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Aimay

Nymph 5e Conversion

Monster

A few of us over on the Discord server (link) realised that 5e didn't have an actual Nymph stat block, so I decided to take a quick stab at converting it from 3.5.

The dazzling beauty, the graceful wonder; the Nymph.

Posted Mar 21, 2017, 4:25 AM UTC

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Phylea•

Hey Aimay! Here are your complimentary formatting notes:

  • "Fey" should be lowercase
  • "armour" should be spelt the American way. But, the parenthetical shouldn't exist anyway. But but, if it did, I would change it to "Unearthly Grace".
  • A recommend adopting the errata'd wording of "nonmagical attacks" in DR
  • "Sylvan" is misspelt
  • Blinding Beauty
  • I recommend following the wording of Petrifying Gaze here.
  • "If a humanoid starts its turn within 30 feet of the nymph and can see it, she can force the creature to make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is magically blinded. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. <pb> A humanoid that isn't surprised can avert [...]"
  • As a note, this isn't an "ability" (which is Strength, etc.). It's a trait.
  • Innate Spellcasting
  • Spell names should be italicized
  • Tree Stride
  • You've got an extra apostrophe in there
  • "large" should be capitalized
  • Unearthly Grace
  • You're switching around between calling the nymph "it" and "she"
  • I recommend the wording "The nymphs AC and saving throw bonuses include her Charisma modifier."
  • Multiattack
  • Change "can make" to "makes"
  • Club
  • "Hit:" should be italicized
  • Stunning Glance
  • I would word this as "The nymph stares deeply at a creature she can see within 30 feet of her. If the target can see her, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of the nymph's next turn."
  • As I'm sure you know, 5e doesn't usually have these words of round-by-round effects
  • If it was 2d4, I would highly recommend a recharge
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AimayOP•

Most of the issues came from using a template [which is also why actions are italicised [i couldn't be arsed to change them which is what caused the whole deal to begin with]] and me being lazy and just copy pasting abilities and calling it a day.

Almost everything changed really apart from "A recommend adopting the errata'd wording of "nonmagical attacks" in DR" No clue what that means.

I also kept a few things, like the 2d4 rounds [cos its different and i like it] but also gave it a recharge.

Also, are you like me; Do you never sleep? I was gunna ping you in the Discord, cos fuck it, but I didn't wanna bug you, ya know?

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Phylea•

apart from "A recommend adopting the errata'd wording of "nonmagical attacks" in DR" No clue what that means.

Sorry, it was late and I got lazy with my notes. What I meant was that in the Monster Manual errata, instances of "nonmagical weapons" in Damage Resistances were changed to "nonmagical attacks" to be clearer, and that I would adopt that wording going forward.

I got plenty of sleep last night, thanks for asking. But I haven't been on Discord in a couple of days, so I likely would have missed you anyway.

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Smyris•

Looks pretty great! I like the little sidebar you threw in!

If you were interested at all there actually does exist a nymph statblock for 5e :) was one of the first things I posted here way back at the subreddit's inception

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnearthedArcana/comments/35lm1g/5e_a_pet_project_of_mine_the_monster_manual/

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AimayOP•

I searched for it in this reddit just by searching 'Nymph'.

And the one I made is more of a straighter conversion from 3.5, though that Nymph is cool too. :D

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FUZZB0X•

Not sure why, but I seem to be having some strange glitch.

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AimayOP•

Have you tried using a different browser? I can't seem to cause that to happen on my end.

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FUZZB0X•

Yeah. That was using chrome. I get the glitch in other browsers as well. Weird.

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AimayOP•

I'm not sure what I can do to help. But here's a screenshot of the stat block if that helps for now.

https://puu.sh/uSL5d/71f31df2c5.png

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FUZZB0X•

Awesome! Thanks. Yeah, that's the best fix possible. Probably just some strange little glitch.

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ButtersTheNinja•

I have no idea how 5E went so long without the nymphs, just goes to show how Wizards seems to be ignoring Fey content, but this is really nice!

Aside from some strange wording which has already been commented on, this seems fine, and I might drop this against my players soon since they're about to fight with a bunch of Fey related creatures.

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certain_random_guy•

u/jbh536 actually made a post with a great 5E nymph conversion a couple weeks ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnearthedArcana/comments/5y35gb/5e_nymph/

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