Flee, Mortals!
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MCDM Productions
Homebrew v1.1
Table of Contents
Introduction
- New Rules and Styles
- Allies and Enemies
- Challenge Rating
- Conditions
- Creature Roles
- Ambusher
- Artillery
- Brute
- Companion
- Controller
- Leader
- Minion
- Retainer
- Skirmisher
- Soldier
- Solo
- Support
- Mundane and Supernatural
- Pronouns
- Psionic Powers
- Not Magic
- Power Orders
- No Components
- Concentration
- Manifesting Multiple Powers
- Power Attacks as Opportunity Attacks
- New Powers
- Save Ends Effects
- Behind the Design: Save Ends Effects
- Spells
- Casting Multiple Spells
- Spell Attacks as Opportunity Attacks
- Utility Spells
- Casting Times
- Section Structure
- Unusual Needs
- Action-Oriented Creatures
- Villain Actions
- Choosing Villain Actions
- Unique Creatures
- Companion Creatures
- Caregiver
- One Companion Per Group
- Charmed Caregiver
- Incapacitated or Absent Caregiver
- New Caregiver
- Ferocity
- Bag of Rats
- Rampage
- Reducing Ferocity
- Ferocity Actions
- End of Combat
- Dying Companions
- Statistics
- Hit Dice
- Language
- Proficiency Bonus
- Signature Attack
- Companion Mounts
- Companion Barding
- Companion Encounter Balance
- NPCs with Companions
- Retainers
- Mentor
- Statistics
- Level
- Armor Class
- Hit Points and Hit Dice
- Proficiency Bonus
- Features
- Gear
- Dying Retainers
- Optional Rules: Shared Attacks
- Retainer Encounter Balance
- Minions
- No Hit Dice
- No Damage Rolls
- Shared Turns
- Minion Trait
- Overkill Attacks
- Overkill Range
- Melee Overkill Attacks
- Ranged Overkill Attacks
- Behind the Design: Minion Trait
- Overkill Damage Illustrated
- Group Attacks
- Advantage and Disadvantage
- Cover and Concealment
- Target Response Effects
- Group Opportunity Attacks
- Optional Rule: Group Saving Throws
- Optional Rule: Tough Minions
- Special Traits
- Challenge Ratings
- Building Minion Encounters
- Encounter Difficulty
- Tell Your Players
- Not Too Many
- Add Standard Creatures
- Minion Bands
- Cut the Choke Points
- Modifying and Making Minions
- The Timescape
- Using Creature Roles
- Ambusher Creatures
- Artillery Creatures
- Brute Creatures
- Controller Creatures
- Leader and Support Creatures
- Minion Creatures
- Skirmisher Creatures
- Soldier Creatures
- Solo Creatures
- Encounter Building
- Encounters per Day
- Step 1: Choose Encounter Difficulty
- Easier than Easy: Trivial Encounters
- Easy Encounters (1 Point)
- Standard Encounters (2 Points)
- Hard Encounters (4 Points)
- Extreme Encounters (8 Points)
- Avoiding Combat
- Step 2: Determine CR Budget
- Companions and Retainers
- CR Cap
- Solo Creatures
- Low-CR Solo Creatures
- Step 3: Spend CR Budget
- Start Slow
- Tweaking Difficulty
- Party Composition
- Player Play Styles
- Magic Items
- Short Rests
- Environment
- Creatures by CR
- Creature Spreadsheet
- Reporting Spreadsheet Errors
- Converting Ancestries
- Angulotl Defining Features
- Bugbear Defining Features
- Devil Defining Features
- Gnoll Defining Features
- Goblin Defining Features
- Hobgoblin Defining Features
- Human Defining Features
- Kobold Defining Features
- Lizardfolk Defining Features
- Orc Defining Features
- Time Raider Defining Features
Chapter 1: Creatures
- Angulotls
- Clawfish
- Angulotl Tactics
- Angulotl Magic Items
- Mystic Connection: Clawfish
- Animals
- Optional Features
- Bears
- Birds of Prey
- Camels
- Deathhawk
- Lightning Eel
- Snowfox
- Swarms
- Content Warning: Insects and Spiders
- Wildcats
- Animal Handling in the Wild
- Wild Shape and Optional Features
- Variant: Snowfox Familiar
- Researched Options
- Surprise Swarm!
- Mystic Connection: Bear
- Mystic Connection: Camel
- Mystic Connection: Wildcat
- Basilisks
- Petrification Is Death
- Reversing Petrification
- Bugbears
- Bugbear Encounters
- Bugbear Tactics
- Bugbear Magic Items
- Chimeras
- Protector Variant
- Demons
- Demons and Souls
- Soul Count
- Soul Devourer
- Soul-Fueld Power
- Passive Traits
- Active Features
- Lethe
- Soulsight
- Adjusting Lethality
- Demonic Hierarchy
- Pitling
- Ruinant
- Tormenauk
- Wobalas
- Chimeron
- Category 6 and Beyond
- Aurumvas of Meaningless Greed
- Teleporting Aurumvas
- Devils
- Infernal Chancellor Lazivos
- Summoning Devils
- The Ritual
- Material Components
- Personal Sacrifice
- Finding Components and True Names
- Ritual Length
- True Name
- Summon Check
- Ritual Consequences
- Branded
- Success
- Failure
- Dragonets
- Variant: Dragonet Familiar
- Dragons
- Campaign Bosses
- Durixaviinox
- Forzaantirilys
- Qazyldrath
- Xaantikorijek
- Yserthrax
- Dragon Tactics
- Elementals
- Sapient Elementals
- Crux of Fire
- Crux of Frost
- Essence of Mist
- Essence of Storms
- Essence of Tides
- Content Warning: Blood and Suffocation
- Force of Blood
- Force of Earth
- Force of Iron
- Oracle of Storms
- Principle of Growth
- Sparks
- Sunlight Nexus
- Atæshia, Queen of Ash
- Elemental Magic Items
- Take Advantage of Immunities
- Elemental Convocations
- Elemental Retainers and Companions
- Giants
- Fire Giants
- Zenith Aastrika
- Frost Giants
- Hill Giants
- Stone Giants
- Make Players Aware: Distracted
- Many Stones, One Band
- Giant Lairs
- Gibbering Mouthers
- Mystic Connection: Gibbering Mouther
- Gnolls
- Ravening Horde or Clever Killers?
- Abyssal Hyenas
- Tusker Demons
- Gnoll Magic Items
- Gnoll Laughter
- Soul-Devouring Demons
- Mystic Connection: Abyssal Hyena
- Goblins
- Content Warning: Spiders
- Skitterling
- War Spider
- Queen Bargnot
- Goblins and Magic Items
- Goblin Tactics
- Mystic Connection: Skitterling
- Goblins and Worgs
- Griffons
- Mystic Connection: Griffon
- Hags
- Shtriga Nonna
- Green Hag in a Coven
- Night Hag in a Coven
- Content Warning: Drowning
- Sea Hag in a Coven
- Harpies
- Harpies and Shambling Mounds
- Hellhounds
- Hobgoblins
- Synergized Tactics
- Playing with Fire
- Innate Magic
- Binding Bargains
- Grilp
- Slaughter Demon
- Bloodlord Varrox
- Blood-Infused Weapons
- Hobgoblin Magic Items
- Soul-Devouring Demons
- Humans
- Baron Uthrak
- Changing the Apprentice Mage
- Human Elementalist Wizards
- Human Magic Items
- Kingfissure Worms
- Mystic Connection: Kingfissure Worm
- Kobolds
- Shieldscale Drangolin
- Deadly Kobolds!
- Running an Artifex
- Upholding High Standards
- Kobold Magic Items
- Mystic Connection: Drangolin
- Lightbenders
- Who Are You Wearing?
- Mystic Connection: Lightbender
- Lizardfolk
- Lizardfolk Tactics
- Real-World Inspiration
- Manticores
- Mystic Connection: Manticore
- Medusas
- Medusa Lairs
- Lady Emer
- Medusa Petrification
- Mimics
- Bigger Mimics
- Minotaurs
- Ogres
- Olothec
- Immortal Evil
- Agents of Chaos
- Primordial Form
- Mutations of the Flesh
- Content Warning: Body Horror
- Ithu'rath the All-Seeing
- Orcs
- Mohler
- Scyza
- Dohma Raskovar
- Orc Tactics
- Knock Them Prone
- Orc Magic Items
- Mystic Connection: Mohler
- Otyughs
- Mystic Connection: Otyugh
- Overminds
- Xorannox the Tyract
- Owlbears
- Wild Shape and Owlbears
- Shambling Mounds
- Mystic Connection: Shambling Mound
- Stirges
- Content Warning: Soul Trauma
- Mystic Connection: Stirge
- Time Raiders
- But I Want a Blaster!
- Time Raider Encounters
- Titans
- Goxomoc
- The Kraken
- Treants
- Trolls
- Mutated Trolls
- A Wild Limbjumble Appears!
- Undead
- Undead in One Section
- Incorporeal Undead
- Kiona the Dread Lord
- Making Incorporeal Undead
- Lesser Corporeal Undead
- Crawling Claw
- Ghoul
- Skeleton
- Wight
- Zombie
- Mystic Connection: Crawling Claw
- Liches
- Soulstone Rejuvenation
- High Mage Vairae
- Content Warning: Body Horror
- Mournlings
- Content Warning: Body Horror
- Making a Mournling
- Dirt Mournling
- Flesh Mournling
- Mummies
- Ashyra, Keeper of the Crypt
- Khorsekef the Infinite
- Vampires
- Vampire Lairs
- Count Rhodar von Glauer
- Atypical Vampire Diet
- Excerpt from the Chronicle of the Chain of Acheron
- Valok
- Servok
- Multivok
- Voiceless Talkers
- Absolute Evil
- Hulking Brain
- Mindkiller
- Lord Syuul
- Psi-Tech
- Wyverns
- Mystic Connection: Wyvern
Chapter 2: Environments
- Environmental Features
- Cave
- Cave Traits
- Cave Lair Actions
- Fossil Cryptic
- Koptourok
- Content Warning: Suffocation
- Lamasombra
- Yumgrub
- Enchanted Forest
- Enchanted Forest Traits
- Enchanted Forest Lair Actions
- Bonestalker
- Revealing a Bonestalker
- Dancing Lady
- Empyrean Stag
- Rotbeast
- More Skulls!
- Good-Aligned Enemies
- Mystic Connection: Rotbeast
- Graveyard and Tomb
- Graveyard and Tomb Traits
- Tomb Lair Actions
- Ashen Hoarder
- Blood-Borne Ooze
- Haunt
- Lightthief
- Blood-Borne Surprise
- Mystic Connection: Blood-Borne Ooze
- Road
- Ankheg
- Bredbeddle
- Weeping Willow
- Ruined Keep
- Ruined Keep Traits
- Ruined Keep Lair Actions
- Express Descent Goes Deep
- Former Purpose
- Flintmoth Swarm
- Lacuna
- Thornblood
- Sewer
- Sewer Traits
- Sewer Lair Actions
- Arcane Amalgam
- Stoneback Isopod
- Valochera
- Gross Smells
- Fungus Creatures
- Mystic Connection: Stoneback Isopod
- Swamp
- Swamp Traits
- Swampy Terrain
- Swamp Lair Actions
- Bog Body
- Marsh Hydra
- Rot Angel
- Swamp Dryad
- Big Ball of Snakes
- Underground
- Underground Traits
- Underground Lair Actions
- Deep Dreamer
- Gem Jelly
- Leyleech
- Marvorok
- Encountering a Deep Dreamer
- Mystic Connection: Gem Jelly
- Mystic Connection: Leyleech
Chapter 3: Villain Parties
- Portraying Villainy
- Individual Villains
- Optimized Party Level
- Villain Party Actions
- Slow Burn
- Grave Order
- Content Warning: Enslaved Spirit, Body Horror, and Religious Desecration
- Background
- Goals
- Methods
- Halorin Yandres
- Jedar Pike
- Lestheris Soldrei
- Mycete
- The Horror
- Magic
- Grave Order Villain Actions
- Golden Valor
- Abominations
- Content Warning: Body Horror, Torture, Cannibalism, and Eugenics
- Background
- Goals
- Methods
- Boog
- Ceemal
- Excess
- Klar
- Sair
- Magic Items
- Abominations Villain Actions
- Abominations in Disguise
- Sair's Got Range
- Black Iron Pact
- Content Warning: Racism and Sexism
- Background
- Goals
- Methods
- Lord Erasmus Deseo
- Canon Athenodorus
- Cloak
- Lady Avalla Deseo
- Qar, Master of Jackals
- Magic Items
- Black Iron Pact Villain Actions
- Retreat to the Cyst
- Who is Cloak?
- Wilderkith
- Content Warning: Terrorism
- Background
- Goals
- Methods
- Anthracia, Princess of Venom
- Logger
- Sylphise
- Tuval-Uthriar
- Vali
- Magic Items
- Wilderkith Villain Actions
- What is Logger?
- Amethyst Knife
- Background
- Goals
- Methods
- Harlo Honeygrin
- Jutkarr Flintfingers
- Llyvessa
- Treyvan von Hirnschmann
- Humanoid Ability Scores Above 20
- Victory "Vic" Graves
- Magic Items
- Amethyst Knife Villain Actions
- Soulbinders
- Content Warning: Possession
- Background
- Goals
- Methods
- Argan Rael
- Kishina Darrowind
- Prince Ellan Farra
- Radlee "The Grim" Thugram
- Scarlet Shadow
- Magic Items
- It's Not Me!
- Soulbinder Items and Stat Blocks
- Soulbinders Villain Actions
- Ending the Curse for Good
- Hallowed Dark
- Content Warning: Terrorism, Torture, and Blood
- Background
- Goals
- Methods
- Aronar Valkys
- Athmia Valkys
- Caithas
- Draven Malas
- Vivienn Dirroze
- Magic Items
- Hallowed Dark Villain Actions
- The Silent Decay
Chapter 4: New Psionic Powers
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