Special Conversion Thread: Microscopic Monsters

[Shade]

Hmm, 1 Con per round? I could do that. If the victim dies, it grows a new colony?

Works for me!

 

[Cleon]

Works for me!

Here's an outline then:

Slime Mold Sporocarp (CR X)
A mature sporocarp resembles a large, dried out mushroom about X1 feet tall. The head of the "mushroom" is hollow and filled with spores about an inch long. A dry sporocarp has vulnerability to fire. It is AC X2 and takes X3 hit points of damage to destroy, but any weapon damage which does not destroy the sporocarp causes it to split open and release its spores. The spores scatter in a cloud covering a Y1 foot radius and attach themselves to any organic matter they touch (including living creatures), which they immediately start to digest, doing 1 point of Constitution damage per round. The spores can be removed by Y2 or killed by Y3.

Partially developed sporocarps are soggy and covered with damp mucus, giving them fire resistance X. Such a sporocarp poses no threat, since its spores are not ready to reproduce.

 

[freyar]

Looks good. Randomly spitting out numbers:

X1=20, X2 = AC 1 as an object, but maybe add hardness 3 or 4 (just less than wood), X3 = something around 30 or 40 hp

Y1=30 ft, Y2=?, Y3=?

 

[Cleon]

Looks good. Randomly spitting out numbers:

X1=20, X2 = AC 1 as an object, but maybe add hardness 3 or 4 (just less than wood), X3 = something around 30 or 40 hp

Y1=30 ft, Y2=?, Y3=?

The original Sporocarp is AC 4, which is fairly tough, so I'd be OK giving them hardness 4 or 5.

It also has 20-400 hit points, which is 210 on average! That seems an awful lot, especially as they self-destruct when hit.

Maybe 40 hit points, since the original was 20d20?

I'm thinking scraping, fire, or remove disease should be the approved method of slime-infestation.

 

[freyar]

40 hp is ok, but I'm also ok with going higher too. I guess they are quite tall. Hmmm, maybe if we think of killing it like chopping down a tree, it could be more. I mean, a 1-ft diameter tree has 120 hp to chop through. Want to go to 100 hp?

Scraping, fire, remove disease all work for me.

Immature sporocarps have fire resistance 5?

 

[Cleon]

40 hp is ok, but I'm also ok with going higher too. I guess they are quite tall. Hmmm, maybe if we think of killing it like chopping down a tree, it could be more. I mean, a 1-ft diameter tree has 120 hp to chop through. Want to go to 100 hp?

I'm not that fussed either way. I suppose we should decide on how big this thing is before settling on a hit point value.

Scraping, fire, remove disease all work for me.

Adapt the SRD Green Slime?

On the first round of contact, the slime can be scraped off a creature (most likely destroying the scraping device), but after that it must be frozen, burned, or cut away (dealing damage to the victim as well). Anything that deals cold or fire damage, sunlight, or a remove disease spell destroys a patch of green slime.
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On the first round of contact, the spores can be scraped off a creature, but after that they must be frozen, burned, or cut away (dealing damage to the victim as well). A remove disease spell will remove a slime mold spore infestation from a victim.

That suggests the infestation needs a hit point value for it to be cut off.

Immature sporocarps have fire resistance 5?

That'd suit me.

 

[Shade]

40 hp is ok, but I'm also ok with going higher too. I guess they are quite tall. Hmmm, maybe if we think of killing it like chopping down a tree, it could be more. I mean, a 1-ft diameter tree has 120 hp to chop through. Want to go to 100 hp?

Good analogy! Let's go the "tree" route.

 

[Cleon]

Good analogy! Let's go the "tree" route.

So shall we give it 120 hp like the aforementioned tree? That's still less than the original's average hit points.

 

[freyar]

120 hp seems good. It's hard to imagine it would take more to chop it down than a medium-sized tree.

I think we can just use the exact green slime text you quited, if you just change "slime" to "spores."

 

[Shade]

120 hp seems good. It's hard to imagine it would take more to chop it down than a medium-sized tree.

I think we can just use the exact green slime text you quited, if you just change "slime" to "spores."

I agree with all that.