Let's pull the monsters from this post and see if I can make them better as encounters for Electric Bastionland. Back when I wrote that post I was thinking about monsters as entries in a monster manual rather than making them inspiring chunks of the world to throw down onto your table.
My main considerations are going to be:
- Cut down all that prose and rub it into the actual workings of the monster through their moves.
- Make them more impactful and scary.
- Give them a bit more nuance beside just being something new to fight.
Nightmare art taken from GANBreeder.
Blood Servants (formerly Bloodlings)
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STR 5, DEX 5, CHA 5, 5hp. d6 Needle-Swords, Bloated Bodies.
- Waddle about serving their Blood Master in disgusting body-horror chores.
- Bicker with each other about who Master loves most of all (he loathes them all).
- If reduced to STR 0: Explode in a shower of burning blood (d6 Blast) invigorating their Master (restore their STR).
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STR 8. No HP, but automatically pass Saves vs Critical Damage. You have to hack them down to STR 0.
- Float silently, patrolling along a set route.
- Bump harmlessly against intruders, making a gross mess and distracting from other tasks.
- In the presence of the Dark Wizard that animated them they errupt in a flailing spasm (d8 claws)
Spider Dragon
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STR 18, 15hp, Pale Chitin (Armour 2). Bristling Multi-Jaws (2d8) and Thrashing Limbs (d6 Blast).
- Ceaselessly seek juicy cattle to drag back to their web-lair.
- Spray a sticky web-acid (d10 Blast, anyone taking STR Damage is webbed until cut free from the outside) once per day.
- Cower in fear from even the smallest bird.
I love the spider-dragons fear, it fills a niche for a dread horror that inexplicably had not run riot through all a region - because birds, obviously... Perfect.
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