Ezairus Demons...

[blindjustice]

These are some random Demons I created for the first adventure I ran with the new system. No fancy names or anything at this point for the differnet "types", just Type "whatever" demon (hmmm, maybe that was inspired by that D&D background, heh, heh). Called them Ezairus Demons after the plain from which they came, all stuff I totally made up.

Anyway, enjoy...

Ezairus Demon Type I
Abilities
Intelligence: 1
Strength: 3
Agility: 7
Speed: 4
Durability: 3

Health: 3
Energy: 9

Actions
Close Combat: 3
(Agility Bonus)

Acrobatics: 2
(Agility Bonus)

Thief: 6
(Agility Bonus)

Shrinking: 1
- Grants Reflexive Dodge +1

Wall Crawl: 3

Modifiers
Claws: 1
- 2x damage

Enhanced Vision: 2
- See in Darkness
- Infra Vision

Wealth Modifier 0

Challenges
Looking non-human 3
Shrinking is "Always on"

Appearance
Standing around 3-4 ft tall, the type I Ezairus demons are wingless and red-skinned with long gaingly arms that would drag the floor if they were not constantly waved in the air. Wicked claws tip the fingers and teeth jut upward from thier lower jaw. They have long, tappered ears and their eyes are red, with black, cat-like irises. The entire body is thin and guant, the skin seeming to be pulled severely tight.

Design Notes
These little beasties were designed with one goal in mind...test the "large group combats" of the new diceless system. They are meant to be used in groups. The original group was running Nightcrawler, Wolverine and Rogue. I brought the demons in groups of 3 - 6. The poor little demons couldn't really do much to Rouge (without some sort of SITMODs), but they sure kept Crawler and Wolvie on thier toes. They did allow me to test, and gain some experience with, large combats. I am finding that is it often easier in really large fights to just use a paper/pen method to keeping tracking of NPC engery, but I'm still working on that. The actual last, grand finale battle, had about 20 or so demons, but they didn't all attack and the players did not have to defeat them, just hold them off for 5 or so panels...lots of "large number" combat experience!).

Remember, bring these guys in large numbers! ;D

Ezairus Demon Type II
Abilities
Intelligence: 1
Strength: 4
Agility: 5
Speed: 3
Durability: 3

Health: 3
Energy: 9

Actions
Close Combat: 3
(Strength Bonus)

Shrinking: 1
- Grants Reflexive Dodge +1

Wall Crawl: 3

Modifiers
Claws: 2
- 2x damage

Toughness: 2

Enhanced Vision: 2
- See in Darkness
- Infra Vision

Wealth Modifier 0

Challenges
Looking non-human 3
Shrinking is "Always on"

Appearance
Pretty much the same as the Type I variety, except they stand around 4 - 4 1/2 ft in height. They have slightly more bulky/muscular frames then their guant cousins and sport rounded, pot bellies.

Design Notes
Also pretty much the same as the Type I's, just a "beefier" variety. I would mix 1 or 2 of them in with the Type I's. These ones could hurt Rouge, so she had to pay attention when they were around.


Ezairus Demon Type III
Abilities
Intelligence: 1
Strength: 6
Agility: 3
Speed: 2
Durability: 6

Health: 6
Energy: 18

Actions
Close Combat: 3
Strength Bonus

Invisibility: 6

Modifiers
Claws: 3
- 2x damage

Toughness: 6
- No Armor Piercing

Enhanced Vision: 2
- See in Darkness
- Infra Vision

Wealth Modifier 0

Challenges
Looking non-human 3

Appearance
The "classic" demon look. Standing around 8 ft tall, long black horns protruding from his forhead. Cloven feet, long nasty claws, massivly muscular build. Very "Legendish" (heh heh).

Design Notes
The "big brother" demon. The Type III was met alone by the aforementioned X-Men, and he alone was enough for a challange. Wolerines sense's tipped them off to the invisible assailant. I am really not to sure what type of modifiers to give invisible foes, so I ran this guy with the following SITMODS...

"Unless detected the demon gains +1 free stone to attack rolls and +1 free stone on defense"

Even when Wolverine knew where he was, he still couldn't see him to avoid the demons attacks, so I still gave the demon the +1 to attack (not the defense though, Wolverine knew through his senses where the demon was...he didn't care "where" he was hitting him).

Be curious to see how some other GMs out there handle invisibility and combat.

Anyway, sorry for the long post <whew I went on for a while> hope you enjoyed. These guys can really be sculpted to fit the mold of "generic demons" in about any game/scenario or theme/genre.

Later

[psistrike]

I can just see it now.A newbie evil sorcerer attempting to open a portal to unlease a hoard of these demons on the heros-"And now foolish mortals you will taste my wrath!" Right then you start to see a horned head beginning to come through the portal when you hear a loud smack as the hero team's main fighter has ambushed the sorcerer and hit him hard upside the back of his head.As he starts to loose consiousness and the portal starts to close you hear these words from him-"And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling heroes." ;D

[blindjustice]

LOL!! Yes, my demon hoards will conquer all!!!!!!

Any thoughts on how I ran the SITMODs for Inivisibility?

[psistrike]

Well for the invisible character I would allow him the Unopposed/Ambush Modifier for their first attack in a combat as long as no one can sense them somehow. After that I would reduce the Sit. Mod. to only +1 to attack as even if your invisible your opponent will now be more alert and have their guards up.
For attacking an invisible opponent which you can't detect by other means(Ex.Like his form is outlined by rain or a similar effect,following his footprints in mud,etc.)instead of making it a Defense bonus for the invisible individual I would make it -2 Sit Mod. to their attack for hitting him.If they can detect him partially by other means as above then they should only have a -1 Sit. Mod. to hit him.Also if they can make him mostly visible by coating him in paint,mud,or other substances he will not be invisible to them.
This is how I would do things and is only my opinion.

[blindjustice]

The opinions well appriciated Psistrike. And sound good to me. Actually, aside from the first attack (which I guess was a moot point in my combat since Wolvies senses had the part on guard) not really too far differnet from what I did. A +1 or 2 stone mod to the defense and a + 1 for the invis creature to attack.

Thanks for the feedback!

(btw, like your handle. Is that a character you run? I used to run a psychic in DC Heroes call Psystorm).

[psistrike]

Actually look at the write-up I did of myself in the Write Yourself up Challenge thread and you'll see why I call myself Psistrike.