Cleon
Legend
Same thing shirley.
That grapple bonus seems awful low. How about tagging on a +6 racial bonus to make it +0?
Special Conversion Thread: Microscopic Monsters
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Same thing shirley.
That grapple bonus seems awful low. How about tagging on a +6 racial bonus to make it +0?
Shade
Monster Junkie
Cleon
Legend
+8 to grapple works for me.
Cleon
Legend
What's a good collective noun for amoebas. A mass? A congealment? A blob?
The Advancement looks fine.
The description should mention their irregular shape. Something like.
An amoeba has an amorphous body it can reshape at will, throwing out pseudopods to attack prey or to flow to another location. Most of the time, a typical giant amoeba's body is a flattened, irregular blob between 2 and 5 feet across, but it can compress itself into a globe as little as a foot across, or stretch into a ribbon of living slime as much as 8 feet long. A Small giant amoeba weighs around 50 pounds, but they can grow to weigh many tons.
Cleon
Legend
1) The tactics has mispelled pseudopods "pseuodpops" but apart from that it looks sound mechanically.
(Leaving aside the quaint colonial spelling
) 2) Challenge Rating 1 might be a bit high, 1/2 might be enough.
3) I'm not entirely sure about the Swim speed. Amoebas crawl along by reaching out with their pseudopods and pulling. As a rule they can't swim, although rhere are exceptions like Naegleria which transform into a "swimming form" when they need to migrate.
That said, I see no reason a giant amoeba can't swim. The physics at macro-scale are very different to the microscopic world. Maybe it used the water it expels from its vacuoles to create a primitive form of jet propulsion to slowly squirt itself through the water?
So, I'm OK leaving the swim speed in or taking it out, it's up to you.
4) However, it could do with a Climb speed. Somewhere around 10 to 20 ft.?
5) We should do something regarding this:
"Amoeba is highly sensitive to fire, and a torch will do 1-6 hp damage to it per round of application (no roll to hit necessary unless the character throws the torch)."
Just add Add Vulnerability To Fire. I considered adapting the Plantfolk's Fear of Flames, but the entry suggests it ignores the damage and keeps on fighting. Presumably because it's mindless!
Perhaps tweak the tactics too?
Thus...
Special Qualities: Amphibious, blind, blindsight 60 ft., ooze traits, translucent, vulnerability to fire
COMBAT
A giant amoeba simply lashes out with pseuodpods and seeks to grab and dissolve prey into digestible chunks. Giant amoebas are highly sensitive to fire, and instinctively retreat from a naked flame.
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