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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Boarstorm" data-source="post: 4282103" data-attributes="member: 63913">Happily!I'm in the process of converting Red Hand of Doom to 4E (with a targeted starting level of 4, so not a straight conversion, I'll probably post what I've done in the appropriate thread when I have more than 4 monsters to show for my work -- not all of us are as prolific as Keterys there. <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=":)" />  Thanks, by the way).  This particular creature is (no spoilers necessary, it's just a rank-and-file) a Hobgoblin Bladebearer.In 3.5, this particular hobgoblin wields two +1 short swords and wears leather armor.  Almost all his feats are two-weapon feats.  That, combined with his light armor, screamed skirmisher to me, so that's where I started.I'm picturing a very TWF-rangerish feel, but I wanted to emphasize his movement capabilities and cribbed something from the Spiretop Drake.  Anyway, what I've pieced together so far looks something like this.[sblock]Hobgoblin Bladebearer Medium Natural HumanoidLevel 4 skirmisher XP:175Initiative: +7 Senses Perception +3; low-light visionHP: 55; Bloodied 27AC 18; Fortitude 16, Reflex 16, Will 14Speed 6<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/bm.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":bmelee:" title="Basic Melee    :bmelee:" data-shortname=":bmelee:" /> Hookblade (standard; at-will) * Weapon+9 vs. AC; 1d8+3 damage.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/m.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":melee:" title="Melee    :melee:" data-shortname=":melee:" /> Double Attack (standard; at-will) * WeaponThe Hobgoblin Bladebearer may make two basic melee attacks.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/m.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":melee:" title="Melee    :melee:" data-shortname=":melee:" /> Running Attack (standard; at-will) * WeaponThe Hobgoblin Bladebearer moves up to 6 squares and makes a Double Attack at any point during that movement.  The Hobgoblin Bladebearer doesn't provoke opportunity attacks when moving away from the target of the attack.Hobgoblin Resilience (immediate reaction, when the hobgoblinbladebearer suffers an effect that a save can end; encounter)The hobgoblin bladebearer rolls a saving throw against the effect.Alignment: Evil Languages: Common, GoblinStr 16 (+5) Dex 16 (+5) Wis 12 (+3)Con 15 (+4) Int 10 (+2) Cha 8 (+1)[/sblock]Two notes:1) The hookblade is ... well, something of a combination sickle and short sword.  It's silly in real life, but emblematic of hobgoblins in my personal world.  Short swords work just as well.2) I don't like Running Attack!  It's based on the Spiretop Drake's Fly-by Attack (as alluded to, above), but it just doesn't work as well for something that doesn't fly because it essentially grants him a double move AND a double attack -- and while I can picture that if the critter has wings, it just doesn't feel correct for a ground-pounder.  In a perfect world, I'd make it cost a standard action and a move action, but I don't think there's any precedent for that.  I thought I saw at one point a power that required the monster not to have moved that turned to activate, but I can't find it at the moment, so I can't see if it would fit as well as I hope it would.Edit: Left off the Hobbo's resilience power.</blockquote>

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