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LordofBones Posted - 30 Jan 2016 : 11:35:41
As part of my ongoing 3.5e to Pathfinder conversions, I've been looking at how to convert NPCs as well. Looking at Daurgothoth, I'm considering Pathfinder-izing him, but this has one huge problem.

Namely that his statistics are terrible.

He's a CR 49 dragon in 3e; a great wyrm with 25th level wizard casting and 15th level sorcerer casting. The problem is that to a CR 49 party, he might as well be nameless dragon mook #236548. His spells can't beat their SR, his ability score DCs are waaaay too low, and you get the picture.

Revisiting him, and keeping in mind his original class levels, I'm tempted to scrap his wizard levels entirely and either level him as a sorcerer or an arcanist, letting the latter replace his sorcerer casting entirely.

So he'd be a great wyrm black dragon Sorcerer 20 (CL 35th)//MR 10 archmage, or a great wyrm black dragon Arcanist 20 (CL 35th, Int-based casting, keep wizard flexibility and sorcerer spontaneity).
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Wooly Rupert Posted - 31 Jan 2016 : 01:00:43
...And this is part of the reason I don't want stat blocks in sourcebooks.
sleyvas Posted - 30 Jan 2016 : 17:12:17
Yeah, see this is the kind of stuff where I hated where NPC's were built out. Granted at the time, some of the prestige classes weren't around, but it was like people were just throwing classes on monsters without real thought to get the CR up. In 3.5, obviously ultimate magus would have been the way to go.

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