Garbugs!

[DnDChick]

The garbugs have been converted and are in the CC.

http://www.enworld.org/cc/converted/view_c.php?CreatureID=671

 

[Krishnath]

Nice, although IMHO it (they?) would have looked better as an aberration. But it's a good conversion nevertheless.

Edit: Damn forgot a bracket...

 

[DnDChick]

You know when I first started working on it, I did it as an Aberration. The more I thought about that, though, the less it seemed to fit. They just don't seem wierd enough to be an Aberration to me.

When I think if Aberrations, I think of Call of Ctulhu style wierdness. That's why when I did my catoblepas conversion I did it as a magical beast (and I don't use the MM2 Aberration version).

 

[BOZ]

they seem to look good, but it's hard to tell with the funky way it's all crammed in there. there's got to be a better way to seperate this stuff to make it easier to read.

 

[Geocorona]

Separate entries for "Garbug, Black" and "Garbug, Violet" would probably be easier to decipher.

It doesn't have any extremely weird parts, psionics, magic or high intellect, so I don't see why it couldn't be a Beast. or even just a Vermin if it doesn't do anything clever.

 

[DnDChick]

I might do that, Geo. The reason why I didn't do that in the first place is that except for a few key stats, they are practically identical. That, and I didn't realize how bad it would look once interpretted by PHP.

I'll fix it later.

 

[Krishnath]

On the topic of lovecraftian horrors, I'm working on (re)making Cthulhu and the GOO's as ELH Abominations, I personally don't feel that their Call of Cthulhu (D20) stats really do them justice. They are creatures that ancient gods fear, and I must say that the creatures in the CoC(D20) aren't really that fear inducing...

Maybe it's just me...

 

[Gez]

Aberrations are not only for lovecraftion fungi of Yoggoth and flying polyps. They are for things weirder than simple chimera.

The garbug looks a bit like a winged chuul, don't it ?

(Oh, about creature types, a pet peeve of mine is the hydra. Common hydra should be a magical beast also. Even if it don't have any magicalness about it, that would make "templated" hydraes (learnean, pyro and cryo) more accurate.)