Send In The Clowns… (or, Converting the Oddballs)

[Shade]

Yep, sure were.

Huge plant sounds good. Keep 'em mindless, or give 'em animal intelligence?

Ability scores of some other Huge "trees"...

Treant: Str 29, Dex 8, Con 21, Int 12, Wis 16, Cha 12
Dark Tree: Str 28, Dex 8, Con 21, Int 5, Wis 10, Cha 7
Ironmaw: Str 30, Dex 9, Con 23, Int 4, Wis 13, Cha 14

It looks like physical scores are fairly close, Str 28-30, Dex 8-9, Con 21-23.

 

[demiurge1138]

Let's give them animal intelligence.

 

[Shade]

Str 30, Dex 8, Con 22, Int 2, Wis 10, Cha 2?

 

[freyar]

Agreed to that.

Shall we just give all of them poison or only 15%?

 

[demiurge1138]

Those scores appeal.

 

[Shade]

Added to Homebrews.

Sure, let's go poison standard for killer spruces.

If a killer spruce has been brought to zero or fewer hit points, it makes one final attempt to destroy its opponents by falling over onto them. Anyone hit by such an attack suffers 5-30 hp damage and must make a dexterity check on 1d20 or be trapped beneath the fallen spruce. A killer spruce does not care about treasure, but there might still be some valuables lying under it, left there by past victims at the DM’s discretion.

We might be able to repurpose this...

Topple (Ex): When a rook is destroyed in melee combat, it topples into the space of the creature that landed the killing blow. Treat this as a cave-in or collapse, except the bury zone is limited to the 5-foot-space of the opponent who landed the killing blow, and the slide zone is all the adjacent squares. In the case of an opponent with a space larger than 5-feet or that attacks from greater than 5 feet away (such as with a reach weapon), the rook topples into an adjacent square in the direction from which the killing blow originated. The resulting rubble weighs 2,000 pounds.

 

[demiurge1138]

I don't think buried as per a cave-in is quite right--they should be pinned and take automatic slam damage, more like the crush ability of big dragons.

 

[freyar]

I'd agree with demiurge. But we can probably just modify that bit from the rook.

 

[Shade]

Fair enough. Crushed/pinned works for me.

Back to the poison for a second...

Some of these fierce conifers (15%) also have a weak poison on their needles that requires a character to save vs. poison at +3. Anyone who fails the save falls into a comatose sleep for 1-4 turns and may be attacked at +4 to hit by the spruce.

Initial and secondary sleep? Suggested durations?

Also, I'd say the saving throw bonus suggests we not use Ability Focus in this instance.

 

[demiurge1138]

We may even want a racial penalty to the DC.