Special Conversion Thread: Moldvay's Undead

[freyar]

Sounds good. How many options do we want to give?

 

[Shade]

At the very least, the elder air elementals, elevated ghouls, and famine spirits.

Alternatively, we could allow it to summon X HD worth of elementals with the Air subtype and corporeal undead with ties to consuming flesh. That leaves it wide open for the DM.

 

[demiurge1138]

I'm not sure about famine spirits. They're CR 17-19 (and poorly designed enough that I rewrote them), which is probably about what Ol' Wendy here is.

 

[Shade]

Oh...I forgot how tough those fellas were.

How about we allow it to summon 30 HD worth of worth of elementals with the Air subtype and corporeal undead with ties to consuming flesh? Thus, it could get 15 ghouls, 7 ghasts or bakas, 2 elevated ghouls, 3 breathdrinkers, or 1 elder air elemental plus a Medium and Small air elemental (and so on).

 

[freyar]

Shade's more wide open option works, and we can give the others as examples.

 

[demiurge1138]

Sounds good to me.

 

[Shade]

Updated.

This fella's a bit light on the abilities. Wanna borrow from the wendigo template, or other wendigo sources?

 

[demiurge1138]

Absolutely. Generally, wendigo have the ability to

walk on the wind
terrify people to the point of wisdom damage
eat human flesh
make people eat human flesh
turn people who eat human flesh into wendigos

They are also associated with ice, wind and cold. So a breath weapon is not inappropriate, and would distinguish them from other wendigos out there, as I can't think of any with one.

 

[Shade]

How about a cold breath weapon with a secondary effect of making people "go cannibal"?

 

[demiurge1138]

Works for me!