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Utreshimon: Blue Dragon, Young Medium Dragon (Earth); CR 6; HD 12d12+24; hp 102; Init +0; Spd 40 ft., burrow 20 ft., fly 150 ft. (poor); Space/Reach 5 ft./5 ft.; AC 21 (+11 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 21; Base Atk +12; Grp +15; Atk Bite +15 melee (1d8+3) or Claw +15 melee (1d6+1) or Wing +15 melee (1d4+1); Full Atk Bite +15 melee (1d8+3) and 2 Claw +13 melee (1d6+1) and 2 Wings +13 melee (1d4+1); SA Breath Weapon (6d8/DC 18 ) ; SQ Blindsense, Create/destroy Water, Immunities (Electricity/Paralysis/Sleep), Keen Senses; AL LE; SV Fort +10, Ref +8, Will +9; Str 17, Dex 10, Con 15, Int 12, Wis 13, Cha 12

Skills and Feats: Bluff +16, Concentration +17, Diplomacy +16, Initimidate +6, Listen +16, Search +16, Sense Motive +11, Spot +16, Cleave, Flyby Attack, Hover, Multiattack, Power Attack

Breath Weapon (Su): A blue dragon has one type of breath weapon, a line of lightning.
Create/Destroy Water (Sp): A blue dragon of any age can use this ability three times per day. It works like the create water spell, except that the dragon can decide to destroy water instead of creating it, which automatically spoils unattended liquids containing water. Magic items (such as potions) and items in a creature’s possession must succeed on a Will save (DC equal to that of the dragon’s frightful presence) or be ruined. This ability is the equivalent of a 1st-level spell.
Blindsense (Ex): Dragons can pinpoint creatures within a distance of 60 feet. Opponents the dragon can’t actually see still have total concealment against the dragon.
Keen Senses (Ex): A dragon sees four times as well a human in shadowy illumination and twice as well in normal light. It also has darkvision out to 120 feet.

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Skills – I calculated that he should have 105 sp, This enabled him to bump everything up by 3, except for Diplomacy which is bumped up by 1 to give a max rank of 15.
Feats – U. gets another feat. I chose Multi-Attack. Also, Hover has changed and no longer can a medium sized creature create the cloud of debris. You could rule that there is very fine debri in the courtyard that lets him create the cloud.
Another option is to swap Hover with Flyby attack and take Improved Natural Attack(Bite) instead of Multi-Attack.

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My point is that we should lay the options out for individual DMs to choose.

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Magic Items no longer grant skillpoints in 3.5e.

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I declare the moathouse section finished then...

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I calculated that he should have 105 sp, This enabled him to bump everything up by 3, except for Diplomacy which is bumped up by 1 to give a max rank of 15.

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Did someone already write up an Ogre Skeleton somewhere? What about the Giant Frog from Appendix 1?

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Grell: Medium-size aberration; HD 5d8+10; 32 hp; Init +2; Spd 5 ft., fly 30 ft. (perfect); AC 16, touch 12, flat-footed 14; Base Atk +3; Grp +20; Atk +4 melee (1d4+1 plus paralyzation, tentacle) or –1 melee (2d4, bite); Full Atk +4 melee (1d4+1 plus paralyzation, 10 tentacles) and -1 melee (2d4, bite); SA Improved grab, paralysis; SQ Blindsight 60 ft., flight, immune to electricity and paralysis effects, tentacle regeneration; AL NE; SV Fort +3, Ref +3, Will +4; Str 12, Dex 15, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 11, Cha 9.

Skills and Feats: Hide +10, Listen +4, Move Silently +10, Spot +4; Flyby Attack, Stealthy.

Improved Grab (Ex): If a grell hits an opponent that is Small size or smaller with a tentacle attack, it deals normal damage and attempts to start a grapple as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity. If it gets a hold, it has the option to conduct the grapple normally, or simply use a single tentacle to hold the opponent (-20 penalty on grapple check, but the grell is not considered grappled). In either case, each successful grapple check it makes during successive rounds automatically deals tentacle damage.

Paralysis (Ex): Any creature hit by a grell’s tentacle must make a Fortitude save (DC 14) or be paralyzed for 4 rounds.

Blindsight (Ex): A grell is blind, but it maneuvers and fights as well as a sighted creature by using scent and vibration to ascertain its surroundings. This ability enables it to discern objects and creatures within 60 feet. The grell usually does not need to make Spot or Listen checks to notice creatures within the range of its blindsight.

Flight (Ex): A grell’s body is unusually buoyant. The creature continuously produces an effect like that of the fly spell, which it can use to move at a speed of 30 feet (perfect maneuverability). This buoyancy also grants the grell a permanent feather fall effect with personal range.

Tentacle Regeneration (Ex): An opponent can attack a grell's tentacles as if they were weapons—see Sunder, in Chapter 8 of the Player's Handbook. A grell's tentacles have 10 hit points. If the grell is currently grappling a target with that tentacle, it usually uses another limb to make its attack of opportunity against the sunder attempt. Severing a grell's tentacles deals damage to the creature equal to half the limb's hit points. A grell regrows severed limbs within a day.

Grell are typically found in the Excavation Site (see 32C and 32G) of the Moathouse (pp. 26, 28).

Grell stats and description are from Monster Manual II with changes from WotC’s v3.5 update booklet. Changes noted above are against the original text in the adventure.

In addition to the major clarification of the Improved Grab SA and attacking tentacles, note that the paralysis can affect anyone merely hit (not grabbed). Also, the grell’s flight description lost the “magically” adverb, which was been confusing since extraordinary abilities are non-magical and are not subject to being dispelled or anti-magic fields.

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Edited by: ZansForCans  at: 9/4/03 10:20 pm