Special Conversion Thread: Lycanthropes and their ilk

[Shade]

Looks good!

 

[freyar]

About finished in that case?

 

[Cleon]

Looks good!

Updated the Dire Werelion Working Draft.

I tweaked a couple of the words, but didn't make any significant changes.

That seems to be about it for them.

 

[Shade]

Added to Homebrews.

 

[freyar]

I'd say that's done.

 

[Cleon]

So what's next?

 

[Shade]

Weremylodon, anyone?

Weresloth
No. Appearing: 1-4
Armor Class: 5
Move: 6”
Hit Dice: 2+3
% in Lair: 65%
Treasure Type: O,P
No. of Attacks: 2
Damage/Attack: 1-4/1-4
Special Attacks: Nil
Intelligence: Low
Alignment Neutral
Size M

These creatures are generally inoffensive and spend much of their days eating leaves, sleeping, etc. If they gain surprise over an opponent (having rolled a 1-4 due to their silence and coloration), they will flee 50% of the time, and sit silently otherwise, waiting for the intruder(s) to leave. They will fight if cornered or wounded, using their claws.

Originally appeared in Dragon Magazine #40 (1980).

 

[Cleon]

Weremylodon, anyone?

Weresloth
No. Appearing: 1-4
Armor Class: 5
Move: 6”
Hit Dice: 2+3
% in Lair: 65%
Treasure Type: O,P
No. of Attacks: 2
Damage/Attack: 1-4/1-4
Special Attacks: Nil
Intelligence: Low
Alignment Neutral
Size M

These creatures are generally inoffensive and spend much of their days eating leaves, sleeping, etc. If they gain surprise over an opponent (having rolled a 1-4 due to their silence and coloration), they will flee 50% of the time, and sit silently otherwise, waiting for the intruder(s) to leave. They will fight if cornered or wounded, using their claws.

Originally appeared in Dragon Magazine #40 (1980).

Well, it's Medium sized so we could use our Lesser Ground Sloth as the base animal.

However, it seems more likely this is meant to be a tree sloth (considering those aren't extinct!). Although there's no mention of a Climb speed, which lends some support to it not being arboreal.

Are their 3E stats for a tree sloth? If there are, we could do two weresloths, one for the ground and one for the trees.

 

[Shade]

Well, it's Medium sized so we could use our Lesser Ground Sloth as the base animal.

However, it seems more likely this is meant to be a tree sloth (considering those aren't extinct!). Although there's no mention of a Climb speed, which lends some support to it not being arboreal.

Are their 3E stats for a tree sloth? If there are, we could do two weresloths, one for the ground and one for the trees.

There's a forest sloth in Monster Manual II, but it seems a bit larger and more powerful than real-world tree sloths. We might need to whip up a real-world tree sloth.

I'd be fine with going with both a forest sloth/tree sloth version, and a weresloth.

 

[Mortis]

Once per month, on the night of the full moon, Timmy the teenager becomes even more lazy and inactive as he slowly transforms into Timmy the weresloth...

Regards
Mortis