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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obergnom" data-source="post: 3143952" data-attributes="member: 7145">I actually own all three Tomes of Horrors and a bunch of other monster books. My problem is not, not having enough monsters. It is just a pain to find the ones you really need. Example: I need a CR 8 Humanoid Creature, some kind of Brute. Maybe some Kind of Elite Orc with the ability to become invisible when not in bright light. When you slay it, it will fight on as a Zombie as long as you do not but it into bright light. It is just damn hard to find exactly the creature you need. Sometimes it is really cool to go through all those MMs and try to develop ideas based upon that, but have you ever measured how much time that takes? A lot. If you allready know what will happen, and just need some stats to excecute, you are in for a problem.In C&C I would make it a 8d8 Monster, give it 1 Attack per round doing 2d6 of Damage. The Saves are physical, the AC is 18.When standing in Shadows, it can become Invisible (As the spell) as long as it stays in shadows and when slayn, it turns into a 4HD Zombie (all other stats stay as is) ... now I have to look into a table to find out the amount of XP this creature is worth... but I can do this after gaming. (I made this creature up while typing)Now, lets try with D&D. I do not think there is a good base creature... so I have to come up with one myself... how many humanoid hit dice do I need for a creature to be CR8? 12 I gues. Thats BAB 9, now I have to look fopr its saves... Lets say it has got a good will and fortitude save (because of its ties to negative engery) ... thats +4 Relf and +8 Fort and Will. Next thing will be AC... well, lets make it 20, 0 of those are Dex. That will make the Refl Save stay at +4. Skills... ohm, it should have Move Silently and Hide maxed out, maybe listen. thats 15 Ranks in each. Feats... 5 of those. hmm, no Idea... maybe all Save feats, Dodge and Mobility. Damage... medium Claws do 1d6 Damage... 2 Attacks... now I still have to do the Abilties... I am lazy... Str, Dex, Con +3, Mental 0. But that will of course change AC again... and I have to recalculate the saves. Damn. Well... Spec Abilities. Cast Invis while in Darkness at will, CL 12. When dead, turn into skelleton... know I have to aplie that template... but I have enough allready.Actually, I thought I might have found just what I need when looking at Grim Tales Monster Creation... but sadly, it is much more complicated than I hoped. It takes me even longer using that system than guessing.</blockquote>

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