Special Conversion Thread: Aboleths

[freyar]

How about metaconcert and mind seed?

 

[Shade]

Sounds good!

Updated.

Shall we now figure out the non-psionic, sorcerer variant?

Spells: A ruler aboleth casts spells as a 20th-level sorcerer.

Sorcerer Spells Known (6/8/8/8/8/7/7/7/7/6, save DC 18 + spell level):
0—9;
1st—5;
2nd—5;
3rd—4;
4th—4;
5th—4;
6th—3;
7th—3;
8th—3;
9th—3.

 

[freyar]

Ugh, more spell lists! Maybe that's why bykov didn't want inherent casting/manifesting.

0 - arcane mark, dancing lights, detect magic, ghost sound, mage hand, prestidigitation, read magic, resistance, touch of fatigue
1 - chill touch, color spray, mage armor, true strike, ventriloquism
...

Trying to preserve flavor of powers as well as aboleth illusionism. Unless we think the SLAs are good enough for illusions?

 

[Shade]

I think the SLAs are mostly good enough for illusions, but I like what you have some more. Filling in the rest...

Spells: A ruler aboleth casts spells as a 20th-level sorcerer.

Sorcerer Spells Known (6/8/8/8/8/7/7/7/7/6, save DC 18 + spell level):
0—arcane mark, dancing lights, detect magic, ghost sound, mage hand, prestidigitation, read magic, resistance, touch of fatigue;
1st—chill touch, color spray, mage armor, true strike, ventriloquism;
2nd—blur, daze monster, mirror image, misdirection, touch of idiocy;
3rd—dispel magic, dispacement, haste, rage;
4th—black tentacles, confusion, crushing despair, enervation;
5th—cloudkill, feeblemind, mind fog, waves of fatigue;
6th—control water, greater dispel magic, true seeing;
7th—finger of death, greater teleport, insanity;
8th—demand, mind blank, moment of prescience;
9th—foresight, power word kill, time stop.

 

[freyar]

Hmm, I did mean to get back to that. Anyway, I like that. It's not exactly what the psionic version has, but it's a good sorcerous equivalent. Nice!

 

[Shade]

Updated.

Do we have all the special abilities covered?

Ready for skills and feats?

 

[freyar]

The original had a long-range telepathy with its subjects. I can't remember: did we decide to do something with that?

 

[Shade]

Here's what we discussed upthread.

Umm, 5 miles with subject aboleth and slaves? Same as the range for automatically breaking the enslave effect?

Plus the traditional 60 feet for communicating with other (non-enslaved) creatures?

20 mi. - 5 mi. - 60' works fine by me.

I believe the 20 mile number was for the grand aboleth, and the 5 mile number for the ruler.

 

[freyar]

Ok, we've got the usual 60 ft telepathy already. So, perhaps something like

X (Su): A ruler aboleth's telepathy extends to a range of 5 miles when it communicates with its slaves and subject aboleths.

? This needs a good name!

 

[Shade]

"Telepathic Overmind"?