SWYVERS MONSTERS

HD ARE d6 (Humans are 3d6 for reference)
Stats are for swyvers - current pdf here

Gargoyle – Living demons encased in stone, perfectly adapted to survive in the more historic streets of the Smoke. The sun hurts them immensely, paralyzing them with pain during the day, something they wish to share at night.

HD 5

ATTACK +3 - CLAWS D8 + 2

DEFENCE – 12

ARMOUR – AS HEAVY (STONE HIDE)

MOV AS MAN

INIT AS LONG WEAPON

MORALE 10

D4 -2 APPEARING

Uses stony camouflage. Uses great weight to drop and crush for 1d12, save to notice and dodge.

Ghouls – Humans infected with The Hunger – when not starvation-wild, they are rational and can be conversed with. Nobles infected with The Hunger manage to stay sane, whilst the poor inevitably end up dead or a member of a ghoul-warren.

HD 2

ATTACK +2 – BITE 1D6 + DISEASE + 1

DEFENCE – 8

ARMOUR – NONE

MOV AS DOG

INIT AS SHORT WEAPON

MORALE 6

D10 APPEARING

Disease – Save or The Hunger sets in. For the first week, you eat twice as much. The second, meat only. The third, only human meat satisfies the hunger. You become yourself when sated, but the hunger always lurks, returning in d6 hours. Your will file your teeth sharp to better bite through human flesh.

Ratmen – The Ratmen do not exist. They are not sneaky, cunning or adapted to their warrens in the Undercity. They do not collaborate with the criminals and the desperate so common to the Smoke. They do not carry any diseases. The bounty for their tail stands at a shilling.

HD 3

ATTACK +1 – AS WEAPON / BITE 1D4 + DISEASE

DEFENCE – AS WEAPON + 3

ARMOUR – AS LIGHT (FUR)

MOV AS MAN

INIT AS WEAPON

MORALE 7

D20 APPEARING

Disease – Save or random disease carried by rat or man.

Ashdweller – Some are forced to dwell in the Undercity, and generations spent away from the Sun take their toll. The Ashdwellers are ghostly pale, hairless and emaciated. Their eyes are huge, and they flee from open spaces with an uncomfortable four-limbed gait.

HD 2

ATTACK +1 – AS WEAPON 

DEFENCE – AS WEAPON + 2

ARMOUR – AS ARMOUR

MOV AS FAST MAN

INIT AS WEAPON

MORALE 5

D12 APPEARING

Inverted Nobles – Ashdwellers driven mad and given to collecting the dropped wealth which filters down into the Undercity, storing finds in their rotund bellies. They are perfectly willing to share this wealth, at a cost – 1d4 permanent damage to a random stat, manifested as the Inverted Noble whispering into your ear, is rewarded with 50 shillings, vomited painfully yet joyously by the Inverted Noble. If killed, their belly contains only corroded, worthless pennies.

HD 3

ATTACK +1 – AS WEAPON + 1D4 PERMAMENT STAT LOSS

DEFENCE – AS WEAPON + 1

ARMOUR – AS ARMOUR

MOV AS FAT MAN

INIT AS WEAPON

MORALE 12

1 APPEARING

Rotworm – The filth of the polluted rivers bleeding from the Smoke into the sea breed awful beasts. The Rotworm slithers through the muck in search of animals to drown using their 8 mouth-tentacles. Those unfortunates are used as egg-casings and birth-food for their loathsome brood.

HD 4 

ATTACK +3 – 1D8 +2 MAUL BESTIAL / GRAPPLE & DROWN 

DEFENCE – AS MEDIUM WEAPON +3

ARMOUR – AS LEATHER (TOUGH HIDE)

MOV AS FAT FISH

INIT AS MEDIUM WEAPON

MORALE 8

D4 APPEARING

Dead Giant – Timeless, deathless, lifeless. The long-dead Giants of the country slumber in chambers riddled with warnings of the terrible uncorpses they contain.

HD 10

ATTACK – SMASH - DODGED WITH DEX ELSE 2D8 +4 DAMAGE

DEFENCE – AS UNARMED

ARMOUR – AS CHAIN (THICK SKIN)

MOV AS LUMBERING, 15FT MAN

INIT LAST

MORALE 12

1 APPEARING

If a giant is not slain within 6 rounds, it will awaken enough to employ any spell of its choosing.

Piteous Giants – Degenerated Dead Giants never given over to slumber yet trapped in the depths. They have the bodies of a naked starved mean, smeared with shit and mud. They still have the head of a Giant, clumsily balanced atop their emaciated frame. The head is hairless, covered with scrapes and bruises. They have bones capable of huge amounts of deformation, allowing them to squeeze through tiny gaps. They have the ability to terrify humans with their dead stares.

HD 4

ATTACK +2 – AS WEAPON +1 or STARE – SAVE OR TERRIFIED, FOETAL POS. 1D4 ROUNDS

DEFENCE – AS WEAPON +3

ARMOUR – UNARMOURED

MOV AS CLUMSY CHILD

INIT AS WEAPON

MORALE 10

1D4 APPEARING

Vampire ¬– The perfect parasite, cursed with deathlessness and all-consuming thirst. Each one is killed in a differing manner, suffering no damage from standard attacks. They can be organised by their weaknesses.

HD 10

ATTACK - +5 – DAMAGE AS WEAPON + 3 OR BITE FOR 1D10 CON DRAIN

DEFENCE – AS SHORT WEAPON OR WEAPON + 7

ARMOUR – AS ARMOUR, IMMUNE TO NORMAL ATTACKS.

MOV AS FAST MAN

INIT AS STEP LOWER THAN WEAPON

MORALE 10

1D4 -2 APPEARING

Common Weaknesses – Silver, Head Destruction, Heart Destruction, Specific Herb, Blessed Weapons (assign 1d4 weaknesses)

Crown’s Own – The elite, professional bodyguard of the Crown and the Crown’s properties.

HD 3+4

ATTACK + 4 – DAMAGE AS WEAPON +2

DEFENCE – AS WEAPON + 6

ARMOUR – HEAVY

MOV AS MAN

INIT AS WEAPON

MORALE 11

1D6 APPEARING

Ruin Men – Flesh of broken brick, rusted metal and street muck. Their blood is the stuff of the filthy river, and its waters heal them for 1d6 a round. Their constructed nature makes bludgeoning weapons very effective against them (increase dice size). They seek to undermine the city and ruin all structures.

HD 5

ATTACK + 4 – SMASH 1D10 + 2 BESTIAL

DEFENCE – AS LONG WEAPON

ARMOUR – AS LIGHT

MOV AS MAN

INIT AS LONG WEAPON PLUS SHIELD

MORALE 12

1D4 APPEARING

Forgotten Dogs – Foul fluids and strays. A conglomerate of lost dogs, trapped in the Undercity and now fused. A canine rat-king with abandonment issues. About the size of a wagon. Treats or a home will just piss it off. Limbs and snapping heads jut out of the central mass. It totters about the tunnels and consumes those it once loved. It has awful mange.

HD 7

ATTACK + 3 – 1D4 BITES FOR 1D10+2 +25% OF RABIES (EACH AT A DIFFERENT TARGET)

DEFENCE – AS SHORT WEAPON

ARMOUR – AS MEDIUM (ABLATIVE LIMBS/HEADS)

MOV AS FAT DOG

INIT AS UNARMED

MORALE 10

1 APPEARING

Make the Bastards Pay, or, Do We Get Found Out?

It's a fair bet Cyberpunks are going to piss people off and commit crime. Now you won't get bitched at for arbitrarily deciding if they get caught.

An Agent is the tracking party, whether a corporation, the cops, or a nutjob vigilante. They get a Ruthlessness Score. Higher is worse for the players.

Particularly personal or horrific crimes can modify the ruthlessness of the Agent.

The Player-group has a Stealth Score. This is effectively a penalty (or bonus) to the tracking party.

Stealth Factors

Finger-prints not removed & on-record (includes ammo casing left behind) +3
Camera feed not destroyed, corrupted, interfered with etc. +3
Disguises worn -3
Distinctive look +2
Bribed false witnesses -1 per witness (reverse this if witness brainjacked)
Known base of operations +3
Direct route taken to escape +1

Agent Resources
(These are limited by the Ruthlessness of the Agent)

Ruthlessness 0
Informants +1
Existing records on accessible databases +3

Ruthlessness 1
Neutral Witness +1

Ruthlessness 2
Records on restricted access databases +2

Ruthlessness 3
'Unwilling' Witness +1

Ruthlessness 4
Brainjacked Witness* +3
Unauthorized access to databases with records +2

Witnesses/Informants can only add +10 in total. Those with good information (clear sight, attentive etc.) add an additional +1.

Finally, roll a d10 and add the bonuses. Get over a 15? The agent knows the players did it, and potentially where they stay. Fun times ensue.

*Brainjacking forcefully rips information from a person, at best causing severe psychological scars, more often turning them into a vegetable.

Sighted Spiders, One Eyed Wolf

A tiny translucent spider, marked only by the tiny red speck (the egg) located in it's abdomen. The eggs reflects light like a cat's eye. They seek only to propagate the species through implanting their eggs into the eyes of just about any animal they find.

SIGHTED SPIDER
HP 1
AC AS LEATHER SIZE
ATTACK - SPECIAL
MORALE 12
MOV AS SPIDER
1D10 APPEARING

Attack - Sighted Spiders seek the eyes and deposit their tiny red eggs in the tear ducts. A day after being laid, the spiderlings burrow into the eye itself and feast on the vitreous humour. It take one spiderling a year to eat your eye, at which point it leaves.

Whilst infested, hosts gain the ability to read the information woven into any spider web, giving information on the local area and recent events, from a distinctly spidery perspective. With practice, the host gain retain this ability after the spiderling is fully grown and has left the eye.

Unintelligent animals gain a burgeoning consciousness, and will seek others of their kind to ponder the meaning of this. Such Sighted Animals communicate to each other via artfully arranged spiderwebs, and will maintain Sighted Spider nests for their children.

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Corq, One Eyed Wolf
HD 4
AC AS CHAIN FROM SCARS, SPEED
ATTACKS - 1 BITE 1D10 2 CLAW 1D6
MORALE 10
MOV AS WOLF
1 APPEARING

Corq leads a pack of Sighted Wolves on a mission of revenge against the settlers burning the forest and killing his Blind kin. Corq is attempting to bargain with the Great Spiders of the deep forests, but the spiders do not trust the one eyed wolves.

Corq has brokered alliances with the other Sighted animals of the forest, most notably the Sighted Boars led by Two Tusk One Eye Three Leg and the Sighted Pigeons led by whomever COO's the loudest.

The settlers believe there to be a witches in the area, and have called for the Nilfenbergian witch-hunters to settle the matter.

Gearing Guide to the Planes Issue 4 - Planes of Illumination

Less satisfied with the presentation here, but I like the ideas. Click the picture for the pdf.

Swyvers RPG - Formerly Dying in a Tomb RPG

Expect to die and roll characters quickly. Expect to scrimp pennies and murder for shillings. Expect magic to ruin your day. Expect to die in a tomb.

Now features a bunch of stuff. Not necessarily the final version, still some tweaking needed I suspect.

THERE'S GONNA BE AN ACTUAL VERSION WITH ACTUAL ART AT SOME POINT SOON I PROMISE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO BUY IT

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Dying In A Tomb RPG 2 - Dying Harder in a Tomber

[No longer an LotFP hack. Main changes are initiative system, monetary system and generic fiddling all around. Now has a first draft of an equipment list.]

Dying in a Tomb RPG

[Work in progress, more of an LotFP hack at the moment. It'll be worked on I promise guv]

Characters

You're not heroes. You've got no class and you're desperate.

Each character has 4 statistics. Roll 3d6 (in order) to determine their values.

Constitution
A measure of toughness. Also reflects your HP.
Dexterity
How nimble you are. Helps avoiding damage.
Strength
A measure of raw physical power. Increases damage.
Wisdom
The ability to notice things, and unconscious caution.

Score	Modifier
3	-3
4-5	-2
6-8	-1
9-12	0
13-15	+1
16-17	+2
18	+3

Player characters get +1 to hit, and hit points equal to constitution.

I'm still working on money, so use lotfp standard I guess? With a mild adjustment, spoken about below.  (Playing around with using pounds/shillings/pennies because I'm awful)

Fighting

Avoid fights. They're messy and people die. That said...

To hit someone, roll a d20 and add any relevant bonuses (to hit, conditional modifiers). If you roll high enough, you'll hit them. Now roll damage and add your strength modifier. They'll roll armour.

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Initiative is side-based. Each side rolls a d6. Highest numbered side goes first.

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Weapons come in 3 varieties. Shit, Normal and Good.
Shit weapons reroll any maximum damage rolls. (if you roll max. damage again, you can have it.)
Normal weapons just roll once.
Good weapons reroll minimum damage rolls. (if you roll min damage again, you take that.)

Damage is as LotFP, but adding strength modified, as mentioned above.
The prices listed assume shit weapons. 1.5x for Normal, 3x for Good.
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Your defence is based on your weapon. Nobody wants to get hit, so being armed is the best way to stop someone getting in too close. NB. Bestial enemies and attacks bypass this, always attacking as if the target is unarmed. However, they take one attack automatically as they open themselves up to you.

Unarmed/Awkward Weapon - 8
Short Weapon - 10
Long Weapon - 12
Long Weapon + Shield - 14

All of the above values are modified by your dexterity modifier.

Shields increase your step along the the chain by one. Awkward weapons are things like pikes, bows, etc. Some weapons might be dual purpose.

When defending against ranged weapons, the weapon is ignored.

No Shield - 10 + Dex
Shield - 14 + Dex

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Armour acts as a damage soak. The dice size listed is the amount of damage absorbed by the armour. Every time it sustains a full damage attack, roll under 10 on a d20 or it degrades, protecting at one level less.

Unarmoured - None
Leather - 1d4
Chain - 1d6
Plate - 1d8

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As you get damaged, your ability to be an effective combatant is reduced.

At 1/2 HP, you take a -2 on all actions from pain, and -1 to damage rolls.
At 1/4 HP, you take a -4 on all actions from extreme pain and loss of function in addition to a -3 to damage rolls. Without medical attention post-fight, roll under constitution to not die. You'll be scarred from your wounds.
At 0 HP, you are unconscious and dying. One body part has been severely damaged or destroyed, and you will require medical attention during the fight to stabilize. If unattended for 3 rounds, you die.
At -3 HP you are completely dead.

Recovering the corpse of an ally allows their XP to be purchased in a straight money-for-XP conversion. This money is spent on the funeral for the player. This XP is divided between surviving characters.

Additional Considerations

Advancement

The only XP gain is from treasure and Expenditure (covered below). Use the direct value of ALL loot recovered from the location and returned to an established 'safe zone' to determine total XP value, and then divide this between surviving characters.

Level	XP
0	0
1	3000
2	6000
3	12000
4	24000
5	48000

When levelling, the characters may gain ONE of the following -

+1 to hit

+1 HP

Reroll on a specific spell (see below)

Reroll on specific task (i.e. picking locks)

Expenditure

Expenditure is vast sums of cash on activities not immediately useful. There are two varieties - Carousing and Research.

Carousing is a big night on the town. The players should describe what they plan to get up to (drinking, whores, tattoos, drugs, etc.) The DM should invent some potential consequences or use a carousing consequence table. The characters carousing will gain some renown in the area.

In a village, you can spend d8 x 100 silver, and gain that much XP. Roll under constitution+2 to avoid consequences.

In a town, you can spend d10 x100 silver, and gain that much XP. Roll under constitution to avoid consequences.

In a city, you can spend d20 x100 silver, and gain that much XP. You'll always suffer consequences.

Research is a less effective manner of gaining XP for accumulated wealth, but lacks consequences and has a small chance of being useful. It requires the character to be able to read, and access to a library (scholarly towns and cities only).

Spend d10 x 100 silver, and gain 1/2 of this amount spent as XP. Every 100 silver spent is a 5% chance to learn something useful. Before the next delve/heist, roll below the total % to gain a question to be asked the DM. This question must be answered truthfully, but must also be something reasonably learnt whilst researching. It can be asked any time during the raid, but must be used for that raid specifically.

Skills & Saves

It is on the player to explain how they attempt to achieve something. If appropriate, a roll will be made against one of their statistics, attempting to roll below their statistic value, modified by circumstance, methodology, etc.

Saving throws are used to avoid something, usually when you've fucked up. Again, it is on the player to describe (quickly) how the avoid the hazard, again, linked to a statistic. They should be warned if they're doing something impossible or stupid e.g. attempting to stop a rolling boulder with their fists, expecting a strength roll.

Magic

Magic is fucking terrifying and even more dangerous. If the characters are (un)fortunate enough to find a scroll, they can attempt to cast it. (Note that they will not know what the scroll does until they cast it). The character casting must attempt to roll below 10 minus the spell level on a d20. If they succeed, the spell is cast and the scroll is still available for use. Rolling up to 3 above the success number harmlessly discharges the magic, but spoils the scroll, Anything above this causes a horrific magical mishap, usually related to the spell at hand, or else using a mishap table. The scroll remains available for use on a mishap roll.