J's Monsters!!

Hidy Ho! This is my blog for posting all of my monster of the week materials, like settings, characters and of course monsters! feel free to use any of them in your own games no credit needed.

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The Devourer

My idea for this monster was based on the creatures of lovecraftian fiction, the way i described it to my players was “A mountain of shifting flesh, eyes, tentacles and seemingly useless holes” (the holes are how it uses the poison pins btw)

18 harm

Lair: Woods North of “Resplendence Vineyard”

Lured by: Meat

Motivation: Devourer (to consume people)

Most Active Time: Midnight-Sunrise

Weakness: Ritual Bullets

Powers: Tentacle Whip (3 harm, any, bludgeoning, forceful) Poison Pin (1 harm, any, area, destabilize) Eldritch Tongue (2 harm, grapple close, hand, intimate)

Feeder:

5 Harm

Motivation: Guardian (to protect the monster)

Powers: Dagger (2 harm, hand)

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The Yeti

10 harm 1 armor “Thick Skin”

Lair: Frost Cavern

Lure: Loud noises or destruction

Motivation: Beast (to run wild destroying and killing)

Most Active Time: Night - Dawn

Weakness: Fire

Powers: Monstrous Roar (4 harm, area, loud) Claws of the Beast (3 harm, close) Frost Breath (2 harm, ice, magic, close, restraining)

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Mors Oceani

My idea for this monster was kind of feral Abe Sapien from Hellboy, just like how they appear in the wild

12 harm, 1 armor (fishy scales)

Lure: Trespassers, especially loud ones

Motivation: Beast/Defender (to run wild, destroying and killing) (to defend what it perceives as its home from what it perceives as threats)

Most Active Time: when someone is fishing or swimming, it doesn’t need sleep

Weakness: Electricity

Powers: Teeth Like Scissors (3 harm, intimate, grapple) Claws Like Knives (3 harm, hand, messy) Tackle (2 harm, forceful  (calls one more pelagic)

My idea for the minions were the Pelagic Groupers from Darkest Dungeon, but unarmed

Minions: Pelagics

Joint Weakness: Electricity

Motivation: Right Hand/Guardian (to back up and protect the monster)

6 harm each

Powers: Teeth Like Scissors (2 harm, intimate) Claws Like Knives (2 harm, hand, messy)

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The Alien

I decided to base this monster off Ridley Scott’s film “Alien”,  whether facehuggers actually implant an egg into the person they’ve grappled is entirely up to you as is what happens to them.

“The Alien”

10 harm 1 armor (carapace)

Motivation: Beast (to run wild, destroying and killing)

Weakness: Fire

Lure: Meat Most Active Time: Dusk - Dawn

Powers: Mouf (3 harm, intimate, grapple) Fluoroantimonic Blood (3 harm, area, close) Tailwhip (2 harm, area, messy, close) Razor Claws (3 harm, messy, hand, close)

Facehugger Minion

5 harm

Motivation: Brute (to attack and terrify)

Weakness: No weakness, fire away and it’ll die

Most Active Time: All Times

Powers: Grapple (attaches to face of nearest pc/npc) Implant (3 harm, intimate)

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St Kendra, California

& = optional people, places or lore specific to the game i’m running 

St Kendra California.

Population 2380.

Public Places: First Responders, Graveyard, Aldolpho's Magical Emporium, Jasper's Spookatorium, Garfield's General Store, Carrie's Bed and Breakfast, Roswell's Diner, St Kendra's Pub, Resplendence Vineyard, Town Hall, Boat Launch, Graveyard, Saints Circle

Private Places/ Monster Hideouts: &Vault of Pam, Lake Cavern, Glowing Den, &Pam Portal “Pamtal”, Saints Circle, Haven, Tunnel, &Devourer Lair/Grave, &Rodacious Portal, Abandoned House/&Pam Cult Base

People of note:

&David Oberland. Chief of Police, intel line for G.H.O.S.T. balding older white man (detective, gossip, witness)

Carrie Barnes. Proprietor of Carries BNB, Wife of Killian. Looks like velma w brown hair and a lil bit more femme (gossip)

Errol Garfield. Proprietor of Garfield’s. Balding white guy, not interesting looking (traitor, skeptic, busybody)

Allison Garfield. Employee of Garfield and sons. Stoner/sk8r grl combo meal (victim, gossip, detective, spooky) (addiction, pain, hallucinations)

Edward Garfield. Employee of Garfield and sons. Literally ed from FMA w robo parts (gossip, victim)

Jasper Kujo. Proprietor of Jasper's Spookatorium. Asian american guy, got a goatee and tired eyes (spell slinger, innocent, witness, romancable)

Aldolpho Brown. Proprietor of Aldolpho’s Magical Emporium. Dracula from castlevania lookin mf (busybody, gossip, romancable)

Roswell Jacobson. Proprietor of Roswell's Diner. Big ole native american/jewish guy (innocent, helper, romancable, asexual)

Killian Barnes. of Roswell's Diner, Wife of Carrie. Lupita nyong'o's skin tone, mad buff and mad butch (helper)

Mayor Jeffreys. Mayor of St Kendra. Doug dimmadome lookin ass mf (official, skeptic, employer of G.H.O.S.T)

 Jasper Kujo. Proprietor of Jasper's Spookatorium. Asian american guy, got a goatee and tired eyes (spell slinger, innocent, witness, romancable)

Aldolpho Brown. Proprietor of Aldolpho’s Magical Emporium. Dracula from castlevania lookin mf (busybody, gossip, romancable)

Roswell Jacobson. Proprietor of Roswell's Diner. Big ole native american/jewish guy (innocent, helper, romancable)

Killian Barnes. of Roswell's Diner, Wife of Carrie. Lupita nyong'o's skin tone, mad buff and mad butch (helper, gossip)

Mayor Jeffreys. Mayor of St Kendra. Doug dimmadome lookin ass mf, has a surfer bro voice (official, skeptic)

Michael Myers. Bartender at St Kendra's Pub, Husband of Aerin. Joseph from Ddads but less christian and a little older (witness, expert) (haven: magic lab, lore library, workshop. Accessible to hunters)

Aerin Myers. Bartender at St Kendra's Pub, Spouse of Michael. Gangly, androgynous white nb (witness, detective, spooky) (secrets, dark bargain)

John Willow. Proprietor and Vinemaster at Resplendence Vineyard. John hunger but less nihilism (witness, innocent)

Anthony Jones. Creator of “Creature Double Feature”. Looks like if shaggy didn’t have great metabolism (witness, innocent, romancable)

Father Joseph. Pastor at the Church of Saint Kendra. He’s in his mid 40s, well built and full of fatherly wisdom (witness)

NOTES: after slaying whatever their first monster is if you would like to consider using this setting again my narrative choice was to have them arrested and either thrown in prison or join G.H.O.S.T (ghostly occurrences special taskforce) which is the only real reason for Oberland to exist.

Father Joseph isn’t that knowledgeable about monsters but he sure knows a lor about the history of St Kendra. The person and the town, one specific thing he knows is that St Kendra is the patron saint of the unknown, astronomy and libraries, aside from a few other pieces of lore the rest is entirely up to you

“Creature Double Feature” run entirely by Anthony Jones is the local cryptid podcast, his character is inspired by the fan made playbook the snoop

The haven is a secret location behind a magic false wall in the basement of St Kendra’s Pub, Michael will allow the hunters to use it if they tell him that they’re hunters. Upon entry to the pub Aerin will call out telepathically to the hunter(s) with the highest score in weird and tell them that Aerin knows who/what they are. Keep in mind that Aerin is mute due to the source of their powers.

Saints Circle is the hub of magical power and weirdness in St Kendra, it was built hundreds of years ago by Saint Kendra themself* as a means of containing the great evil known as whatever boss monster you wanna have, but recently the magic has been deteriorating and it’s been creating all manner of monsters.

&The vault of Pam is located 105 feet below Saints Circle and houses The Final Pam

*the reason i say themself is that accounts of Saint Kendra of Maldova differ quite heavily, from their gender to their height and diet and even the time they were alive, which even makes the circle impossible to date.