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I’ll be reviewing soon! Lots of stuff going on in life right now, but I want to make time to look them over! I’ll do some serious reviewing ASAP! At a glance, they look fun, spells included!
Alright, made some adjustments to both Fungal Plot and the Swarm.
For Plot, I dropped the healing down to 1d4/sacrifice, so now even if you happen to have 10 corpses nearby that are all of the qualifying types, and you blow all 10 actions and all 10 bonus actions for a full minute, while concentrating, the most you can heal yourself for is 10d4. It’s an statistical average of 25ish total HP.
For the Swarm, I added back the fire damage vulnerability, cut the HP & hit dice in half (to 18 (4d8)), and dropped the damage dice down to d4s.
You think that’s okay?
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1 - I'm delighted to see the thallid cards getting some love
2 - Heck yes, the game needs more plant monsters
3 - Good idea to circumvent the incremental counters nonsense. D&D has even more happen per turn cycle than MTG, and even in MTG it's uncommon to get enough spore counters to do anything before the creature dies. So that was never going to work. I wonder if you could maintain the predictive play pattern -- i.e., that one there is about to pop off, so I better do something about it. Maybe roll the recharge at the end of the creature's turn rather than the beginning?
4 - The math isn't really my area of expertise. Any advice I gave on the numbers would do more harm than good lol
5 - I definitely never got the impression thallids could talk at all
I like the one that can't attack lol.
I don’t know if that would work or not. I’d have to eff around with it and find out.
Thanks!! I like how that one came out too.
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M:tG —> D&D Conversions v.2.0
Okay, so…. Thanks to the feedback I got from a couple of you here and some other folks, plus a deep lore dive I did over the weekend, here are the revised versions of the Thallid imports I have been working on. Some stuff changed, much of them is intact from before, and some of them have been altered in rather subtle ways such as languages, skills, or creature sizes. I also added a few new ones to the list too, they've been marked for your convenience.
Last but not least are the spells I imported, including a couple of new ones of those too. One of the new spells was inspired as a mashup of half of each of two M:tG spells rolled together into one D&D spell. I am especially looking forward to feedback about that one.
I have organized and presented them all a bit better this time too, so hopefully now it'll be easier to look through them all. Any and all feedback I can get would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again!
"Token Creatures" referred to by other
creaturesmonsters and spells:Saproling: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=209162)
Saproling Swarm:
Regular
CreaturesMonsters[NEW!] Deathspore Thallid: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=509474)
Feral Thallid: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=184485)
[NEW!] Mycoloth: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=430348)
*Not technically a thallid, but being treated as one for interaction purposes.
[NEW!] Palid Mycoderm: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=509396)
Savage Thallid: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=106643)
Spore Flower: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=184521)
*Not technically a thallid, but being treated as one for interaction purposes.
Sporesower Thallid: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=509596)
Sporoloth Ancient: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=509597)
Thallid: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=370352)
Thallid Devourer: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=184527)
Thallid Germinator: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=509601)
Thallid Shell-Dweller: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=509602)
Thorn Thallid: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=159196)
Utopia Mycon: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=509609)
Vitaspore Thallid: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=128941)
Spells
Conjure Saproling Cluster: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=21385)
Create Fungal Plot: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=627755)
[NEW!] Flash Foleage: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=107264) & (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=136042) (Hybridized)
[NEW!] Sprout Saproling: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=122079)
Summon Saproling Migration: (https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=443066)
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Sorry, I didn’t see this before. I appreciate whatever feedback you’ll be able to give me when you can get to it. I’m glad you like what you saw so far!!
I hope things work out for you with whatever is going on. 🤞 Fingers crossed for you!
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Not a criticism but why does the saproling swarm have a different damage type than saprolings? I would think a bunch of them would do the same thing as one of them?
I like the changes you made to the Devourer. It would only be able to eat 6 and saprolings don't grow on trees.
Vitaspore Haste - 24 hours seems like a long cooldown. The casting is "free" but a regular caster would be able to do it a couple of times before a long rest. At that, it would last a minute whereas the vita version only lasts until the end of it next turn.
Still a bit waffley on the Thorn Thallid. I know you want to retain the charge up mechanic without actually having the charge up mechanic. Am I correct in thinking there is a creature that gives spore counters? Would that give a bonus or auto success on recharge ability?
Flash Foliage - The card reads that it blocks an attacking creature. To retain the feel of the card, the saproling should become the target of the attack, at disadvantage. Reduce to level 2. Not sure how to simulate draw a card.
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"real life is a super high CR."
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"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Thanks again for the review, I really do appreciate it. Does all that make sense? What are your thoughts and suggestions after reading my thought processes on these things?
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3. The way I was looking at it was a PC could cast haste on an ally and that ally would be faster for 10 rounds, the caster could do it again with another ally or him/herself and be faster making two characters faster for 9/10 rounds. The thallid could only do two allies once for one round each. BUT I overlooked that it is a CR 1/4 creature. So it's fine the way it is.
4. That is a good solution!
5. As far as power is concerned, the 3rd level summons are significantly stronger than a saproling, so the spell shouldn't be lvl 3. I was looking at it as a defensive spell similar to Shield. Shield increases your AC until your next turn, the saproling might survive a single hit. The card is intended to block most attackers so forcing the attacker to hit the saproling has a better alignment to the card. I think Trample would be like the Charger or Mobile Feats or both combined (that's a scary thought).
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
3. The caster couldn’t do it to two characters at once because haste requires concentration.
4. 😁👍
5. You make a good point. I’ll have to rewrite it and then I’ll run it past again.
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Question of the Day: Do you make a full world map for the settings of your campaigns?
Heck no. I ain’t got that kinda time.
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