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<blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 3928111" data-attributes="member: 1211">Oh, sorry I misunderstood then <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :o"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> Most likely you are right. There are some places where a conversion will be hard. The damage to knock down a stone building, going by the hardness and hp in the DMG, is more than enough to kill just about any PC in one hit for example.OTOH Smaug was killed with one arrow. Even if it was a greater arrow of dragon slaying and Bard got very lucky that would place Smaugs' Fort save at +21 or less which isn't so hot for a dragon.I think a conversion of Smaug would be a real PITA. The biggest problem IMO is that litterature and D&amp;D doesn't reflect each others very well. The St George Dragon and Fafnir, to bring some other examples, aren't described well enough to make a conversion (at least Fafnir). You could make a case that Fafnir was killed by a single stab with a magic sword. If the sword was +5 and Sigurd had Strength +4 and made a critical hit that would place Fafnir's HP at max 34. But again that wouldn't explain why Fafnir was as feared as he was. In short, I like conversions of litterary monsters but I wouldn't consider any of them close because of the differences between literature and D&amp;D.There are lots of material but I would probably create something myself based on what I want. Like, 54 HP, AB Bite +20, Dmg 3d6+8. I defenitly agree with this statement <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="med stud, post: 3928111, member: 1211"] Oh, sorry I misunderstood then :o Most likely you are right. There are some places where a conversion will be hard. The damage to knock down a stone building, going by the hardness and hp in the DMG, is more than enough to kill just about any PC in one hit for example. OTOH Smaug was killed with one arrow. Even if it was a greater arrow of dragon slaying and Bard got very lucky that would place Smaugs' Fort save at +21 or less which isn't so hot for a dragon. I think a conversion of Smaug would be a real PITA. The biggest problem IMO is that litterature and D&D doesn't reflect each others very well. The St George Dragon and Fafnir, to bring some other examples, aren't described well enough to make a conversion (at least Fafnir). You could make a case that Fafnir was killed by a single stab with a magic sword. If the sword was +5 and Sigurd had Strength +4 and made a critical hit that would place Fafnir's HP at max 34. But again that wouldn't explain why Fafnir was as feared as he was. In short, I like conversions of litterary monsters but I wouldn't consider any of them close because of the differences between literature and D&D. There are lots of material but I would probably create something myself based on what I want. Like, 54 HP, AB Bite +20, Dmg 3d6+8. I defenitly agree with this statement ;) [/QUOTE]

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