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By Nicolas Dessaux
20 more creatures
Curated and somewhat liberally adapted from
Nicolas’ Unknown World Creatures by Eric Nieudan.
ARACHNEA (1d3).
dAC 12 (chitin), HP 3d8 (14), +2 bite (1d6,
paralysing poison), S 14, ML 7— Fast on
webs. Wants food, magic, and power.
Arachneas are a very old folk, among
the most ancient. They once had cities and
high civilization standards, but very little
remains from their lacy hardened-web ar-
chitecture. The size of a pony, they look like
any giant spider, with a very large abdomen
and ten eyes. Males are tiny, short-lived
creatures, lacking the enormous brain of
females, who only live to mate and feed
females.
Even now, living in small groups in caves
and jungles, arachneas have a strong com-
mand of magic. One out of ten individuals
is able to use spells like a 3rd rank magicker
(they use knotted pieces of web as spell
books). Some arachneas achieve powerful
levels of wizardry to enslave other creatures
and ensure their security and needs (includ-
ing sacrifices). These magickers often seek
to regain some power for their civilisation,
but even with their knowledge of lost and
forgotten lore, their lack of understanding
of other people leads them to underestimate
threats from sentient beings.
BAWA (1d4).
dAC 13 (fast), HP 1d6 (4), +0 claws (1d4,
hallucinatory poison), S 14, ML 6 — Fast
flyers, stealthy (5-in-6 when in shadows).
Wants to serve.
Cat sized, bat-winged monkeys with
long poisonous claws, Bawas are some-
times found as magicker familiars. If they
seem like animals, they’re clever, long-
lived creatures, knowing a lot of forgotten
stories and secrets. Their venom gives
paranoid hallucinations: friends become
dangerous monsters to fly from or kill.
Bawas only use it if they can’t avoid a fight
– they will mostly fly away when attacked.
Bawas are very stealthy, which makes
them good spies and thieves for their
masters.
BLOOD ROSE (1d8).
dAC 12 (wood), HP 4d8 (18), +3 (entangle,
then 1d8 continuous blood drain), hypnotic
poisonous (save or remain entangled until
death), S 12, ML 12 — Very slow. Wants
nourishment.
Nothing distinguishes this sentient,
blood-draining plant from any other rose
bush… until it slowly elongates its thorny
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 branches to entangle and drug a victim.
Its flowers are white roses, unless the
bush drank in the last day. Larger bushes
exist (with more HP), especially in the
gardens of powerful magickers and necro-
mancers.
CHIONOX (1d4).
dAC 17 (pincer shields), HP 9d8 (40),
+6 pincers (1d10, 1d10, 1d10), S 10,
ML 9 — Fast swimmers, see invisible, f
reeze water, choral ice storm (5 chionox
must cast it together). Wants to be left to
their philosophical research.
Chionox are intelligent, blue crabs 3m
across with three pincers and six legs.
They’re able to hide most of their body with
their large pincers. They live in underwater
ice complexes in polar oceans, and seldom
interfere with other folk’s affairs.
DEWA (3d6).
dAC 12 (leather harness), HP 1d6 (4), +0
javelin (1d6) or claws when gliding (1d4,
1d4, 1d4, 1d4), S 14, ML 8 — Good climbers,
fast gliders. Wants peace and prosperity.
Dewas are 1m high flying squirrel human-
oids. Their fur varies in colouration from
black to red, with some white spots. They
glide from tree to tree with great agility, and
their villages are scattered inhabitations
that are difficult to access and navigate for
ground dwellers. While not a very warlike
culture, dewas can show surprising military
organisation when it is needed. Some are
renowned warriors (up to 8th rank).
EEL, ELECTRIC (1d4).
dAC 10 (it’s just a fish), HP 2d6 (7), +1 bite
(1d4), electric shock (stun, drown), S 14,
ML 7 - Fast swimmers. Wants what a fish
wants.
The electric eel is a 3m long fish. Its touch
launches an electrical shock, which may
stun the victim, which is likely to drown
during this time, taking 1d6 damage per
turn underwater.
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KRYSTAL (1d6).
dAC 17 (crystal, duh), HP 7d10 (40), +4
spikes (1d8, 1d8), S 10, ML 9
See invisible and magic (vibrations sense),
telekinesis (fast hover). Wants to watch the
clockwork of the universe.
Crystalline creatures, looking like a group
of translucent multicoloured crystals. They
are sentient and intelligent people, living
in growing, centuries spanning colonies.
Peaceful and quiet, they live slowly and
regard faster-paced lifeforms with distance
and coldness. They could be warm friends,
but few creatures have a lifespan long
enough to gain the friendship of a Krystal.
They communicate by telepathy and use
telekinesis to move and manipulate objects.
LEGENDARY HORSE (1d4).
dAC 15 (swift), HP 5d8 (25), +4 hooves (1d6,
1d6) or weapon (1d8), S 12, ML 10 — Wants
the good of all horsekind.
Shape-changers dedicated to helping
horses and their kin. They can turn into any
equine creature, including centaurs, pegasi,
and unicorns. They can call for the assis-
tance of any horses in the vicinity. They
speak any of the tongues of the plains and
forests.
LIQUID HORROR (1).
dAC 14 (water), HP 3d8 (15), +2 water pseu-
dopod (drowning, 1d6 per turn), S 14,
ML 12 — Hard to kill with weapons (see
below), water and fire spells especially
efficient, cold spells slows its but doesn’t do
any damage. Wants to drown you.
Transparent elemental made of the same
water it lives in. Liquid Horrors dislike
running water, although it is their main
way of travel. They’re never found in salt
water. When attacking, they shove their
water pseudopods into their victim mouth
to drown them or pull them underwater.
Piercing or slashing weapons only deal one
damage to a liquid horror, only magic can
kill it.
MAGIC SPHERES (3d6).
dAC 10 (slow), HP 1d4 (2), +0 suffocate
(1d4 and lose one memorised spell), S 16,
ML 9 — Wants magic.
50cm floating sphere of colourful energy
living in clusters and feeding on magic.
They always attack magickers first. Some
suspect they originally resulted from spells
gone wrong.
MANTIS STATUE (1d6).
dAC 14 (stone), HP 2d12 (13), +1 sabre-arms
(1d8, 1d8), S 13, ML 11 — Fast flyer. Wants
to obey.
Human-sized paring mantis grey-green
stone sculpture with a thin body, multi-fac-
eted eyes, crystalline wings supported by
metal nervures, and incredibly sharp arms.
They are constructs following orders given
by their long dead masters. Some scholars
argue that mantis statues look exactly like
the ancient Mekanes.
MUJINA (1d4).
dAC 12 (leather armour), HP 1d10 (6), +0
duel wielded axes or swords (1d8, 1d8), S
14, ML 9 — Fast, shapechanging. Wants to
slack off.
Mujinas are mischievous but good-heart-
ed shape-changers. In their true form,
they’re stocky humanoids, with short,
white fur on their body and a smooth,
egg-like face. They can change into any hu-
man-size humanoid (but not into a specific
individual). Mujinas are ambidextrous and
fight with two weapons. Often confused
with doppelgängers, mujinas are wander-
ers who often associate with pilgrims, mer-
chants, or even adventurers. They’re too
lazy to work and prefer to use their abilities
to steal from their fellow travellers.
NESKAKARI (2d4).
dAC 12 (natural armour), HP 1d6 (4),
+0 short sword (1d6), S 14, ML 7 — Put
to sleep by cold-based magic. Wants new
friends.
Neskakari are chameleon-folk; medi-
um-sized, stocky humanoids with scaly
skin, large round eyes and a long, sticky
tongue. They live in hidden cities in the
heart of dangerous jungles. Sociable and
pacific, they are good merchants who enjoy
meeting different cultures. Their skin co-
lour can match their surroundings in three
turns. Their rotating eyes make them very
hard to surprise (1-in-6).
PEGATAUR (2d10).
dAC 14 (breastplate), HP 4d8 (18), +3
halberd (1d8), +3 hooves when hovering
(2d6), S 14, ML 8 — Wants to soar above the
clouds.
A hybrid of a centaur and a pegasus,
with wings attached to the horse shoul-
ders. These creatures are rarely seen, as
they live in very remote places and rarely
pay attention to the affairs of groundlings.
PETROS (2d6).
dAC 19 (small, stone), HP 1d12 (7), +0 butt
(1d6) or +0 tiny weapon (1d4), S 14, ML
8, hide (5-in-6) — Wants to worship and
convert.
The tiny petros are turtle-like boul-
der-folk. When immobile, they are
indistinguishable from rocks, but they are
really bipeds in a rocky shell about 10cm
in diameter, with tiny arms and legs, and
large eyes. Intelligent and curious, they
live in small semi-nomadic communities.
Petros are religious people who follow
their priests with great fervour. They
speak their own language, but some of
them speak foreign languages as well.
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 SWIMROCK. in the stone age. As it quickly switches phil-
dAC 12 (soft), HP 2d6 (7), +1 touch (paralys- osophical stances, a tribe could be pacifist
ing slime), S 14, ML 8, swallow (takes 1d6 and vegetarian one day and warlike and
turns, then 1d8 damage from digestive acids cannibalistic the next.
every turn) — Wants food.
Probably linked to liquid horrors, swim- VODDI (2d4).
ming rocks are large, soft, muddy rocks. dAC 13 (small and fast), HP 3d6 (10), +2
Their helium bladders let them swim claws (1d6, 1d6 and transformation), S 14,
or even levitate. Swimrocks have some ML 12 — Wounded victim becomes a voddi
control over their movement when the in 1d6 hours unless fully healed, moves by
water’s current or wind is slow. They feed leaping up to 2m, stunned by blunt weap-
by bringing paralysed prey towards the ons. Wants to multiply.
teethy mouth hidden under their body. A small zombie-like undead creature with
long, sharp claws. During the transforma-
TENTACLE CHAOS (1). tion process, the corpse shrinks down to
dAC 12 (rubbery), HP 4d8 (18), +3 acid- half its size.
ic tentacles (1d6), S 12, ML 10 - Fearful
appearance (save or unable to act until hit). WIND OF MADNESS (1d6 x 10).
Wants to destroy. dAC 15 (tiny), HP 1d4 (3), +0 bite (1d4), S
This nightmare creature looks like a ball 16ML 9, fast flyer, confusion - Wants to
made of four 12m tentacles wrapped spread fear and pain.
around a small body studded with ten These marine creatures appear as a dark
lidless eyes. cloud over the waves. Then the cloud turns
out to be made of black as night, demon-
UBUNK (3d10). ic bats. Creatures within the swarm are
dAC 12 (skins), HP 3d8 (15), +2 three weap- affected by a confusion effect (save cancels).
ons (1d6, 1d4, 1d6 – weaker middle arm), When either the wind creatures or their
S 14, ML 3 — When wounded: 1-in-6 chance victim have lost half their numbers, the
of heads getting into an argument. Wants to wind of madness flies away and vanishes
understand what this is all about. under the sea.
Ubunks are tall, three-headed creatures,
with three arms and three legs. Their heads
are generally human-looking, but other
humanoids and even animal heads regu-
larly occur within a community. Chaotic in
outlook and demeanor, ubunks don’t mind
differences. Individuals often have heads
of different genders, and their females are
three-breasted.
Ubunk society is loosely organized;
customs, religion, and political systems
change often. They spend too much time
discussing nonsensical and paradoxical
philosophy (the most intense debates
happening between heads belonging to the
same individual), and never bothered with
building a true civilization, thus remaining