Looking over the 3.5 stats for our fishoid friends, I realized something very important has been left out of their modern description.
Kopru are enormously high-temperature-tolerant creatures, living by preference in superheated water. In Mystara, the sort-of-civilized not-all-that-evil kopru of the northern Sea of Dread are the blacksmiths of the undersea civilization, the only race that lives in proximity to volcanic vents and works metal in these natural forges (PC3 The Sea Peoples). And on the Isle itself, the kopru of the central mesa hang out in *boiling* mud geysers.
It's been a central feature of the species since their inception, one of their most interesting and unique abilities (and one that makes fighting them on their home ground just that much trickier), but the MM2 writeup completely passes it over. Kopru should have, if not outright immunity to fire, at least a very high resistance to it.
Is there any possibility of correcting this unfortunate error during the course of Savage Tide?
--The Evil Midnight Lurker what Lurks at Midnight
"An object at rest -- CANNOT BE STOPPED!!!!!"
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Alas, the fact that koprus were at one point highly resistant to heat isn't something that made it through to MM2. It's no wonder, especially since there's nothing in the monster's original entry about them being fire resistant, that they didn't get fire resistance in 3.0.
In any event, the koprus in Savage Tide are not fire resistant. They ARE amphibious, at least; that's one change/addition to the MM2 description we were able to get in there. And there ARE some fire-resistant koprus of a sort in "City of Broken Idols."
If, in your home games, you want to make them more resistant to fire, I'd recommend giving them fire immunity. As statted up in the MM2, they're kidna weak for their CR anyway; giving them immunity to fire certainly wouldn't hurt them.
Another question that came to my mind when I was reading Lightless Depths... wouldn't it be obscenely easy for PCs to defeat creatures whose land speed is only 5 feet, like koprus?
I miss the 'eyebrow horned' tiefling with the cool swords...While she hasn't appeared on a cover for a while, she's one of the more frequently illustrated characters inside the magazine herself. And I'm pretty sure she'll get to be part of a cover before Savage Tide winds up!
Wow! I didn't even know it was possible to quote from one thread onto another thread. Is this another example of James being a transvirtual?
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