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

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