by Chaosium
Any monster. Any setting. Any genre. Any game!
Basic Roleplaying: Creatures collects animals, monsters, nonhumans, and nonplayer characters drawn from history, science fiction, fantasy, prehistory, mythology, and the modern world, allowing for any gamemaster to use them in any D100-based game.
What’s Inside?
A Menagerie of Monsters
Packed with over 200 creatures, with chapters on natural animals, dinosaurs and megafauna, fantasy creatures, summoned creatures, science fiction creatures such as aliens and robots, and nonplayer characters.
A Gamemaster Toolkit
Make any creature work for your campaign. This book includes rules for:
- Modifying and customizing creatures and NPCs
- Creating familiars
- Making megafauna
- Harvesting creature parts
- Kaiju creation
- Guidance for building villains
- And more!
An Expansion to the BRP Experience
Robust entries on dragon, elf, and giant heritages, and dwarf tribes, with rules on how to use them as player characters in any of your BRP games—especially ones of your own design!
What heritages would you design?
Expanding Other Games
Guidelines for using these creatures in other BRP-based games such as RuneQuest, Call of Cthulhu, Rivers of London, and Pendragon. The strength of the Basic Roleplaying system is that you can easily adapt material from one game to another.
What creatures do you want to challenge your player characters with?
Basic Roleplaying: Creatures is available through DriveThruRPG in PDF.
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