[Iron] IronNPC -- RAY SILVER WINS!

[Nifft]

FINAL ROUND!!!

Drunken Master vs. Ray Silver

Constraints:
NPC Levels: 8, 12, 15, 17
NPC Race: Humanoid
NPC Template: Half-Dragon


Ingredients:
- Kobold Sorcerer(s)
- Love-Struck Fool
- Misleading Monument
- Nature vs. Nurture
- Orcus
- Pernicious Advisor

BONUS INGREDIENTS:
- Quicksilver
- Rast Hunter
- Shadow of the God
- Theater of Conflict
- Ultrasonic Mummy
- Vengence Denied

BONUS LEVEL: Stats & story for Epic Level.

As with IronDM, the Bonus only counts for you if you use them well. They will count against you if you use them poorly, and will not count if you do not use them. (Mechanics wise: the BONUS INGREDIENT scale will go from -5 to +5 if you use them.)

Official Time is 3:15 PM US Eastern Time. You have 48 hours. Good luck!

-- Nifft

 

[Ruined]

- Ultrasonic Mummy

Hey, I've seen these guys in concert!!

Good luck to both of you. I'm actually not envious of the work this one will require, but it looks like a fun challenge.

 

[Nifft]

Hey, I've seen these guys in concert!!

I didn't say Ululating Mummy!

-- Nifft

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Re: FINAL ROUND!!!

Drunken Master vs. Ray Silver

Constraints:
NPC Levels: 8, 12, 15, 17
NPC Race: Humanoid
NPC Template: Half-Dragon


Ingredients:
- Kobold Sorcerer(s)
- Love-Struck Fool
- Misleading Monument
- Nature vs. Nurture
- Orcus
- Pernicious Advisor

Orcus? Orcus?! Yeah, I'm so busting into the ELH for that. Darn good thing I have the BoVD too. You just watch, I'm going to make Orcus in an NPC... Half-kobold, half-dragon sorcerer Orcus, that's what I'm going to make. Hah! I'll show you all...

(The above comment was made while the author was on a caffeine high. Pay it no mind.)

 

[Wippit Guud]

I thought that the competition was core-only?
(Or is ELH considered core?)

 

[Nifft]

I thought that the competition was core-only?
(Or is ELH considered core?)

The contestants are free to make stuff up, and I will judge it on merit, not adherance to a book I've barely read. The only rules which are hard and fast are Core Rules.

ELH is not required to make "EPIC" level characters -- see SHARK's threads for proof!

-- Nifft

 

[Drunken Master]

are we to take into account the ECL for the half-dragon template?
i think it's ECL 5, right? so for level 8, should the character be 3rd level or ignore the ECL and be 8th level?
(assuming the template-ified race doesn't have an ECL of its own - human or gnome, for instance).

 

[Nifft]

ECL for a Half-Dragon

Sources disagree. Numbers vary from +3 to +7. There is no canonical ECL in the SRD -- at least, none I can find.

If you were asking me for a PC, I'd give a weak Half-Dragon for 3-4 ECL, and a strong one (Silver, Gold or Red) for +5 ECL.

However, you are free to use anything reasonable for your NPCs.

-- Nifft

 

[Drunken Master]

Half-Dragon Hit Dice

the half-dragon template bumps up the base creature's hit die type - i assume this also applies to hit dice gained from character classes? (i.e. rogues get a d8, fighters a d12, etc.)

 

[Nifft]

I'd say that the template bumps up creatue HD size, not class HD size. So a Half-Dragon Lizardman Druid3 would have 2d10+3d8.

However, I'm not the DM -- just the judge.

-- Nifft