Special Conversion Thread: Moldvay's Undead

[demiurge1138]

Agreed to tomb-tainted cat with a hag eye for an eye. Alternately, the eye can be removed from the cat and given to another spy.

If the cat's going to do a lot of spying, we could give it the quiescent SQ (from the gloom, makes it absolutely supernaturally silent and gives it a +20 bonus to Move Silently checks).

 

[Shade]

Great suggestion!

This conversion is turning out far more interesting than I'd expected.

 

[freyar]

Yeah, these suggestions are fun, agreed to them all!

 

[Shade]

Updated.

Here are the usual spell-like abilities of a covey...

Spell-Like Abilities: 3/day—animate dead, bestow curse (DC 17), control weather, dream, forcecage, mind blank, mirage arcana (DC 18), veil (DC 19), vision. Caster level 9th. The save DCs are based on a Charisma score of 16. To use one of these abilities (which requires a full-round action), all three hags must be within 10 feet of one another, and all must participate.

How shall we modify it for Black Annis' "super covey"?

 

[demiurge1138]

Most of those we should keep. Switch animate dead for create undead, give them bolts of bedevilment and earthquake, perhaps?

 

[freyar]

Those sound good, and circle of death appeals to me also.

 

[Shade]

Sounds good.

Updated.

Skills: 5 at 14 ranks
Standard annis has Bluff, Hide, Listen, Spot

Feats: Alertness, Blind-Fight, Great Fortitude, 1 more
The listed feat are those of a standard annis. We can swap those out if we'd like.

 

[demiurge1138]

Bluff, Hide, Listen, Spot, Concentration?

Of the feats, we should keep Blind-fight and Great Fortitude. The other two should be... Improved Initiative and Multiattack?

Also, the description of the hag eye in her Cat makes reference to multiple covey members. Since she can make one without a covey, just have its destruction deal damage to and blind Black Annis.

 

[Shade]

Sounds good.

Updated.

For her cat...

Skills: 12 ranks
Smilodon has Listen and Spot

Feats: 4
Smilodon has Alertness, Dodge, Mobility, Spring Attack

 

[demiurge1138]

Pull some ranks out for Hide and give it a racial bonus. Stealthy cat is stealthy, after all. Remember its bonuses for being quiescent.

Feats look good for the most part--let's drop Alertness for Multiattack.