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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5047508" data-attributes="member: 57383">Right, let's start on converting Roger E Moore's "Fallen Brownie" version...Shall we call it a "Boggie", to distinguish from the official Boggart?Since a Boggart/Boggie is supposed to be a corrupted form of a Brownie, and it has the same 1/2 HD and Tiny size as the 3.5 Brownie, it would seem to make sense to take the wizards.com stats of a Brownie and "Boggify" them:The Boggie/Boggart is a lot stupider, with Intelligence Low to Average (or 5-10, median 7.5), so shall we halve the Brownie's Intelligence?Moore's version has Dex 18, but so does the AD&D 1E version of the Brownie, if I remember correctly, so I think we'll keep the Dex at 20. That will let us retain the AC17 without having to give it another point from somewhere else.Since these are a brutish, vicious form of Brownie, I suggest adding a point to its Strength.That would give it the following stats:Abilities: Str 6, Dex 20, Con 14, Int 7, Wis 13, Cha 13Apart from that, the main difference appears to be Boggie don't have as many skills and abilities.The Boggie will retain the Brownie's Evasion, Hide in Plain Sight and Uncanny Dodge, but should lose Calm Animals and Wild Empathy. The only special attack it has is assuming a terrifying form thrice a day. This could be a supernatural ability, but the text mentions "spell powers", suggesting a SLA. I suggest using the more powerful fear rather than the single-target cause fear, since this is the only real offensive ability the nasty little critter has. The brownie has some higher level SLA's like confusion and dimension door, so that seems reasonable to me.If we give them Int 7 they'll only have half the skill points of the Int 14 Brownie, so we'll need to cut out a bunch of the Brownie's skills. They're supposed to be sneaky, so we should max-out Hide and Move Silently. I don't think they'll need the Brownie's Craft, Diplomacy and Sense motive skill ranks, so we can distribute the remaining 8 skill points between Climb, Escape Artist, Listen, Spot and Tumble. 2 points in Listen, Spot & Tumble, 1 in the other skills?Skills: Climb 1, Escape Artist 1, Hide 4, Listen 2, Move Silently 4, Spot 2, Tumble 2.I'm thinking we should keep the Brownie's Agile feat and give the boggie a racial bonus to Spot and Listen (as it has "extraordinary senses") - say a +4 bonus?With its size and Dexterity it will have the same +17 modifier to Hide as the Brownie, so I don't think it needs a racial bonus to its stealth skills.Its Challenge Rating is probably less than the Brownie's 3. Maybe CR2?The Treasure type looks alright, except it needs to drop the masterwork artisan's tools.Apart from that, the other changes I can see are:Organisation: SolitaryAlignment: Often chaotic neutral, never good</blockquote>

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