What is the best replacement made by Paizo for the Carrion Crawler?
What sort of similarities are you looking for? Same CR? Same abilities? Same flavor? Other similarities?
How about the slime crawler?
Or just use the D&D 3.5 stats.
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Unless you are doing this for publication, a Carrion Crawler is the best replacement for a Carrion Crawler.
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The slime crawler is an obviously intentional substitute/reskinning of the carrion crawler. And, imo, the three stage family of creatures culminating in the carrion moth, is an improvement on the original single stage carrion crawler. Originally, the Tome of Horrors only presented stage one and three, with the carrion crawler being the understood second stage, and I am happy to see them inserting a new second stage in the life-cycle to replace the out-of-bounds carrion crawler.
The only thing re the original question, is that its not from Paizo; but Paizo uses the Tome of Horrors often enough itself that it really should not matter.
There are some bootleg versions of the monsters that WotC didn't allow to cross over floating around the internet. Or so I've heard. *whistles nonchalantly*
How about the slime crawler?
Or just use the D&D 3.5 stats.
What is the legal status of the "Tome of Horrors" monsters? Can one write the stats in full so readers don't have to refer to the book or go to a webpage? It appears to be $109 for a hardcopy and $29 for a PDF. That's pretty steep.
Some people don't have access to D&D 3.5 books and the Carrion Crawler is not in the SRD.
I just sent you an email here on the boards.
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There's a reason I still have a copies of a bunch of WOTC 3.5 monster books on my shelf...
Honestly, for any 3.5 monster that you want to use, just compare the 3.5 numbers with the Monster Statistics by CR table and adjust upward as necessary. As presented, 3.5 monsters are usually a CR or two behind what their stats would indicate in PFRPG.
I use carrion crawlers in my games not infrequently... ditto umber hulks.
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How about the slime crawler?
Or just use the D&D 3.5 stats.
What is the legal status of the "Tome of Horrors" monsters? Can one write the stats in full so readers don't have to refer to the book or go to a webpage? It appears to be $109 for a hardcopy and $29 for a PDF. That's pretty steep.
Some people don't have access to D&D 3.5 books and the Carrion Crawler is not in the SRD.
All creatures found in the Tome of Horrors are OGL and can be used in other publications so long as you properly reference the Tome of Horrors in your own section 15 of the OGL.
You can write the stats in full.
How about the slime crawler?
Or just use the D&D 3.5 stats.
What is the legal status of the "Tome of Horrors" monsters? Can one write the stats in full so readers don't have to refer to the book or go to a webpage? It appears to be $109 for a hardcopy and $29 for a PDF. That's pretty steep.
Some people don't have access to D&D 3.5 books and the Carrion Crawler is not in the SRD.
All creatures found in the Tome of Horrors are OGL and can be used in other publications so long as you properly reference the Tome of Horrors in your own section 15 of the OGL.
You can write the stats in full.
W00t! I'm not publishing it for profit but will be posting an adventure for free online.