Special Conversion Thread: Finishing off giants and their kin

[freyar]

Base stats on stone giants?

 

[Shade]

I think so. They appear to be little more than variant stone giants. The bulk of the entry is flavor fitting them into the Spelljammer setting and ship mechanics.

 

[freyar]

Int is a bit higher than 3.x stone giants. Maybe boost mental stats a bit?

 

[Shade]

Here are the 2e stone giant stats for comparison...

CLIMATE/TERRAIN: Sub-tropical and temperate mountains
FREQUENCY: Rare
ORGANIZATION: Tribal
ACTIVITY CYCLE: Any
DIET: Omnivorous
INTELLIGENCE: Average (8-10)
TREASURE: D
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
NO. APPEARING: 1-10
ARMOR CLASS: 0
MOVEMENT: 12
HIT DICE: 14 + 1-3 hit points
THAC0: 7
NO. OF ATTACKS: 1
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-8 or by weapon (2-12+8)
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Hurling rocks for 3-30 (3d10)
SPECIAL DEFENSES: See below
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Nil
SIZE: H (18' tall)
MORALE: 16
XP VALUE: 7,000
Infant Nil
Juvenile, -3 975
Juvenile, -2 3,000
Juvenile, -1 6,000
Elder 9,000
Spell caster 9,000

CLIMATE/TERRAIN: Wildspace
FREQUENCY: Rare
OR&NIZATION: Tribal/ship
ACTIVITY CYCLE: Any
DIET: Omnivore
INTELLIGENCE: High (13-14)
TREASURE: W (F)
ALIGNMENT: Neutral good
NO. APPEARING: 11-20
ARMOR CLASS: 0
MOVEMENT: 12
HIT DICE: 14 + 1d4
THACO: 7
NO. OF ATTACKS: 1
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-10 or by weapon (10-20)
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Hurling rocks for 3-30, or 1-3 hull points
SPECIAL DEFENSES: See below
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Nil
SIZE: H (18’ tall)
MORALE: Champion (16)
XP VALUE: 8,000

It looks like 4 higher Int than stone giants, higher base slam damage, and different alignment, treasure, and organization.


Also...

One in 20 stone giants develop special abilities related to their environment. These giant elders are able to stone shape, stone tell, and transmute rock to mud (or mud to rock) once per day as if they were 5th level mages. One in 10 of these exceptional giants can also cast spells as if he were a 3rd level wizard. Their spells can be determined randomly or chosen to fit a specific encounter as desired. Frequently these giants are able to rise to positions of power and are considered the leaders of several clans.

Along with their intelligence increase, the frequency of elders and magic-using giants has gone up. For every ten giants, one is an elder who is able to use stone shape, stone tell, and transmute rock to mud spells, once per day, as a 7th-level mage. Of these elders, 50% can cast wizard or priest spells as 5th-level spellcasters.

 

[demiurge1138]

So, should we make stats for a spacesea giant and then a statblock for a spacesea giant savant with five levels in cleric?

 

[freyar]

I'd agree with that. And put in a sidebar about elders, like the stone giant has.

 

[Shade]

Good ideas.

Do we want to raise Wis or Cha along with Int?

 

[freyar]

I'd say so, yes. So Str 27, Dex 15, Con 19, Int 14, Wis 16, Cha 14?

 

[demiurge1138]

Sounds good to me. I figured that the spacesea giant savant we statted up would have the appropriate SLAs, in addition to its cleric levels, but specifically calling them out in a sidebar as well is a good idea.

 

[freyar]

Yeah, I just figure there should be elders that aren't also savants, that's all.