Dangerous Journeys was a short-lived universal role-playing game co-authored by Gary Gygax and published by GDW in the early nineties. It enjoyed a very brief life before a lawsuit by TSR prompted GWD to pull the plug on the entire line. One DJ supplement that actually saw the light of day was the Mythus Bestiary (1992) by Gary Gygax, Dave Newton, and Michele Newton. A few years later Tom Harrison, aka Blusponge, converted several monsters from the Mythus Bestiary into the SAGA system, a nifty card-based game engine developed by TSR and used for the Marvel Super Heroes and Dragonlance Fifth Age role-playing games. Tom's SAGA conversion page is long gone, but this 3e D&D conversion is based on Tom's original DJ-to-SAGA conversion page.
Always N Large plant
Init +2; Senses blindsight 60 ft.; Listen +0, Spot +0
AC 15, touch 9, flat-footed 15
(-1 size, +6 natural)
hp 13 (4 HD)
Fort +5, Ref +3, Will +1
Weakness vulnerability to sunlight
Spd 30 ft. (6 squares)
Melee 3 branches +7 (1d8+5/18–20 x3)
Space 10 ft.; Reach 15 ft.
Base Atk +3: Grp +9
Atk Options augmented critical
Abilities Str 20, Dex 14, Con 12, Int —, Wis 10, Cha 2
SQ plant traits
Environment underground
Organization solitary
Treasure none
Advancement 5–8 HD (Large), 9–12 HD (Huge)
Augmented Critical (Ex) A harvestman threatens a critical hit on a natural attack roll of 18–20 with its scythe-like branches, dealing triple damage on a successful critical hit.
Blindsight (Ex) A harvestman has no visual organs but can ascertain all foes within 60 feet using sound, scent, and vibration.
Vulnerability to Sunlight (Ex) A harvestman takes 1 point of Constitution damage for every hour it is exposed to sunlight, and it dies if its Constitution score reaches 0. Lost Constitution points are recovered at the rate of 1 per every 24-hour period spent underground or otherwise sheltered from the sun.
Harvestmen are a form of tree indigenous to certain regions of the deep underground, where great forests of odd plants and fungi have grown in the cascade of iridescent lights provided by other types of growth.
A harvestman is named for its scythe-like lower branches which it uses to strike out at any moving object that comes within melee range.The tree feeds itself through a knotted orifice in the upper trunk, where digestive juices are stored.