Category: The Dungeon World Tavern: New Monsters

In celebration of the discovery of ripples in space-time (another win for Einstein):

Time Elemental

Solitary, Large, Magical, Planar, Amorphous

Withering arm (d12 damage 1 piercing) 23 HP

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Time elementals are creatures from a plane most sages are unaware even exists. A time elemental is a powerful creature formed of pure time and matter such as is unknown to even the most learned of sages. It is unknown how or why time elementals enter the Dungeon World, as they cannot be summoned using the standard summoning spells.Time elementals attack by forming a misty or smoky arm from their forms and lashing at opponents. A time elemental can see a few seconds into the future. This ability prevents it from being surprised. Time elementals are immune to all time-related spells and effects.

Instinct: Cause Time Ripples

Eliminates Time paradoxes

Can Teleport thru time and space

In honor of the new 10th season….

X Files Flukeman (Solitary, Devious, Terrifying)

Infecting Bite (b[2d8] damage 1 piercing) 12 HP

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Special Qualities: Regenerates unless killed by fire, magic or acid

The Flukeman – a form of quasi-vertebrate human – was an example of reproductive and physiological cross-traiting due to radiation, abnormal cell fusion and/or the suppression of natural genetic processes; essentially, the creature was a result of human science rather than nature. Its vestigial features seemed parasitic but it also had primate physiology.

The Flukeman transmitted its larvae, a form of flatworm, through its bite. The being searched for hosts, in order to multiply, and attacked because its victims’ bodies provided generative nourishment.

Typically, a survivor of a bite by the Flukeman would be infected with a flatworm which the victim would cough up, at a later point. The wound pattern from the Flukeman’s bite looks similar to scolex attachment but is much larger.

There is evidence to suggest a bite by the Flukeman might result in a survivor subsequently experiencing a peculiar, unfavorable taste in their mouth that would be difficult to remove, although not be accompanied by a difficulty with swallowing.

Like other fluke or flatworms, the Flukeman had no sex organs and was genderless but was, even though technically human, capable of spontaneous regeneration.

Instinct: Infecting Bite

Inhabit Sewers

Infects with spawn (Defy Danger when first bitten or be cured by magic healing; Otherwise Last Breath when next party makes camp)

Fun Fact: Scully once told Mulder that, except for the Flukeman case, she wouldn’t change a day of the past four years in which they had been working together.