Lore of the Zahl-Ganib

[Clay_More]

Naturally Piratecat! I updated the Zahl-Ganib to take the criticism into account, fixed their skill points, made them vulnerable to AoE in scatter form, included a mention of the time it takes to reform after scatter and removed spell-like abilities to give the spells instead. Included two possible spell lists.

I have three of the Zahl-Ganib creaturs comming up very soon, just need to brush them off. Got the Scarab Destroyers, that are the heavy constructs used as a combination of siege weapons and melee units by the Zahl-Ganib, the Scarab Bombardiers that are ranged support and the Scarab Servitors that are the undead ground troops of the Zahl-Ganib, hope to have them up in a day or two.

 

[Land Outcast]

Hum... I just realized, here we have a CR 9 creature with the casting of a Wizard lvl 8... plus many important -and really useful- abilities.

How would it compare to a Human Lich of the same CR? (I know liches can't be lower than 11th level casters, but for the sake of comparisson)

 

[Clay_More]

I am actually not sure how it would compare to a lich. When I made it, the primary creature I compared with to adjust the CR was the Mummy. Lich is probably a bit better bet. Do you think that the Zahl-Ganib might be a tad too powerful for its CR? I figured that with only 59 hp, they would risk getting killed very early in combat if someone manages to somehow catch them.

 

[Land Outcast]

I figured that with only 59 hp, they would risk getting killed very early in combat if someone manages to somehow catch them.

hum... right, lich's DR was 15/magic and bludgeoning (and -a Wiz lvl 7- should have (6.5*7=)44hp)... that's quite a bit...; but we still have the 9th lvl casting, maybe decrease CL to 7-8

 

[ceratitis]

as usual very very cool stuff
i'm gonna be rather busy for a month now so i cant go over it properly but if its still here in july...
Z

 

[Clay_More]

Okay, I finished the Scarab Destroyers, Bombardiers and Servitors, placed them in this thread:

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=164127

(I know from experience that people stop reading if you get a single post thats too long, so I made a new post for the three critters).

hum... right, lich's DR was 15/magic and bludgeoning (and -a Wiz lvl 7- should have (6.5*7=)44hp)... that's quite a bit...; but we still have the 9th lvl casting, maybe decrease CL to 7-8

I actually decided to go with the approach of bumping up the CR of the Zahl-Ganib to 10. That should be sufficient to account for the few extra levels of spellcasting. I did consider using the idea of nerfing their spellcasting a little bit, but decided against it since they should be, after all, masters at Necromancy.

as usual very very cool stuff
i'm gonna be rather busy for a month now so i cant go over it properly but if its still here in july...
Z

Thanks Cera, good to see you are still around

 

[Land Outcast]

Good... that makes sense, I'll go and see the creations then...

 

[Nyaricus]

Dude, that's just cool - makes me kinda think of diablo 2 (love that game). I would love to add all you other creations to my Tasty Bits Thread - could you possibly cough up some links? Thanks.

 

[Clay_More]

Yeah, sure you can Nya.

I got the Skullmaster spells in this thread. It also contains the docs for some of the threads that were lost, so it actually contains quite a bit of my stuff.

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=162815

I have some added Vladimir Gygyr material in this thread.

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=163713

Then there's the Creations of Zahl-Ganib thread.

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=164127

Some of these aren't completely done, I am editing them now and then as I get feedback on some of them.