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<blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 4485692" data-attributes="member: 40522">I reskin monsters constantly and shamelessly.In the first 4E adventure I ran, the big villain was a cleric of Asmodeus. I reskinned specters as &quot;ash spirits,&quot; ephemeral creatures composed of shimmering heat waves, ash, and the stench of brimstone. The only &quot;crunchy&quot; bit I changed was their aura had the Fire keyword instead of Cold. When the characters made their Religion checks, I told them that Asmodeus puts the souls of the damned at the command of his priests and the tension racheted up--all from a simple change in name and description.The Tower of Yeltroon is haunted by &quot;black bats of Algos,&quot; conjured into the world from some nether plane by the archmage Algos in ages past. They appear as bloated, ovoid bats with six spiderlike, baleful green eyes, spined wings, and a hanging tail tipped with a stinger. Arcana checks reveal that the black bats of Algos can decieve the eyes and weaken the body and mind with their venomous sting. The black bats of Algos use the statistics of imps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dykstrav, post: 4485692, member: 40522"] I reskin monsters constantly and shamelessly. In the first 4E adventure I ran, the big villain was a cleric of Asmodeus. I reskinned specters as "ash spirits," ephemeral creatures composed of shimmering heat waves, ash, and the stench of brimstone. The only "crunchy" bit I changed was their aura had the Fire keyword instead of Cold. When the characters made their Religion checks, I told them that Asmodeus puts the souls of the damned at the command of his priests and the tension racheted up--all from a simple change in name and description. The Tower of Yeltroon is haunted by "black bats of Algos," conjured into the world from some nether plane by the archmage Algos in ages past. They appear as bloated, ovoid bats with six spiderlike, baleful green eyes, spined wings, and a hanging tail tipped with a stinger. Arcana checks reveal that the black bats of Algos can decieve the eyes and weaken the body and mind with their venomous sting. The black bats of Algos use the statistics of imps. [/QUOTE]

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