D&D 3.x Creature Catalog 3.5 Overhaul Project

[Mortis]

It's probably easiest to just go with "solitary or group (2-X)" and then mention in the flavor text that they are usually only encountered singly on the Material Plane.

Agreed.

Possible group names: storm, cloud, pattern

All of those are good. Another option (from this site)is a souffle (of clouds)

Regards
Mortis

 

[Aspect of BOZ]

i'll go with:

Organization: Solitary or storm (2-20)

 

[Aspect of BOZ]

OK, for this attack, i don't think it should do quite as much damage to touch a nimbus as when it touches you. sort of like, it's focusing its energy to harm you, or "oops, you shouldn't have touched me".

Shock (Ex): A nimbus's touch attack deals 5d6 points of electricity damage. Creatures hitting a nimbus with natural weapons or unarmed attacks take Xd6 points of electrical damage. A creature that hits a nimbus with a metallic weapon takes an additional 1d4 points of electrical damage and must succeed on A DC 15 Fortitude save or be stunned for 1 round. The save DC is Constitution-based.

 

[Shade]

1d6 should suffice. Also, I'd replace the additional 1d4 with 1d6 for metallic weapons, just for consistency sake.

 

[Mortis]

1d6 should suffice. Also, I'd replace the additional 1d4 with 1d6 for metallic weapons, just for consistency sake.

I'd have gone for 2d6.

However, I agree with the second suggestion - it should be the same value as for the unarmed/natural attacks. In this case 2d6.

Regards
Mortis

 

[Shade]

2d6 is fine by me. It isn't quite half the "focused attack" deals, so it seems reasonable.

 

[Mortis]

2d6 is fine by me. It isn't quite half the "focused attack" deals, so it seems reasonable.

Yeah I was thinking that it could be 25% of its HD so if you advance a nimbus its 'charge' gets greater, so a 16 HD nimbus would do 4d6 etc.

I'm not saying that we need to do that here, but I might use it that way for my game.

Regards
Mortis

 

[BOZ]

updating in homebrews. anything left to work on for these fellows?

 

[Shade]

It would be nice if we could come up with some minor differentiation between ball lightning and sheet lightning.

According to Wikipedia, sheet lightning is intracloud lightning which "can be seen when lightning is close to the horizon."

"Ball lightning is described as a floating, illuminated ball that occurs during thunderstorms. They can be fast moving, slow moving or nearly stationary. Some make hissing or crackling noises or no noise at all. Some have been known to pass through windows and even dissipate with a bang."

The ball lightning spell works as follows:

"You create one 5-foot-diameter ball of concentrated electricity that rolls in whichever direction you point, dealing electricity damage to creatures it strikes. It moves 30 feet per round. As part of this movement, it can ascend or jump up to 30 feet to strike a subject. If it enters a space with a creature, it stops moving for the round and deals 1d6 points of electricity damage per caster level (maximum 15d6), though a successful Reflex save negates that damage.

The ball moves as long as you actively direct it (a move action for you), otherwise it merely stays at rest, damaging any creature in its space. It cannot push aside unwilling creatures or batter down large obstacles. The lightning winks out if it exceeds the spell's range."

Just a thought...since sheet lightning requires a cloud, perhaps it can only take that form within a natural or magical cloud, and gains concealment?

 

[Aspect of BOZ]

i wouldn't put any specific limitations on when it can use a particular form (especially since most of the forms don't provide any stat benefit) but we can certainly state that it only uses a specific form in certain conditions.