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Monday Monster: Coychure

For use with the Dragonbane RPG.

Coychure

Description:
Once someone encounters the Coychure, they can’t unsee it. Some have gone so far as to beg Mentalists to erase it from their minds. This nocturnal predator causes other cryptids to flee at the very sight of it.

It is unclear where this creature originated. Some say it is a demon, others say it was hatched in a mad Archmage’s laboratory. Deep research, as best that can be done by scholars at present, suggests that more than one of these beasts indicate they came from a pocket dimension or subplane. One victim driven mad by the Coychure claimed that it came from a strange puzzle box along with other nightmares.

Its most striking feature are its two mouths, one lupine, the other more human. Its eyes are similar to a bee, set farther back on the skull. It has a body of a coyote, wings like a vulture, warped, distorted limbs similar to vulture talons. The Coychure’s tail is almost reptilian, but also similar to a fish. Its body is covered in a mix of fur, feathers, and scales making its actual body very difficult to identify.

One interesting thing about this monster is that its flesh and even bone dissolves when it is slain, making any sort of identification impossible. Once slain the creature turns to a sizzling puddle of goo withing one Stretch. Contact with the goo deals 1d4 acid damage and burns for one Stretch unless neutralized or washed off.

Resistance:
The Coychure is immune to effects requiring a WIL roll such as Fear or mind control. Also immune to acid and poison. Takes half damage from non-magical fire, cold, slashing, and piercing attacks.

Nimble: Coychure Evades attacks at skill level 14.

Wings: The Coychure may take its movement in the air.
Swimming: The Coychure swims at normal movement speed and can hold its breath underwater for a full Stretch.

Aura of Terror: The first time a creature steps within 10 meters of the Coychure it must make a WIL roll. Failure means a roll on the Fear Table. Creatures who have seen the Coychure before have a Boon to this roll.

Ferocity: 2  Size: Medium
Movement: 12  Armor: 3 Natural HP: 22

MONSTER ATTACKS

D6 Attacks:

1. Existential Dread Howl: Anyone within 30 meters must make a WIL roll with a Bane regardless of having seen the creature. Failure means rolling on the Fear Table.
2. Bite-Bite: One target within 2 meters is bitten twice for 2d4 piercing damage.
3. Swooping Talon Rake: One target within 4 meters is hit for 1d8 slashing damage and is knocked prone at the start of their turn.
4. Gibbering Nonsense: All creatures within 8 meters must make a WIL roll to fend off a psychic attack. Failure means becoming Dazed. If already Dazed, the GM may choose another condition.
5. That Tail: The Coychure flies up into the air slapping one character within 4 meters with an attack that does 1d4 piercing damage and injects a Potency 12 Paralyzing Poison. If armor negates the damage, no poison is delivered.
6. Drag-N-Drop: The Coychure attempts to grab one character or creature (Medium or smaller) and carry it into the air 1d12 meters and in a direction of the GM’s choosing before dropping them for an appropriate amount of fall damage and starting the turn prone. An Opposed STR roll vs a 14 may be made to resist being picked up and dropped early.

Monday Monster: Gorvult

Compatible with Dragonbane RPG.

Description: A large, black, hairy beast that glides seamlessly between the trees and lands on prey from above. It is the terror of the night in deep forest/jungle areas.

Ferocity: 2             Size: Large
Movement: 12 (Flying) Armor: 2 (Natural)            HP: 36

Has wings, can fly. When flying at night is treated as having 14 Sneaking.

Gorvult Attacks:

D6 Attacks:

1: Big, Big Bite: Inflicts 2d8 piercing damage on one target within 2 meters.

2: Big, Big Crunch: The Gorvult leaps high into the air and comes down with all of its weight on one target inflicting 2d6 bludgeoning damage and knocking the opponent prone on their turn.

3: How Good Is Your Armor? The Gorvult makes excited noises and jumps up and down on one target within 4 meters 1d6 times inflicting 1d6 bludgeoning damage each time. Each bounce counts as a separate attack when parrying. A successful EVADE avoids the attack entirely. One successful bounce leaves the character prone on the start of their turn.

4: Big Wallop! The Gorvult swings both fists together striking up to 2 adjacent characters within 2 meters for 1d8 bludgeoning damage each. Characters struck by the attack are knocked prone until the start of their turn.

5: Thump Thump: Gorvult grabs one character within 2 meters by the ankle and slamming them against the ground 1d4 times for 1d6 bludgeoning damage each time. Armor bonuses do not apply. After the first slam, the character can make a free attempt to wriggle out of the creature’s grasp with an opposed STR roll. (Gorvult has a 16 for purposes of this check.) Characters hit with this attack also suffer the Dazed condition.

6: Snatch and Drop: Gorvult grabs one character within 2 meters with its talons and soars skyward 45 meters before dropping them. Standard falling damage applies.

Special ops : Lioness / Twilight : 2000

Coucou mes p’tites patates agressives! Tiens, je profite de la fin de la saison 2 de Special ops : Lioness pour vous proposer une rapide transposition de ce très bon show dans un univers de jeu de rôle dont je n’avais pas parlé jusqu’alors; Twilight : 2000!

Alors, Lioness est une série de Taylor Sheridan, sur Paramount+, avec Zoe Saldaña, Nicole Kidman et une belle brochette d’acteurs et d’actrices, nous parlant d’une unité spéciale de la CIA, déployée contre des cibles jugées difficiles à atteindre. Les Lioness sont formées à l’infiltration et l’assassinat de ces cibles, et pour compléter l’équipe, nous avons une bande de vétérans soutenant les exfiltrations bien musclées des agents. C’est du bon gros show d’action, comme Taylor Sheridan sait nous en concocter, mais son écriture ne se limite pas à des échanges musclés, car Joe, le personnage incarné par Zoe Saldaña, est marié, avec également deux adolescentes, et si elle est particulièrement douée dans ce qu’elle fait, nous découvrons aussi ses angoisses, ses doutes, tout cela rejaillissant sur les autres, y compris une responsable des opérations glaçante, jouée par Nicole Kidman. En bref, une série avec des personnages tout en finesse, mêlant la bonne grosse action de terrain et l’espionnage, sur fond géopolitique complexe.

Et donc Twilight : 2000, un jeu de rôle des années 80, en étant à sa quatrième édition, proposée par Free league publishing, nous plaçant dans un contexte post-troisième guerre mondiale, en incarnant initialement des soldats américains, se débattant avec des ordres contradictoires, tandis que leur pays et leur chaîne de commandement disparaissent. Bon, dans les années 90, fin de la guerre froide, il faut tout réécrire, et la multiplication des conflits à travers le monde encourageront les auteurs à parler de réalité alternative, l’Histoire moderne dépassant facilement leurs prédictions en terme d’horreurs et de guerres. La dernière édition, celle de Free league, est centrée sur la Pologne et la Suède, proposant au contraire d’éviter les conflits en cours, en incarnant des soldats de différentes nations, mais également différents types de civils. L’ensemble est motorisé par le Year Zero Engine de l’éditeur, tout de même un peu plus souple que l’ancien système de Game Designers Workshop, et pour celles et ceux qui connaissent le bestiaux, les règles de gestion des ressources sont assez similaires à celles utilisées pour leur adaptation de the Walking dead, les deux contextes se ressemblant malheureusement beaucoup.

Et donc, que se passerait-il s’il nous prenait l’envie d’adapter Special ops : Lioness à Twilight : 2000? Eh bien… Pas grand chose en fait. Essentiellement car la CIA, et la thalassocratie états-uniennes s’appuient sur leur capacité de projection supérieure, à base de porte-avions et d’un budget dépassant celui des 26 pays suivants cumulés. On voit dans la série des avions, des véhicules terrestres et des drones mobilisés avec un simple coup de fil. Dans Twilight : 2000, plus de téléphones, plus de gouvernements suffisamment robustes pour faire de la projection globale, c’est la survie dans un environnement post-apocalyptique qui est mise en avant. Cela étant, il existait jadis une version différente du jeu, Merc : 2000, permettant justement d’incarner des individus moins loyaux à une entité politique. C’est probablement de ce côté-ci que nous pourront trouver des unités hyper entraînées comme les Lioness, se déployant tant bien que mal en territoire hostile – c’est à dire dans le reste du monde – et opérant afin de préserver un mode de vie disparaissant inexorablement. Je pense surtout, à travers cette idée de transposition, à l’aspect humain de ces combattants, désormais même plus certains de pouvoir rentrer, isolés face à une multitude d’ennemis, et devant trouver en eux la force de continuer à servir.

#Contemporain #FriaLigan #JeuDeRôle #Série #TaylorSheridan

Jag och min 7-åring har börjat spela #DrakarOchDemoner #RollSpel från #FriaLigan - helt otroligt bra omrelease, jag spelade originalet för första gången 1985...

20 - Amazing adventure

The only (published) adventure I've run this last year is "The Dying Ship" for Coriolis. Premise is straight forward, bits and pieces can easily be changed, NPCs are easy to characterize and the win condition is multifaceted. Ran it using #Stoneburner which was a good fit. Can also see #Mothership being an excellent option if one doesn't want to use Coriolis system for it. 

Attached is adventure's back cover.

#coriolis #freeleague #FriaLigan #ttrpg #rpgaday2024

One shot (ma sicuro dura due serate) a #vaesen della #frialigan... Prevedo misteri svelati e birre bevute a go go

Working on a hack to simplify the noodly #ForbiddenLands magic system. Comments welcome.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12R-gjsHnz9i6IMx00Ld49cm6c_U2Ct0V/view?usp=sharing

#ttrpg #freeleague #yearzero #yearzeroengine #FriaLigan

@Mr_Stag I can't locate a #FreeLeague or #dragonbane Discord channel or developer rules resource. Any thoughts on this? I'd love to submit a question. #FriaLigan

Still no power here in Eugene. TTRPGing by flashlight. Why not?! #talesfromtheloop #ttrpg #FreeLeague #FriaLigan #pnw

Lycka! Jag funderade länge på varför jag hade en låda att hämta. Att jag backat Drakar och Demoner hade jag helt glömt. De var ju så länge sedan.

Undrar vad de gjort med D&D, jag har förvisso haft tillgång till pdf:er och så men vem har haft tid till det? Det var mycket länge sedan jag hann spela, 'Djupets fasor' var den kampanj jag minns bäst. Ruggigt spännande. Men nu sätter suget in igen. #drakarochdemoner #frialigan #rollspel

#FreeLeague will release a case file (Fiery Angels) and a sourcebook (Replicant Rebellion) for the #BladeRunner #TTRPG later this year: https://mailchi.mp/frialigan/two-expansions-for-the-blade-runner-rpg #FriaLigan

I ran my second session of the #FreeLeague / #FriaLigan #Vaesen #TTRPG last night. We added two more player characters for a total party of six.

I'm not sure if everyone will be able to play each week, so it should work out. Even at six, it was okay.

Everyone seemed to have fun and I had a good time running the game.

I made fewer mistakes this time. Let's hope that trend continues.

#RPG

Mat for Mons. #rollespel #ForbiddenLands #FriaLigan

Zur Abteilung "was ich im kommenden Jahr endlich mal spielen will" gehört auf jeden Fall #Vaesen von #FriaLigan. Die wunderbaren Bücher dürfen nicht länger nur im Schrank stehen - es gilt so viele Abenteuer in Skandinavien und Irland zu bestehen. 2023 wird das Regellesen endlich klappen. 🤩
Habt ihr das System schon verinnerlicht und Spielerfahrungen gesammelt?
#ttrpg #rpg #pnpde

This was a good review of #BladeRunnerRPG from #FreeLeague.

#FriaLigan #ttrpg

https://www.wargamer.com/blade-runner-the-roleplaying-game/review

For those who backed #Dragonbane / #DrakarochDemoner, the latest beta pdf includes the adventure I wrote! :D So happy to see it out in the wild, finally. #FriaLigan #FreeLeague

Busy at work, and not had much time for painting, but have run two intro sessions of the Alien RPG! It's a cracking system and the pre-made materials are really nice. #AlienRPG #FriaLigan #FreeLeague #rpg #TabletopGames

Okay, a poll! Here's the shortlist of games I'm thinking of running for three players starting next week:

(These are the top four, because I guess I can only offer four choices in a poll.)

Campaign is six months long (4th player on paternity leave). Rules medium or lighter. No fantasy (we're on break from 13th Age).

Other suggestions welcome.

#TTRPG #Wildsea #ApocalypseKeys #PbtA #FriaLigan #ALIEN #FreeLeague #Troubleshooters

Wie viel Porto muss man eigentlich zahlen, wenn man was bei #FriaLigan bestellt? Seasons of Mystery für #Vaesen reizt mich, aber ich scheue das vielleicht sehr hohe Porto. #pnpde

@thedicemechanic I've been really pleased with the FL games I've bought. I've run Tales From The Loop and Coriolis, both were great. I've bought Alien and Twilight 2000, I might not ever get around to running the latter but I'm really looking forward to running Alien. Oh, Symbaroum is a fantastic setting too. One of my players had Vaessen and I'm hoping he runs out for us. I probably spend more on Free League stuff that any other big publisher.

#ttrpg #FreeLeague #FriaLigan

Walking Dead RPG coming from Free League.

I'm not a huge fan of the Walking Dead, but I'm a double huge fan of Free League, specifically the Year Zero Engine.

I'll buy this when it hits. I tend to enjoy the high-octane pulp heroism of 2d20 more than the survival elements of Year Zero, but they're always quality books that I'm excited to have on my shelf.

https://thewalkingdead-rpg.com/

#TWD #TheWalkingDead #FreeLeague #FriaLigan #YearZero #ttrpg