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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gorg" data-source="post: 9887170" data-attributes="member: 7029501">I'm currently preparing a 3rd party module : The Labrynth of the Dweller, by Dungeoneer's Guild Games for my 5e party.   The module is for the 1e AD&D rules, so I'm going thru and updating all the monsters.    It's a classic romp through a large monster filled dungeon!  I quickly came upon several creatures that were either new (this module only), or for which there are no 5e counterparts. (Phooey!!!)  One of the former, is a race of half ogre/ half Hill Giants.   They are fairly central to the upper level forces.  My quandry is how to translate this into 5e.  I read/watch all sorts of posts talking about odd mixed race characters- but those are PC's, not monsters...   I looked at Ogrillions, but they are CR1- a step backwards from Ogres.   I can't seem to find a way to do these properly...  One of the latter type is the Boggart.  Any of you remember that one? lol.  An "immature" Will O Wisp from the 1e Monster Manual 2.  Nasty (in a fun way) little buggers- perfect for trolling groups that aren't paying attention.   No 5e version I could find.   Google found me a fan made monster of that name- that was a completely different creature, lol.   I finally located a 3e version in a Necromancer Games book, called the Tome of Horrors.   I wonder why it was dropped from the game?  This thing is a random encounter, so it would just pop up somewhere and mess with the party.  Shape changing, invisibility, lightning touch or ranged attack, and a nasty confusion ability.  The Dweller, is a full custom beast.  with traits of a dragon and a snake.  Reminds me of the Linnorm Dragons from who knows what book/Dragon mag...     Acid cloud breath weapon, claw/claw/bite/constrict attack routine, and the bite is also poisonous.  Save or die poisonous.   13 hit dice, and the stat block calls it an 8th level monster  7300+ 18/hp XP.   I ended up kitbashing 3 possibles, after looking thru nearly ALL of my monster books.   a. a modified young green dragon.  b. a Deep Drake (Tome of Beasts) modified to better fit the above template, and C.  a modified Drakard (sic) from the same book, with inspiration from their Campaign setting book  Monsters and treasures of (something or other).  All got a tail smack attack instead of constrict, to retain the 4x multi-attack.  All have the acid cloud breath weapon, and a poisonous bite.  A. is CR 8, the others are CR9.</blockquote>

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