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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7132475" data-attributes="member: 20323">I'm trying to convert the Singing Tree from the AD&D Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 1. A description of the original monster can be <a href="https://foxsuperpowerlist.com/plant-mimicry/" target="_blank">found at this blog</a>, but basically it's a non-or-barely-intelligent tree that has a charming song it uses to lure creatures to it, where it then uses its needle-sharp leaves to drain the victim's blood (without the charmed victim's awareness), before recalling the leaves back to the tree which appear to return to its branches as if blown by the breeze.I have a villain who has planted one in his palace gardens, training it like a guard plant and using it to test new recruits (or feed the unpromising ones to it). The massive palace gardens have a mystical Persian vibe to them and are full of dangers. Also, the tree has "overheard" (more an autonomic thing, since it's not truly intelligent) a magic password song which clever PCs might be able to "trick" it into revealing.How does this look to you? Am I getting the CR right?I especially struggled with determining how many extra HP to give it thanks to Needle-leaf (which is similar to a Vampire's Bite) & how to "price" its Sonambulant Song trait.Thanks! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="http://i.imgur.com/j1xQHf6.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />EDIT: Error in final formula. Should read: Total CR 13 = (16 + 10) / 2</blockquote>

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