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Tom Kalbfus
2019-09-23, 05:29 PM
What would be the nearest equivalents to Dorothy, the scarecrow, the tin woodsman, and the cowardly lion in the D&D world?
Glinda asks what kind of witch Dorothy was, so lets make her one. I believe there is an entry for scarecrow in one of the Monster manuals. Should the Tin woodsman be an intelligent iron golem, and make the cowardly lion and intelligent but cowardly lion, not a man in a lion suit but an actual lion/ what would be the experience level of this group if you combined them into an adventuring party? Would they have problems if they wandered around the Forgotten Realms. What might the public reaction to them be if they entered a civilized city such as Waterdeep? This might be a good idea for a bit of fan fiction.

Dorothy Gail comes from Kansas in the late 19th century, she is an orphan raised by her Aunt Emily and Uncle Henry, her aunt and uncle don't talk much about Dorothy's birth mother, only to say she died under mysterious circumstances. Dorothy's mother was a strange person, no one seems to know where she came from, she married a Kansas farmer, she had a child she named Dorothy, and both her mother and father were killed. One witness claimed he saw a duel between her and some other lady throwing fireballs. Dorothy's mom conjured up a storm, the farm house was burned to the ground as a result. Dorothy's Mom was never seen again, her husband died in the fire, and Dorothy was placed with the farmer's sister Emily.

Later on in Dorothy's teenaged years another storm brewed up. Dorothy ran into her aunt's home while the rest of her family took refuge in the storm cellar. The tornado ripped the house from the ground and carried it through a gate leading to the Forgotten Realms and then sets it down some where amongst a halfling village. There on her journey she meets a scarecrow, an iron golem with an axe, and an uplifted lion who's afraid of his own shadow.

Tvtyrant
2019-09-23, 05:52 PM
They don't really fight much so the monsters are kind of up in the air. Do you want the most aesthetically similar or ones that are roughly equivalent in ability?

Tom Kalbfus
2019-09-23, 06:22 PM
They don't really fight much so the monsters are kind of up in the air. Do you want the most aesthetically similar or ones that are roughly equivalent in ability?
Aesthetics. I think the way I described her Dorothy is more of a sorcerer learning about her powers/
here is a standard Iron Golem https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Iron%20Golem#content
The scarecrow is a magically animated construct created by wizards and other masters of secret lore to guard important places or treasure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarecrow_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)
This is the Lion https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Lion#content.

The Iron Golem looks a bit formidable, maybe an animated suit of armor would do. Any ideas?

Tvtyrant
2019-09-23, 06:32 PM
Aesthetics. I think the way I described her Dorothy is more of a sorcerer learning about her powers/
here is a standard Iron Golem https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Iron%20Golem#content
The scarecrow is a magically animated construct created by wizards and other masters of secret lore to guard important places or treasure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarecrow_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)
This is the Lion https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Lion#content.

The Iron Golem looks a bit formidable, maybe an animated suit of armor would do. Any ideas?

The Lion and Scarecrow are CR 1, so I would suggest maybe making them a PC party. Lion is an anthropomorphic lion, Scarecrow and Tin Man are warforged, dorothy is a human. Warforged are made of leather, wood and metal so Scarecrow can just be mostly leather and Tin Man mostly wood. Now everyone is at the same level.

Tom Kalbfus
2019-09-23, 09:55 PM
The Lion and Scarecrow are CR 1, so I would suggest maybe making them a PC party. Lion is an anthropomorphic lion, Scarecrow and Tin Man are warforged, dorothy is a human. Warforged are made of leather, wood and metal so Scarecrow can just be mostly leather and Tin Man mostly wood. Now everyone is at the same level.
There is nothing saying that Dorothy couldn't be higher than first level. The lion sounds like a man grafted into a lion costume. I figure in the move they had a man in a lion costume because they couldn't do better at the time. What's wrong with a real four legged lion that talks? That would be more unnerving than say what looks like a man in a lion costume that can't take off that costume because it is actually his skin.

sleepyhead
2019-09-24, 10:15 AM
Made something going off this a while ago but that balance is wack http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?593390-Wizard-of-Oz-d-amp-difed-PEACH
Tin man was just a warforged and lion was a Tabaxi
Make sure not to comment on there though its an oldy