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Monsters Creating Monsters Monsters are not player characters, and their abilities are not at all determined by the rules for player characters—not even the stats for races that can be player characters, such as Dwarves. The Referee decides a monster’s abilities, and does not have to follow any rules about that! Feel free to add wings, breath weapons, extra hit dice, wounded versions, or whatever suits your adventure and your campaign. Toggle and tweak, imagine and invent! The rules are not responsible for the quality of the swords and sorcery in your game, you are! Do not try to develop monsters according to any sort of power formula; create them based on how they feel and how they play at the gaming table. Make them challenges for the players, not headaches for yourself. Your job is to imagine and create, not to slave at rulebooks finding out what you are “allowed” to do. Creating monsters entirely from scratch is not only fun, but it offers new and exciting challenges to your players. It is not hard to do, either. The tables below give you some guidelines (not rules) for determining a monster’s saving throw and challenge level. Table 75: Monster Saving Throws Hit Dice Saving Throw < 1 HD 18 1 HD 17 2 HD 16 3 HD 14 4 HD 13 5 HD 12 6 HD 11 7 HD 9 8 HD 8 9 HD 6 10 HD 5 11 HD 4 12+ HD 3* *Saving throw does not continue to improve beyond 12 HD To help you with determining Challenge Levels and experience point values for monsters, the table below may be helpful. “Challenge Level” determines the experience point value for a monster. A monster’s base Challenge Level is its number of whole hit dice. Add to that base if the monster has special abilities that make it harder to kill or more dangerous to the characters. The Challenge Levels table shows the XP value for each challenge level. The Challenge Level Modifications table contains guidelines for how many additional challenge levels to add to a monster’s hit dice, based on special abilities. Table 76: Challenge Level Modifications Special Ability 4+ attacks per round (minimum d6 or saving throw each) AC 0 [19] or better Automatic damage after hit Breath weapon 25 points max or below Breath Weapon 26 points max or more Disease Effect on Challenge Level +1 CL +1 CL +1 CL +1 CL +2 CL +1 CL Special Ability Drains level with no save Drains level with save Flies, or breathes water Greater than human intelligence Immune to blunt/piercing weapons (including half damage) Immune to energy type (acid, fire, etc) Immune to non-magic weapons Magic resistance 50% or below Magic resistance higher than 50% Massive attack for 20+ hps Paralysis, swallows whole, immobilizes enemies (web, etc) Petrifaction, poison, or death magic Regenerates Undead (subject to banishment but immune to sleep, charm, hold) Uses a spell-like power level 3 equivalent or above Uses multiple spells level 2 or lower Uses multiple spells level 3 or above Uses multiple spells level 5 or above Poison (Nonlethal) Miscellaneous other Effect on Challenge Level +3 CL +2 CL +1 CL +1 CL +1 CL +1 CL +1 CL +1 CL +2 CL +1 CL +1 CL +2 CL +1 CL +0 CL +2 CL +1 CL +2 CL +3 CL +1 CL +1 CL Table 77: Experience Point Values by Challenge Level Challenge Level XP Value A (1d4 hit points or less) 5 B (1d6 hit points) 10 1 15 2 30 3 60 4 120 5 240 6 400 7 600 8 800 9 1,100 10 1,400 11 1,700 12 2,000 13 2,300 14 2,600 15 2,900 16+ +300/ HD level 118
Treasure Gems and enchanted items, the pale gleam of gold in rotted treasure chests, great piles of coins shifting beneath the scaly bulk of a dragon’s body – what adventurer can resist the lure of treasures The amount of treasure a monster owns or guards is usually related to the monster’s Challenge Level. As a general guideline, the monetary value of a treasure ought to be about 2–4 times the monster’s value in experience points Keep in mind that hunting and patrolling monsters likely will not be carting their treasure around with them. If the characters cannot find the monster’s lair, they may get none of the treasure. Also, it obviously does not make sense for every wild boar and wolf to have a cache of treasure hidden away somewhere. Averaging the treasure out over several of the monsters in an adventure is a good way of making sure the characters get the right amount of experience points from treasure. Perhaps the goblin treasure hoard contains some “extra” treasure to account for the wolves in the area. If the characters avoid the wolves and kill the goblins, so much the better. If they have to fight the wolves and never find the goblins, those are the breaks. You cannot make the game perfectly fair, trying too hard is not worth your time, and too much fairness feels artificial to the players, too. 119
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table of contents Table of Contents
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Introduction Foreword By Tim Kask,
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Creating a character Dexterity Roll
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Creating a character allegiance to
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Creating a character Druid Druids a
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Creating a character Monk As a Monk
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Creating a character Ranger Class A
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Creating a character Table 17: Thie
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Creating a character Choose an Alig
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Creating a character Item Descripti
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Creating a character Weight and Mov
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How to Play Once you have created a
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how to play Combat A Quick Introduc
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how to play Melee and Spells Phase
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how to play Table 32: Monster Attac
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how to play No Neutral Clerics The
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how to play Quick Method for Ascend
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how to play Traps and Loot After th
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how to play Hiring Followers Normal
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magic dangerous researches at the b
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magic Spell Descriptions Contained
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magic Charm Plants Spell Level: Mag
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magic Control Winds Spell Level: Dr
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magic Dispel Magic Spell Level: Dru
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magic Hold Monster Spell Level: Mag
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magic Locate Object (Magic-User) Sp
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magic Monster Summoning V Spell Lev
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magic Polymorph Self Spell Level: M
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Page 94 and 95: Monsters Black Pudding Hit Dice: 10
Page 96 and 97: Monsters Demons Demons are creature
Page 98 and 99: Monsters Demon, Vrock (First-Catego
Page 100 and 101: Monsters Dragon, Red Hit Dice: 9-11
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Page 104 and 105: Monsters Golems Golems are man-shap
Page 106 and 107: Monsters Human, Normal Hit Dice: 1d
Page 108 and 109: Monsters Lycanthrope, Weretiger Hit
Page 110 and 111: Monsters Ogre Hit Dice: 4+1 Armor C
Page 112 and 113: Monsters Shadow Hit Dice: 2+2 Armor
Page 114 and 115: Monsters Titan Hit Dice: 16 HD+1d6
Page 116 and 117: Monsters Wyvern Hit Dice: 8 Armor C
Page 120 and 121: treasure Generating a Random Treasu
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Page 132 and 133: Legal Appendix Publishing Your Own
Page 134 and 135: ~O~ Oil 31 Outdoor Adventures see W
Page 136 and 137: Party Members Hippogriff Destroyers
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