d40 Monster Generator (Travail Saga)

For making monsters for Travail Saga (https://lizardmandiaries.blogspot.com/2022/05/travail-saga-pdf-released.html) ! 

There is an automated version at the bottom of the post! 

d40 Monster Generator  - Roll on each table and combine to create a monster/group of monsters/population of monsters. The referee will need to decide on the specific values for the monster's attributes and powers (Magic, Abilities and Skills). 

Monster Base Form: Roll twice and combine, this will give a suggestion of the monster’s basic attributes and powers. 

1. Humanoid - can speak 
2. Metallic cube - magic resistant 
3. Bird - beaked and winged for flight 
4. Jellyfish - floating and mindless 
5. Octopus - many limbed and cunning 
6. Tiger - swift 
7. Bat - fanged and leathery winged for flight 
8. Marlin - swift, long horned and scaled
9. Beetle - compound eyes and thick chitin
10. Fish - finned and scaled 
11. Caterpillar - plump, segmented and many legged 
12. Weed - leaf and many spindle limb covered 
13. Gem - hardened, geometric and angular 
14. Brain - can communicate/interact telepathically
15. Internal organ mound - quivering and wet 
16. Mimic - takes on part of appearance of object in its environment 
17. Tortoise - thick shelled and plodding 
18. Dog - extraordinary sense of smell 
19. Cat - extraordinary grace 
20. Armadillo - plated in natural armour and can roll into a ball 
21. Spider - many eyed and can scale sheer surfaces 
22. Gorilla - excellent climber 
23. Wolf - can communicate telepathically with others in pack 
24. Shark - Never stops moving and huge mawed 
25. Vine cluster mound - can regenerate limbs 
26. Mushroom - emits harmful spores 
27. Crab - shelled and huge clawed 
28. Rat - ravenous 
29. Horse - hooved and thunderous 
30. Eyeball - bulbous and glaring 
31. Stingray - floating and barbed 
32. Snake - venomous 
33. Lizard - scaled and wise 
34. Bear - shambling and ferocious 
35. Worm - burrows and digs 
36. Snail - mucousy and shelled 
37. Lamprey - slimy and bloodsucking 
38. Maggot - Plump and writhing 
39. Goat - horned 
40. Fly - winged and insectoid 

Monstrous Modifier - Roll on this table to warp the base appearance of the monster. This may also give a suggestion of the monster’s attributes and powers. 

1. Holy - halo'd and those that strike it are smote in return 
2. Guardian - metallic tinged and hardened 
3. Glowing - emanating unnatural light 
4. Winged - even more wings if already winged 
5. Air bag - can float and exhale powerful gusts 
6. Ghostly - only causes/takes damage with/from magic 
7. Pored - covered in craterous hole clusters that effuse foul gas 
8. Vibrating - incredibly fast 
9. Horde - tiny but encountered en masse 
10. Camouflaged - blends in to surroundings 
11. Slime - goopy and viscous, just maintaining form 
12. Vegetative - green tinged, sprouting leaves and vines
13. Gilded - metallic coated and studded with gems 
14. Illithid - imbued with additional brain growths and telekinetic abilities 
15. Bloody - surging with huge veins of physical empowerment 
16. Chrome - coated in liquid appearing reflective metal 
17. Aquatic - finned, gilled, scaled and preferring of wet environs 
18. Sparking - electrically charged and sprouting lightning 
19. Pale - blood thirsty, with white, dead flesh 
20. Faceless - disturbingly cleansed of visage 
21. Mechanical - composed of chains and cogs 
22. Giant - huge and crudely formed 
23. Wooly - hairy and horned 
24. Flower - erupting with hypnotic petals 
25. Tendrilled - many strong tentacles replace or alongside limbs 
26. Burning - spurting ever burning large flames 
27. Ruined - crumbling, falling apart bloodily, missing limbs and organs
28. Armed - has four additional powerful human arms with hands
29. Sighted - covered in eyes and sees everything 
30. Cyclopean - mono eyed and hideously oversized 
31. Well armed - equipped with an oversized weapon 
32. Costumed - attired in some form of worn armour or regalia 
33. Battering - Plated and horned to maximize the damage of its charge
34. Nocturnal - Red eyes and pale, docile in the light, ferocious in the dark
35. Rock - flesh made of craggy stone 
36. Slender - disturbingly spindly and long, probing, limbed
37. Bloated - armoured with folds of blubber 
38. Skeletal - immune to stabbing and slicing 
39. Spiked - covered in razor spines 
40. Diseased - bubbling with boils, bile and sores, while wafting miasma 

Powers: Roll a d6, the monster has that amount of powers. Roll another d6 to determine whether each power will be magical (1 - 3) or physical (4 - 6), then roll a d40 for that specific table. 

Magical Abilities:

1. Bless 

2. Curse

3. Cleanse

4. Heal

5. Banish

6. Summon Light

7. Calm 

8. Glamor

9. Mesmerize 

10. Hold in place

11. Predict future

12. Summon silence

13. Summon barrier

14. Summon wind

15. Accelerate

16. Shrink

17. Invisibility

18. Intangibility

19. Warp internal organs

20. Reflect

21. Summon water

22. Weaken

23. Summon acid

24. Grow

25. Panic

26. Summon vegetation

27. Warp form of external flesh

28. Summon fire 

29. Crumble 

30. Telekinesis 

31. Harden 

32. Soften

33. Summon lightning 

34. Summon earth 

35. Summon hole

36. Slow 

37. Cause terror 

38. Cause pain

39. Summon shadows

40. Summon sickness

Physical Abilities:

1. Melee attack

2. Wrestle - Holds a target in place and unable to move for test success value turns, the wrestler must devote themselves to this task for this time (can’t attempt other actions).  

3. Dodge 

4. Intimidate - Target won't attack monster for test success value turns. 

5. Ranged attack . 

6. Hide and move stealthily 

7. Sneak attack - an attack on an unaware target, rolled as 4d6 x 2 (instead of the normal 2d6 for a melee attack). 

8. Pickpocket 

9. Hamstring - Target can only hobble slowly for test success value turns. 

10. Torture

11. Blind - Monster uses whatever is at their disposal to blind a target test success value turns, or permanently if the tools and success value is deemed high enough by the referee. 

12. Poison edge - Apply poison to a weapon (or body part being used as such), being effective for test success value turns.

13. Charge - An opening melee attack that requires an appropriately length run up, uses 4d6 + Body value (instead of 2d6).  

14. Flurry attack  - monster attacks d6 + level times in a round but only rolls 1d6 (instead of 2d6) for each attack.   

15. Feint - Any other being attacking the target of a feint adds the test success value amount to their roll for that turn. 

16. Concussive blow - a melee attack with a blunt weapon,  does double damage to heavily armored targets. 

17. Slice - a melee attack with a  blade, does double damage to unarmoured targets 

18. Wild strike - a randomized melee attack, the monster rolls a d6 : 1- 2) a miss, 3 - 5) roll 4d6 instead of 2d6 for a wild strike attack  6) roll 4d6 instead of 2d6 for a wild strike attack but assume 2 of the dice are rolled as automatic 6s

19. Enrage self - Add test success value amount to any melee attacks for test success value amount turns, but target attacked is determined at random. 

20. Enrage other - target only attacks enrager for test success value turns.  

21. Armour self - Test success value amount added to Body defense tests for monster level x 2 turns.  

22. Find weakness -  Test success value added to attack rolls against the target for for monster level x 2 turns.  

23. Open wound - A melee attack with a sharp weapon rolled with 1d6 instead of 2d6 but half of any damage value is automatically applied to the target for d6 rounds after the attack. 

24. Disarm - Target drops weapon on success 

25. Shred armour - Target’s Body bonus granted by armour reduced by success value. 

26. Predict opponent - Monster deduces the action the target will take in the next round, if monster is in combat with the target  test success value can by added to a test against or defending against the target. 

27. Exhaust opponent - targets Body value is reduced by half for test success value turns. 

28. Topple opponent - The target falls to the ground, prone. 

29. Bite - Add half of Body value to roll, d6 Body value restored for each separate opponent bitten 

30. Weather summoning 

31. Navigation 

32. Tracking 

33. Lock picking and escape artistry 

34. Alchemy and poison brewing 

35. Judge intentions 

36. Artistic creation 

37. Farming and woodchopping 

38. Building and masonry 

39. Herblore, First aid and medicine

40. Camouflage 

Desire - This can be a for an individual monster or a specific group of monsters: 

1. Peace

2. To be worshiped 

3. To steal knowledge from interlopers into territory 

4. Relax 

5. Empty the area of other beings 

6. Haunt and hunt those that enter its territory 

7. Relocate home

8. Reproduce in large numbers 

9. Reduce population in territory  

10. Hide and remain hidden 

11. Analyze any beings who enter its territory 

12. Avenge a comrade/family member recently killed by humans 

13. Steal gems, coins, etc from interloper in territory 

14. Steal physical items from interlopers in territory 

15. Restock food supplies 

16. Steal a very specific cooking ingredient from interlopers into territory 

17. Steal or trade for tools from interlopers into territory 

18. Kill a rival 

19. Kill a member of population who has committed a taboo 

20. Kill a traitorous member of the population 

21. Capture and hold interloper into territory 

22. Destroy a disturbing natural thing within territory 

23. Destroy a disturbing structure within territory 

24. Construct a tool 

25. Gain knowledge into the future 

26. Find a store of food 

27. Consume a store of food 

28. Stop population members in territory from fighting with one another 

29. Create a truce, or productive relationship, with another population within territory. 

30. Kill something menacing within territory 

31. Complete a construction they have been working on for a long time 

32. Steal something treasured by another population within territory 

33. Totally eliminate a rival population in territory 

34. Uncover an important resource from beneath the ground 

35. Dispose of a corpse 

36. Kill everything they see 

37. Torture interlopers into territory 

38. Steal memories or knowledge from interlopers into territory 

39. Heal population from spreading sickness 

40. Become the leader of population through display of strength or cunning

Automated Monster Generator: