Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[tigerguy786]

Here's my idea:

Cerberus Monster
Attributes: A d8 SMA d6(A) SPI d8 STR d10 V d8
Skills: Fighting d8, Notice d10
Pace: 8 Parry: 6 Toughness: 8
Special Abilities
-Fiery Breath- Cone Template, 2d10 damage, agility roll to avoid it
-Multiple Heads- Halve any gang up bonus against the beast, it can also perform 3 actions in a turn at no penalty, bonus to notice
-Fleet Footed- d10 running die
-Size +2

What do you think? It would be obscenely powerful to allow it to do 3 breath attacks in one turn, but it would also make a fair amount of sense.
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[Zadmar]

Cool concept. Presumably the bite would inflict Str+d6 damage?

Personally I'd be tempted to treat the multiple heads as a three-attack version of Improved Frenzy, with three fighting dice and a single wild die. That would make it faster to resolve attacks, as you could roll them all at the same time.

If you don't want multiple cone templates for the fiery breath, you could say that the cone template represents all three heads breathing fire simultaneously - or you could rule that only one head can breathe fire (or only one at a time), perhaps because the three heads share a single stomach.

I'd probably give Cerberus the Awareness edge as well, to better reflect his role in Greek mythology.

[ValhallaGH]

I find myself wanting to second most of what Zadmar says (which is becoming a regular thing). Especially the Cool Concept part.

Stats seem to be simply an upgraded dog (bigger, stronger, healthier). That's pretty cool.

Complaints:
Needs a bite attack. It's wrong that the fire-breathing three-headed dog counts as an unarmed defender.
Like dragons, fire breath should be the only attack action they can take - leaves room for other things like Intimidation or Running. (Yeah, I do like the idea of sprint and burn.)
Multi-biting is probably less super-deadly as a frenzy-like attack rather than as a three-fisted attack. But the method you chose is pretty flipping awesome.

Overall: Excellent start.
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[ValhallaGH]

Glad to help.

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[supercOntra]

You could assume the heads cooperate when doing the fire breathing in order to get the full effect.

That way it's easy to describe when they need to duck.
"It puts its heads together and inhales"
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[tigerguy786]

Should he be bigger? Right now He's the size of a bear. That seems quite large, but I like my monsters to be obscenely big.
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TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

[Lord Lance]

Please notice that giving +4 Size (Large) to your creature, it COULD make the thing even easier for your players...
This 'cause they have +2 to fighting it, while the monster has -2 to hit them.
However, +4 Size usually = d12+4 Strength, and +4 Toughness (so 10 total).
I'd add a couple of point of armor, (heavy fur? bony plates?), for a total of 12 (2) Toughness.
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[tigerguy786]

Good point. I'll go Size +3. That should be sufficient. Maybe bump his strength to d12. This monster isn't about hitting super hard, it's about hitting a lot and throwing lots of curveballs at the players.
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TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

[ValhallaGH]

[tigerguy786]