SAKAI IBUTSU, THE BAKU

This was on the random encounter list for Tales from the Infinite Stairway. Didn’t come up in the random rolls but it was too fun a creature to resist converting to 5e 🙂 BAKU Huge celestial (kami), neutral good Armor Class 14 (natural armor) Hit Points 126 (11d12 + 55) Speed 40ft., fly 60 ft. […]

UNTHRE, GENERAL OF THE VOID

Enthralled by Gerrzog’s inherent charm ability, Unthre the wamor believes that he will become a general in the glabrezu’s armies, which will amass here on the staircase and one day invade the planes of the multiverse, conquering them one by one. In short, Unthre’s become a little detached from reality-but what can a body expect […]

FIEND TOUCHED SPIDERS

These creatures didn’t actually pose a real threat against a level 15 party… however… the nature of the encounter – characters need the spiders web to get across the smashed bridge. The spiders can climb over and under the stairs and can also leap onto a party traveling single file posed other issues. This was […]

MOONTOUCHED GOLEM OF SELÛNE

This golem was created by Selûne herself and protects the Gates of the Moon, the entry way into the base of the Infinite Staircase. This was another creature I didn’t not have to convert, for one I could have used the iron golem straight out of the MM and added abilities on the fly. Secondly, I […]

Methikus sar Telmuril, ‘The Flesh Sculptor’ – Baernaloth of The Demented

As the party started their long climb to the Sigil Door (via the Planewalkers Guild – “six hours straight up through the ivy” the lillend said) they rolled a random encounter and Methikus came up – a Baernaloth. My players know what devils and demons are but had no idea what a yugoloth was. He […]

Lillend of the Infinite Mystery

My level 15 party wanted to buy and sell some magic items so this was the perfect excuse to send them to the planes – a nice break from the technology heavy Iron Gods Adventure Path from Paizo. After much research and money spent they located an entrance to the Infinite Staircase. Easy they though […]

The Shards of Selûne

TARRY DEMODANDS

Character never entered the thermal power generator area so these were skipped as well. TARRY DEMODANDS Medium fiend (demodand), neutral evil Armour Class 18 (natural armour) Hit Points 171 (18d10+72) Speed 40ft., fly 40ft. STR 28 (+9) DEX 17 (+3) CON 18 (+4) INT 14 (+2) WIS 14 (+2) CHA 11 (+0) Saving Throws Str +11, […]

BOSS FIGHT: MAUKUI’S HOST 2.0

My group had just killed off Dweller-in-Dark-Places, and I knew next session, they would face off against Maukui. I wanted to make this an interesting fight and was turning over the idea of turning Maukui into a full-blown Boss Fight ™ since this was basically a dragon and all dragon fights should be memorable because […]

MAUKUI (Awoken Intellect Devourer)

This was an interesting conversion since Intellect Devourers in 5e would be no challenge against a party of 12th level characters. I ended up looking at the Pathfinder version as well as all the 4e versions to get ideas on the best way to create a challenge. I wasn’t really happy with any of them so […]