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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 9212723" data-attributes="member: 57383">Yeah, if we give the female a Con bonus that's +2 higher than the male that'd match the 100 hit point difference of the original. That's the approach the current conversions take.As a though exercise, if we wanted to to use the hit point ratio of 350 to 250 instead, we'd need an even higher Constitution for the female since its hit points would need to be 40% higher than the male and that'd include the male's Con bonus.For example, if the male krakentua has the same Constitution 29 as a standard 3E Kraken it'd have Hit Dice: 50d8+450 (675 hp) so the female would need Con 39 or 40 and Hit Dice: 50d8+700 (925 hp) for the best match to 40% higher HP. That works out about 37% higher.Approaching it the opposite direction, if the females had the Con 29 and Hit Dice: 50d8+450 (675 hp) then a male would need Hit Dice: 50d8+250 (475 hp) [Con 21] to be close to the target ratio. That'd make the female roughly 42% tougher.Alternatively, we could take an in-between approach with, say, Hit Dice: 50d8+550 (775 hp) [Con 32-33] for the females and Hit Dice: 50d8+350 (575 hp) [Con 24-25] for the males, which gives the females 34.78% more hit points.I prefer the last two ideas as the difference between their hit points is in nice round hundreds to honor the 100-point difference of the original.If we gave the females Con 33 and the males Con 24 that'd average to Con 28½ so the mid point has a +9 Constitution modifier like a Kraken.Hmm, I quite like that.Yes and yes.Should it have the (Aquatic) subtype like a Kraken?I'd keep the Water Breathing trait, so it technically doesn't need it but it seems appropriate flavour-wise.</blockquote>

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