The Ninth World Bestiary by Bruce R. Cordell, Monte Cook, Shanna Germain

By Bruce R. Cordell, Monte Cook, Shanna Germain

The 9th global Bestiary is lavishly illustrated and wildly resourceful, that includes greater than a hundred thirty creatures and characters. supplying GM recommendation on utilizing pre-made creatures in addition to developing your personal, this assortment additionally contains plenty of extra information about the 9th World’s advanced far-future, put up apocalyptic ecology. 9th global parasites, transdimensional creatures, mechanical automatons, and extraterrestrials are only the start within the extraordinary environment of Numenera.

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The Ninth World Bestiary

The 9th global Bestiary is lavishly illustrated and wildly inventive, that includes greater than a hundred thirty creatures and characters. supplying GM recommendation on utilizing pre-made creatures in addition to growing your individual, this assortment additionally contains plenty of extra information about the 9th World’s complicated far-future, put up apocalyptic ecology.

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Further, the warrior host releases a viral splash of green liquid each time it suffers even 1 point of damage in melee. A character striking the host must make a Might defense roll or become infected. The warrior host and the virons within it are immune to mental effects or Intellect damage. Interaction: Communicating with the warrior host is extremely difficult. It does not speak or understand speech. ” Use: The warrior host is a guard and a soldier. The Insidious Choir does not plan on building an army and extending its power through conquest, so these hosts tend to protect rather than attack, except in special circumstances and missions with specific goals (such as obtaining something the virus needs that is in the hands of someone else).

This usually results in a fall that potentially deals 10 points of damage, knocks the character prone, and dazes him for a round. COCCITAN  Coccitan colonies are thick with abandoned casings of their molted skins, giving such locations a macabre look, at least from a human’s perspective. From a coccitan’s point of view, the discarded skins are warm reminders of happy days. Coccitans are not a warlike race and usually skitter away if threatened. However, they use roach swarms in a variety of ways, including to subdue potential threats.

The field collapses if the decanted attacks or takes some other dramatic action. When a decanted attacks, it grabs a foe with hands much colder than ice, which inflicts damage and freezes the foe in place, causing her to lose her next turn if she fails a Might defense roll. Once per hour, a decanted can spray liquefied air in a sharp stream at one target within short range. The stream inflicts damage that ignores Armor and requires a Might defense roll. On a failed roll, the victim not only loses her next turn but also moves one step down the damage track.

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