Special Conversion Thread: Plants

[Shade]

I like 20th level sorc casting. Do we allow divine spells cast as arcane?

I think so, to represent the spells "picked from brains".

I think I prefer 60 ft reach, but I could be persuaded for 90 ft (boy that would be nasty).

It would be nasty, but it is a fairly epic critter.

 

[Cleon]

I like 20th level sorc casting. Do we allow divine spells cast as arcane?

Well the original monster could cast any sort of spell its victims knew, as well as manifest their SLAs and psionic powers, so I think we'd better allow divine spells.

What about psionic powers?

 

[Shade]

What about psionic powers?

Let's add that to an underbar.

 

[Cleon]

Let's add that to an underbar.

That'd work for me.

 

[freyar]

Agreed. So should we just write this as the usual "Spells" SQ, allowing all spells in the SRD and other spells as absorbed from killed PCs and at the DM's discretion?

 

[Cleon]

Agreed. So should we just write this as the usual "Spells" SQ, allowing all spells in the SRD and other spells as absorbed from killed PCs and at the DM's discretion?

Yes, no point reinventing the wheel. (In this case, The Wheel of Unspeakable Arcane Power!)

 

[freyar]

Ok, we've done conversions like this before, so let's just rip off the ability. Monkey was one, I think.

 

[Cleon]

Ok, we've done conversions like this before, so let's just rip off the ability. Monkey was one, I think.

Yes, both the Monkey Spirit and General Monkey had versions of that ability.

Of course, the Monkeys are better at it, 'cause they knew Monkey Magic...

 

[freyar]

Here's General Monkey:

Spells: General Monkey can cast arcane spells as a 29th-level sorcerer. He knows all spells from the sorcerer/wizard spell list. He may also cast spells from the Air, Earth, Fire, Liberation and Water domains as arcane spells, and is considered to know all such spells.

Spells/day: 6/8/8/8/8/7/7/7/7/6; save DC 18 + spell level). The save DCs are Charisma-based.

Change to:

Spells: The Tree of Wailing Souls can cast arcane spells as a 20th-level sorcerer. It knows all spells from the sorcerer/wizard and cleric spell lists, as well as other spells absorbed from PCs that it kills (see XXX ability) or at the DM's discretion.

?

 

[Cleon]

Here's General Monkey:

Change to:

Spells: The Tree of Wailing Souls can cast arcane spells as a 20th-level sorcerer. It knows all spells from the sorcerer/wizard and cleric spell lists, as well as other spells absorbed from PCs that it kills (see XXX ability) or at the DM's discretion.

?

That looks OK, although I'd change the "PCs that it kills (see XXX ability)" to "creatures whose souls it traps (see XXX ability)".

Probably want to add a "DCs are Charisma-based" in there somewhere.