ATTRIBUTES

All creatures have these attributes. See characters for rules.

HD or Level

The overall power of the creature.

Health Levels

The general stamina of the creature. If reduced to 0 or lower, the creature is knocked unconsicious and will die soon. Unless noted otherwise, the creature has health levels equal to HD.

Armor

Creature armor class, AC. Attacker's must score this level or higher to hit. The value may have two values, one for held, unconscious, paralyzed, sleeping or surprised creature and one for creature in combat (mobile). Armor value starts from creature base value, gaining more from skill levels and armor.

Attacks

Number of attacks the creature may do in a combat round, including damage caused.

To-hit

Any bonuses for to-hit, reduced from target armor class.

Move

Combat movement speed. The creature may also has a special movement types, and they are listed here also.

Special

Any special attributes the creature may have, including magic levels etc.

Here is any special attributes the creature may have.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES

Ethereal

The creature is insubstantial and may move through walls and objects and is immune to physical, acid and polymorph. However, the creature cannot handle items.

Fly

The creature may fly around or move on ground normally. The creature can push things while flying, and can move quite quickly.

Invisible

The creature is invisible, and is seen only as a very faint movement. The creature has +2 armor, with at least 8 in any case, unless the attacker can see invisible.

Levitation

The creature can slowly levitate in air, but cannot get force in his movement, being unable to push anything. The creature cannot move on ground normally while levitating.

Mindless

The creature has no clear thoughts and cannot be detected with ESP. Likewise, it is immune to mind.

Night Vision

The creature can see well in the dark, being able to use ranged attacks in the dark locations and distinguishing creatures more accurately.

Non-living

The creature does not live, and is immune to death, poison, disease and aging and does not need to breathe.

Scaring

The creature is very frightening, causing all creatures with 4 HD or less to usually run away, at least be scared. Creatures with 5-9 HD may save vs. fear.

Terror

The creature radiates horrible unnatural aura of immense fright. Creature with less than 10 HD usually run immediately or are paralyzed from fear, while creatures with more HD may save vs. fear.

Unholy

The creature has some special evil aura in it, and it can be repelled and banished because of that.

Wings

The creature has wings and can fly, as long as has room and strength to beat its wings.

DEFENSE ATTRIBUTES

Resistance

The creature is resistant against given damage type, suffering only half damage from it and having +1 save-rerolls (see saves).

Immunity

The creature is immune to given damage type, suffering no damage whatsoever. His items are not protected, however.

Vulnerable

The creature is vulnerable to given attack type, negating one resistance. If the creature has no resistances to negate, reduces save-rolls by 1.

Feeds

The creature is not just immune to attack type, it feeds from it! Instead of losing heatlth levels, add them! If an magical effect does no damage, add MP/2 to health.

MULTIATTRIBUTES

Save

The creature has natural resistance against all special attacks, gaining rerolls to saves.

Strong

The creature is very strong, gaining reroll at strength-related things. In addition, strong-attribute increses physical damage, see system.

Agile

The creature is very fast, gaining rerolls for speed-related tests and +1 armor for each level, unless held. Any heavy armor reduces this by 1 level, see system.

Perceptive

The creature has very good sight or hearing, gaining reroll at perception tests, and +1 to-hit with ranged, aimed attacks for each level. This does not apply to thrown weapons or spells.

Mental

The creature is bright and has willpower against any mind invasion, giving rerolls. This also improves his magic use.

The most common attack types causing loss of health levels or other effect. If the creature is resistant to the media, only half the damage is caused. Creature immune is just that, immune, but his items are not.

Acid

Corrosive liquids, may destroy any items (d6 roll 1) and always reduces quality of items.

Cold

Including freezing and ice storms. May shatter potions and wands (d6 roll 1)

Death

Life force draining, causing loss of vitality. If the attack is energy drain the attacker gains half the amount of drained, round up. Any exceed health levels over normal maximum health level are lost at the next sunrise. Any creature slain by energy drain is normally raised as a same kind of creature as killer in the next dawn.

Disease

Various long or short-term diseases

Fire

All heating and flame attacks. Can easily burn paper and scrolls and boil potions (d6 roll 1)

Lightning

Including electricity. May cause short blindness (d6 roll 4+, next action) and disintegrates rings and wands (d6 roll 1)

Magic

The pure magical power, causing general damage. Is usually part of the magical attacks, causing metamorph or mind effects.

Mind

Targeting the mind of the creature. Typical subclass is fear.

Physical

Includes pierce, cut and crunch. Cruch may break things and cut severe limbs (d6 roll 1 if damage 3+)

Poison

Venoms and poisons, causing damage when injected or touched, sometimes causing other effects.

Polymorph

Attacks trying to modify the creature, by aging it or by turning it into a frog, stone (petrification) or dust (disintegration). Disintegration may cause loss of random (big) item (d6 roll 1-3)

These are special effects caused by some special attacks. Most call for save which is more detailed in the system.

Blinded

The creature is (temporary) blinded and attacks at -2. In addition, he cannot use ranged attacks or spells.

Fear

Target is filled with immense fear, and unless saves against it, becomes scared and must run away or cannot effectually fight while covering from fear. There is usually a HD level after creature is practically immune to fear.

Paralyzation

The creature is paralyzed unless saves vs. paralyzation. Paralyzed creature cannot do anything until paralyzation vanishes. If no duration is noted, is is dispelled with d6 roll 1 at the start of the creature's action.

Sleep

The creature is put to sleep unless saves vs. sleep. Sleeping creature may do nothing until awakes; if hit, awakes on a roll d6 1-3.

Stun

The creature is stunned unless saves vs. stun. A stunned creature loses its next action.

Stupid

The creature becomes stupid if the save is unsuccessful. The stupid creature has hard time to think clearly, and on a d6 roll at the start of his turn, he cannot act. In addition, all spell-casting is automatically hard!

Transform

The creature is transformed into a new form unless saves vs. polymorph. See GM section for details.