HEkATOTERATOS - Storygame

Voyagers
Description : These are actually human timetravellers
from a very distant future.
Taxonomy : Folk
Number Appearing : 1d6
Size : Medium
Ferocity : Peaceful
Cunning : Clever
Mystique : Normal
Movement : 120’
Initiative : +2
Melee Attack : +2
Missile Attack : +2
Damage : 1d6 (see below)
Defense Class : 12 (20 with force-field on)
Hits Total : 8
Danger Evasion : +4
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Mystic Fortitude : +4
Special Abilities : Invulnerability (force-field belt),
Magic Resistance (ultra-rational mindset),
Petrification (40’, in fact paralyzing ray ; effects are
only temporary and last only for 1d6 minutes).
Artificial Animates
From the Letters Page of Griffin Magazine…
Bronze Birds & Horses : Bronze Dogs, Bronze Cats, Bronze Mules, Bronze Barbarians…
Derros Warcraft : At least we didn’t get the Giant Derros Fighting Automaton…
Silver Beetles : Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour !
Singing Keledones : The Singing Keledones… aka the Bronze Age living juke-box.
Miscellaneous Creatures
Muscusii & Rhabdosians : Mouses ? Frogs ? Who needs combat scores when all you have to do is stomp
the damn critters under your sandal ?
Tragostomos : After Bigfoot, the Chupacabras ! What’s next ? Small grey humanoids in flying disks ?
Voyagers : As if the Derros Warcraft was not enough… Time travellers with high-tech equipment ? That’s
probably the most mood-destroying ‘creature’ ever published for M&M (or any other RPG for that matter) !
My players would simply lynch me if I used this sort of thing in my campaign. If you want to mix swords and
rayguns, just play Encounter Critical. Please leave such sci-fi nonsense out of our beloved Bronze Age !
What ? No Hecatonchire ?
Many creatures were considered for inclusion in the Hekatoteratos, before being rejected by the editors –
such as the Hecatonchire, a giant from Greek mythology with 50 heads and 100 arms – which, in M&M
terms, translated as a +49 bonus to Initiative and detection and 49 extra attacks per battle round.
Many of these Rejected Creatures (RC) eventually ended up in the pages of various magazines and fanzines
or in second-rate clones of the Hekatoteratos published by other companies, such as Justicars College’s
infamous Bizarre Bestiary or Labyrinthine Designs’ pathetic Monsterama.