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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6368242" data-attributes="member: 57383">OK, I'm trying to think of a similar creature we can crib some basic stats from, but aren't having much luck. The closest I could think of is our <a href="http://creaturecatalog.enworld.org/cc/converted/view_c.php?CreatureID=2131" target="_blank">Psionic Leech</a> conversion, since it's also a &quot;squishy blob&quot; and is approximately the right size.Should we go for Tiny or Diminutive for the size? Our Psionic Leech is Diminutive, but leeches are long and thin, while Gossamers are round, so they'd have a much bigger volume, which argues for Tiny. (e.g. a Beholder is round and Large size while being 6-foot across, so a &quot;Tiny beholder&quot; would be about 9 inches across following normal scaling rules).Still, the standard gossamer is even smaller than that at 6 inches, and they're also also described as being very insubstantial, so I'm leaning towards putting them in the Diminutive bracket.More importantly, what Reach shall we give them? The Noble has tentacles 500 feet long. Colossal creatures are normally about 128 times larger than Diminutive ones, suggesting the commoner versions have 4 foot tentacles, which ought to be enough to give it an increased reach of 5 feet. We're agreed on that then.I'll start a bare-bones Working Draft by copying the Psionic Leech.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6368242, member: 57383"] OK, I'm trying to think of a similar creature we can crib some basic stats from, but aren't having much luck. The closest I could think of is our [URL="http://creaturecatalog.enworld.org/cc/converted/view_c.php?CreatureID=2131"][B]Psionic Leech[/B][/URL] conversion, since it's also a "squishy blob" and is approximately the right size. Should we go for Tiny or Diminutive for the size? Our Psionic Leech is Diminutive, but leeches are long and thin, while Gossamers are [B]round[/B], so they'd have a much bigger volume, which argues for Tiny. (e.g. a Beholder is round and Large size while being 6-foot across, so a "Tiny beholder" would be about 9 inches across following normal scaling rules). Still, the standard gossamer is even smaller than that at 6 inches, and they're also also described as being very insubstantial, so I'm leaning towards putting them in the Diminutive bracket. More importantly, what Reach shall we give them? The Noble has tentacles 500 feet long. Colossal creatures are normally about 128 times larger than Diminutive ones, suggesting the commoner versions have 4 foot tentacles, which ought to be enough to give it an increased reach of 5 feet. We're agreed on that then. I'll start a bare-bones Working Draft by copying the Psionic Leech. [/QUOTE]

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