D&D 3.x Creature Catalog 3.5 Overhaul Project

[Shade]

Here are my suggestions:

animal affinity = bull's strenght, cat's grace, etc.
astral traveler and astral caravan = astral projection
body adjustment = cure light wounds
body equilibrium = water walk
cloud mind = ?
compression = reduce person
ectoplasmic form = gaseous form?
empathic transfer = no easy comparison, but cure moderate wounds, neutralize poison, and remove disease could all work
mind thrust = no equivalent
psionic speak with animals = duh
thought shield = ?
adapt body = water breathing plus resist energy?
aura sight = detect evil and detect good
intellect fortress = no equivalent
metamorphosis = polymorph
personal mind blank = mind blank (self only)
psionic etherealness = duh
psychic crush = finger of death

 

[BOZ]

like i said,

cloud mind can be ditched entirely since it already has invisibility.

 

[Shade]

Well said.

Again.

 

[BOZ]

FMD, any input on that?

 

[full_moon_draw]

I take that we're attempting a non-psionic version of the baku's psi-like abilities cos that's what one of the previous conversions requires? A psionic version & a non-psionic version of the baku being the final goal?

Personally, i'd stick with the psi-like abilities plus the single spell-like ability & leave it at that! Mapping to psionic powers to their equivalent spells is a difficult job! and as you can see from Shades attempt at a map, often a single psionic power's capabilities can only be truely replicated by a whole bunch of spells and some psionic powers simply don't map at all.

Accepting the problems of doing a converstion of this nature, I'd go with Shades list - I don't see any better maps! Oh yeah & obviously a big thumbs up on dumping Cloud Mind

Cheers - FMD

 

[BOZ]

fair enough - actually, the goal is to have a version of the baku that can be used by people who don't have access to the XPH (or prefer not to use it). for an example, see the mind flayer in the Monster Manual, and keep in mind the adjustments they made in the XPH.

in the end, i figure such a list is not really such a big deal, just something to have which would be roughly equivalent to the level of power of the psi-like ablities. i don't want to spend a ton of time on it. so if this is fine as a power set, let's give them some X/day and move on.

astral projection, bull's strength, cat's grace, cure light wounds, cure moderate wounds, detect evil, detect good, etherealness, finger of death, gaseous form, mind blank (self only), neutralize poison, polymorph, reduce person, remove disease, resist energy, speak with animals, water breathing, water walk

 

[Shade]

At will - astral projection, bull's strength, cat's grace, cure light wounds, detect evil, detect good, gaseous form, mind blank (self only), neutralize poison, reduce person (self only), remove disease, speak with animals
3/day - cure moderate wounds, etherealness, finger of death, polymorph, resist energy, water breathing, water walk

 

[BOZ]

how do saves for SLAs work, again? 10 + spell level + ability mod? do the HD figure in at all?

 

[Shade]

10 + spell level + Cha. HD plays no role (which is why the DCs usually suck for high-CR critters). :\

 

[BOZ]

yep. OK, posting in homebrews.