FANTASY ROLEPLAYING:

AN OMNIBUS OF OPPONENTS

JEREMY PUCKETT

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 CREDITS

Writing, Editing, and Layout: Jeremy Puckett

Art: Storn Cook, Jason Rainville, Bruno Balixa, Malcolm McClinton, Gary Dupuis, Brin Lee,
Matt Morrow, Forrest Imel, Nicole Cardiff

Fantasy Heroic Roleplaying Designers: Cam Banks, Dave Chalker, Philippe-Antoine Mnard,
and Dennis Twigg

Special Thanks:

Chisa Puckett, my wonderful wife, without whom none of this would be even remotely
enjoyable.

Rachel Collier, my moirail. Props to readers who know what a moirail is. <>

The other amazing members of my roleplaying group: Joseph Lamothe, Michael Adair, Jonathan
Culler, and Chris Ro Cansler.

Christi Cardenas, for being so understanding and patient during the process of obtaining the
license for my little series of supplements.

Cortex Plus Licensing Statement: This game material references the Cortex Plus game system,
available from Margaret Weis Products at www.margaretweis.com. Cortex and Cortex Plus
and all associated logos and trademarks are solely owned by Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd.
and are used with permission. Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd. makes no representation or
warranty as to the quality, viability, or suitability of the purpose of this product.

NOTICE: This is not a complete game! This is a supplement for the Fantasy Heroic Roleplaying
Game as presented in the Cortex Plus Hackers Guide from Margaret Weis Productions (pages
192-256).

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INTRODUCTION
The creatures and opponents in this book
are a combination of classic monsters from
older, much beloved roleplaying games
(albeit most of them with the serial numbers
filed off), monsters from myth and legend,
human(ish) enemies, and a few original
creatures to boot. It is the sincere hope of
this author that whenever you read a
familiar-looking monster entry, youll smile
knowingly upon realizing what its supposed
to be, maybe even groan and shake your
head a little bit at some of them.
Furthermore, it is the deepest hope of this
author that some reader will scrunch up his
forehead in deep confusion at some weird or
bizarre monster only to later discover that
the monster in question is really something
from folklore or fiction-----in much the same
way that the author himself experienced
upon reading some of the original monster
books for the worlds oldest roleplaying
game.
Most of all, though, the author hopes you
will enjoy this book and those to follow!
Mobs and Large Scale Threats
The monsters and enemies herein are all
given as individual creature listings, like
those in the Cortex Plus Hackers Guide, but
many are noted as usually traveling in
groups or being large scale threats. When
turning a monster listed here into a mob or
large scale threat, just add additional dice to
the creature and add the appropriate Limit.
For mobs:
x Limit: Mob Cohesion. Defeat (Threat
Name) Level dice with D# stress to
reduce (Threat Name). Each Level die
may be treated as a separate target for
Area Attack SFX. Once all Level dice
have been removed, defeat (Threat
Name).
The D# Stress represents an effect die
thats one step over the Level dice of the
mob. For example, a mob of Monster Hands
(Minion D4) would require D6 stress to
remove a threat die, while a mob of
Beastmen (Standard D8) would require D10
stress to remove a threat die.
Generally, creatures above Standard
should not be mobs, since Elite monsters
and up are supposed to be individually quite
powerful. On the other hand, an Elite large
scale threat would be entirely appropriate.
For large scale threats:
x Limit: Large Scale Threat. Defeat a
(Threat Name) Level die for each D#
stress effect die applied to (Threat
Name).
Once again, the D# is an effect die that is
at least one step higher than the large scale
threats Level dice. If the heroes are
unfortunate enough to be facing an Epic
(D12) large scale threat, they need to obtain
both D12 effect dice and obtain
extraordinary successes (win a total by 5 or
more) to knock out the large scale threats
Level dice.
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 Large scale threats should be used
sparingly in encounters, since they very
much represent a particularly large and
powerful enemy and can be difficult for
heroes to defeat. Some monsters are
intended to be large scale threats by default,
such as most truly large monsters (like
dragons, sea serpents, and so on).
Encounter Balance in Cortex Plus
As encounter balance is more of an art wanted to wipe the party out. Instead, focus
than a science in Cortex Plus Fantasy, it can
be challenging for a new GM to determine
what constitutes an appropriate challenge
for his particular group. In general, heroes
can comfortably face a single opponent of
Level no greater than the highest power trait
in the party, or foes equal to the partys
number of one Level die lower. That is to
say, a party of four heroes whose best power
trait is Weapon D10 can generally face off
against a single Boss D10 monster, or up to
four Elite D8 monsters in one encounter.
Since combat is a narrative element as
much as anything else in a Cortex Plus
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game, never be afraid to let the heroes run
from a fight that is going badly for them, or
to be captured and have to escape from their
captivity before some dreadful consequence
occurs. As in all things, remember that your
job as the GM is to give your players the
chance to shine and take center stage in a
great story youre all telling!
Avoid taking an adversarial role as the
GM. With the kind of responsibility and
power youve been given, you could just
make rocks fall (everyone dies) if you really
on building interesting mysteries, cool
challenges, and intimidating encounters
with the purpose of letting the player
characters come out of them looking
awesome. The PCs can experience setbacks,
but putting them in no-win situations,
humiliating them, or steamrolling them
without good cause doesnt serve any real
purpose.
Your monsters should be cool and
threatening-----but theyre not the heroes.
Never forget that!
ADULT DRAGON
BOSS D10
Distinctions: Huge Dragon; Scales Like
Steel; Savage Intellect
Specialties: Intimidation Expert D8, Lore
Expert D8, Melee Combat Master D10,
Mystic Expert D8
Mature Dragon: Elemental Blast D10
(choose one), Elemental Control D8 (choose
one), Enhanced Senses D8, Flight D8,
Natural Weapons D10, Superhuman
Durability D10, Superhuman Strength D10
x SFX: Breath Weapon. When attacking
multiple targets with Elemental Blast, for
each additional target add a D6 and keep
an additional effect die.
x SFX: Crushing Jaws. Step up or double
Natural Weapons against a single target.
Remove the highest rolling die and keep
three dice for the total.
x SFX: Elemental Immunity. Spend a
doom die to ignore stress or
complication from elemental affinity.
x SFX: Fearsome. When creating a fear-
based complication against multiple
targets in a pool including Intimidation
Expert, for each additional target add a
D6 and keep an additional effect die.
x SFX: Multipower. Add more than one
Mature Dragon power die to a pool. Step
back each Mature Dragon power die in
that pool once for each die beyond the
first.
x Limit: Elemental Weakness. Step up
stress from elemental weakness or
extraplanar effects to step up the lowest
die in the doom pool or add a D6 doom
die.
x Limit: Recharge Time. If you use Breath
Weapon or Fearsome SFX and roll any
opportunities, shutdown that SFX.
Recover by spending a D10 or higher
doom die.
Dragons are immense magical predators
that control huge territories and keep vast
amounts of treasure for their own. Many
adventurers regard dragons as a tempting
target for robbery-----or just bragging
rights-----but a dragons incredible physical
prowess, vast magical knowledge, and
utterly ruthless attitude make such a
proposition a fools errand most of the time.
Each dragon has an elemental affinity, a
special connection to a specific element,
such as fire, cold, lightning, and so on. A
dragons Elemental Blast and Elemental
Control powers, as well as the Elemental
Immunity SFX, are all related to this
element. Each dragon also has a specific
elemental weakness that should be opposed
to their affinity in some fashion.
AHUIZOTL
STANDARD D6
Distinctions: Amphibious; River Predator;
Surprisingly Dexterous
Specialties: Melee Combat Expert D8,
Skullduggery Expert D8
River Monster: Enhanced Senses D8,
Enhanced Stamina D8, Stretching D6,
Swimming D8
x SFX: Semi-Aquatic. Spend a doom die to
ignore stress or complications from
drowning.
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 x SFX: Tail Grab. Against a single target,
step up or double Stretching when
inflicting a grappling complication.
Remove the highest rolling die and keep
three dice for the total.
x Limit: Awkward. Turn Swimming into a
complication while out of the water.
Return to the water to recover the
power.
The ahuizotl is a river predator that looks
like a large dog with water-slick fur and
human-like hands for forepaws. The
creatures tail is as long as its body and ends
in a grasping appendage that helps it with its
preferred method of hunting: grabbing
careless animals by the riverside and
dragging them underwater to drown them.
Ahuizotls have a particular taste for
humans, but they will eat almost any
creature they can catch. They eat the bones,
hair, nails, and eyes of their prey, but leave
the meat untouched. Perhaps the most
disturbing thing about the ahuizotl is its cry,
which sounds like a weeping baby.
ANT LION
ELITE D8
Distinctions: Giant Insect; Subterranean;
Not Actually Tame
Specialties: Melee Combat Expert D8,
Scouting Expert D8
Huge Formian: Bite D8, Burrowing D8,
Enhanced Durability D8, Enhanced Senses
D8, Growth D8, Superhuman Strength D10
x SFX: Pincers. Against a single target,
step up or double Pincers. Remove the
6
highest rolling die and use three dice for
the total.
x SFX: Pit Trap. When using Burrowing to
inflict a buried complication, add a D6
and step up the effect die.
x Limit: Big Bug. Turn Growth into a
complication to step up the lowest die in
the doom pool or add a D6 doom die.
The ant lion is an enormous trap hunter that
lives in deep deserts, burrowing
underground to avoid the heat of the day
and digging pits to ensnare prey. Creatures
that fall into these pits are attacked by the
ant lion, which sinks its pincers into its prey
in an attempt to drag them deep
underground before they can get away.
Ant lions are a severe hazard for trade
caravans crossing their native deserts and
badlands. A popular song from some years
back indicates that ant lions are actually less
dangerous than they seem-----an assertion
that is patently false and has led more than
one person to their unknowing doom.
AQUATIC DOMINATOR
BOSS D10
Distinctions: Loathsome; Amphibious
Abomination; As Cruel As It Is Cunning
Specialties: Lore Master D10, Mystic Master
D10
Mental Supremacy: Mental Resistance D10,
Mind Control D10
 Piscine Physiology: Enhanced Durability
CURSE OF THE DEEPS
D8, Enhanced Strength D8, Stretching D8,
BOSS D10
Swimming D10
Distinctions: Call of the Deeps; Fish-Man x SFX: Poison Slime. When inflicting a
Hybrid; Amphibious Horror poison slime complication, add a D6 and
Specialties: Mystic Master D10 step up the effect die. A creature taken
Deep One: Mind Control D10, Magical out with a poison slime complication
Resistance D10
suffers the Curse of the Deeps (see
x SFX: Squamous. When inflicting a Deep
One Transformation complication on a below).
target, add a D6 and step up the effect die. x Limit: Water Breather. Turn Swimming
x SFX: One of Us. If a Deep One into a complication while the Aquatic
Transformation complication is pushed Dominator is out of the water. At the
beyond D12, you may spend a D12 from
end of each Scene the Aquatic
the doom pool to permanently turn the
hero into a Deep One (see below). Dominator is out of the water, step up
x Limit: Poisoned Slime. The Curse of the physical stress.
Deeps can only affect a hero while he is
suffering from an Aquatic Dominator's
poison slime complication. If that
complication is removed, Curse of the
Deeps cannot act.

Those that are overwhelmed by the aquatic

dominator's poison slime begin a painful,
horrific transformation into a fish-like
humanoid called a deep one. Curing the
poison before it can take hold can slow the
curse, but it remains dormant within the
victim's body until fully purged.

x SFX: Illusions. When creating illusion

based complications, add a D6 and step
up the effect die.
x SFX: Cold Blooded. Spend a doom die to o
ignore social stress.
x Limit: Antediluvian. Step up mental
stress from psychic contact with non-
aquatic creatures to step up the lowest
die in the doom pool or add a D6 doom
die.

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 Lurking deep in underground seas and lakes,
the aquatic dominator looks something like
a great catfish almost 20 feet long. Its red
eyes hold no compassion or mercy for land-
dwellers, and it lives only to acquire territory
and think deep, cold, ancient thoughts.
Perhaps the most dreadful powers of an
aquatic dominator are its uncanny telepathic
abilities and its capacity to exude a
poisonous slime that can turn ordinary
humanoids into its devoted servitors, known
as the deep ones.
ARACHNAUR
ELITE D8
Distinctions: Arachnid Abomination;
Subterranean Outcast; Blood Drinker
Specialties: Acrobatics Expert D8, Melee
Combat Expert D8, Mystic Expert D8
Monstrous Elf: Climbing D8, Enhanced
Durability D8, Enhanced Senses D8,
Enhanced Speed D8, Enhanced Strength D8,
Sorcery D6, Spider Control D8, Webbing D8
x SFX: Cocoon. When using Webbing to
inflict a grappling or binding
complication, add a D6 and step up the
effect die.
x SFX: Spider Queens Blessing. Spend a
doom die to ignore stress or
complications from poison or webbing.
x SFX: Swarm Master. Spend a doom die
to turn Spider Control into an asset for
an allied spider swarm for the rest of the
scene.
x Limit: Painful Deformities. Turn any
Monstrous Elf power into a
complication to step up the lowest die in
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the doom pool or add a D6 doom die.
Spend a doom die to recover the power.
x Limit: Utility Magic. A dice pool
containing Sorcery cannot be used to
inflict physical stress.
Deep elves are devout worshippers of the
Spider Goddess, a dark deity of entrapment,
betrayal, and poison. In currying her favor,
some deep elves are given the dubious
blessing of becoming an arachnaur. From
the waist up, an arachnaur looks like a
deformed deep elf, often bearing extra eyes
or mandibles in place of a jaw. From the
waist down, the arachnaur is an enormous,
pale spider.
These centaur-like creatures are thought
of as horrific mutations among deep elves,
who cast them out from society but do not
kill them in order to avoid slaying those who
might well be favored by the Goddess.
Arachnaurs live in the caverns and tunnels
around deep elf society, picking off lone
travelers and underground animals,
occasionally acting as oracles or enforcers
for deep elves desperate enough to seek
them out.
ARGOPELTER
STANDARD D6
Distinctions: Quick; Arboreal; Territorial
Specialties: Acrobatics Expert D8, Ranged
Combat Expert D8
Fearsome Critter: Climbing D8, Enhanced
Reflexes D8, Enhanced Senses D8, Thrown
Weapon D6
x SFX: Whiplash Arm. Against a single
target, step up or double Thrown
Weapon. Remove the highest rolling die
and keep three dice for the total.
x Limit: Light Sensitive. Turn Senses into
a complication while in bright light to
step up the lowest die in the doom pool
or add a D6 doom die. Recover Senses
when no longer exposed to bright light.
Argopelters are skinny, long-armed apes
that live in the hollow boles of trees,
preferably coniferous trees. Theyre very fast
and extremely territorial. Argopelters avoid
being seen whenever possible, instead
waiting for intruders to turn their backs
before pelting them with rocks, chunks of
dead wood, and acorns hurled with the force
of sling stones. Argopelters eat birds and
rotten wood, though a few have grown fat
on humanoid garbage.
BAKU
ELITE D8
Distinctions: Guardian; Nightmare Eater;
Bizarre Appearance
Specialties: Lore Expert D8, Mystic Expert
D8
Dream Spirit: Dream Senses D10, Flight
D8, Invisibility D8, Intangibility D8, Mental
Resistance D8, Mind Control D8
x SFX: Dream Healer. Baku can add Mind
Control to another characters rolls to
recover from mental or emotional stress
or trauma at no cost.
x SFX: Dream Weaver. When using Mind
Control to create illusions, add a D6 and
step up the effect die.
x SFX: Fearless. Spend a doom die to
ignore social stress or complications
from fear.
x SFX: Mind Protector. Spend a doom die
to suffer mental or social stress in place
of an ally in the current scene.
x Limit: Spirit. Step up stress or
complications from divine magic or
mystic wards to step up the lowest die in
the doom pool or add a D6 doom die.
The baku is a spirit that looks like a floating
tapir with misty tendrils rather than legs,
passively drifting through the air until it
senses a dreamer suffering from nightmares.
Using its powers of invisibility and
intangibility, it enters the homes of sleeping
humanoids and eats their bad dreams,
leaving behind feelings of peace and
happiness. Baku also frequently wind up
opposing nightmare-inducing monsters of
various sorts, such as hags and rokurokubi.
Baku sometimes go rogue and wind up
devouring all of a persons dreams, leaving
only depression and sadness instead of
peace.
BASILISK
ELITE D8
Distinctions: Eight Legged Reptile; Slow
Metabolism; Territorial
Specialties: Melee Combat Expert D8,
Ranged Combat Expert D8
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 Magical Beast: Enhanced Durability D8,
Enhanced Senses D8, Horrific Gaze D8,
Weapon D8
x SFX: Flesh to Stone. When using
Horrific Gaze to inflict a petrification
complication, add a D6 and step up the
effect die. If a character is taken out by a
petrification complication, the GM can
spend D12 from the doom pool to turn
that character to stone permanently.
x SFX: Vicious Bite. In an attack action
including Weapon, step back the highest
die in the action pool to add a D6 and
step up physical stress inflicted.
x Limit: Sluggish. Step up stress or
complications from cold based effects to
step up the lowest die in the doom pool
or add a D6 doom die.
x Limit: Reflection. A character armed
with a mirror can inflict physical stress
on a basilisk as a reaction to an attack
including Horrific Gaze without an
opportunity showing. Step up physical
stress suffered from such counterattacks
to step up the lowest die in the doom
pool or add a D6 doom die.
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Magical beasts dwelling in swamps and deep
forests, basilisks can grow up to twelve feet
long. Their diet is primarily large mammals
and other reptiles, but they will just as
happily eat humanoids. The most terrible
power possessed by a basilisk is its ability to
kill those that meet its gaze. Such deaths
come from horrific means, such as brain
fevers, sudden heart attacks, or even being
turned to stone. Creatures turned to stone
sometimes will revert after a few minutes or
hours, but others are changed permanently
without magic to restore them.
BEAR TRAP (TRAP)
STANDARD D6
Distinctions: Hidden; Saw Toothed; Steel
Trap
Specialties: Melee Combat Expert D8
Animal Trap: Enhanced Strength D8
x SFX: Ankle Breaker. Step back the
highest die in Bear Trap's attack action
pool to add a D6 and step up physical
stress inflicted.
x SFX: Snap Shut. On a successful attack
action, keep an additional effect die for
an ensnared complication for free.
x Limit: One and Done. Bear Trap only
acts once in a scene, though any
complication it inflicts persists until
removed.
One of the most common traps used by
average people, the bear trap is a set of steel,
toothed jaws triggered by a pressure plate
between them. When set off, the bear trap
clamps down on the victims leg, trapping
them and possibly breaking their leg.
Without help, animals usually die in such
traps-----or gnaw off their own limbs to
escape. The trap is normally concealed d
under leaves or brush, and connected to a
chain wrapped around a tree or spiked d into
the ground to keep it in place.
x Limit: Easily Cowed. Step up social
stress from intimidation or fear to step
up the lowest die in the doom pool or
add a D6 doom die.
Many races of beastmen haunt the
wilderness near civilization. Each tribe is
different, but all resemble twisted hybrids of
man and animal. The civilized races have
names for each type of creature-----frogmen,
goatmen, wolfmen, and so on-----but they
rarely refer to themselves as such. Most
beastmen live in tight-knit tribal
communities and survive by hunting,
gathering, and raiding.

BEASTMAN
STANDARD D6

Distinctions: Bestial Features; Semi-

Civilized; Predatory
Specialties: Melee Combat Expert D8,,
Scouting Expert D8
Animal Man: Durability D6, Enhanced ed
Senses D8, Strength D6, Movement powerower
D6 (choose one: Flight, Leaping, or
Swimming), Natural Weapon D6

x SFX: Savage Assault. Against a singlegle

target, step up or double a Natural
olling
Weapon die. Remove the highest rolling
die and use three dice for the total.

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 BROWNIE
MINION D4
Distinctions: Helpful; Hardworking; Easily
Insulted
Specialties: Crafting Expert D8, Mystic
Expert D8, Skullduggery Expert D8
Minor Faerie: Invisibility D6, Sorcery D6
x SFX: Constructs. When using Sorcery to
create assets, add a D6 and step up the
effect die.
x SFX: Faerie. Spend a doom die to ignore
physical stress unless inflicted by iron
weapons.
x Limit: Utility Magic. A dice pool
containing Sorcery cannot be used to
inflict physical stress.
Brownies are small and unobtrusive faeries
that live symbiotic lives with humans and
other big folk. Brownie families will move
into unused spaces in a home-----generally
attics, basements, or barn lofts-----and do
minor chores for the big folk that live there.
These chores can include darning socks,
mending shoes, sweeping up, or other little
tasks. In exchange, the brownies only want a
saucer of milk or cream once a month
(though many big folk choose to leave out
milk more often to make their brownies
happy) and to be left alone.
Brownies are touchy in dealings with
bigger people, often finding insult where
none was intended. Insulted or neglected
brownies quickly find a new place to live.
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CARCASS EATER
STANDARD D6
Distinctions: Scavenger; Subterranean;
Fetid
Specialties: Scouting Expert D8
Carrion Devourer: Burrowing D8,
Enhanced Senses D8, Enhanced Speed D8,
Tentacles D6
x SFX: Paralytic Venom. When using
Tentacles to inflict a paralysis
complication, add a D6 and step up the
effect die.
x Limit: Carrion Eater. Step back the effect
die when a Carcass Eater makes an
attack to inflict physical stress.
The vile carcass eater is an eight-foot-long
centipede that feeds on carrion and
scavenged corpses. It performs a useful but
disgusting function in its natural
environment of underground caves and
complexes. Though it prefers its meat well-
aged, a hungry carcass eater has been known
to prey on injured, weak, or small animals. A
particularly desperate carcass eater will hunt
humanoids, paralyzing them with its venom
before eating them alive.
CARNIVOROUS BLOB
ELITE D8
Distinctions: Gelatinous; Oozing Horror;
Constantly Eating
Specialties: Melee Combat Expert D8,
Scouting Expert D8
Ooze Monster: Enhanced Strength D8,
Intangibility D8, Stretching D8, Swimming
D6
x SFX: Acidic. On a successful reaction
against a melee attack action, inflict
physical stress with effect die at no doom
pool cost. Spend a doom die to step it up.
x SFX: Engulf. When using Stretching to
inflict a grappling complication, add a
D6 and step up the effect die.
x Limit: Mostly Liquid. Step up stress or
complications from fire or cold to step
up the lowest die in the doom pool or
add a D6 doom die.
Various ooze monsters exist in the known
world, many of them subterranean. A few
make their way to the surface from time to
time to threaten civilized folk, though they
generally prefer the damp and dark regions
underground. Carnivorous blobs are
essentially man-sized (or larger) gelatinous
monsters that devour living prey by
engulfing it and dissolving it with their
natural acidic secretions. These persistent
hunters can follow food for hours before
giving up or picking easier prey.
CARNIVOROUS PLANT
STANDARD D6
Distinctions: Limited Mobility; Ambush
Predator; Camouflage
Specialties: Melee Combat Expert D8
Venus Man-Trap: Bite D8, Enhanced
Senses D8, Enhanced Strength D8
x SFX: Trapjaw. When inflicting a
grappling complication, add a D6 and
step up the effect die.
x Limit: Wilted. Step up stress or
complications from fire, cold, or
dehydration to step up the lowest die in
the doom pool or add a D6 doom die.
Similar to the Venus fly-trap but much
larger, various carnivorous plants inhabit
the wilderness beyond civilization. These
enormous man-eaters can uproot
themselves to pursue prey, but not
particularly fast. They generally prefer to
wait for suitable prey to come near, then
ambush them from hiding. A single man-
sized meal can last a carnivorous for weeks
at a time.
CENTAUR TRIBESMAN
STANDARD D6
Distinctions: Wine and Women; Surly;
Surprisingly Intelligent
Specialties: Lore Expert D8, Ranged
Combat Expert D8
Equine Body: Bow and Arrows D8,
Enhanced Speed D8, Enhanced Stamina D8
x SFX: Run Them Down! Against a single
target, step up or double Speed. Remove
the highest rolling die and use three dice
for the total.
x SFX: Fearless. Spend a doom die to
ignore social stress from fear or
intimidation.
x Limit: Hooves. Turn Speed into a
complication when climbing or on
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 rough terrain to step up the lowest die in
the doom pool or add a D6 doom die.
Centaurs are lusty human/horse hybrids
with violent tempers but loyal natures. They
can be quite territorial and dont care for
trespassers. When they can overcome their
own proclivities for drink and brawling, they
make good sages and historians. Many
princes have been taught math and science
by centaur tutors-----though most kingdoms
dont trust centaurs around their princesses.
CHERUB
STANDARD D6
Distinctions: Servant of Heaven; Guardian;
Cares Deeply
Specialties: Diplomacy Expert D8, Ranged
Combat Expert D8
Lesser Angel: Flight D8, Invisibility D6,
Light Blast D6
x SFX: Chastise. When inflicting social
stress through rebuke or guilt, add a D6
and step up the effect die.
x SFX: Protector. Take physical stress
intended for a mortal to add D6 to the
doom pool or step up the lowest die in
the doom pool.
x Limit: Being of Light. Step up stress or
complications from darkness or negative
energy effects to step up the lowest die in
the doom pool or add a D6 doom die.
Cherubim are minor angels, creatures of
light and hope that are dispatched from the
Upper Planes to watch over and protect
individual mortals-----both from physical
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harm and from corruption. A cherub can be
a holy mans guardian angel, or the angel
on the shoulder for a wicked person trying
to redeem their soul. They spend most of
their time invisible to mortal eyes, but their
true forms are something like an
androgynous child with four wings.
CHIMERA
ELITE D8
Distinctions: Unnatural Hybrid; Foul
Tempered; Vicious Predator
Specialties: Melee Combat Expert D8,
Scouting Expert D8
Magical Beast: Bite D8, Enhanced
Durability D8, Enhanced Speed D8,
Enhanced Strength D8, Fire Blast D8
x SFX: Dual Heads. On an attack action,
split Bite D8 into 2D6. Keep an extra
effect die.
x SFX: Flaming Cone. When attacking
multiple targets with Fire Blast, add a D6
and keep an extra effect die for each
additional target.
x SFX: Venomous Bite. On a successful
attack including Bite that deals physical
stress, keep an extra effect die for a
poison complication at no cost.
x Limit: Two Brains. Step up confusion
based complications or mental stress to
step up the lowest die in the doom pool
or add a D6 doom die.
This monstrous creature is a combination of
a lion, a goat and a snake. Its body is like a
scaly lion, while it has two heads-----a lions
head and a goats head. Instead of a lions
tail, the creatures tail is that of a serpent.
The chimeras two heads can breathe out a
cone of dreadful fire by working together, or
it can bite two opponents at the same time.
Like a serpent, the chimeras bite is
poisonous. Chimerae are mean beasts, often
killing an entire field of cattle just to eat one
of them, leaving the rest to rot. They will
also happily attack humans, fleeing only if
vastly outnumbered or badly wounded.
CHRONOVORE
EPIC D12
Distinctions: Time Fiend; Devourer;
Mindless Force of Destruction
Specialties: Melee Combat Master D10,
Ranged Combat Master D10
Temporal Destroyer: Fangs D10, Flight
D10, Godlike Durability D12, Godlike
Senses D12, Godlike Strength, Time Blast
D12, Time Control D12
x SFX: Everywhere At Once. When
making an attack against multiple
targets, for each additional target add a
D6 and keep an additional effect die.
x SFX: Mindless. Spend a doom die to
ignore mental or emotional stress.
x SFX: Regeneration. Spend a doom die to
recover physical stress or step back
physical trauma.
x SFX: Rewind. Spend a doom die to reroll
a reaction and add Time Control, or
double Time Control if already in dice
pool.
x SFX: Tempus Fugit. Add more than one
Temporal Destroyer power die to a pool.
Step back each Temporal Destroyer
power die in that pool once for each die
beyond the first.
x SFX: Vicious Maw. Step up or double
Fangs against a single target. Remove the
highest rolling die and keep three dice
for the total.
x Limit: Burnout. Step up physical stress
at the end of each round of combat.
x Limit: Short on Time. Step up stress or
complications from aging or any
progressive condition to step up the
lowest die in the doom pool or add a D6
doom die.
The chronovore is brought into existence
when a wizard violates the laws of time,
generally in response to the creation of a
major paradox. A chronovore is little more
than a horse-sized ball of wings and teeth
that seeks to devour everything in the area
before it burns itself out. It has a vague self-
awareness, even though it lacks anything
resembling intelligence, so it seeks to devour
as much as possible in order to prolong its
own existence. A chronovore is a short-lived
foe, but an exceedingly dangerous one. Just
letting it runs its own course can result in
the destruction of entire kingdoms-----or
worlds.
CHUPACABRA
STANDARD D6
Distinctions: Ambush Predator; Reclusive;
Reptilian
Specialties: Melee Combat Expert D8,
Skullduggery Expert D8
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Enhanced Reflexes D8, Natural Weapons D6
x SFX: Blood Drain. When making an
attack action against a creature suffering
a grappling based complication, add a
D6 and step up physical stress inflicted.
x Limit: Nocturnal. Step up stress or
complications from bright light to step
up the lowest die in the doom pool or
add a D6 doom die.
The chupacabra is a nocturnal hunter
known for carrying off sheep and goats to
drain them of blood, thus earning it the
moniker goat sucker. A chupacabra is a
man-sized reptile with a row of spines
running down its back and large black eyes
that can unnerve even the sternest onlooker.
Though they can reputedly grow as large as
bears, they are amazingly stealthy creatures.
Chupacabras are ambush predators, striking
from the darkness and carrying off their
prey to suck them dry at leisure. Bright
light-----even the light from a large
campfire-----can keep them at bay, however.
COUATL
ELITE D8
Distinctions: Benevolent; Avoids
Interfering; Feathered Ophidian
Specialties: Acrobatics Expert D8, Lore
Expert D8, Melee Combat Expert D8
Rainbow Serpent: Bite D6, Enhanced
Durability D8, Enhanced Reflexes D8,
Enhanced Senses D8, Flight D8, Light
Control D6, Mental Resistance D8,
Shapeshifting D6, Telepathy D8
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x SFX: Mind Healer. Couatl can add
Telepathy to recovery actions for mental
and social stress. Spend a doom die to
recover anothers mental or social stress,
or step back anothers mental or social
trauma.
x SFX: Shield of Spirit. Spend a doom die
to ignore stress or complications from
psychic attacks.
x Limit: Heart of Glass. Step up social
stress from intentional cruelty or the
suffering of innocents to step up the
lowest die in the doom pool or add a D6
doom die.
The great feathered serpents called couatls
are beautiful and compassionate beings that
regard humans as children in need of
guidance to find their own inner worth.
While they avoid directly intervening
whenever possible-----after all, a child never
learns if his parents do everything for him-----
they constantly give encouragement, advice,
and wisdom to the peoples that live in their
homelands. Many couatls are worshipped as
protector spirits of their home cities or
villages, living in well maintained shrines
and fed by generations of humans grateful
for their wisdom.
Couatls are naturally telepathic, and
their innate sense of goodness exudes a
warm aura to all that encounter them. Even
the most heartless people find themselves
wondering about redemption and feeling
shame for their past actions in the presence
of a couatl. Many couatls can assume a
single human form, albeit only for short
periods.
CYCLOPS
BOSS D10
Distinctions: Surly Giant; One-Eyed;
Master Craftsman
Specialties: Crafting Master D10, Lore
Expert D8, Melee Combat Expert D8, Mystic
Expert D8, Ranged Combat Expert D8
Cyclopean: Lightning Blast D8, Sorcery D8,
Superhuman Durability D10, Superhuman
Stamina D10, Superhuman Strength D10
x SFX: Bolt from the Blue. Against a single
target, step up or double Lightning Blast.
Remove the highest rolling die and keep
three dice for the total.
x SFX: Mystic Craftsman. When using
Sorcery to create item based assets, add a
D6 and step up the effect die.
x SFX: Storm of Vengeance. When
attacking multiple targets with Lightning
Blast, add a D6 and keep an extra effect
die for each additional target.
x Limit: Single Eye. Step up blinding
complications to step up the lowest die
in the doom pool or add a D6 doom die.
x Limit: Thunderbolt. Shutdown
Lightning Blast to step up the lowest die
in the doom pool or add a D6 doom die.
x Limit: Utility Magic. A dice pool
containing Sorcery cannot be used to
inflict physical stress.
Cousins to the brutish giants that
occasionally ravage civilized lands, cyclopes
are far more reclusive than their barbaric
relations. Standing over a dozen feet tall
with a single eye in the middle of their
forehead, cyclopes look ugly to most
humanoids. Most choose to live in isolated
places, like high mountains or distant
islands, to avoid mockery and so that they
can pursue their true passion in peace:
crafting. Cyclopes are gifted craftsmen and
able with practical magic to enchant their
creations.
Popular legend says that the gods
themselves set the cyclopes to this task in
ancient times, and that such wondrous
objects as the sky gods lightning bolts or the
war gods shield are of cyclopean make.
Though they are not the brutes that other
giants can be, they hate being bothered and
can react badly to uninvited guests.
DEATH KNIGHT
BOSS D10
Distinctions: Cursed; Honorable in Death;
Black Knight
Specialties: Intimidation Master D10, Melee
Combat Master D10, Mystic Expert D8,
Ranged Combat Expert D8
Deaths Champion: Enhanced Senses D8,
Enhanced Strength D8, Fire Blast D10,
Sorcery D8, Superhuman Durability D10,
Weapon D8
x SFX: Fireball. When attacking multiple
targets with Fire Blast, add a D6 and
keep an extra effect die for each
additional target.
x SFX: Invulnerable. Spend a doom die to
ignore physical stress unless inflicted by
holy or magical weapons.
x SFX: Undead. Spend a doom die to
ignore complications or stress from
poison, disease, aging, suffocation, and
cold.
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stress or complications from light or
holy power to step up the lowest die in
the doom pool or add a D6 doom die.
x Limit: Utility Magic. A dice pool
containing Sorcery cannot be used to
inflict physical stress.
In life, death knights were champions of
justice who forsook their vows for worldly
reasons. Cursed by the gods to linger after
death as tormented souls, death knights now
fight with all the trappings of the honor they
lost in life. Some hope that by doing so they
will be released from their eternal torment,
while others fight with honor to mock the
gods that cursed them.
DEEP CROW
ELITE D8
Distinctions: Huge Corvid; Dreadful; From
the Dark Places
Specialties: Acrobatics Expert D8,
Intimidation Expert D8, Melee Combat
Expert D8
Black Earth Bird: Enhanced Reflexes D8,
Enhanced Senses D8, Enhanced Strength
D8, Flight D8, Natural Weapons D8
x SFX: Aerial Dodge. Spend a doom die to
reroll an action including Flight.
x SFX: Screech. When inflicting fear based
social stress or fear based complications,
add a D6 and step up the effect die.
x SFX: Snatch and Grab. When inflicting a
grappling complication, add a D6 and
step up the effect die.
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mental stress from magic or sleight of
hand resembling magic to step up the
lowest die in the doom pool or add a D6
doom die.
Deep crows are enormous birds that inhabit
the dark and forgotten corners of the earth,
particularly forsaken mountain peaks and
deep underground caverns. They resemble
enormous crows or ravens with seven
glowing red eyes and insect-like mandibles
in place of a beak. Deep crows are generally
the size of a man, but truly ancient ones can
grow far larger. They are alpha predators in
their environment, preyed on in turn by
only the largest supernatural creatures.
DEEP ELF
STANDARD D6
Distinctions: Ruthless; Spider Worshiper;
Deep Dweller
Specialties: Melee Combat Expert D8,
Mystic Expert D8, Skullduggery Expert D8
Corrupted Elf: Enhanced Reflexes D8,
Enhanced Senses D8, Magic Resistance D8,
Sorcery D6, Weapon D8
x SFX: Uncanny Accuracy. Spend a doom
die to reroll an action including Reflexes.
x Limit: Cruel Priesthood. Step up
emotional stress from priests of the
Spider Goddess to step up the lowest die
in the doom pool or add a D6 doom die.
x Limit: Light Blind. Turn Senses into a
complication in conditions of bright
light, including magical light and
sunlight.
x Limit: Utility Magic. A dice pool
containing Sorcery cannot be used to
inflict physical stress.
A corrupt offshoot of the elven race, deep
elves dwell far beneath the earth, where the
sun and stars never reach. Their pale skin
and hair almost glow in light, and their
white eyes make them look blind. Deep elves
can see in total darkness as well as other
elves see in light, but bright light makes their
eyes burn and water. Exposure to the terrible
radiation deep underground has given them
a slew of innate magical abilities, as well as
resistance to the magic of others, but it also
frequently causes them to suffer stillbirths or
horrific mutations.
DEEP ONE
STANDARD D6
Distinctions: Horrific Fish Humanoid; Was
Once a Man; Lives to Serve
Specialties: Melee Combat Expert D8
Fishman Physiology: Enhanced Stamina
D8, Enhanced Strength D8, Swimming D8
x SFX: Death Roll. When fighting in the
water and inflicting a drowning
complication, add a D6 and step up the
effect die.
x Limit: Water Breather. Turn Swimming
into a complication while the Deep One
is out of the water. At the end of each
Scene the Deep One is out of the water,
step up physical stress.
Deep ones are the horrible, fish-like
humanoid slaves of the aquatic dominators.
Once a humanoid from another race, the
aquatic dominator's poison slime wrought a
painful, mind-rending transformation on
the poor soul, leaving him a nearly mindless
husk living only to serve the dominator that
turned him.
DEMON LORD
EPIC D12
Distinctions: Prince of the Inferno;
Powerful but Petty; Better to Rule in Hell
Specialties: Diplomacy Expert D8,
Intimidation Master D10, Melee Combat
Master D10, Ranged Combat Expert D8,
Skullduggery Master D10
Greater Demon: Fire Blast D10, Fire
Control D10, Sorcery D10, Superhuman
Durability D10, Superhuman Senses D10,
Superhuman Stamina D10, Superhuman
Strength D10, Teleport D12, Weapon D12
x SFX: Hellfire Blade. Step back the
highest die in the Warrior Demon's
attack action pool to add a D6 and step
up physical stress inflicted.
x SFX: Lord of the Pit. Spend a doom die
to ignore stress or complications from
fire.
x SFX: Multipower. Add more than one
Demon Lord power die to a pool. Step
back each Demon Lord power die in that
pool once for each die beyond the first.
x SFX: Scales of the Damned. Spend a
doom die to ignore physical stress unless
inflicted by magical or blessed weapons.
x SFX: Wishmaster. When using Sorcery
to create an asset based on a mortals
wish, add a D6 and step up the effect die.
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BOSS D10
Distinctions: Child Eater; Hideous;
Immortal Witch
Specialties: Intimidation Master D10, Lore
Master D10, Melee Combat Expert D8,
Mystic Master D10, Ranged Combat Expert
D8, Scouting Expert D8
Monstrous Humanoid: Enhanced
Durability D8, Flight D8, Mystic Blast D8,
Natural Weapons D8, Sorcery D10,
Superhuman Senses D10, Superhuman
Strength D10
SFX: Awful Visage. When inflicting
social stress through fear, add a D6 and
step up the effect die.
SFX: Double, Double. When using
Sorcery to inflict curse based
complications, add a D6 and step up the
effect die.
SFX: Something Wicked. When
attacking multiple targets with Mystic
Blast, add a D6 and keep an extra effect
die for each additional target.
Limit: Toil and Trouble. Shutdown any
Monstrous Humanoid power to step up
the lowest die in the doom pool or add a
D6 doom die.
Limit: Utility Magic. A dice pool
containing Sorcery cannot be used to
inflict physical stress.
Hags appear as ancient, withered crones, but
possess an enormous strength that belies
their frail frames. These magical harridans
devour children and the innocent, using
their magic to create twisted monstrosities
for apparently no reason other than personal
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amusement. Hags are particularly gifted at
crafting curses and laying hexes on their
enemies.
HARPY
STANDARD D6
Distinctions: Odious Personal Habits;
Wicked; Avian
Specialties: Acrobatics Expert D8,
Performance Expert D8
Bird Woman: Enhanced Reflexes D8, Flight
D8, Mind Control D6, Talons D6
SFX: Charming Voice. When using
Mind Control to inflict charm based
complications, add a D6 and step up the
effect die.
SFX: Filthy. When making an attack
action including Talons to inflict
physical stress, keep an additional effect
die to inflict an infected wounds
complication.
Limit: Songbird. Shutdown Mind
Control if Harpy cannot sing.
Harpies are disgusting hybrid creatures-----
haggard old winged women from the waist
up, carrion birds from the waist down. Their
hideous appearance is only worsened by
their filthy habits. They are perpetually
covered with bits of carrion and offal, never
cleaning themselves after eating or
defecating. In contrast to their awful hygiene
and appearance, they have melodious,
beautiful voices-----so beautiful, in fact, that
they can use them to lure humanoids to
their doom.
HATCHLING DRAGON
ELITE D8
Distinctions: Small for a Dragon; Curious
About the World; Hungry All the Time
Specialties: Melee Combat Expert D8,
Mystic Expert D8
Mature Dragon: Elemental Blast D8
(choose one), Elemental Influence D6
(choose one), Enhanced Senses D8,
Exceptional Durability D8, Exceptional
Strength D8, Flight D6, Natural Weapons
D8
SFX: Breath Weapon. When attacking
multiple targets with Elemental Blast, for
each additional target add a D6 and keep
an additional effect die. Shutdown
Breath Weapon after using it. Recover by
spending a D8 or higher doom die.
SFX: Elemental Immunity. Spend a
doom die to ignore stress or
complication from elemental affinity.
Limit: Elemental Weakness. Step up
stress from elemental weakness or
extraplanar effects to step up the lowest
die in the doom pool or add a D6 doom
die.
Young dragons can seem like a tempting
target for adventurers out to make a name
for themselves, but they lack the treasure
hoards of older dragons while still being
very dangerous. Even a hatchling dragon can
be the size of a man (or bigger!), and is quite
capable of defending itself from almost any
natural predator. Hatchling dragons are
more likely to talk to humanoids than try to
eat them-----at least until the conversation
turns boring and the dragon remembers
how hungry he is.
Each dragon has an elemental affinity, a
special connection to a specific element,
such as fire, cold, lightning, and so on. A
dragons Elemental Blast and Elemental
Control powers, as well as the Elemental
Immunity SFX, are all related to this
element. Each dragon also has a specific
elemental weakness that should be opposed
to their affinity in some fashion.
HEKATONKHEIR
EPIC D12
Distinctions: Hundred Handed; Giant of
Truly Ridiculous Proportions; Primordial
Specialties: Crafting Master D10, Lore
Master D10, Melee Combat Master D10,
Mystic Master D10
Primeval Giant: Enhanced Speed D8,
Godlike Durability D12, Godlike Stamina
D12, Godlike Strength D12, Growth D12,
Superhuman Senses D10, Weapons D12
SFX: Hundred Arms. Against a single
target, double Weapons die. Remove the
highest rolling die and use three dice for
the total.
SFX: Hundred Fists. When attacking
multiple targets, add a D6 and keep an
extra effect die for each additional target.
SFX: Like the Buzzing of Flies. Spend a
doom die to ignore physical stress unless
inflicted by direct magical attack or a
magical weapon of at least D10 value.
SFX: Multipower. Add more than one
Primeval Giant power die to a pool. Step
back each Primeval Giant power die in
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first.
Limit: Ugly. Step up social stress from
mockery or derision to step up the
lowest die in the doom pool or add a D6
doom die.
The hekatonkheires are ancient and
enormous beings from the earliest era of
prehistory. Supposedly created as servitors
of the chthonic gods of the primeval world,
the hekatonkheires betrayed their masters
and sided with the young gods during the
rebellions that formed the modern world. A
hekatonkheir is a monstrosity to behold,
standing nearly a hundred feet tall, with fifty
heads and a hundred arms.
Despite their gruesome appearance,
most hekatonkheires are content to sleep
and dream beneath the earth, stirring only
when the gods require their aid in battle or
their wisdom in crafting mighty artifacts.
When stirred to wrath by their divine
masters or by the desecration of their
sleeping places, they can be unstoppable
forces of nature, more like a walking
hurricane or earthquake than a mere
creature.
HELLHOUND
ELITE D8
Distinctions: Devil Dog; Sulfurous; Loyal
Specialties: Melee Combat Expert D8,
Scouting Expert D8
Infernal Canine: Enhanced Durability D8,
Enhanced Speed D8, Flame Breath D8,
Weapon D8
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SFX: Claws and Fangs. In an attack
action including Weapon, step back the
highest die in the action pool to add a D6
and step up physical stress inflicted.
SFX: Flaming Aura. On a successful
reaction against a melee attack action,
inflict physical stress with effect die at no
doom pool cost. Spend a doom die to
step it up.
SFX: Out of the Pit. Spend a doom die to
ignore stress or complications from fire.
Limit: Sit, Boy! Step up mind control or
command complications to step up the
lowest die in the doom pool or add a D6
doom die.
Sometimes called black dogs or grims,
hellhounds are infernal canines that look
like huge, flaming mastiffs. Most are the size
of large wolves, but some have been known
to grow as large as a horse. Smoke pours
from their mouths as they howl and flame
wreaths their paws when they run.
Hellhounds are used by demons and infernal
sorcerers as hunting dogs, guard dogs, and
other functions typical to mans best friend.
They are intelligent enough to understand
spoken commands, making them smart
enough to be very dangerous.
HIDEBEHIND
ELITE D8
Distinctions: Nocturnal; Maneater;
Secretive
Specialties: Skullduggery Master D10,
Scouting Expert D8
Its Behind You Right Now: Invisibility
D10
SFX: Vanish. Spend a doom die to reroll
a reaction and add Invisibility, or step up
Invisibility if already in dice pool.
Limit: Too Busy Hiding. Hidebehind
cannot use its effect die on a reaction.
Limit: Needs Cover. Shutdown
Invisibility if there is no cover of any
kind available, such as fighting in an
empty room or on a barren field, to step
up the lowest die in the doom pool or
add a D6 doom die.
The reclusive hidebehind is a semi-mythical
monster better known for the victims it
takes than for those that escape its hunger.
Survivors can rarely describe the appearance
of the hidebehind, having seen little more
than a dark-furred blur out of the corner of
their eye. Tracks suggest that the hidebehind
walks upright and uses the trees in its native
forests for cover, but its greatest advantage is
its preternatural talent for hiding just as its
opponents would look its way. Those that
cannot outrun the hidebehind are likely to
become its next meal and be discovered days
or weeks later, disemboweled and with
expressions of stark horror.
HOLLOW CHILD
STANDARD D6
Distinctions: Small; Seemingly Helpless;
Eyes of Death
Specialties: Intimidation Expert D8
Dead Kid: Invisibility D6, Intangibility D6,
Mind Control D6
SFX: Terror Gaze. When attempting to
inflict social stress through fear, add a
D6 and step up the effect die.
SFX: Undead. Spend a doom die to
ignore stress or complications from cold,
poison, disease, and suffocation.
Limit: Creature of Darkness. Step up
stress or complications from holy power
to step up the lowest die in the doom
pool or add a D6 doom die.
Hollow children are the result of a child
dying an unfair, terrible death at a young
age, often filled with anger or rage over their
untimely demise. Their spirits return as
undead creatures. They take to tormenting
parents with children the age they were
when they died, or haunting their childhood
friends that survived.
Hollow children look as they did in life,
except with paler skin, darker hair, and jet-
black eyes. Whenever possible, they try to
push adults into murdering their own
children or former friends into suicide.
When not haunting the living, they simply
wander the place of their death aimlessly,
waiting for new playmates to come along.
IMP
MINION D4
Distinctions: Obsequious; Plotter; Nasty
and Short
Specialties: Lore Expert D8
Minor Demon: Enhanced Reflexes D8,
Flight D6, Invisibility D6, Shapeshifting D6
SFX: Poison Stinger. When inflicting a
poison complication, add a D6 and step
up the effect die.
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can add its Lore Specialty to another
character's dice pool to use as an asset.
Limit: Hellspawn. Step up stress and
complications from holy sources to step
up the lowest die in the doom pool or
add a D6 doom die.
Imps are the lowest of the low in the pits of
Hell. They are food or entertainment for
greater beings. The lucky ones manage to
draw the attention of a powerful patron or
get summoned to the earthly plane, where
they serve as advisers and helpers for hell-
bound sorcerers.
JACKALOPE
MINION D4
Distinctions: Bizarre Hybrid; Shy Unless
Threatened; Natural Mimic
Specialties: Acrobatics Expert D8
Lepus Temperamentalus: Enhanced
Reflexes D8, Enhanced Speed D8, Natural
Weapons D4
SFX: Fast as Fast Can Be. Spend a doom
die to reroll an action or reaction
containing Speed.
Limit: Youll Never Catch Me!
Shutdown Reflexes and Speed if an
alcohol based asset or resource is in the
current scene.
The jackalope is a strange animal from the
vast grasslands and rolling hills on the edge
of civilization. Frontier settlers have many
tales about the jackalope, but the most
common say that its a natural vocal mimic
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like a mynah bird or parrot, able to imitate
human voices without any real
understanding of their meaning. Jackalope
milk has many medicinal purposes, but
catching one can be very tricky. Though
normally quite shy and docile creatures, they
become as vicious as any weasel if backed
into a corner. They are said to be easily lured
into traps if set with a dish of whiskey.
KITSUNE
STANDARD D6
Distinctions: Cunning; Trickster; Hates the
Haughty
Specialties: Lore Expert D8, Skullduggery
Expert D8
Fox Spirit: Bite D6, Durability D6,
Enhanced Reflexes D8, Invisibility D6,
Sorcery D6
SFX: Illusionist. When using Sorcery to
create illusion based assets or
complications, add a D6 and step up the
effect die.
Limit: Utility Magic. A dice pool
containing Sorcery cannot be used to
inflict physical stress.
Limit: Yokai. Step up stress or
complications from divine magic or
mystic wards to step up the lowest die in
the doom pool or add a D6 doom die.
Kitsune are twin-tailed fox spirits that live in
the forests on the border between
civilization and wilderness. They frequently
use their minor magical powers to aid
farmers and villagers that show them the
proper respect, such as by leaving out
offerings of rice and milk, but they despise
arrogant people and those that lord their
power over others. Against such people, they
employ increasingly mean pranks and tricks,
hoping to push them out of their
complacency and teach them empathy for
the common man.
Legend speaks of especially powerful
kitsune that grow ever-larger over the course
of their lives, gaining a new tail with each
century of life. The nine-tailed kitsune are
said to be the most powerful of their breed,
man-sized foxes who can treat with the gods
themselves.
KLABAUTERMANN
STANDARD D6
Distinctions: Merry; Reclusive; Diligent
Specialties: Crafting Expert D8, Mystic
Expert D8, Performance Expert D8
Ship Faerie: Invisibility D8, Sorcery D6,
Swimming D8
SFX: Repairman. When using Sorcery to
repair a damaged or broken object, add a
D6 and step up the effect die.
Limit: Sailors Doom. Shutdown
Invisibility to step up the lowest die in
the doom pool or add a D6 doom die.
The klabautermann is a minor faerie that
lives aboard ships in much the same way
that brownies dwell in farmhouses. These
small wizened men dress in yellowed sailor
suits and woolen caps, usually carrying a
heavy tobacco pipe. A klabauterman fixes up
small damage to the ship it lives on, staying
invisible unless the ship suffers some serious
and irreparable harm, though sailors can
often hear them singing after everyone else
has gone to sleep. This has led to the legend
that a klabautermann only becomes visible if
a ship is doomed.
A few klabautermannen have become
pranksters rather than helpers, resentful of
their thankless task, but most are happy to
protect their home and the people they share
it with.
LAMIA
ELITE D8
Distinctions: Serpentine; Envious; Mother
of Monsters
Specialties: Diplomacy Expert D8, Lore
Expert D8, Melee Combat Expert D8, Mystic
Expert D8
Monstrous Humanoid: Bite D6, Enhanced
Durability D8, Enhanced Strength D8,
Shapeshifting D8, Sorcery D8
SFX: Constrict. When inflicting a
grappling complication, add a D6 and
step up the effect die.
SFX: Curse Expert. When inflicting a
curse complication, add a D6 and step
up the effect die. Spend a doom die to
ignore a curse complication.
SFX: Poisonous Bite. When inflicting
physical stress in an attack action
including Bite, keep an additional effect
die for a poisoned complication at no
cost.
Limit: Hateful Reflection. Step up
mental stress from mirrors to step up the
lowest die in the doom pool or add a D6
doom die.
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containing Sorcery cannot be used to
inflict physical stress.

The first lamia-----a woman of that name-----

was cursed by the gods for sacrificing her
own children to gain dark powers. That
woman was cursed to become a huge snake
from the waist down, a visible sign of her
corruption and evil. From that time forward,
she dedicated herself to kidnapping children
in order to spite the gods that cursed her.
Most of these children were eaten or
sacrificed, but some were subjected to evil
magic to turn them into more creatures like
their progenitor. The evil race of lamias-----
composed of stolen children, tortured and
twisted into monsters-----has haunted
humanity ever since.
Most lamias can use magic to pass
themselves off as human for a time, but
mirrors always reveal their true forms-----
serpentine body, slitted eyes, and mouthful
of fangs.

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