Unconverted Imagine creatures
- Thread starter Echohawk
- Start date
Aspect of BOZ
First Post
how does one even go about getting copies of Imagine? 
i've never even seen one, though i've heard about it before.
i've never even seen one, though i've heard about it before.
Echohawk
Shirokinukatsukami fan
Shade: Will do. [lazy]What's the URL for that thread?[/lazy]
Aspect of Boz: I've been keeping an eye out for Imagine for a while, and when a complete set popped up on ebay, it was just too tempting. If there are any other critters from Imagine you're interested in stats for, let me know and I'll sort something out.
Aspect of Boz: I've been keeping an eye out for Imagine for a while, and when a complete set popped up on ebay, it was just too tempting. If there are any other critters from Imagine you're interested in stats for, let me know and I'll sort something out.
Shade
Monster Junkie
Garnfellow
Explorer
Aspect of BOZ said:how does one even go about getting copies of Imagine?
Yeah, ebay is your best bet. Individual issues seem fairly rare, but don't seem to command huge prices, either.
In general, I don't think Imagine was ever nearly as good as Dragon or White Dwarf -- it seemed to have never really found its groove by the time TSR pulled the plug.
Imagine did have some really good adventures, though, and I think many of them were collected in a single "best of" volume. If you only buy one issue, that would be the one to get. There was a nifty adventure where the PCs get shrunk down and have to fight their way through a wizard's kitchen sink drain. I've often thought that would make a nice 3.5e conversion.
Echohawk
Shirokinukatsukami fan
Yes, that's the Imagine Special Edition issue, which was a collection of adventures from the first 18 or so issues.Garnfellow said:
That's "Round the Bend" by Jim Bambra, the adventure that gave D&D "wrigglies" as an official creature. It also features gigantic rats, enormous rot grubs and an immense green slime
.
RavinRay
Explorer
I recognize the agta (aka kapre), tikbalang and aswang from our very own Philippine folklore! The others might be Malayo-Indonesian (like the penanggalan in the 1e Fiend Folio and 3e Oriental Adventures). Did that issue focus on (SE) Asian monsters?Echohawk said:
Oh wait, I saw on your other IMAGINE Magazine thread that they're all Philippine monsters. Hey, I'd like to see 'em too.
As an aside, a now-defunct FLGS that was the FLGS of the 80's to mid-90's is now having a liquidation sale and I'm scouring it for any older edition refs for monsters.
Echohawk
Shirokinukatsukami fan
CANOPIC SHADE
FREQUENCY: Rare
No. APPEARING: Usually 2 (one of each type, see below)
ARMOUR CLASS: Not applicable
MOVE: Instantaneous (up to 10 feet)
HIT DICE: 1+6
% IN LAIR: 100%
TREASURE TYPE: Nil
# ATTACKS: Nil
DAMAGE/ATTACK: Nil
SPECIAL ATTACKS: See below
SPECIAL DEFENCES: See below
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Total
INTELLIGENCE: None
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: Not applicable
PSIONIC ABILITY: Nil
Attack/Defence modes: Nil
LEVEL/xp VALUE: III/100 xp + 2xp per hit point.
These non-corporeal entities may be thought of as fragments of an undead creature. They are created when the brain and heart of a corpse are removed to be interred separately in containers known as canopic jars.
Any undead creature which arises from this corpse will be sundered into three parts. The first will be one of the usual kinds of undead. This will develop from the main corpse and will have all the usual attributes except that, lacking a brain, it will be non-intelligent and, lacking a heart, will be fearless even to the extent of being resistant to the turning effect of clerics. Clerics (and Paladins) affect them as if they were 3 levels below their actual level. Therefore, clerics of levels 1-3 cannot affect these undead.
The other two fragments, which arise from the brain and heart, are known as canopic shades. These shades are quite separate from the main undead and remain inside their canopic jars until a living being comes within 10 feet. When this occurs the shade will move instantaneously from the jar into the creature's body and there try to fulfil its one desire, to become free of the earthly plane by killing the creature and finding rest along with it.
The ability of a character to resist the attack depends on two of its ability scores; intelligence and wisdom in the case of a shade which arises from the brain, and strength and constitution in the case of the shade from the heart.
The only thing which can prevent a canopic shade from entering a character is a protection from evil (spell or otherwise). Failing this, the shade will automatically gain entry and begin to attack the creature from within. Each round that the shade is within the character the DM should subtract d8 x d6 (i.e. d8 multiplied by d6) from the current total of the character's two appropriate ability scores and apply the results as follows:
Total of abilities minus d8 x d6 is:
0 to 35: Shade takes one hit point of damage
-1 to -12: Character loses d4 points (temporarily) from one randomly determined ability score.
-13 to -34: Character loses one point (permanently) from one randomly determined ability score.
If any of the character's ability scores falls below 3 (including temporary effects), it will be fatal. If the victim dies the shade will pass away with it and not attack any other character.
Canopic shades will always attack until destroyed (reduced to zero hit points) or until the victim dies.
A victim managing to destroy a shade will gain one point on one randomly determined ability score.
CREDITS!
Art and Design: Graerne Morris
FREQUENCY: Rare
No. APPEARING: Usually 2 (one of each type, see below)
ARMOUR CLASS: Not applicable
MOVE: Instantaneous (up to 10 feet)
HIT DICE: 1+6
% IN LAIR: 100%
TREASURE TYPE: Nil
# ATTACKS: Nil
DAMAGE/ATTACK: Nil
SPECIAL ATTACKS: See below
SPECIAL DEFENCES: See below
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Total
INTELLIGENCE: None
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: Not applicable
PSIONIC ABILITY: Nil
Attack/Defence modes: Nil
LEVEL/xp VALUE: III/100 xp + 2xp per hit point.
These non-corporeal entities may be thought of as fragments of an undead creature. They are created when the brain and heart of a corpse are removed to be interred separately in containers known as canopic jars.
Any undead creature which arises from this corpse will be sundered into three parts. The first will be one of the usual kinds of undead. This will develop from the main corpse and will have all the usual attributes except that, lacking a brain, it will be non-intelligent and, lacking a heart, will be fearless even to the extent of being resistant to the turning effect of clerics. Clerics (and Paladins) affect them as if they were 3 levels below their actual level. Therefore, clerics of levels 1-3 cannot affect these undead.
The other two fragments, which arise from the brain and heart, are known as canopic shades. These shades are quite separate from the main undead and remain inside their canopic jars until a living being comes within 10 feet. When this occurs the shade will move instantaneously from the jar into the creature's body and there try to fulfil its one desire, to become free of the earthly plane by killing the creature and finding rest along with it.
The ability of a character to resist the attack depends on two of its ability scores; intelligence and wisdom in the case of a shade which arises from the brain, and strength and constitution in the case of the shade from the heart.
The only thing which can prevent a canopic shade from entering a character is a protection from evil (spell or otherwise). Failing this, the shade will automatically gain entry and begin to attack the creature from within. Each round that the shade is within the character the DM should subtract d8 x d6 (i.e. d8 multiplied by d6) from the current total of the character's two appropriate ability scores and apply the results as follows:
Total of abilities minus d8 x d6 is:
0 to 35: Shade takes one hit point of damage
-1 to -12: Character loses d4 points (temporarily) from one randomly determined ability score.
-13 to -34: Character loses one point (permanently) from one randomly determined ability score.
If any of the character's ability scores falls below 3 (including temporary effects), it will be fatal. If the victim dies the shade will pass away with it and not attack any other character.
Canopic shades will always attack until destroyed (reduced to zero hit points) or until the victim dies.
A victim managing to destroy a shade will gain one point on one randomly determined ability score.
CREDITS!
Art and Design: Graerne Morris
Attachments
Mortis
First Post
A template looks like it would be the best solution for the first fragment of a canopic shade.
The othe two look like tiny sized incorporeal undead with a special attack.
<edit>
The original special attack looks a little complicated, we could reduce it to a Will save in the case of the 'brain' and a Fortitude save for the 'heart'.
</edit>
Regards
Mortis
The othe two look like tiny sized incorporeal undead with a special attack.
<edit>
The original special attack looks a little complicated, we could reduce it to a Will save in the case of the 'brain' and a Fortitude save for the 'heart'.
</edit>
Regards
Mortis
Last edited:
Similar Threads
