I want to open this thread to speak about monster and bestiary. I our scenarios and campaign we often use custom monster to give spicy to the game. Some of these are monster that follow the theme of the battle, like guards in "The Fallen Hammer", or mummy in "Tomb of Ancient Pharao"; others are monster that can be used in various plays and don't have any specific theme.
In this tread i want to gather all the monster we make from now to the future, so the list may vary a lot of times from now. Also, i will improve the monster system so sometimes the pages style can change. But i write everything here so don't worry.
I will also provide to make a PDF version of this Bestiary, and maybe i also add some images when i can keep some and, if i learn how, i want make a table to reassume monster's data.
At this point we don't make any type of Challenge Rating, so the choose of what creature include in your plays may vary depends of your playing style, the scenario, the number of players, ecc...
For make the most accurate bestiary we need your feedback, so write on creature's post, write an email to us (wizwarmastered@gmail.com) or leave a comment on our Facebook Page to tell us how you play it and what you find out on it.
MONSTER'S ID PAGES LEGEND
ROLES
Every creature have a role into the play; this role can be the most important one, so the creature it's considered the "boss" of the game, or the fill-the-map ones, that means the creature it's here only to make wizards task more difficult.
Boss
Bosses are powerful creatures that you fight at the end of a quest or campaign. You can choose although to play a scenario with one player control one or more of this creatures.
Monster
Monster-type creatures are non-intelligent creatures that perform simple (but not low) attacks or command. Normally the Monster's ID explain what are the behavior of these creatures.
Enemy
Enemies are intelligent creature that help bosses through the quest. They are controlled by the Game Master that play it at best, without behavior rules.
Allies
Allies are any creature, bot humanoid or non-intelligent monster, that are in a map with the only goal to help the players. They aren't "under control" of master, which means they can't do nothing but apply the rules of the quest.
STATISTICS
Every monster shown in this compendium have
different characteristics. Although wizards, that have only HP (life
points). monsters have some supplement such as Action Points (AP),
Movement Points (MV). Let's see below what every characterstic means:
Life Points (HP)
Like wizards and creatures you control, every creature in this bestiary have Life Points. These HP vary from creature to creature, and normally more points a creature have, more powerful it is. Contrarily the players HP rules, creature of Bestiary cannot exceed their basic HP, even when it is possible gaining more.
This value it's composed of a standard, fixed number, and sometimes you or the master must add a number of points equal to the number of players playing the game; this value it's indicated with P. Example: if a creature have HP=1+P, and the game is played by 4 players, that means the creature, ONLY FOR THIS GAME, starts with a total amount 5 Life Points. The P factor can be multiply, if you find HP=5+(1*P), with 4 player it become: HP=5+(1*4)=9.
Action Points (AP)
Because
monster don't have cards and magic, they cannot perform normal action,
so they have many action points to spend to perform actions. Basically,
most of all monster have 2 AP, but someone special can have 3 points,
and some weak little creature,haveonly 1. Almost every monster have the
ability to spend an AP for actions that affects themself, like the
"Caster" range on wizard's magics.
Movement Points (MV)
When
players have only 3 base movement points, monster have personal minimum
movement, and some of they have a special way to move (like summons).
Every monster IDs explain personal movement rules as well. Every Monsters (and most of Bosses) can use 1 AP to add MV points as much as their base MVs.
Physical Defence (PD) & Magical Defence (MD)
Most of bosses and some monsters have resistence against one or both type of damages. When a creature have this feature, indicated into its ID, you must apply whenever the boss or the monster suffer any damage of the relative type. Any source of damage that come to the creature lower of X points, where X it's this value. For example, when a Fireball come to a creature with 1 MD, that crerature suffer 4 fire magical damages instead of 5; when the same creature it's targeted with Fire Darts, it doesn't suffer any damages, independently of the spell's energy.
Ability ([text])
Major boss have a special category wrote near its name into []. This means the creature it's more powerful and deadly than any other, and means also that creature have a special ability. Abilities are effect active on the creature regardless if it's useful or not. Any Ability are also specified into [] in the creature's entry, and masters MUST read it to the players before playing (it's more important than attacks).
OTHER FEATURES
Version
Version values indicate the creature story. Alpha value means the creature it's almost write, never tried in plays so it's unknown; Beta value means the creature was test minimum once, so some changes was made to calibrate it's power; Number value such as 1.x appears when we have a decent numbers of feedback about plays that tell us the entry it's "complete", where first number means major changes are made on the creatures and second number are minor changes. We provide also a creature history in the bottom of IDs for more clarification.
Higher level's Upgrade
You can find this in some Creatures, especially in every Bosses and some Monsters. Creatures are made thinking about a 3-4 players match, so when you are in 5 players (by rules) or more (by custom), or when you find too easy to beat it, you can choose to play it with some addons that you can find in this scetion.
COMPLETE BESTIARY (by Theme)
Monsters in "Uncategorized" theme can be founded also in quest or scenario of any other theme.
The Fallen Hammer
Bosses:
Vrandall, the Fallen Hammer
Enemies:
Fortress Guard
Cursed Smith
Tomb of Ancient Pharao
Bosses:
Anubis [God]
Isis [God]
Ra [God]
Seth [God]
Monsters:
Camel Spider
Mummy
War Scorpion
Elemental (Dust)
Roc
Bosses:
Roc [Giant]
Monsters:
Roc's Son
Goat Warrior
Blue Eagle
Uncategorized
Monsters:
Wolf
Rat
Bone Soldier
Soon i will make also an Alphabetic index
