Converting World of Greyhawk monsters

[Shade]

Great idea.

Here's a start...

Riddling Curse (Su): As a standard(?) actions, a fiery face may present a supernatural riddle. Those who hear the riddle may choose to answer it within x rounds. If answered incorrectly, the victim becomes cursed (as the bestow curse spell, no save). If a correct answer is given, the fiery face begrudgingly bestows a boon to those who answered correctly, granting the benefits of a bless spell for 24 hours.

Listeners are not compelled to answer the riddle. Those who choose to not answer the riddle are usually attacked by the fiery face and its minions.

 

[freyar]

I like it! Definitely standard action, maybe 10 rounds?

Now maybe figure out its minions for the attack! Usually accompanied by some set of animals, like jackals?

 

[Shade]

If it enjoys ridiculing and laughing at those who cannot answer its riddles, than jackals, hyenas, and the like do seem appropriate.

Along those lines, maybe give it hideous laughter as a spell-like ability to encourage mocking from those nearby?

 

[freyar]

Hmm, that has a feel like a pixie with irresistable dance. I'd like to see what anyone else thinks, since it's a little bit farther from the original text.

Do we just want to put the jackals, hyenas, etc, in the organization and flavor or give it some charming ability over them?

 

[demiurge1138]

Not so into the hideous laughter, but I do like the association with jackals and hyenas.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

How about gnolls?

 

[Shade]

How about gnolls?

I'd say they fit in nicely.

 

[Big Mac]

Hide in Flames and Masquerade as Fire look good!

Yep. They look great. My only question is do they stack? i.e can the Fiery Face use its Masquerade as Fire ability to improve its Hide in Flames check?

I like the blessing and curse effect. Though, since they're NE, the curse should probably outweigh the blessing.

Or how about something that is both a blessing and a curse at the same time! The Fiery Face could grant a blessing that contains a hidden curse or impose a curse that contains a hidden blessing. If it switched between doing this and granting/imposing conventional blessings and curses, people would find it hard to tell if they should pass or fail the riddle.

Some cursed items have useful effects, but because of their curse you can't remove them. For example a barbarian might enjoy owning a Berserking Sword. Characters could be given large black hairy ears that look weird, but grant the hearing of a bat. Or someone could gain darkvision, but suffer light blindness.

 

[freyar]

Yep. They look great. My only question is do they stack? i.e can the Fiery Face use its Masquerade as Fire ability to improve its Hide in Flames check?

I don't think these can stack because they affect different skill checks. I do think they are kind of two different expressions of the same ability -- the ability of the Fiery Face to look like fire.

Or how about something that is both a blessing and a curse at the same time! The Fiery Face could grant a blessing that contains a hidden curse or impose a curse that contains a hidden blessing. If it switched between doing this and granting/imposing conventional blessings and curses, people would find it hard to tell if they should pass or fail the riddle.

Some cursed items have useful effects, but because of their curse you can't remove them. For example a barbarian might enjoy owning a Berserking Sword. Characters could be given large black hairy ears that look weird, but grant the hearing of a bat. Or someone could gain darkvision, but suffer light blindness.

What I like about Shade's suggestion is that it is simple to keep track of. We could put in a line that DMs are free to modify as desired, though.

 

[Shade]

BigMac - while that is an interesting idea, I'm a bit smitten with the idea of them being evil, yet honorable. Plus, I think they'd prefer that folks answer their riddles.

So...

Organization: Solitary or x (1 plus x jackals, jackalweres, hyenas, and gnolls in any combination)?

Did we want to give them summon nature's ally and/or a charm monster ability to account for these "minions"?

Skills: 48

Feats: 2

Environment: Any forests?

Treasure: None?

Advancement: 4-9 HD (Small)?

Fiery faces speak Common, Sylvan, and Ignan?