Treasure: Balls and Cubes

Treasure: Balls and Cubes

Here we have several scrying devices and cubic magical items.

Treasure: Gems and Stones

Treasure: Gems and Stones

Here we have six more magic items from Dungeon Master's Guide for D&D 3.5. And a new sorcery spell.

Treasure: Musical Instruments

Treasure: Musical Instruments

Let's take a break from converting monsters despite the next monsters on the list being ones of my favorites. Here I tackle on magical musical instruments from Dungeon Master's Guide for D&D 3.5. One of the items here only has 10 uses. A single use item has a x0.2 cost/form multiplier, while Limited Uses, 1/day is -40%. I think we can determine the multipliers for other numbers of uses in the same way. Thus, a multiplier for 10 uses will be x0.8, double that of Limited Uses, 10/day.

Monsters: Swarms

Monsters: Swarms

Swarms of small creatures often require special rules in any RPG system. In GURPS, swarms and hordes usually are represented with Injury Tolerance (Diffuse) with appropriate enhancements from GURPS Powers and/or GURPS Horror. Rules on fighting swarms are described on p. B461, while GURPS Zombies has something extra for them. The rules on p. B461 assume statblock-less swarms, while I have found only a single pre-written statblock for a swarm that uses slightly different rules - the insect swarm from GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 5 - Allies, p. 9. Monster Manual for D&D 3.5 has several swarms. One of them - the locust swarm - can use the aforementioned statblock. Two others - spider and centipede swarms - can use the aforementioned statblock, but remove Flight. The rest - rat, bat, and hellwasp swarms - will require more significant changes.

Monsters: Medusas

Monsters: Medusas

Medusas are well-known mythological monsters. There is already a medusa template in GURPS Banestorm, but it must be somewhat modified to represent the D&D medusa. It is typically assumed that all medusas (medusae?) are female, but in D&D they have both sexes, but with a very significant sexual dimorphism. Thus, here I also present a template for the male medusa, also known as the maedar, and its second form.

Monsters: Manticores

Monsters: Manticores

There are several variants of the manticore described in GURPS - one in GURPS Fantasy and a few others in GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 3 - Born of Myth and Magic. I've always loved manticores, they are perfect fantasic, but not too much, monsters. Here I describe four other variants - the D&D manticore that can only flick barbs, a scorpicore from Heroes of Might and Magic III with a venomous stinger that paralyzed its victim, a wingless and poisonless minicore from Might and Magic VII, and the man-eater from Dominions 5 that combines the manticore and the scorpicore and adds some extra scary stuff.

Monster: Magmin

Monster: Magmin

Magmins are small fire elementals that radiate such intense heat that it might set clothes on fire, melt metal, and incinerate most incoming arrows. Making Things Burn, p. B433, must be at hand when fighitng this monster.