Converting True Dragons

[Shade]

Any other thoughts on CR?

 

[Mortis]

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but does the rattelyr's resistance to electricity 20, immunity to fire, rattle, and tremorsense perhaps offset the ability to cast low-level spells?

I say so, so I agree with

Perhaps Wyrmling 1; very young 2; young 3; juvenile 5; young adult 8; adult 10; mature adult 12; old 14; very old 16; ancient 18; wyrm 19; great wyrm 20?

That reminds me...I currently have them without a caster level until juvenile age category...that will need revision.

Naughty Shade

Regards
Mortis

 

[Shade]

Naughty Shade

That's my alter ego.

For the caster level progression, I see several possible options:

1.) Stick with the current progression, but expand 1st to include wyrmling through juvenile as well.

2.) Start at 1st, and then add 2 CLs at each age category, capping at 19th.

3.) Start at 1st, and add 1 CL at each age category, capping at 12th.

4.) Follow the steel's progression (1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 20th, 21st)

5.) Something else I hadn't considered

What do you think?

 

[RavinRay]

That 3rd option with caster level +1 per age category strikes me. It's unique for a dragon; and since we've had dragons whose breath weapon progression is +1 die (brass and white), why not a dragon with a similar progression for its spellcaster level?

 

[BOZ]

That's my alter ego.

i thought that was Slim Shade?

 

[Shade]

That 3rd option with caster level +1 per age category strikes me. It's unique for a dragon; and since we've had dragons whose breath weapon progression is +1 die (brass and white), why not a dragon with a similar progression for its spellcaster level?

Sounds good. Nothing implied that they were very potent spellcasters, anyway.

i thought that was Slim Shade?

I stood up.

 

[Shade]

Updated in Homebrews.

Look it over one last time, and if everyone's happy we'll move on to the next one.

 

[RavinRay]

Just need to edit the table to read "Pathetic Presence" and maybe add a line about how they smell. I appreciate the part where it reads they are loathed by chromatics as mockeries of their kind.

I hope you can submit this in time for the April '08 issue of Dragon if there's gonna be a Creature Catalog there.

Edit: So much for anticipating an April '08 issue of Dragon, with its final issue in September.

 

[BOZ]

i was flipping through FC2 recently, and i noted that followers of Mammon have an abiltity similar to Pathetic Presence.

 

[Shade]

i was flipping through FC2 recently, and i noted that followers of Mammon have an abiltity similar to Pathetic Presence.

Where do you think I got it from?