Special Conversion Thread: Sheens

[Shade]

Added to Homebrews.

Switch up the skills and feats? I'd imagine they are less focused on stealth and detection, and more on resource acquisition. Maybe Knowledge (geography)? Search? Profession (miner)?

 

[freyar]

Knowledge (geography) 2, Search 2, Profession (miner) 3?

 

[demiurge1138]

Those skills all appeal.

I'm confused by the description in italics. It says the thing has three limbs--two legs and an arm--but it has two slam attacks. And which one is the digger arm for the purposes of the plasma shovel?

 

[freyar]

The 2 slams are probably left from the strong version, which I think has two arms (at least the original lists 2 attacks from sampler arms). So we can either drop the second attack or add an arm. I think the plasma shovel is attached to the arm that has the slam. At least, that's the way I read the original monster.

Are we just treating the plasma shovel as a line breath weapon?

 

[Shade]

Freyar's right...the original miner was based off the standard walker, whereas our conversion is based off the strong walker, which gained a sampler arm.

So I'd recommend we just update the flavor text to reflect the additional arm.

I think the line breath weapon probably works well. Thoughts?

 

[freyar]

Let's change the flavor for the second arm, but still only give it one shovel.

I agree with treating the plasma shovel as a line breath weapon, every 1d4 rounds? We should specify how much ore it can dig out per use.

 

[demiurge1138]

Well, it vaporizes all dirt and soft rock in a 30ft line, then digs from there and picks up any valuable ores unearthed. I don't think we should specify a specific amount of ore it can grab--although carrying capacity is probably a good idea.

 

[freyar]

Well, it vaporizes all dirt and soft rock in a 30ft line, then digs from there and picks up any valuable ores unearthed. I don't think we should specify a specific amount of ore it can grab--although carrying capacity is probably a good idea.

Works for me. Are we going to treat them as Medium for purposes of encumbrance? That'll make a bit of difference.

 

[Shade]

Updated.

Skills: Knowledge (geography) -1, Profession (miner) -1, Search -1

I think we should swap out the walker's +4 racial bonus on Listen and Spot checks to shore up the 3 skills above.

Feats: Weapon Focus (slam), 1 more
Skill Focus (Profession [miner])?

 

[demiurge1138]

Agreed to changing the racial bonuses. Skill Focus would make for a fine second feat.