Converting "Real World" Animals and Vermin

[Shade]

Sounds good. Just borrow them wholly?

 

[freyar]

Why not change it up a little, maybe Str 26, Dex 12, Con 21?

 

[Cleon]

Ah yes, I happened to read the MC6 Giant Carp last month while homebrewing a conversion of the MC2 Giant Catfish. The two have pretty similar stats, except the Catfish is a bit smaller and has poison spines.

I reckoned the Giant Catfish is Huge in 3E, so the Carp should be too. These fish are BIG. 20 to 30 feet is the size of a basking shark so they likely weigh between 4 and 15 tons.

Why not change it up a little, maybe Str 26, Dex 12, Con 21?

I'd increase the Strength and drop the Dex, since (a) they're massive and (b) normal-sized Carp are fairly sluggish fish, and a giant version is likely to be slower.

Str 29, Dex 10, Con 21, Int 1, Wis 10, Cha 4 ?

 

[freyar]

That works too.

And I think we'd already settled on Huge.

 

[Shade]

That's fine, but why the higher Cha?

Added to Homebrews.

 

[freyar]

Maybe Cleon just finds koi very attractive!

 

[Cleon]

That's fine, but why the higher Cha?

Obviously it's because of its golden scales, all adventurers are attracted to gold.

 

[Shade]

Unless there's a real reason, let's drop back to the usual Cha 1 of fish.

Skills: 11

Feats: 3

 

[freyar]

Seems like Spot and Listen for the skills. Split evenly? No great ideas on the feats ATM.

 

[Cleon]

Unless there's a real reason, let's drop back to the usual Cha 1 of fish.

But... but... that was my real reason. Look at the gold! Isn't it shiny and pretty!

Still, I don't mind giving them the standard fish Charisma.

Skills: 11

I agree with the Listen/Spot division freyar proposed.

6 in Listen, 5 in Spot?

Feats: 3

How about Diehard, Endurance, Power Attack?