Special Conversion Thread: Aboleths

[demiurge1138]

Yes. Yes it does.

 

[freyar]

So maybe drop illusory wall, persistent image, project image, and veil? Or some subset of those?

 

[Shade]

Sure. Illusory wall probably has limited use in the open sea. I could see keeping veil, though, as it masks its skum to resemble merfolk or tritons.

 

[freyar]

Ok, so far we'll drop illusory wall and keep veil. Drop the other two or keep them? Any thoughts, demiurge?

 

[demiurge1138]

Keep persistant, drop project. Project image is truly nasty, and removing it does remove with it a good bit of the aboleth's caster cred.

 

[freyar]

Sounds good. So what does that correspond to in the psionic version, and do we want to add anything else before skills and feats?

 

[Shade]

Maybe drop psionic modify memory and wall of ectoplasm?

 

[freyar]

Sounds reasonable.

 

[Shade]

Updated.

Telepathy range?

Skills: 6 at 13 ranks
Aboleths have Concentration, Knowledge (any one), Listen, and Spot

Feats: 4
Aboleths have Alertness, Combat Casting, Iron Will

Environment: Any aquatic?

 

[freyar]

Back to enslave for a moment: despite being weaker psionically, the saltwater aboleth has better enslavement. It shouldn't be broken until the victim moves 5 miles away, and it should be 6/day instead of 3/day. That's the difference in the older versions.

The regular aboleth doesn't have telepathy, so I don't think the psionically weaker saltwater one should have it either.

Let's give them also Swim (seems logical, right?). Other than that, maybe Spellcraft or Psicraft (for the underbar). Autohypnosis or an additional Knowledge also seem like good choices.

Perhaps Improved Initiative for the last feat?

I guess any aquatic if we can't specify saltwater.