitoes have brown thoraxes and black bands on their abdomens. Their legs and proboscises are longer and more powerful than the culex's, and their wings are covered with heavy black scales.

When the mosquito has drained as many points of Strength as she has hit dice (seven points for a culex, eight for an anopheles), she detaches herself and flies away to lay eggs.

Habitat/Society: Anopheles mosquitoes prefer animal blood, and usually are found in the wilderness.

 

[freyar]

Ok, 1 more HD, slightly different flight and organization. Bite I guess should be bumped up a damage die. I'd like to swap red ache in for the disease on this one. Should we also tweak the stats (if we increased Str, we might not want to change the bite damage)?

 

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Added to Homebrews.

Rather than increase the damage die, I increased Str a tad.

Wanna increase natural armor by 1 to account for the heavy, scaled wings?

A female anopheles giant mosquito is 12 feet long and weighs x to x pounds.

Anything else?

 

[freyar]

Are we using 1d8+1/2 Str for bite damage? Seems a little low, but I guess I can see the reasoning for a mosquito.

I'm ambivalent on the natural armor, so we'll do what you want.

Umm, 35-50 lb?

 

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Are we using 1d8+1/2 Str for bite damage? Seems a little low, but I guess I can see the reasoning for a mosquito.

I screwed up.

Updated. All done?

 

[freyar]

I think it looks good!