Smoke Mephit
Elemental · no Crown (Mundane)
T1d4Minor
Sooty puffballs, smoke mephits cough darkness, vanishing in haze.
Tier 1 · Role Minor · Pool Vigor 2 · AC 9 · ATK +1 · Save DC 11 · Dmg 1 (flat)
| Stat | Score | Mod | Die |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body | 14 | - | - |
| Mind | 10 | - | - |
| Sense | 12 | - | - |
| Heart | 8 | - | - |
| Cunning | 12 | - | - |
| Fate | 10 | - | - |
A Minor has no attribute mechanics: the scores describe the creature, they do not roll.
Passives
Flight
Flies 30 ft.
Death Burst
When destroyed, it bursts into a choking cloud; the area within 5 ft is heavily obscured for 1 round.
Maneuvers
Cinder Breath
Coughs hot ash in a 15 ft cone. Each creature in the cone makes a Body save (DC 11); on a failure it takes 1 damage and is blinded for 1 round, on a success it takes 1 Vigor damage. Cannot breathe again until it rolls a 6 on a d6 at the start of its turn.
Tactics
GM tactics
Flies into enemy lines and uses Cinder Breath. Death Burst provides cover for allies. Works best in groups to create overlapping smoke clouds.
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.