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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6488840" data-attributes="member: 57383">With some difficulty, I think I've found the creature you are referring to - the Plague Brush from Monster Manual III.Airy (Ex): Since a plague brush is constantly turning over and its anatomy is made up of a (relatively) small amount of plant matter and lots of empty space, it is difficult to know where to attack the creature. Any melee or ranged attack with a piercing weapon directed at a plague brush has a 20% miss chance. The blow or missile may pass through the creature’s body without harming it. Even a true seeing effect is useless for determining where and how to strike the creature.Hmm, the Plague Brush has a few similarities with the monster we're converting. It's also a Colossal creature that's mostly empty space with a lot of Hit Dice (31 HD, to be precise) and a potent poison (doing 2d6 Str &amp; 1d4 Con/2d6 Str &amp; 1d4 Con).I can't help noticing that the Plague Brush has &quot;only&quot; AC 21, nowhere near the 40-plus you're gunning for.Still, I think giving it the Airy quality is a good solution. We'll need to modify it, since the original only protects against piercing attacks. I might even consider increasing the miss chance to 50%, since Gossamers are mostly vacuum.Would you be OK with an Armour Class around the mid-20s if we gave it the Airy special quality?Sure, although I have a suspicion we'll have different ideas of &quot;reasonable&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6488840, member: 57383"] With some difficulty, I think I've found the creature you are referring to - the Plague Brush from [I]Monster Manual III[/I]. [B]Airy (Ex):[/B] Since a plague brush is constantly turning over and its anatomy is made up of a (relatively) small amount of plant matter and lots of empty space, it is difficult to know where to attack the creature. Any melee or ranged attack with a piercing weapon directed at a plague brush has a 20% miss chance. The blow or missile may pass through the creature’s body without harming it. Even a true seeing effect is useless for determining where and how to strike the creature. Hmm, the Plague Brush has a few similarities with the monster we're converting. It's also a Colossal creature that's mostly empty space with a lot of Hit Dice (31 HD, to be precise) and a potent poison (doing 2d6 Str & 1d4 Con/2d6 Str & 1d4 Con). I can't help noticing that the Plague Brush has "only" AC 21, nowhere near the 40-plus you're gunning for. Still, I think giving it the Airy quality is a good solution. We'll need to modify it, since the original only protects against piercing attacks. I might even consider increasing the miss chance to 50%, since Gossamers are mostly vacuum. Would you be OK with an Armour Class around the mid-20s if we gave it the Airy special quality? Sure, although I have a suspicion we'll have different ideas of "reasonable". [/QUOTE]

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