Fate Bestiary

Aspects

• Massive tunneling pest

Skills

Good (+3): Burrow(Athletics)
Fair (+2): Spray(Shoot), Bite(Fight)

Stunts

Burrow. Gain an extra free invoke when using Athletics to create an advantage by tunneling underground.

Acid Spray. Twice per session, you may use a single Shoot attack to hit up to 3 people in your zone or one zone away when shooting acid. Any targets one space away must all be in the same zone.

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1   2

Aspects

• Armored tank of a dinosaur
• Herbivore

Skills

Great (+4): Physique, Pummel
Good (+3): Notice, Protect
Average (+1): Athletics

Stunts

Armored Plating. Armor:2 against physical attacks.

Pummel. +2 to Overcome or Create Advantages with Pummel by smashing something with your tail.

Stress & Consequences

Physical 1   2   3   4
Mental 1   2

Mild (2)

Aspects

• Chaotic awakened shrubs
• Dry wood

Skills

Fair (+2): Thrash(Fight/Athletics)
Average (+1): Trip(Crafts), Poison(Shoot)

Stunts

Nature Discipline. You have mastered control over nature. You can grow plants from nothing, grab enemies with vines and tree limbs, fire thorns at a foe from range, and secrete poisonous toxins. You can animate and command plants to do your bidding.

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1

Aspects

• Reptile with a hunger for statues
• Petrifying gaze
• Softening saliva

Skills

Great (+4): Petrify(Provoke)
Good (+3): Bite(Fight), Lure(Deceive/Provoke)
Fair (+2): Flee(Athletics)

Stunts

Avert Your Eyes. If an opponent is taking an action against you that would normally involve looking at you and they choose to avoid it, you gain +1 to defend against it.

Petrifying Gaze. Each time a target chooses not to avert their eyes when doing something that would normally involve looking at you and does not succeed with style, you automatically deal one point of mental (petrifying) stress.

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1   2

Mild (2)

Aspects

• Sneaky amphibious predator
• Not too bright

Skills

Superb (+5): Surprise(Fight/Provoke)
Great(+4): Camoflauge(Stealth), Swim(Athletics)
Good (+3): Chomp(Fight), Notice
Fair (+2): Athletics, Physique

Stunts

Sneak Attack. You may use Surprise instead of Chomp to attack a target that is unaware of you.

Drift Wood. Gain an extra invoke when creating an advantage to look like a log floating in water.

Aquatic. +2 to Overcome or Creat Advantages with Athletics when swimming.

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1   2   3

Mild (2)

About

“I think their predominant color was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked ... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design—living and horrible.”
The Shadow Over Innsmout – H. P. Lovecraft

NPC submitted by Marc-André Benoit.

Aspects

• Undersea-dwelling amphibious humanoids
• Immortal ... save accident or violence
• Worshippers of the Great Old Ones
• “We will conquer the surface world!”
• Intra-species Telepathic communicators

Skills

Careful: +1
Clever: +1
Flashy: +0
Forceful: +2
Quick: +2
Sneaky: +3

Stunts

Slip Between the Shadows of the Ocean. Because I’m a minion of the ocean, once per scene, no matter the approach, I get +2 when I Overcome or Create an advantage while under water.

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1   2   3

Mild (2)

Moderate (4)

Aspects

• Ethereal troubled soul

Skills

Fair (+2): Spook(Provoke), Possess(Fight/Shoot/Provoke)
Average (+1): Haunt(Athletics)

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1

Aspects

• Sneaky dim-witted greenfolk
• No regard for self preservation

Skills

Fair (+2): Sneak
Average (+1): Deceive, Attack

Stunts

Battle Drums. Once per scene with goblins in it, you may bang a battle drum or blow a war horn to call in more goblins. This will summon either 2 more goblins per PC in the scene or one ogre. (This stunt can only be used once per scene, regardless of the number of goblins)

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1

Aspects

• Regenerating giant reptile
• Fire nullifies regeneration
• Multiple heads

Skills

Superb (+5): Claw/Stomp(Fight)
Great (+4): Notice, Provoke, Bite(Fight)
Fair (+2): Will, Investigate

Stunts

More Where That Came From. Instead of consequence slots, you start with one sticky (+4) condition called Decapitated for each head. If fire is not used in an attack that would decapitate a head, you gain another Decapitated condition slot instead of checking one off and you can clear your 2-point stress box. If fire is used, the condition is checked and the attacker gets a free invoke of it.

Coordinated Attack. You may take as many actions as the number of heads you have. Only one of these actions can be done by your body (i.e Tail slap, claw, run, etc.). After the body has done something in a round, all other actions can only be actions that a head could do on it's own (i.e. - Bite, scare, watch, etc.).

Stress & Consequences

Physical 1   2
Mental 1   2   3

Mild (2)

Scene Ideas

The Hydra is designed to be used as the only adversary in a conflict against many opponents. It is meant to be tough. This would be great for teaching players to create advantages so that they can learn to defeat enemies.

About

This monster is meant to be used in tandem with the Kraken (tentacle) monster. This write up represents the actions that the creature's body can take, while the other can be used for each tentacle in the scene. If the Kraken (head/body) is taken out, so are all of its tentacles.

Aspects

• Massive leviathan
• Ruler of the seas

Skills

Legendary (+8): Bite(Fight)
Epic (+7): Demolish(Physique)
Fantastic (+6): Physique, Summon(Provoke), Swim(Athletics)
Good (+3): Everything else

Stunts

Storm Discipline. You can summon or dismiss storms and create or control lightning.

Stress & Consequences

Physical 1   2   3   4
Mental 1   2   3   4

Mild (2)

Mild (2)

Moderate (4)

Severe (6)

About

Kraken (tentacles) is meant to be used in tandem with Kraken (head/body). This write up represents a single tentacle that the kraken is using. Use these stats for each tentacle, but each tentacle should have it's own stress track.

Aspects

• Sticky sea monster tentacle

Skills

Good (+3): Grab/Crush(Physique)
Fair (+2): Throw(Shoot/Physique), Slam/Swipe(Fight)

Stunts

Suction Cups. +2 to grab a target that is already engaged with another tentacle (or the head) of the Kraken.

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1   2

Aspects

• Bull-headed keeper of the labrynth

Skills

Superb (+5): Charge(Athletics)
Great (+4):, Physique, Fight
Good (+3): Confuse(Provoke), Intimidate(Provoke)
Fair (+2): Will

Stunts

Bull Rush. When you move a zone before attacking with Fight, you may attack up to two targets with the results of a single roll.

Smash. +2 to your roll when using Charge to overcome zone obstacles.

Stress & Consequences

Physical 1   2   3   4
Mental 1   2   3

Mild (2)

About

Ogres are commonly found working alongside goblins in exchange for food, but their relationship is tenuous at best.

Aspects

• Giant goblinkin enforcer
• Dumber than rocks
• Smash everything

Skills

Superb (+5): Smash(Fight)
Great (+4): Throw(Shoot), Grab/Break/Stomp(Physique)
Good (+3): Roar(Provoke), Chase(Athletics)

Stunts

Two Birds, One Stone. When you Throw a grappled target at another target, you may apply your attack to both targets.

Earthshake. +2 to Stomp when trying to create an advantage out of disarming someone or throwing off their aim.

You Go Splat. Weapon:2 when you attack with throw in a zone bordered by a wall.

Stress & Consequences

Physical 1   2   3   4
Mental 1   2

Mild (2)

Aspects

• Rats of unusual size
• Sowers of disease

Skills

Good (+3): Scamper(Athletics)
Fair (+2): Gnaw(Fight), Infect

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1   2

Aspects

• Animated pile of bones
• Shatter-prone

Skills

Fair (+2): Shoot, Fight
Average (+1): Patrol(Notice)

Stunts

• Reassemble. For every two skeletons killed within 2 zones of each other, one skeleton may reassemble using the remaining scattered bones.

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1

About

Slimes are something that can be found in sewers and other collections of refuse. They melt things like wood and metal. Due to their physiology, slimes tend to break into multiple smaller slimes when they are wounded enough to be taken out.

When a large slime is taken out, it splits into 2 medium slimes.

Aspects

• Amorphous ball of metal-melting acid
• Feed me

Skills

Good (+3): Dissolve
Fair (+2): Find (Notice/Investigate), Hold/Absorb (Physique)

Stress & Consequences

Stress 2

About

Slimes are something that can be found in sewers and other collections of refuse. They melt things like wood and metal. Due to their physiology, slimes tend to break into multiple smaller slimes when they are wounded enough to be taken out.

When a medium slimes is taken out, it divides into 2 small slimes.

Aspects

• Amorphous ball of metal-melting acid
• Feed me

Skills

Fair (+2): Dissolve
Average (+1): Find (Notice/Investigate), Hold/Absorb (Physique)

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1

About

Slimes are something that can be found in sewers and other collections of refuse. They melt things like wood and metal. Due to their physiology, slimes tend to break into multiple smaller slimes when they are wounded enough to be taken out.

Small slimes cannot break apart any smaller. When they are taken out they are removed from the fight.

Aspects

• Amorphous ball of metal-melting acid
• Feed me

Skills

Average (+1): Dissolve, Find (Notice/Investigate), Hold/Absorb (Physique)

Stress & Consequences

Stress None (Taken out by one or more shifts)

Aspects

• Man-sized spiders
• Fear the flame

Skills

Fair (+2): Bite(Fight), Snare(Physique), Creep(Stealth/Athletics)
Average (+1): Notice

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1

Aspects

• Magically enhanced teleporting spider
• Always hungry

Skills

Superb (+5): Teleport(Athletics)
Great (+4): Bite(Fight), Snare(Physique)
Good (+3): Creep(Stealth), Notice
Fair (+2): Will

Stunts

Sneak Attack. You may use Teleport instead of Snare to create an advantage called Ensnared after a teleportation movement.

Teleport Discipline. You can create portals and teleport from one location to another.

Lair Jaunt. Once per turn, you may t use your movement to either teleport from your current location to your lair or from your lair back to within zone of your previous location.

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1   2   3

Mild (2)

About

The Belcher toad is a giant toad with one key difference; it is known to "belch" some of it's extra-potent stomach fluids on prey that has proven itself harder to catch, slowing it's victims and giving the toad its name. It also uses the same stomach acid to break down it's prey after swallowing it whole.

Aspects

• Bile spewing giant toad

Skills

Great (+4): Spew(Shoot)
Good (+3): Hop(Athletics), Grab(Physique)
Fair (+2): Swallow

Stunts

• Digest. When a target starts its turn in the toad's stomach, the target takes 1 stress automatically.

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1   2   3

Mild (2)

Aspects

• Patient protector of the forest
• Indistinguishable when still
• Ancient knowledge

Skills

Fantastic (+6): Smash(Fight)
Superb (+5): Grow, Camoflauge(Stealth), Lore
Great (+4): Throw(Shoot), Will, Physique

Stunts

Nature Discipline. You have mastered control over nature. You can grow plants from nothing, grab enemies with vines and tree limbs, fire thorns at a foe from range, and secrete poisonous toxins. You can animate and command plants to do your bidding.

Stress & Consequences

Physical 1   2   3   4
Mental 1   2   3   4

Mild (2)

Moderate (4)

Severe (6)

Aspects

• Regenerating forest troll
• Fire/acid prevent regeneration
• Monstrously Ugly
• Forest Dweller

Skills

Great (+4): Athletics
Good (+3): Claw(Fight), Stealth
Fair (+2): Physique, Crafts, Notice
Average (+1): Investigate

Stunts

Regeneration. When you are dealt a consequence, you may regenerate and clear the consequence at the end of the round unless fire or acid was used to cause the consequence.

Insatiable. When you have cornered a target, ±2 to Claw attacks.

Stress & Consequences

Physical 1   2
Mental 1   2

Mild (2)

Aspects

• King of the dinosaurs
• Hungry for easy food
• Motion-vision

Skills

Fantastic (+6): Chomp(Fight)
Superb (+5): Roar(Provoke)
Great (+4): Hunt(Athletics)
Good (+3): Physique
Fair (+2): Will

Stunts

• Chomp. Weapon:2 when biting down on creatures that can easily fit in your mouth.

Stress & Consequences

Physical 1   2   3   4
Mental 1   2   3

Mild (2)

Scene Ideas

1. When your party is crossing a slippery log spanning over a canyon with a river at the bottom, have a T-rex show up on one or both sides of the log bridge looking for an easy meal. It's fun. Believe me!

Aspects

• Hungry predator
• Pack mentality

Skills

Fair (+2): Bite/Claw(Fight)
Average (+1): Hunt(Athletics/Investigate)

Stunts

Pack Tactics. +2 to attack with Bite/Claw when a target is already engaged with another wolf.

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1

Aspects

• Territorial alpha hunter
• Pack mentality

Skills

Great (+4): Bite/Claw(Fight)
Good (+3): Howl(Rapport/Provoke)
Fair (+2): Hunt(Athletics/Investigate)

Stunts

Pack Tactics. +2 to attack with Bite/Claw when a target is already engaged with another wolf.

Alpha. When you Howl to create an advantage by encouraging other wolves to attack, any free invokes give a +3 bonus instead of +2.

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1   2

Mild (2)

Aspects

• Aggressive cousin to dragons
• Reckless and unintelligent ariel hunters

Skills

Superb (+5): Fly(Athletics)
Great (+4): Bite/Sting(Fight), Grab(Physique)
Good (+3): Provoke, Notice
Fair (+2): Physique
Average (+1): Stealth

Stunts

Poison Sting. Weapon:2 when you attack with Sting using your tail bard

Easy Pickin's. +2 create an advantage with Grab when trying to grab a creature that has already been poisoned.

Stress & Consequences

Stress 1   2   3

Mild (2)

Scene Ideas

1. The adventurers are searching for a macguffin that is at the top of a cliff. The wyverns may have even stolen the macguffin and put it up there. The top of the cliff is where the wyverns roost. The heroes must scale the cliff while fending off the wyverns.
2. To reach their desired destination, the adventurers must cross a wyvern breeding ground. Hundreds of towering rock formations are scattered in the large canyon between two cliffs (like Wullingyuan Canyon in China). Wyverns fly to and fro below, almost like a makeshift transportation system ;). The heroes must get to the other side of the canyon to reach their destination.
3. While riding on an air ship, sky pirates attack and they are riding well-trained wyverns!

About

If you haven't ever seen a zombie movie, they are best used in groups or occasionally when a PC is unable to fight back (i.e. - tied up, without weapons, etc.).

Aspects

• Shambling mindless corpse
• Hungry!!!

Skills

Average (+1): Shamble(Athletics), Infect(Fight), Overwhelm(Provoke)

Stunts

• Infection. When a target is dealt a consequence by a zombie, that consequence will worsen and move to the next available cosequence slot one session later if not treated. If there are no higher consequence slots, the infection will also fill a lower available consequence slot. If there are no available consequence slots, the character is taken out and must be treated immediatel or turn into a zombie.

Stress & Consequences

Stress None (Taken out by one or more shifts)