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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Big Mac" data-source="post: 4325623" data-attributes="member: 61182">I hate it when that sort of thing happens. You can rebuild a post or email, but it never seems to be as good the second time.So do we go with a standard aruchai that converts into the creature it killed after 24 hours? Should we drop the reference to it terrorising creatures on that plane? Should we make the creature less agressive (i.e. it spends 24 hours searching for a lair where it can transform into a copy of the creature it killed).There is so much going on with this beastie, that anything we can cut down (but retain) is going to help. Maybe it just snatches up anything that could be a creature it can eat. (I do think it should stick to random objects that are not nailed down as well as weapons. After all, how can it know what is and isn't a weapon.)The immunity could always be altered down to resistance later on (if the creature looks too powerful). I think the tripple damage from fire helps a bit. We have to leave that in.Gnomes and halflings need opponents too! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Joking aside, there are a couple of ways to deal with this:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Have the creature expand to medium (and maybe large) as it advances or</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Make the creature "stretchy" so that it can spread itself out and engulf creatures up to one size larger than you would expect.</li> </ol>I quite like the idea of these creatures opening up like the jaw of a snake and spending extra time to get their "fingers" around a bigger foe. You could even let them grow two size categories and make them take an extra round per size category to absorb a paralised victim.(Something like this would give the PCs a small bit of extra time to save a friend. The GM could tell the players that their half-ogre friend starts the round with his legs totally encased and the aruchai slowly engulfing the rest of his lower torso.)</blockquote>

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