Special Conversion Thread: Microscopic Monsters

[freyar]

Each tendril does 1d2 acid damage per round, so it can do up to 4d2 per 5 ft. square.

Oh, I didn't notice that in the fine print.

 

[Cleon]

Oh, I didn't notice that in the fine print.

It's always the fine print that gets you.

 

[Shade]

So all that remains is descriptive text and CR?

 

[Cleon]

So all that remains is descriptive text and CR?

I'm wondering about a racial bonus to Hide (hence the Hide +4? in the skills), since the original description says people can blunder into them at night - I have difficulty imagining someone accidentally swimming into something 7 foot across unless it had some stealth advantage.

 

[Shade]

I'm wondering about a racial bonus to Hide (hence the Hide +4? in the skills), since the original description says people can blunder into them at night - I have difficulty imagining someone accidentally swimming into something 7 foot across unless it had some stealth advantage.

Is it perhaps due to transparency like a gel cube?

 

[Cleon]

Is it perhaps due to transparency like a gel cube?

I'm imagining the Globigerina's spines are transparent as water and its body is the same colour as the ocean, but it isn't countershaded so the shadow of its body on its lower half gives it away during daylight. It presumably sinks into the depths during the day to keep hidden.

 

[freyar]

That sounds mechanically a lot like transparency. I think I'd favor that.

 

[Shade]

Yeah, I think this mechanic will work better for this particular creature than a Hide check.

Transparent (Ex): Gelatinous cubes are hard to see, even under ideal conditions, and it takes a DC 15 Spot check to notice one. Creatures who fail to notice a cube and walk into it are automatically engulfed.

 

[Cleon]

That sounds mechanically a lot like transparency. I think I'd favor that.

I'm OK using the Transparency SQ, I just fancy having the see-through spines and ocean-camouflaged core in the description or background text.

 

[freyar]

However you want to write the flavor/description is fine.

Transparent (Ex): Globigerina are hard to see (unless removed from the ocean), and it takes a DC 15?? Spot check to notice one. Creatures who fail to notice a globigerina and move within 5 feet of it are automatically attacked.