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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BOZ" data-source="post: 1121084" data-attributes="member: 1241">i don't know how much this will add to the conversion, but here is the original text of the hamadryad from Dragon #101:HAMADRYADFREQUENCY: Very rareNO. APPEARING: 1-2ARMOR CLASS: 7MOVE: 16”HIT DICE: 4% IN LAIR: 5%TREASURE TYPE: NilNO. OF ATTACKS: 1 weaponDAMAGE/ATTACK: By weapon typeSPECIAL ATTACKS: SpellsSPECIAL DEFENSES: Magic resistance, spell-like abilitiesMAGIC RESISTANCE: 75%INTELLIGENCE: HighALIGNMENT: NeutralSIZE: MPSIONIC ABILITY: NilAttack/Defense Modes: NilLEVEL/X.P. VALUE: IV/ 175 + 4/hpThis extremely rare creature is a guardian of the woodlands, found only in old, vast forests far from civilization. Like a dryad, a hamadryad is linked to an individual oak tree and will quickly die if the tree is destroyed. But unlike a dryad, a hamadryad can leave the vicinity of the oak tree and travel any distance from the tree. A hamadryad often carries daggers or daggerlike weapons.Hamadryads dislike non-forest environments intensely and almost never leave wooded areas. They prefer well water or mineral water, and derive energy from sunlight through the chlorophyll in their bright green hair. Shorn or dungeon-imprisoned hamadryads will die in 10-20 days if they cannot get sunlight and are not allowed to regrow their hair.Hamadryads appear to be beautiful elven or human females, but have deep, sparkling green eyes and long green hair. They are shy but noble of manner, and they rarely speak. They will often cooperate with rangers and druids, acting first to protect their own woods. Hamadryads can use the following powers at will, one per round: animal friendship, entangle, pass without trace, speak with animals, and quench fire (16’ square area of effect). They will always successfully detect snares and pits, and cannot be entangled. They can dimension door from any tree to any other tree (maximum range of this ability is 66“), and can enter inside any living tree. Hamadryads will always see non-real trees (such as those caused by a massmorph or tree spell) for what they truly are. They also recognize treants and treant-controlled trees on sight.Once a day, a hamadryad can cast a hold plant spell, and thrice per day can cast a powerful charm person spell (save vs. magic at -3). If a person is taken away by a hamadryad, he will be compelled to perform one service (usually aid in protecting the woodlands from woodcutters or the like), and will then be released in the depths of the forest in a dryad grove, whereupon he may be charmed in turn by a dryad. If not, no forest creature of good or neutral alignment will attack the person if he does not bother them and is attempting to leave the forest. If a hamadryad enters a tree which contains a druid (cf. pass plant and plant door spells), she can charm that druid if she so wishes with great efficacy (save at -6). She can converse with the druid normally, and there is room for both within the tree.Hamadryads speak the tongue of dryads, elves, pixies, sprites, and can speak with plants. Sometimes (33%) they can speak the Common tongue as well (having learned it from charmed individuals). Hamadryads are 90% likely to speak each of the following languages as well: centaur, faun, treantish, and the druidic secret language. Hamadryads are immune to the effects of a call woodland beings spell, but will feel its summons and will usually (90% of the time) go to the caster’s location to observe; they give aid of their own free will.Hamadryads give any treasure they gain to dryads. They have exact knowledge of the forest in which they dwell.A hamadryad’s tree is always old and large, but does not radiate magic. The hamadryad will rarely fight other woodland creatures and is most friendly with dryads and treants. She will often aid the latter with her quench fire abilities.The touch of a hamadryad is also said to cure nilbogism (see the FIEND FOLIO® Tome, Nilbog), but truth of this rumor is as much a mystery as the condition itself.</blockquote>

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