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Malapterus
2018-10-27, 01:40 PM
I've been looking for some kind of template or guideline to turn a creature into a swarm.

Actually, I should say I am looking for one to turn a bunch of creatures into a swarm, since there is a Pathfinder template for turning a single big creature into a swarm of itself and that's not really helping me since, for one thing, I'm not running Pathfinder.

I found this effort by someone, but I am not sure how good it is:
http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?181471-Swarm-template

-and I don't know if I am comfortable with how it would advise me to treat things like poison and such.

Initially here I am trying to make a swarm of Neogi Spawn from MM2 as we'll be going to a Neogi kingdom and the spawn are not going to be very welcoming. A swarm of them coming out after you pop a few would be a nice challenge and a horrifying image. Also, since a Swarm takes up 4 squares I could give the great old master an ability to breath out a swarm as a 15-foot cone, heh heh.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/01a57f085074d70ef31d12bc3f2940b8/tumblr_inline_oyx5p5dqsz1rkapbx_400.jpg
*frrt*
*splat!*

You know the manual says 'spit' and 'spew' the spawn so I pictured them coming out of his mouth, but that one seems to be pooping them out.

Anyway! Does anyone have good guidelines on how to turn a more complicated creature like this into a swarm?