Special Conversion Thread: Moldvay's Undead

[Shade]

Its wendigo madness! Perhaps we should devote an entire month to nothing but wendigoes?

The wind walker is a variant air elemental from back in the day. Here's a conversion:
Wind Walker

I'd suggest we rename this fellow to something like "Great Wendigo" or "Legendary Wendigo" to attempt to alleviate some of the confusion.

 

[freyar]

Legendary wendigo sounds appropriate. And let's make it fey for fun -- are any of the others fey?

 

[demiurge1138]

The wendigo template certainly is.

 

[Shade]

So 30 HD?

Int is listed as Supra-genius. Wendigo template gives Str +4, Dex +8, Con +4, Wis +2, Cha +4. So it looks like it should have good ability scores across the board, with Dex being the highest. Suggestions?

 

[freyar]

Str 22, Dex 27, Con 20, Int 19, Wis 17, Cha 16?

 

[Shade]

Let's bump Cha to 20, and I'll be happy.

Anyone looking at Wendigo must save vs. spells or be affected by fear. If the save fails, the person must make a second saving throw against death magic. If this second save also fails, then the individual becomes a servant of Wendigo and will be under his complete control. The control can only be broken by reducing Wendigo to zero or less hit points, slaying him.

A dominating fear gaze?

 

[freyar]

Seems about right to me. Base off the vampire?

 

[Shade]

I think so. In fact, I think we've done this before...but where?

 

[freyar]

Ok, let's just do it. Might have been a greater vamp, but I'm not sure.

Dominating Fear (Su): This ability functions as a gaze attack with a range of 30 ft. Any creature that looks at the Wendigo must make a DC X Will save or be frightened for 1 minute (?). Any creature frightened by this ability must make a second DC X Will save or be dominated by the Wendigo as the spell dominate person (caster level X).

 

[Shade]

That'll work. Should we explicitly note that the domination is permanent until the wendigo's death?