Converting World of Greyhawk monsters

[demiurge1138]

Good choices!

 

[freyar]

I like that!

 

[Shade]

Added to Homebrews.

 

[freyar]

I think you added the 0th level SLAs to the 1st level list and the 1st level ones to the 2nd level list...

So do we now need to work out the hive mind and incomplete imprinting business?

 

[Shade]

Fixed and sure.

 

[freyar]

So, my understanding is that the incomplete imprinting is a process by which a false keraptis takes over someone else's mind, roughly speaking. In the case of Mossmutter, this involves turning them into mosspuppets (or whatever they're called). How do we want this generally to work? Should it always involve killing and "reanimating" the victim in some way?

 

[Shade]

It sounds like each false K gains a unique special ability that has a transformative component in addition to some other effect. I suppose we can just use Mossy as an example, and give DM free reign to create more.

 

[freyar]

That sounds like a good plan. The common effect should be addition to the hivemind. From Mossmutter, it sounds like maybe certain size hiveminds allow the false keraptis to gain extra SLAs. Call it imprinting?

 

[Echohawk]

So, my understanding is that the incomplete imprinting is a process by which a false keraptis takes over someone else's mind, roughly speaking. In the case of Mossmutter, this involves turning them into mosspuppets (or whatever they're called). How do we want this generally to work? Should it always involve killing and "reanimating" the victim in some way?

It sounds like each false K gains a unique special ability that has a transformative component in addition to some other effect. I suppose we can just use Mossy as an example, and give DM free reign to create more.

Not quite. The incomplete imprints derive from scrolls, that when read, bestow upon the "victim" one SLA, as well as an increasing chance to become a husk with every scroll read. Once the victim becomes a husk, then he or she falls under the control of one of the false keraptis. (I'm presuming the nearest, but I don't think that is ever spelled out.) Mossmutter is an exception to the rule; in his(?) case, he doesn't plant partial K-imprint scrolls, but adds to his hivemind hierarchy by infecting targets with his spores, and creating skinpuppets.

If you like, I can take another look at the mechanics of the partial imprint process -- there are about three pages of detailed history, background and mechanics in the adventure but I'm sure I can distill that down to a few relevant facts.

 

[freyar]

Hmm, maybe we can say that most false K's gain husks through the use of booby-trapped scrolls...