the gossamer

The Japanese doppelgänger. Residents of the gutted pagoda. The kumo are at war with the oni and okami. Built off the 5E/4E drider. I didn’t get to use these in the original adventure but ended up using them later as as assassins. JORO-GUMO SHADOW DANCER (HYBRID) Large monstrosity (yokai, joro-gumo), chaotic evil Armor Class 19 (black silk kimono embroidered with […]

Gakimushi Nest

The original cut content used phase spiders which I didn’t really feel was very “Oriental Adventures”. Swapped them with these guys. Had my PCs head scratching but otherwise a fairly straightforward encounter. Gakimushi Nest Lurking in the upper arms of a 100’ high keteleeria is a particularly dense web which shrouds the whole canopy of the tree, which chokes […]

buso geisha

Stole the idea from the Paizo Jade Regent boards. I felt it fit my game very well since one of my PCs is an oiran/geiko. My PCs skipped the Pagoda portion of the dungeon but a more deadly version was in the Munasukaru’s Penance area. BUSO GEISHA (GREATER TIGBUANA BUSO) Medium undead, chaotic evil Armor […]

HUSK SPIDER

The husk spider guards the tunnel between the Pagoda and Munasukaru’s Penance. Perception DC 22: The spider is desiccated and moves awkwardly. You think it might actually be an undead husk of a spider! HUSK SPIDER Huge undead, chaotic evil Armor Class 11 (natural armor) Hit Points 136 (13d12 + 52) Speed 40 ft., climb 30 ft. STR DEX CON […]

The Pinnacle and Writhing Tower

I simplified this encounter as the PCs engaged this encounter right after the swine shogun which was a pretty epic battle. I also changed it to a straight up cyclops-oni (a reskinned cyclops). If the PCs had this encounter first and prevented the gong from being run then I would have ran it as written. The Pinnacle […]

Gakimushi Nest

Tsuchigumo – The Great Sea Spider

A few more monster conversion from the 3rd edition Creatures of Rokugan Oriental Adventures supplement. TSUCHIGUMO The King of the Kumo Gargantuan monstrosity (titan, yokai), chaotic evil Armor Class 17 (natural armour) Hit Points 324 (24d20 + 72) Speed 50 ft., climb 50 ft., swim 30 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS […]

Hok Fong the Eunuch

With the Oriental Adventure conversions complete back to my actual campaign which involves a tournament to win the Mortal Blade. To make sense of these entries you will need to look at the adventure flowchart which gives context and explains my changes but it’s essentially a conversion of the Ruby Phoenix Tournament but with a […]

krakentua

Continuing with the 2nd edition Oriental Adventures conversions. Krakentua seems to be made up from whole-cloth with no reference to Japanese/Asian mythologies. Seems to be a kraken with legs or a really, really big mind flayer. KRAKENTUA Gargantuan fiend (titan, oni), chaotic evil Armor Class 18 (natural armor) Hit Points 472 (27d20 + 189) Speed 20 ft., fly 60 […]

The Deathshrieker

A nice counter to large parties of PCs with lots of actions. Used as part of the Bronze Liche encounter. Deathshreaker Medium undead (construct), chaotic evil Armor Class 20 (natural armor) Hit Points 128 (32d8) Speed 0 ft., fly 50 ft. (hover) STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 1 (-5) 20 (5) 10 (0) 20 […]