#creaturecodexconversions

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5e Conversions

This was like one of the first thecreaturecodex conversions I did I think. Couldn't tell you how long ago that was tho. 5e keeping 4e's shadowfell as a parallel inner plane I genuinely like but the fact it's just undead, skull lords, shadar-kai and sorrowsworn is very underwhelming, especially for people like me who aren't into the feywild.

Pretty straightforward. Here we can see the origin of my so-ut's stomp pinning prone targets. As with most creatures I avoid spell-style summons and plane shifting abilities since in my setting planes are quite sticky, creatures rely on portals to get places rather than innate plane shifting. Intimidation expertise is from Dazzling Display since that feat would just fall under an intimidation check.

Psoglav

Image © S.J. Miller. Accessed @sjmillerart here

[Unlike most of the monsters posted here, I have actually used a psoglav in game!  My players really hate it when monsters have ranged capacity.]

Psoglav Crouching in the shadows is a twisted giant, its hands tipped with iron claws and its legs in iron hooves. Its head is that of a snarling wolf, a single eye glaring balefully from over its muzzle. The stink of rotting meat wafts off of the creature.

Psoglavs are monstrous predators native to the Plane of Shadow. Psoglavs have an affinity for the undead, treating smaller and weaker undead as snacks and minions and kowtowing to more powerful creatures such as liches or nightshades.  They delight in spreading panic and will terrorize a community for days before striking, digging up graves in order to consume corpses and loot burial goods. Avaricious creatures, they hoard gemstones with fervor and will take foolish risks in order to obtain especially fine specimens.

A psoglav is a cunning adversary and rarely fights fair. They use their natural abilities to weaken and harass opponents before closing in for the kill. Most psoglavs do not hesitate to flee if the battle turns against them, and may attempt to abduct a weakened adversary and whisk them away to the Plane of Shadow as a parting insult. Psoglavs are not especially cooperative creatures, and combats with multiple psoglavs often turn into competitions between the monsters to slay more opponents. A psoglav stands 12 feet tall and weighs about 1000 pounds.

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5e Conversions

Undead... I just can't get them to work...

Another removed second aura. I'm not familiar with the 3.5e one but 5e still has a ghast which has a stench unlike the 5e ghoul. I reasoned that a funghoul would be a ghoul underneath the mushrooms rather than a ghast just because they are more common.

I'm still not sure if I like the elf resistance to ghoul paralysis concept since it is reliant on a specific history of Orcus and Doresain that I'm not 100 I want to transplant into my setting tm.

Keeping the stat damage from pathfinder to 5e, people don't use _greater restoration_ enough anyway. The disease takes a day to set in so won't be cured until after it has dealt some stat damage and theoretically infected others. The primary use for this is to infect NPCs behind the players back since there's a chance they won't rest with them and the NPC won't be able to communicate a stat decrease. When the targets intelligence become equivalent to that of a funghoul (6), they begin to act like one.

Funghoul

Image by Hyoung Nam, © Naughty Dog Studios. Accessed on ArtStation here

[Commissioned by @wannabedemonlord, inspired by the Acrid Critter of Winterfold. I was honestly stumped for a long time on how to approach this monster, but after hours of deviantArt searching and wracking my brain, I decided that “luminous + stench = fungus”. Pathfinder RPG has a number of fungus-infected creatures, but all of them have the plant type. I decided to go for undead, and kind of accidentally stumbled into this as another replacement for the lamented 3.5 ghast.]

Funghoul CR 3 NE Undead This creature looks like a luminous humanoid, stunted in strange ways and its body rotting. Fungal growths emerge from its head and body, giving off an acrid stench.

Funghouls are undead creatures animated by the growth of fungus throughout their bodies. The fungus itself is infused with negative energy and moves the creature’s body around like a puppet, steering it to find more food and reproductive opportunities. It consumes flesh slowly, dissolving it with its acidic touch and absorbing it into its own body. Only humanoids are capable of becoming a funghoul—although the fungus can certainly infect other creatures and destroy their nervous systems, it cannot fully co-opt their bodies, and these creatures lapse into comas and die of dehydration if not treated.

The mushroom-like growths emerging from a funghoul are capable of luminescence. This light fascinates creatures that can see it, allowing the slow funghouls to approach and attack. Funghouls naturally congregate together, and their shambling packs can easily depopulate an area unless stopped. Larger and smaller funghouls are certainly possible, as even giants can succumb to the brain rot infection.

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