It's that simple! If you feel like it, post your converted monsters below. Its strength is 16 or 17 based on the attack above, and the rest of the stats are for you to decide. It can fly, but is probably slow, so its fly speed will be fly(hover) 20ft. +6 to hit.įinally, we'll make the gomazoa a huge creature, which gives it a reach of 15 feet. 2d8 + 3 bludgeoning + 2d8 lightning damage averages out to 21 which is perfect. However, I would introduce a new Reaction it can take, modeling the effect of untapping the creature when a spell is cast on it:Īs a reaction when damaged by a spell this creature can make one tentacle attack against a target in range.Īssuming that the creature gets this reaction roughly two-thirds of the time, its tentacle attack should be 60% of 33-38. Its expected damage output for CR 5 is 33-38 per round, so it feels like one hard-hitting tentacle attack would be appropriate here. This will not change the defensive CR, but it does reflect entering the battle tapped because this form of stealth is fairly non-aggressive.įor offense, we need some way to reflect both its jellyfish-like nature and its slow movement. And because it's a rocky jellyfish, we'll give it the trait False Appearance, which states that 'while the gomazoa remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a pile of rocks.' This is similar to the trait of the same name shared by the gargoyle and the roper. We could even throw on immunity to lightning damage without changing the CR. Flying is a trait that increases its effective AC by 2, so the final defensive CR is 5. So to convert that into 5e terms, I'd start with defense: I'll use the CR 4 hitpoints of 116-130 and the armor class of 14. Whenever you become the target of a spell, you may untap Dormant Gomazoa Does anyone else do this? Take a Magic the Gathering monster and then, using the table in the back of the DMG, convert its power and toughness to offensive and defensive CR, respectively, and reverse-engineer it to get stats? I feel like this is a fairly easy way to bring in flavorful monsters from MTG, although I have yet to really play-test this.Ī Dormant Gomazoa is a 5/5 flying creature that enters the battlefield tapped, and additionally has the effect

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