Special Conversion Thread: Moldvay's Undead

[freyar]

You're right, we should.

 

[Shade]

Added to Homebrews.

 

[freyar]

Summon Hungry Spirit (Sp): Three times per day, the Great Wendigo can automatically summon 2d12 ghouls, 1d6 ghasts, or 1d3 wind walkers. This ability is the equivalent of an X level spell.

Those are the numbers from the original text, but I feel like ghouls aren't that much worse than ghasts to explain the discrepancy in numbers. Want to make it more like 1d12?

Edit: Maybe we should also do a 3.5 version of the wind walker to go with this, too.

 

[demiurge1138]

Ghouls, ghasts and windwalkers all are pretty pathetic summons for something with 30 HD.

 

[freyar]

True that. Devourers would be better and are thematically good. Sticking with undead, nightshades are also fairly appropriate toughness but not as well themed. Let's see if we can think of any other "hunger" or "wind" themed monsters we've converted...

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Elder air elementals?

Famine spirits (MM2)?

Abyssal ghouls(FF)?

 

[Shade]

Good suggestions.

We might also consider the elevated ghouls we converted recently.

 

[demiurge1138]

Elevated ghouls are a good idea.

 

[freyar]

Yeah, I like these suggestions too. If we have to pick just one of the ghouls, let's go elevated just because we converted it ourselves.

 

[Shade]

We could note others, like the famine spirit, as "if you're using x book".