Monsters: Artilas

Monsters: Artilas

The artila is the only creation I remember from playing Geneforge 1. Reading about them made me like

them even more. Who doesn't like scaly worms that spit acid and have multiple variations?

Monsters: Roamers

Monsters: Roamers

Let's return to Geneforge monster conversions, we don't have many left. Roamers are quadrupedal

creations whose dog-likeness depends on the iteration of the game. They have several varieties that do not differ that much.

Monsters: Elemental Weirds III (Ice and Snow)

Monsters: Elemental Weirds III (Ice and Snow)

And now the last two weirds from Frostburn.

Monsters: Elemental Weirds II (Fire and Water)

Monsters: Elemental Weirds II (Fire and Water)

And here we have the rest of the "traditional" elemental weirds.

Monsters: Elemental Weirds

Monsters: Elemental Weirds (Air and Earth)

Elemental weirds are... weird, but I like them a lot. While they are not very powerful by themselves,

they can summon allies and are potent spellcasters. It seems that they work better not as enemies, but as quest givers. This post contains two out of six elemental weirds from D&D 3.5.

Monster: Shadow Eft

Monster: Shadow Eft

Shadow efts are monsters from Complete Psionic. They are native to the Plane of Shadows, where they

feed on the psychic residue. Finally, a chance to use some necropsi abilities from Pyramid #3-99!

Ultra-Tech: Handtech

Ultra-Tech: Handtech

GURPS Ultra-Tech has finger paws (p. UT218) that allow some quadruped uplifts with no fine manipulators to manipulate things more precisely. But what if we need more options? What if somebody wants to play an upliften parrot and thinks that a beak and talons are not enough?

Monsters: Element Creatures

Monsters: Element Creatures

Manual of the Planes for D&D 3.0 features a set of templates that turn normal creatures into

elementals. Basically, they are the elemental variants of the "celestial/fiendish" templates. I decided against making them into lenses, but to just convert the example creatures by combining the normal creatures with some traits of the elemental creature. I did use the air element squids in one of my games. They are strong.

Monsters: Avatars of Elemental Evil

Monsters: Avatars of Elemental Evil

Monster Manual IV brings us four new elemental beings - avatars of elemental evil. Basically, they are

Large elementals with some extra abilities that make them significantly more dangerous than their normal peers. I like 'em. Strangely, they lack the Evil subtype.

Monster: Taint Elemental

Monster: Taint Elemental

Here we have the last of the "true" elementals from D&D 3.5 (as in elementals that have size/age/power

categories). Taint elementals use the taint system from Heroes of Horror that I adapted to GURPS in the past. Also, they can teleport for some reason.

Monsters: Elemental Stewards

Monsters: Elemental Stewards

Complete Psionic has four small elemental outsiders that basically live to serve psionic characters.

Arctine (ayy lmao)
and tempestan

Why? I don't know, it doesn't make much sense. Same goes for many things from that book.

Monsters: Elementite Swarms

Monsters: Elementite Swarms

Elementites are tiny elementals with intelligence on par with insects. Traveling in swarms, they annoy

planar travelers.

Monster: Shadow Elemental

Monster: Shadow Elemental

Back in the day, I did a conversion of D&D shadow magic. Let's touch up the shadow elemental

template from that post and turn it into a proper monster entry.

Monster: Storm Elemental

Monster: Storm Elemental

While D&D 3.5 dropped the quasielemental planes, the storm elemental still makes an appearance

there. I guess it's supposed to be something different from the lightning quasielemental.

Monster: Ectoplasmic Swarm

Monster: Ectoplasmic Swarm

Ever wanted to surprise the player characters with a swarm of spiders that can envelop and pin them in

a single second with no active defenses allowed? Even if they are insubstantial? Here's exactly what you need, but be prepared for the players to throw dice at you.

Monsters: Astral Constructs

Monsters: Astral Constructs

A long time ago I wrote up the D&D metacreativity power as a GURPS psionic power. I provided a

basic astral construct template there, but now I see that some changes are required. But in addition to that, let's convert the astral construct variants from Complete Psionic.

Lenses/Monsters: Half-Elementals

Lenses/Monsters: Half-Elementals

Half-elementals to the genasi are what half-celestials are to aasimars or half-fiends to tieflings. Cool, but sort of obscure.

Monster: Smoke Paraelemental

Monster: Smoke Paraelemental

And now we have the last of the paraelementals - the smoke paraelemental that borrows the belker's

smoke claws ability.

Monster: Ooze Paraelemental

Monster: Ooze Paraelemental

Ooze paraelementals are water elementals, but acidic. There's also some other minor differences there.