Special Conversion Thread: Microscopic Monsters

[freyar]

Well, it is encased in a shell, so it should have pretty good NA.

As for the penetrate armor bit, it doesn't seem very 3.X-ish. I'm not sure how I'd want to deal with that, though I have a vague feeling we've seen some abilities like that before. Anyone else remember?

 

[Shade]

Well, it is encased in a shell, so it should have pretty good NA.

I'm in favor of higher NA, low Dex. We can go alot lower on the end AC...I'm not too worried about preserving the original AC, as it's only a 1-HD creature!

As for the penetrate armor bit, it doesn't seem very 3.X-ish. I'm not sure how I'd want to deal with that, though I have a vague feeling we've seen some abilities like that before. Anyone else remember?

It seems vaguely familiar...something like a "find weak spot", although I'm not having luck tracking it down.

 

[Cleon]

I'm in favor of higher NA, low Dex. We can go alot lower on the end AC...I'm not too worried about preserving the original AC, as it's only a 1-HD creature!

Higher NA and lower Dex than the working draft, e.g. NA +10, Dex -5?

I prefer giving it a higher Dex than that, if only because it has three melee attacks to coordinate.

It seems vaguely familiar...something like a "find weak spot", although I'm not having luck tracking it down.

How about its tentacles confirm critical hits as if it was making a touch attack rather than a melee attack?

 

[freyar]

How about Dex 3 or Dex 5? Like Shade, I'm not sure we need the AC quite that high, but I don't mind a NA of +8 or +9.

Something like auto-confirming criticals does sound familiar. Or maybe an extended threat range would work.

 

[Shade]

Hmm...if it's simply ignoring armor, isn't that the very definition of a touch attack?

 

[freyar]

Hmm...if it's simply ignoring armor, isn't that the very definition of a touch attack?

Well, the original doesn't ignore armor. It reduces the effectiveness of heavy armors to the equivalent of chain mail. So it's not as good as a touch attack. Since it's about finding joints in armor, etc, it sounds like precision damage --- something like a crit or a sneak attack.

 

[Shade]

Good point. So maybe just precise strike like a duelist?

 

[Cleon]

How about Dex 3 or Dex 5? Like Shade, I'm not sure we need the AC quite that high, but I don't mind a NA of +8 or +9.

Something like auto-confirming criticals does sound familiar. Or maybe an extended threat range would work.

Well I might be persuaded down to Dex 5, but it'd take some doing.

 

[Cleon]

Hmm...if it's simply ignoring armor, isn't that the very definition of a touch attack?

It's not ignoring armour, it's ignoring heavy armour.

Some kind of cap of armour bonuses would be the most accurate way to mimic the original version, but that seems awfully fiddly.

 

[Shade]

It's not ignoring armour, it's ignoring heavy armour.

Some kind of cap of armour bonuses would be the most accurate way to mimic the original version, but that seems awfully fiddly.

Indeed. Hmm...what if it gets a bonus on attack rolls equal to the opponent's armor check penalty? Is that still too fiddly?