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Lord Lance · Last edited by Lord Lance on Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:41 am; edited 4 times in total

Hallo everybody.
With the "green light" of the original author, I started to convert and update the "old" Savage Beasts free fanmade bestiary at SW:EX edition rules and mood. I'm not making a full redesign, and I don't want any particular compatibility or balance between this product and other bestiaries - like the new one you can find in the nice & official Fantasy Companion book.
However, I hope the creatures you'll find inside will be useful and inspiring for your personal campaigns. Note that this is a "generic" bestiary, so you will find some kind of alien, agents, dynos, devils and serial killers too!

You can read the file here:
http://goo.gl/7DCkD

zeth · Veteran Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 591

You have done a good thing here.

Lord Lance · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:03 am Post subject:

The work is slowly progressing... We have Dragons, Giants and a couple of Werecreatures by Dave.B ! Mr. Green

Of course, if anyone created nice creatures, please send them to me, so I can "playtest" them for a while, and then insert'em in the bestiary!

Rohan · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:12 am Post subject:

I got this crazy idea for basing an adventure off The House that Jack Built. I'll be giving you the critters that I come up with for that, and I'll probably be stealing your idea for an ancient creature template for an Ancient Minotaur, wild card of course.
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Lord Lance · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:45 pm Post subject:

Eh eh, templates could be a funny and fast system to fine tune a creature for your own roleplay group...

I was thinking that I could make other templates like "Final Boss", or "The Cunning One", something like that...

Candi · Novice Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 83

Agreed on templates, they're really useful in 4e for two key purposes:
1. As you said, good way to get a quick flavourful critter on the board in a hurry
2. Creating a themed group of monsters by giving everything the same template (or one of a collection of themed templates)

Some template suggestions:

Shambling Zombie
Undead, +1 step Vigor, +1 step Strength, -3 Pace (minimum 2), smarts becomes "A".
Gains Special Ability: "Natural Weapon" Str+d4 (Claw/Bite/Body Slam)

Fire Touched
+1 step Strength, fire resistance, and special ability novice power with fire trapping, +10 PP.

Air Touched
+1 step Agility, +1 Pace, and special ability novice power with air/wind trapping, +10 PP.

Earth Touched
+1 step Vigor, +1 Parry, and special ability novice power with earth trapping, +10 PP.

Water Touched
+1 step Spirit, water resistance, and special ability novice power with water trapping, +10 PP.

Enhanced Cyborg
Construct, +1 to any attribute, +1 step to any two skills, +1 Toughness.

Vinzent · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:32 pm Post subject:

That's funny, I was starting to do this too, but my format is for 4x6 note cards

Virgobrown72 · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:07 pm Post subject:

The more I look at this, the sexier it gets.... Cool

Candi · Novice Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 83

Also, something that would give it a lot of easy use would be an index - at the top or at the bottom of the document. I know they're listed alphabetically but having all of it listed condensed as just names would go a long way to making it easier to see if there's something yoinkable buried in amongst the gold.

elf23 · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:22 am Post subject:

This looks really useful, thanks Lord Lance for updating it! (I was just thinking about a Doppelganger last night, and here one is!)

I was wondering about the flying creatures... I noticed they're listed as having a Pace and an acceleration rate, whereas the flying creatures in SWEX and the Fantasy Companion are listed with a Pace and a climb rate. All 3 seem useful really.

Maybe the acceleration rate could be used as the climb rate? They seem to be about the same kind of values. (Perhaps that was the intention?)

Lord Lance · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:07 am Post subject:

elf23 · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:13 am Post subject:

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elf23 · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:39 am Post subject:

Thanks!

Dave.B · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:11 pm Post subject:

hmmm. gimme a couple of days, i may have some things to throw on here.
after the big old chemistry test and wrappping up my Wellstone module.

Dave.B
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Lord Lance · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:25 am Post subject:

Thanks Clint. When I have time I'll fix my creatures, and this could be a nice clarification for the next SW edition...

Lord Lance · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:56 pm Post subject:

Added a short paragraph to explain Climb and Acceleration.
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Revised the whole thing a little more.
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Added a nice bookmarked summary in the first pages.
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Works proceed slowly... Neutral

Done with the golems.
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PS: could anyone read the "fluff" text for the "Animal, Ancient" template, and suggest me some embellishment of the phrases? You know, my english knowledge is d4, so I would grateful for some hint.
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elf23 · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:20 pm Post subject:

Hi Lord Lance, thanks so much for all this, it's really great! The index makes it very nice to use...

I don't know if you'd like a collaborator, but i'd be up for helping out with the conversions. It's such a worthwhile project, and i find myself wishing it was finished now Smile

By the way, here are some corrections for the bit about flying rates:

About flying creatures
Flying creatures simply move their Flying Pace (plus any running roll) each round.

Unless an Acceleration rate is listed the creature can immediately accelerate to its full Flying Pace. Some clumsy creatures have a lower Acceleration value, needing more than one round to reach their full Flying speed.

Also, when not specifically noted, a creature's Climb defaults to half of its current Flying speed. So, for example, a creature with a Flying Pace of 10", and 5" Acceleration could climb about 2" during the first turn (when it moves 5"), and 5" in the following turns (when it has reached its top speed of 10").

Bill · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:03 pm Post subject:

Cave Locust Toughness is off (should be 6 (1)) and the Giant Centipede toughness should be 10 (2).

Just a couple things I noticed. Nice work!
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