Candlefly
Beast · no Crown (Meridian)
T1d4Minor
Bioluminescent moths with stained-glass wings that drift in silent clouds, drawn to emotional distress and clustering around the wounded, grieving, and frightened.
Tier 1 · Role Minor · Pool Vigor 2 · AC 8 · ATK +0 · Save DC 11 · Dmg 1 (flat)
| Stat | Score | Mod | Die |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body | 6 | - | - |
| Mind | 4 | - | - |
| Sense | 12 | - | - |
| Heart | 14 | - | - |
| Cunning | 12 | - | - |
| Fate | 12 | - | - |
A Minor has no attribute mechanics: the scores describe the creature, they do not roll.
Passives
Living Lantern
Each fly sheds candlelight; a cluster of twenty glows like a torch. They drift toward the most wounded, grieving, or frightened creature within 60 ft, marking its position with their glow.
Harmless
Candleflies never attack and scatter the moment they are harmed.
Maneuvers
Beacon Swarm
The cloud clusters tight around one distressed creature, lighting it brightly: it cannot hide or benefit from concealment for 1 round.
Tactics
GM tactics
Candleflies are passive. They gather around suffering, which reveals hidden or stealthy creatures. They are a tactical nuisance, not a combat threat.
Running it
Rules
- One Vigor pool of 2 x Tier, no Vitality. It breaks and flees with 1 left, and dies at 0. The pool does not regenerate.
- A hit deals a flat 1, no roll. A crit (natural 20 only) rolls d4 and never lands below 1.
- Crits on a natural 20 only.
- Minor: no stat modifiers or dice in play; its scores describe the creature, they do not roll.
- With 1 Vigor left it breaks and flees, out of the fight but alive; Fanatics fight on to 0 instead.
- At 0 Vigor it is dead: 2 total damage, and a single blow of 2 or more kills it on the spot.
- Vigor damage is simply damage against a Minor: its whole pool is Vigor.
- Group morale: when its group loses half its number, fled or dead, the rest check morale.
- NPCs never take wounds.