Monsters

The following rules describe how to create monsters for the Swords of Infinity system.

Building a Monster

The process for building monsters very closely resembles how characters are created. Monsters, however, have a few extra mechanics that can be added to them to make them more interesting.

Concept

Like with characters, a monster is built around its concept. Is this monster a troll? A dragon? A formless horror spawned in some hellish netherworld? The monster's concept helps to define its Ability Scores, Composition, Traits, and more.

Ability Scores

A monster's ability scores can be generated the same way as for characters. The following values can be used as a shorthand when using point buy to generate Ability Scores:

• 180 points (average Ability Score of 30), used for very tough monsters
• 150 points (average Ability Score of 25), used for most monsters
• 130 points (average Ability Score of 20), used for weak monsters

Composition

The combination of arms, legs, wings, and other parts that may or may not make up the monster, its composition lists out all of the Damage Targets that the monster has and lets players know which parts of it they can attack.

Difficulty Level

A monster's Difficulty Level (DL) is a quick way to reference how challenging a monster will be for a player character to challenge in combat.

Point Buy

Size

Small:

• more dex
• more perception
• less strength
• less vitality

Large:

• more strength
• more vitality
• less dex
• less perception

Designing Encounters

Hordes

kill a dude when damage => vitality, then reduce number of members and horde bonuses