Replacement monsters for SCAP in PF?


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There are a ton of monsters that are not covered by PF, such as the Green Slaad in the wandering monsters for Smoking Eye. I am thinking of keeping them, but making them tougher..what do you think? Replace them with something else, or just beef them up a bit?


I'd beef them up... I've been converting all of the creatures into PF, which has caused some difficulty (and I've wondered at times if the conversion makes them too easy/hard). A great example was the Raggomoffin (sp?) in Jzadirune. Constructs in PF have a base HP bonus of 20 (or around there), which made them MUCH tougher than what the AP had listed for HP. In addition, the rogue in the group saw the captured Skulk take off, and chased him right into the trap! Guess who was the first to get captured? I went easy on them in terms of tactics, and rewarded them for some logical play (it's made of rags, quick, get the alchemist with the fire bombs!), and they survived (barely). Since then, I've been careful by not making the creatures much stronger than 3.5, and the party's been treading a good line of getting beat up but not being over-matched.

One thought might be to check out the Tome of Horror, a 3rd party publication which has a good amount of the trademarked creatures converted to PF. I was lucky in that one of my gamers purchased it, and I've been borrowing it for a few weeks now.

I did a quick check for Slaad, and they didn't have basic ones (just the Slaad Lords of Entropy and of the Insane). However, you could instead use Proteans, which PF created as a substitute for Slaad.

If you run into any other creatures which might be in the Tome, post it here and I'll try to look them up.

Liberty's Edge

I am running it right now. So far I exchanged the beholder with a xacarba the slaad in kopru with a half fiend minotaur and the harpoon spider with an Aranea

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