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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cam Banks" data-source="post: 4616048" data-attributes="member: 3817">Part of the conversion I'm working on is Dragonlance material. The draconians from the classic modules come in five varieties, hatched from corrupted metallic dragon eggs. There are also good versions, which came from corrupted chromatic eggs, but that's neither here nor there.The lowest level draconians are the baaz, followed by the stealthy kapak, the spellcasting bozak, the big greatsword-wielding shapeshifting sivak, and finally the aurak, who're a kitchen sink of powers from gaseous form to shapeshifting to energy blasts and so forth.On the Dragonlance message boards there's been some healthy discussion about the levels these creatures (when used as opponents) should be set at. Many people want them all to be heroic tier, theorizing that you should be able to encounter all five types early on. It's debatable what level the modules would convert to; in 3e, they start at 5th and advance to 13th or 14th. It might make sense to have it start at heroic and cross into paragon for the last stages of the campaign.The baaz, kapak, and bozak all appeared frequently in the first four modules. It wasn't until the second group of four (which are the same levels as the last third; the party splits up and the second arc and third arc are undertaken more or less at the same time chronologically) that the more powerful sivak and aurak show up.So going by your theory, I could map baaz, kapak, and bozak over to heroic tier levels (between, say, level 2 and level 8) with the sivak and aurak being paragon (between 11 and 13). The aurak's definitely at least an elite, if not a solo; the sivaks would probably come in standard and elite versions.In AD&D, all these creatures had less than 10 HD. In 3E, I worked their ECL out to be 3 for baaz, 4 for kapak, 7 for bozak, 10 for sivak, and 12 for aurak. Sound like a reasonable enough baseline?Cheers,Cam</blockquote>

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