Now, first off, I just need to say that Age of Worms freakin' rocks.
Secondly, most of the stuff in it can be converted with little or no adjustment (Free City = any big metropolis, 3FOE takes place almost entirely underground). The only problem I have is the dragon (the black one, blanking on the name, Ilthane?) anyway. The reason I have a problem is because in my little world, there are no dragons on the material plane.
Before the outcry, hear me out. I said on the Material plane. They do exist, just on a different plane of existence. I figured that if the good dragons and the bad dragons have been fighting since like the beginning of time, eventually even the most destructive Reds figured out that if they destroyed everything, that would include all the treasure. Ergo, all dragons used their collective power to create a Plane of Dragons, where they and their allies could fight in peace.
This however, means that the PC's can't fight a dragon until they get to the giants vs. dragons fight later on. I can put that in the Plane of Dragns easily.
So my question (finally), what monster should I use that would have a similar difficulty and flavor against the PC's (I have MM 1, 3, & 4)?
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Personally, even given the description of the world you described I would still stick with Ilthane. Keep in mind that she's not a "normal" black dragon; her interests (and those of the other dragons involved in the AoW) are solely with Kyuss, so she would have no problem going rogue and leaving the Plane of Dragons. This could lead to an interesting subplot, in fact- you could have other dragons, both good and bad, looking for Ilthane since she has gone AWOL. That could make things interesting for the PCs. You could alter it in other ways, too- say, for example, that "Manzorian" is actually a gold dragon that is helping the PCs after finding out about Kyuss when he and his fellows followed Ilthane back onto this plane. Replace Magepoint with a "good-aligned" city on your Plane of Dragons, and voila! You could make the conversion more extreme, and convert other key NPCs (such as Celeste) to dragons in humanoid form.