Monsters from "The Halls of Tizun Thane"

[Garnfellow]

"The Halls of Tizun Thane" was a classic D&D scenario from White Dwarf 18; it was the first documented use of several Fiend Folio monsters such as the berbalang, blood hawk, carbuncle, mite, and necrophidius (all of which had debuted in earlier issues of WD). The adventure also had several new monsters* that didn't appear again anywhere else:

• Gu'en-deeko (a strange monstrous humanoid with the ability to absorb the memories and abilities of creatures)
• Nandie (a simian magical beast)
• Nandie-bear (its larger cousin)
• Shadow Dancer (an extraplanar construct)

I've posted a conversion of the adventure to my website (http://home.gwi.net/~rdorman/frilond/rul/dm/Tizun_Thane.html), including conversions of these monsters.

I also want to throw a shout-out to the Creature Catalog for its nifty conversion of the berbalang. (I was a little surprised that the berbalang has not been "officially" converted to 3.xe; it was a pretty popular monster back in the day and had some gruesomely awesome Russ Nicholson art in the first Fiend Folio. Then again, it does have a rather bizarre ecology.)

* One monster that appeared in the Halls of Tizun Thane, "the green gremlin," I didn't convert and just substituted a mephit. The gremlin was not described very vividly in the adventure and besides, there are already tons of existing monsters in the imp niche.

 

[BOZ]

garnfellow, that's awesome.

 

[Garnfellow]

Thanks. I can't tell you how great it is to need a converted monster, and have Google send me right to the CC.

 

[Shade]

Nice work! I like the rusting arrows...I might have to use those to torment my poor players sometime.

 

[Mortis]

I like, and second Shade on the rusting arrow.

One very minor point - you need to put the closing ')' after the '[/url]' for the link to work properly (in IE anyway).

Regards
Mortis

 

[Garnfellow]

I like, and second Shade on the rusting arrow.

One very minor point - you need to put the closing ')' after the '[/url]' for the link to work properly (in IE anyway).

Doh! Always check links . . . always check links. Thanks for the help.

The 3e mechanics for rusting arrows is courtesy of the MEG's Artificers Handbook, an outstanding little d20 book.