Hold my hand, please. I'm making a troop of winter wolves

[Nearyn]

Hi everyone.

Taking some advice from this board, I'm changing an encounter with 40+ winter wolves, to an encounter with 4 Winter Wolf Troops, of 10 wolves each, and a few high-tier wolves + a boss.

But I cannot seem to wrap my around the troop mechanics.

How do I calculate the HD and HP? Do I just multiply the 6HD of a winter wolf by 10? One for everyone wolf in the troop? That would make such a troop a 60HD creature with con score of 18, totalling 540hp.

What about saves, breath weapon and attacks?

I am pretty inexperienced with applying templates and subtypes, so some assistance in creating this Winter Wolf Troop correctly, would be appreciated.

Thank you very much in advance.

-Nearyn

[Nearyn]

bump of doom

[TGMaxMaxer]

What level is the party that its going against?

Take the stats for a normal Winter wolf, so far as saves/BAB and such, then add +1 to hit and +1-2 damage for every two wolves as they pack attack. Also add +1 to saves for every two wolves, as they provide cover/morale support for each other in a pack.

Triple/quadruple the HP of a single wolf, but when they do damage describe it as being killing "x" number of wolves in that group, and for each 10% take away those adds to hit/damage/saves from the first mod.

I'm thinking that 150-200 hp troops, with a +15 attack doing 1d8+17+5d6 cold, plus a trip at +17, with saves of F 14/R 11/W 8 and an 11d6 breath weapon usable every 1d4+1 rounds (not all of them will recharge at the same time) should be about fair. For every 20% of hp damage the troop takes, -1 attack, -2 flat / -1d6 cold damage, -1 saves, -1d6 breath weapon.

Have no idea how that will be balanced against the party but it should be a good compromise for stats.

[Nearyn]

Thanks for the input TGMaxMaxer :)

What I was looking for was someone who could help me make a Winter Wolf Troop, of the subtype called Troop. It can be found on the SRD.

Thanks alot for your input anyway, though. I appreciate you taking the time to answer.

-Nearyn

[Robert G. McCreary]

Check out this blog post, where we first previewed the troop subtype. In particular, look at the comments for a discussion on how to build troops.

Basically, a troop should be statted up as a new creature, using the base creature for a guideline, but matching the correct numbers for its CR on Bestiary table 1-1: Monster Statistics by CR, as you would for any new monster.
A troop does not have class levels; its BAB, base saves, and skill points are derived from its type and HD.
A troop is an abstraction - just as a rat swarm has different stats from a normal rat, a troop will likely have different stats from an individual creature within the troop.

Hope that helps!

[Nearyn]

Thanks alot Mr. McCreary. I'll look through the comments and try my hand at creating this troop :)

-Nearyn