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As a Gamemaster, you just can’t have something
INTRODUCTION
A system-free supplement for a Gamemaster running
games involving creatures of alien horror for role-
playing games of all genres, fantastical or horrific
Above the waist it was semi-anthropomorphic; though its
chest… had the leathery, reticulated hide of a crocodile or
alligator. The back was piebald with yellow and black, and
dimly suggested the squamous covering of certain snakes.
Below the waist… all human resemblance left off. The skin
was thickly covered with coarse black fur, and from the
abdomen a score of long greenish-grey tentacles with red
sucking mouths protruded limply. Their arrangement was
odd, and seemed to follow the symmetries of some cosmic
geometry unknown to earth or the solar system. On each of
the hips, deep set in a kind of pinkish, ciliated orbit, was
what seemed to be a rudimentary eye; whilst in lieu of a tail
there depended a kind of trunk or feeler with purple
annular markings, and with many evidences of being an
undeveloped mouth or throat. The limbs… terminated in
ridged-veined pads that were neither hooves nor claws.
Of genuine blood there was none; only the foetid greenish-
yellow ichor which… left a curious discoloration behind it.
The Dunwich Horror, H P Lovecraft (1929)
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planned for every eventuality. Perhaps you have to
step in to run something on short notice or the
normal group can’t meet so you want something to
change the pace. The Cthulhu Hack offers a simple
system for investigative horror, but where to get the
horror? From Unformed Realms offers you a
gathering of random tables to provide a springboard
for your creativity just when you need it most.
CREDITS
Written by
Paul Baldowski
© June 2016
Cover art by
Apolonis
http://apolonis.deviantart.com/
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Published by
Just Crunch Games
http://www.justcrunch.com
 FROM UNFORMED REALMS
The following pages contain many random tables. You
should roll six-sided dice to suit your tastes and generate
enough detail to give you a satisfying horror. Most of the
time rolling three different colored dice at once will get
you to a final result quicker – so, if you roll 2, 5 and 3,
you know immediately your horror has Linked Vision.
For example, you might roll a half dozen times to
generate a customized aggressive horror, then another
half dozen to sketch out the situation in the Appendix.
Adapting to The Cthulhu Hack
From Unformed Realms makes no specific assumptions about the specific
abilities or Hit Dice of the entities generated. In many cases, the elements
randomly generated will lack function but present a suitable sense of the
alien or horrific. Any entity generated using the tables here will require a
Sanity Save on first appearance. In a general sense, you may choose to roll
a number of dice on these tables up to the Hit Dice of the horror – but
should not feel constrained to roll that amount precisely. A horror might
feel sufficiently terrifying and sanity destroying after just a couple of rolls –
in which case, stop right there and run with your creation as is.
Dice Conventions
The basic tables require that you roll a six-sided dice to get a result. Some
require additional rolls. Where the sentence includes several number
ranges – e.g. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 – you should roll a further six-sided die and
choose that option. As well as xD6 references (meaning roll a number of
six-sided dice equal to X), you may also see D3 – which means roll a six-
sided and take 1-2 as 1, 3-4 as 2 and 5-6 as 3 – and xDx% - which means
roll the dice indicated as use the number as if it were a percentage.
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EXTREMITIES
Survival of the fittest demands the development of
the most basic features into something destructive:
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1-2 LIMBS
1 Pseudopods – The creature possesses thick,
strong pseudopodia, grasping extrusions of flesh that appear
and disappear as needed. The horrors flesh pulses and ripples
as it moves, the vestigial tentacles simmering beneath the
surface. The pseudopodia may replace: 1-2 – arms, 3-4 – legs,
5 – both, 6 – none, the pseudopodia supplement the existing
limbs, sprouting from spaces in-between. The thrashing and
prehensile tentacles may strike out suddenly, slice or whip
cross ways. They also have: 1-2 - fine motor control suited to
handle objects, 3-4 – powerful suckers, 5-6 – writhing worm-
like fingers.
2 Tendrils – The monster has limbs like ribbons of
flesh. The strips of skin may serve as a means of sensing the
creature’s surroundings, intercede as a layer of additional
armor, or have a means of feeding or extracting nourishment
from anything touched. Unlike pseudopods, the creature has
no direct control over the tendrils.
3 Roots – The horror boils around on a convulsing
bed of snake like roots. The roots: 1-2 – appear like genuine
plant roots, leaving a fetid green ichor trail, 3-4 – look like an
externalized vascular system, veins and arteries pulsing with
an unhealthy glow, 5-6 – appear like a twisted and thorn
covered briar, snaking and coiling around the creature’s legs.
The roots pulse and squirm, keeping the creature aloft and
surging forward.
 4 Spines – The creature possesses limbs like
spikes, horns or bony spines. The creature seems to balance
precariously on needle tips of bone. Every step skewers the
ground. Where the spines replace arms, the horror has enough
dexterity and control to manipulate objects – though nothing
small or delicate. If the use weapons or devices at all, they
have a form like a sheath or receptacle openings. The creature
stabs with its spines, impaling targets and leaving gaping
wounds.
5 Acquired – The entity absorbs or subsumes the
limbs of victims. Like some experiment from the lab of Doctor
Frankenstein, limbs appear sutured or secured with raw and
oozing scar tissue. None of the limbs look alike and sometimes
will retain recognizable features, like jewelry, clothing or
tattoos. The creatures may also retain other features, like
screaming mouths and staring eyes.
6 Multiple – The entity has far too many limbs to
have any practical purpose or evolutionary need, but it can
manage just the same. If a pair of specific limbs makes sense,
the horror has them in sufficient quantities to make a
character feel positively queasy (and somewhat inadequate).
The entity thrashes and cartwheels with ease, grappling and
gliding over surfaces like a body horror movie nightmare.
Sheer quantity of limbs means the life form doesn’t even seem
to care about losing a few, flesh shredding and bones snapping
sickeningly.
3-4 WEAPONS
1 Scything Claws – The entity’s arms (or legs)
terminate in vicious, impractical looking scythes. The claws
look like: 1-2 – elongated rhino horns, 3-4 – splintered pieces
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of bone or wood, 5-6 – frighteningly thin slivers of something
glistening and almost crystalline. The creature may have
fingers or feet at the base of the ‘scythe’ or the weapon may
replace the entire end of the limb, making it impractical for
pretty much anything but slaughter.
2 Pincers – Monstrous pincers, like a lobster or
crab, replace either just the end or the whole of the creature’s
arms (or legs). The pincers have a frightening snap like a steel
mantrap and saw-toothed edging liable to slice through
anything not adequately protected. As the creature moves, the
pincers click and snap with a sound like bones breaking.
3 Metallic – The entities skin glimmers or gives off
a dull sheen, the surface spattered with a patina of what might
be rust. The metallic luster might be armor or the natural hide,
but either way, the surface has razor sharp edges. The entity
seeks to grasp and wrestle opponents, inflicting harm through
direct contact with its horny hide. Melee attacks ring as they
strike and the entity parries blows with bare hands or kicks
them aside with its feet.
4 Diamond Sharp – As the horror moves, the air
around it glimmers with flecks of light. Sunlight glitters off the
creature’s skin and the effect causes strange after-images or
visual echoes. When the horror claws at flesh, it slices like a
paper cut, deep and painless until the victim moves.
5 Mutation – The creature possesses some organic
or perversely horrific adaptations of a common weapon.
Swords made from bone, guns that throw viscous gobbets of
spittle, or missile launches veined and pulsing like hideous
phalluses. The weapons appear like sickening extensions of
the horror’s body or they might be life forms in their own right
 – pets, slaves, or parasites. Whatever, the mutation never
needs to reload, or perhaps it draws some sort of sustenance
from the creature itself. Maybe, when an enemy falls, the
creature draws fresh ammunition from bones, blood, flesh, or
simply the whole lifeless carcass.
6 Prehensile extremity – A part of the horror
serves as a weapon and a manipulator, the creature clearly
exerting complete and delicate control over every movement.
The horror has prehensile: 1 – Genitalia, 2 – Crest, 3-4 -
Tongue, 5-6 – Tail (roll on the next table for additional
benefits, with greater control of movement). The extremity has
biological adaptations that make it suited for causing damage
– whether through sharpness, weight, serration or whatever.
5-6 TAIL
1 Scything – The creature’s tail has a serrated
spine running all the way to the end, where it terminates in a
blade at almost a 90-degree angle. The creature can thrash the
tail with considerable force, although without much fine
control, with great potential for slashing and tearing damage.
2 Punching – The knobbly skin of the horror’s tail
ends in a bony mass the size of a football, dotted with knobs or
dulled spikes. The horror can strike with random twitches of
the tail like a blow with a flail or club, pummeling flesh and
shattering bone.
3 Horned – The thick horny skin of the entity’s
tail, along with the considerable length, makes it a viable
shield. The tail coils and swirls around the entity as it moves
and attacks, every spasm and twitch putting up a constantly
moving barrier.
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4 Strange Energy – The monster’s tail glows
with a foul and unearthly energy, flickering fire rippling across
the surface. Akin to an Electric Eel, the creature’s body
generates a defensive energy that it expels through blisters on
the surface of its tail. The energy shocks and burns on
discharge, followed by a short period of recovery.
5 Hollow – The light and quick tail delivers a fluid
on impact through dozens of serrated openings in the surface,
or possibly something akin to a scorpion’s sting. Roll again on
the Extra - Nature table in the Fluids section, p11, to
discover the side effects of the delivered fluid.
6 Barbed – Tough, curved nails stick out of the
surface of the creature’s tail, which catch in flesh and material,
tearing and rending. The barbs inflict messy wounds, the flesh
chewed up as the curved points tug and pull. A character
struck by a barbed tail suffers automatic ongoing damage from
bleeding and shock.
SENSES
The horror possesses sensory or communication
2 qualities that give it an edge:
1-2 SOUND
1 Wail – The horror emits a banshee wail that
creates confusion and disorientation. Those exposed to the
wail can feel the sound reverberating through their skeleton,
filling them with a horrible sense of nausea and unrest.
 2 Shout – The entity expels a single sharp pulse of
sound, a snapping shriek that causes those nearby to flinch,
duck or spontaneously cover unprotected ears.
3 Vision – The creature sees with sound, uttering a
constant and irritating chatter, hum or buzz that permeates
and echoes in every direction. While the creature can make
perfect sense of the noise, it has a tendency to distract and
confuse those not adapted to sonic vision.
4 Blast – The brutish horror emits a pulse of sound
outside the normal hearing spectrum of humans, with such
precision and force that it shatters glass, masonry and bone.
5 Quake – The horror appears to pulse and vibrate
from within, channeling a sickening thud of sound through its
feet into the ground. As the sound quickens, the floor begins to
shudder and quake, vibrating with such violence that those
without something to hold on to stand every chance of falling
over flat on their faces, unable to get up. Intentionally falling
prone helps, but limits field of vision and fire.
6 Disrupt – The creature emits a screeching sound
on the limits of hearing that progressively degenerates the
structural integrity of living matter. Cells begin to break down,
causing surface and sub-dermal bleeding, pain, disorientation,
blindness, vomiting and, ultimately, death.
3-4 VOICE
1 Heat Chatter – The horror communicates by
altering, and perceiving, changes in the pattern of heat in the
skin. As a positive side effect, this makes it far more effective
at seeing differences in heat signatures amongst non-horror
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targets. Potentially, a character could mimic heat signals with
some jury-rigged contraption or blind heat reading by setting
fire to everything in the vicinity.
2 Scent Chatter – The creature communicates by
emitting and sniffing odoriferous scents. The physiology of the
creature makes such scents: 1 – undetectable, 2-3 – offensive,
4-5 – pleasant, 6 – arousing – to humans smelling the passing
communications. The creature has a keen sense of smell, but
scent chatter can become disrupted by overpowering odors,
especially artificial ones.
3 Sonic Chatter – The creature communicates
through a super- or sub-sonic chatter. As well as a means of
communicating, the chatter supplements the creature’s senses
with echolocation (like a bat). Creatures with this ability favor
cavernous, but ultimately enclosed, spaces for hunting and
nesting, avoiding the damping effects of the open air or the
disruptive confines of tight passageways.
4 Kaleidoscope – The entity communicates
through a complex light display, flickering pinpricks like a
swarm of fireflies conveying a wealth of information. The
entity may have keen vision, but also might have a specialized
receptor – like a large Cyclops-like eye or a gem-like extrusion
in the flesh of its torso. Flares or flash bombs blind the chatter
and cut off all communications, possibly temporarily
overloading any specialized receptors as well (although even
horrors of animal intelligence will get wise to this tactic and
‘close’ their eyes, cutting their chatter, when in the presence of
pesky meddling prey).
5 Spray Signal – The horror communicates
through a close-range vapor-spraying gland. The vapor
 appears to have no scent, but the horrors understand the
signals when it comes into contact with their skin. A horror on
the run can leave a message cloud in its wake that any horrors
coming after will pass through and pick up. The spray is: 1-2 –
benign, 3-4 – mildly acidic, 5 – sticky, 6 – toxic.
6 Mimic – The horror mimics the noises around
them, whether machinery, the environment, animals, or prey.
Within the mimicked sound they layer a sub-harmonic that
carries their message, though an intelligent creature might
double-up on the value of chatter to both inform colleagues
and frighten enemies.
5-6 VISION
1 Heat – Similar to Heat Chatter, but the horror
literally only sees the variations of heat in the world around it.
The levels of perception make it far more granular and specific
than a Heat Chatterer; this makes it far harder to fool with
other sources of heat like fires or explosives, as the horror can
see the slightest variations even within the searing heat of a
flame to pick out the movements and signals behind it. The
horrors can pick out their own kind through their specific
signature and may have pads on their extremities that allow
them to leave clear trails or signs.
2 Phased – The creature has a complex vision that
sees through the cracks between atoms, allowing them to
grasp the shapes and movements of things beyond solid
surfaces like walls and floors. The sheer complexity of Phased
Vision means that the creatures falls back on other senses as
well. Those seeking to block the vision can do so with certain
ultra dense minerals or through massive heating of surfaces to
cause disruptive molecular agitation.
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3 Linked – The horrors share a common sense
across a hive consciousness, giving them a multi-dimensional
view of their environment. The link may extend to all senses or
to just one – erring on the side of the latter as the former
opens up too great a vulnerability for a species faced with a
clever prey who identifies the weakness of this otherwise
helpful ability.
4 Compound – The entities eye contains
hundreds or thousands of individual lenses that create a
kaleidoscopic image of their environment. While low in detail
overall, the image makes for excellent detection of movement.
The entity can see the slightest shift or twitch, making any
attempt at stealth far harder to pull off.
5 360 Degree – The creature goes one step better
than a common owl with the ability to see in every direction. It
can either swivel its head in a complete circle or has sensory
organs spread evenly all around its body, supporting a total
sphere of vision.
6 Roaming – The horror possesses free-roaming
sight organs that allow it to see ‘remotely’. The eyes connect
via tendrils, nerve filaments, or some other organic means. If
not connected, the eyes can ‘gather’ information and then
return home to download it – the horror guiding the eye with a
fragment of brain function in a separate body, like a snake, rat,
or small bird.
SKELETON
The evolution of the horror has led to quite drastic
3 physical mutations of their skeletal structure:
 1-2 SPINAL MUTATIONS
1 Spines – The creature has fine splinters or
needles of bone standing vertically outward, piercing the flesh.
If attacked or attacking, the spines become completely rigid
and hard. When attacked, the creature can curl up and set the
spines outward to catch unprotected flesh. On the offensive,
the creature tends to whirl and spin around opponents, using
the spines for their possible extra damage potential.
2 Thorns – The horror’s spine sports hooked
thorny growths that it can: 1-2 – fire like projectiles, 3-4 –
shed like biological caltrops, 5-6 – remove and regenerate,
providing an endless stock of vicious blades. The thorns drip
with some vile and sickeningly colored fluid (roll again on the
Extra - Nature table in the Fluids section, p11).
3 Sockets – The entity has odd sucker like sockets
along the spine, and expanding out along limbs. The strange
mutation allows multiple entities to merge and connect into an
increasingly enhanced and progressively robust mega-entity.
The process takes a matter of moments and looks like some
body horror reworking of a popular transforming robot
franchise. Once plugged together, the entity becomes a
coordinated whole with increasing offensive and defensive
potential. Unplugging takes more time and tends to happen
after the entity has dealt with any immediate threat.
4 Ooze – The creature has pockets of oozing fluid
visible along the length of its spine and running along the
belly. If struck a fatal blow, death spasms rupture the spine
and cause the ooze to explode in all directions. The mildly
acidic liquid fuses non-horror tissue, causing it to melt and
bond – something like the effect of spilling Super Glue on
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naked flesh or polystyrene. The ooze seeps into the skin of any
doused target, as well as adhere dripping pieces of the dead
creature to anyone in the radius of the gooey explosion.
5 Sacs – The horror has amber colored sacs of thick
fluid attached to the spinal column and visible through over-
stretched skin. The sacs link in to a network of hollow bones
and vessels throughout the entity’s body. Damage causes the
sacs to release their viscous load, filling and sealing wounds
with a regenerative and pain-damping resin.
6 Parasite – The horror’s spinal column is a
symbiotic parasite and the intellectual core of its being. At
some point in the past, the horror suffered a personal invasion
as the parasites attached themselves and became one with
their hosts. Now, the two live off and with each other, sharing
their key attributes – one the fighter, the other the thinker.
Damage to the horror may cause it to slow down and back off,
but – like a zombie – only in the destruction of the spinal
‘brain’ can you be certain of destroying it.
3-4 BONE MUTATIONS
1 Chitin Frag – The creature possesses thick
layers of fragile bone, heaped up in plates, ridges and horns
across its body surface. While the thickness protects the
creature from harm, attacks have the effect of generating
something like a natural fragmentation grenade. Sharp slivers
and fragments of bone fly off at the point of impact, shooting
off in every direction with the potential to pierce, cut, or blind.
2 Armor – The horror possesses a thick external
skeleton, layer upon layer of intermeshed and interlocking
bones that provide incredible protection from harm.
 3 Blowfish – The entity has a largely defensive
mechanism that allows it to expel the content of its lungs into
cavities around its body. By puffing the air from lungs to
cavities, it expands to three or four times its normal size and
parts of its skeleton poke sharply through the surface. While
somewhat damaging to itself, the sharp bones can pierce
attackers, while the expanding mass shoves them away.
4 Blades – The creature can extrude and extend
blades of bone from joints.
5 Roller – The horror possesses interlocking scales
of semi-flexible bone and cartilage. It can effectively roll up,
like an armadillo, and in that state move around, go on the
defensive or shrug off a potentially killer impact or explosion.
6 Pliable – Much of the creature’s bone is more like
cartilage, bending and flexing, but very strong. The creature
moves with incredible bounce and flexibility, and can squeeze
through narrow gaps, vents and pipes with ease.
5-6 SKELETON ADAPTATIONS
1 Cage – The horror has a massively distended rib
cage or belly, made from thick, arcing bones. It can keep
prisoners trapped inside this containing cage, ideally subdued.
The horror can open and close the bars of the cage at will, and
less subdued prisoners or rescuers will find the bones tough
but breakable.
2 Adaptive – The creature has a loosely connected
skeletal structure that allows it to make changes to size, form
and reach. It can become snake-like by disconnecting
everything, or reach distant targets by shifting more bones
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into its arms, for example. The creature’s skin might hang
loose about its body, or it might have an equally adaptive
scale-like skin layer.
3 Liquid – The entity has bones made from a
viscous fluid that holds together to maintain structure, but can
give under impact and cannot break. Something can, however,
pierce them and cause them to ooze out...
4 Sickening – The horrors every movement
generates horrible sound effects, as the weird intermeshing of
bones grinds inside it. The creatures constantly makes a sound
like bones popping in and out of their sockets, or the wet
sound of splintered bone gliding through yielding flesh.
Humans find the sound nauseating and intensely disturbing.
5 Boneless – The entity lacks any sort of internal
skeletal structure, like some massive amoeba
6 Artificially Enhanced – Whether a
development by the horrors or some masterful manipulation
of their species in the past, they now have a highly modified
and enhanced bone structure made: 1-2 – from adaptive, self-
regenerating micro-entities, 3-4 – from a nearly indestructible
metal-plastic polymer, 5-6 – from star-heart dense super
materials that generate an unsettling micro-gravity field that
draws prey toward the horror without any thought or
compulsion.
FLUIDS
The trouble with horrors is the weird and insidious
fluids they always seem to secrete. Once you have
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rolled on the Voluntary or Involuntary table, follow it up with
 a roll on the Extra - Nature (p11) to determine the hazardous
side effects the fluids have (or don’t if you just want to work
out the horror’s favorite fluid or preferred medium of liquid
attack):
1-3 VOLUNTARY
1 Spittle – The horror drools and expels strings of
glistening spittle.
2 Urine – The creature urinates freely as it battles
or purposefully aims it into the faces of opponents in an
attempt to blind them.
3 Feces – The horror leaves disgusting mounds of
steaming manure in its wake, peppered with fragments of
dismembered victims and thick with: 1-2 – strange iridescent
maggots, 3-4 – buzzing and biting flies, 5-6 – a foul colored
mucus that stinks like rotting flesh and causes burning
irritation if touched.
4 Ink – The creature possesses a defensive
mechanism like an octopus or squid, expelling a cloud of
sticky, blinding ink into the faces of enemies and attackers.
5 Sweat – The entities skin shimmers and steams
with a glistening layer of iridescent sweat. When it strikes or
moves about, gobbets of sweat slather off and linger as a mist
in the air.
6 Vomit – The entity can voluntarily disgorge
partially digested food in a spray or as a particularly rank
projectile.
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4-6 INVOLUNTARY
Involuntary fluids tend to arise from attacks on the horrors or
other interactions that cause the liquid to exit through wounds
or by way of instinctive reaction to external stimuli, like pain,
birth, or arousal.
The horror may place itself in a situation where this might
more readily happen, but cannot voluntarily generate or exude
this fluid otherwise.
1 Semen – The horror ejaculates, whether due to
excitement or the accidental slicing of the extraterrestrial
version of a testicle.
2 Tears – Pain, fear or anguish causes the horror to
cry tears of a strange and insidious fluid.
3 Pus – Attacks that tear or puncture the creature’s
skin cause sub-dermal reservoirs of thick, bubbling pus to
ooze or spray out.
4 Blood – If you prick us, do we not bleed? Better
yet, do we not spray slow-mo arcs of frothing ichor in every
direction?
5 Bile – The entity coughs and wretches up gouts of
bile from deep down inside.
6 Milk – Fear for young or feeding juveniles means
the lactating members of the horror swarm hang heavy with
nourishing milk.
 EXTRA - NATURE
1 Corrosive – The fluid breaks down or reacts
with other substances on contact. The fluid contains:
1 – acid: blinding, mutagenic, damaging to organs,
corrosive to flesh,
2 – caustics: slippery, caustic to flesh, potentially
explosive in reaction to water,
3 – oxidizers: causes strong burning to skin, irritating
to eyes and mucus membranes, and in concentration can be
quite explosive,
4 – electrophilic halogens: burns skin and eyes
(rather like bleach),
5 – organic halides: creates thick, acidic smoke on
contact with air,
6 – anhydrides: affects and decomposes plastics
2 Extreme Temperatures – The metabolism
of the horror involves internal fluids maintained at an extreme
of temperature, above or below that normally tolerated by
humans. The substance either scalds or causes freeze burns,
both causing damage to exposed flesh.
3 Tranquilizing – The fluid contains a powerful
neuroleptic component, which causes muscular weakness,
trembling, apathy, impotence, and lowered resistance to
toxins, disease and infection. The substance may also cause
mild hallucinations and weariness. The fluid effectively makes
the victim a big, easy target for further attacks…
4 Neurotoxin – Roll again on the Neurotoxins
table, below.
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5 Unclean – Roll again on the Unclean table,
below.
6 Psychotropic – The fluid alters the: 1 – mood,
2 – perceptions, 3 – behavior, 4 – state of consciousness, 5 –
memory, 6 – decision making, of those exposed to it. The
measure of effect on the facet of the individual’s personality
varies wildly. Roll D6 – with low numbers indicative of minor
change, a high number of an extreme reaction.
EXTRA - NEUROTOXINS
1 Muscular Contraction – The toxin causes
the painful and debilitating contraction of musculature,
causing the whole body to tense in violent spasms.
2 Motor Control Loss – The toxin causes
twitching, convulsions, rapid loss of coordination, and – when
severe – death from respiratory paralysis. Movement of the
extremities becomes increasingly difficult, and fine movement
absolutely impossible – including aim with a weapon.
3 Muscular Atrophy – The toxin degrades and
dissolves muscle tissue, resulting in muscle weakness. The
limbs weaken, akin to the progressive onset of exhaustion.
4 Nerve Signal Inhibitor – The neurotoxins
negatively alter the signal thresholds for neural energy, which
makes it harder and harder for the body to react. The effect of
this is loss of motor and sensory function, terminating in
complete paralysis and death without medical attention.
 5 Brain Toxicity – The substance breaks down
the facility of the blood brain barrier in protection of the brain
from ingested toxins.
6 Cellular Destruction – The toxin breaks
down the membranes that hold cells together, unraveling the
basic structure leading to increasing toxicity and rapid cell
death. The target suffers muscular pain, internal bleeding,
searing headaches, loss of coordination, and a rapid decline
toward total cell death.
EXTRA - UNCLEAN
1 Diseased – The fluid contains abnormal
organisms that have no effect on the horror, but infect those
who come into contact with it. Wounds suffered or fluid
ingested causes: 1-2 – pain, 3 – sensory dysfunction, 4 –
mental distress, 5 – chronic organ failure, 6 – death. The
disease has a gestation period of 2D6 [1: minutes, 2-3: hours,
4: days, 5: weeks, 6: months].
2 Zombification – Anyone exposed to the fluid,
through: 1-2 – wounds, 3-4 – digestion, 5 – respiration, 6 –
skin contact, suffers from nausea, sensory disconnection,
headaches and then black-outs. After a period of 2D6 [1-2:
minutes, 3-5: hours, 6: days], the exposed fall unconscious
and then on revival lose all control and any remnant of
intelligence. A slathering, psychopathic, flesh-hungry zombie
remains, riddled with cysts and abscesses, oozing with a vile
black liquid.
3 Necrotic – The fluid causes premature cell
death, skin and flesh sloughing off in expanding chunks as the
condition worsens and spreads. A character might avoid the
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ultimate degeneration of their body into a steaming puddle of
liquid flesh through amputation of the infected area(s).
4 Transmogrification – Exposure to the fluid
causes the affected areas to adopt the horrors DNA and
transform, akin to the classic horror movie The Fly. Elements
of the horror begin to appear – like skin texture and color,
malformation of limbs, growth of new sensory apparatus and
organs, and so forth. The changes bring: 1-2 – no benefit, as
the horrors DNA seems incompatible with the human nervous
system, 3-4 – partial enhancement of faculties like senses or
control of additional limbs, 5-6 – a variant of split brain
syndrome, where the horror-infected parts of the body work
against the human parts, whether through malfunction or
active attempt to damage or control.
5 Cancerous – Once introduced into the victim,
the substance causes the spontaneous generation of irregular
cellular growth. The cancerous cells divide and grow without
control, all tumors showing evidence of the horror’s DNA.
Unlike more common forms of cancer known to man, the
horror’s neoplasm spreads incredibly fast and overwhelms the
target in a period of 2D6 [1-2 – hours, 3-5 – days, 6 – weeks].
Practical treatment varies in form / effectiveness, potentially
causing more damage to healthy cells in the process and
reducing the individual’s resistance to illness or infection.
6 Petrifaction – The fluid triggers a state change
at the atomic level, causing carbon to transform into silicon,
turning the infected into a helpless statue over a period of 2D6
[1-2 – hours, 3-5 – days, 6 – weeks]. As with previous states of
Unclean fluids, the character might halt the process through
application of strong, damaging medication or by amputation.
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 APPEARANCE
While the horror might wear armor or arrive
5 dressed in the flayed skin of the fallen, underneath
it has natural features that set it apart:
1-2 SKIN
1 Thorny – Sharp and dark prickles of some kind
of resinous secretion stick out of the horror’s skin. Any melee
blows from or against the creature may break off these wicked
barbs, causing additional damage, bleeding and increasing
potential for infection (reducing the chance the character can
resist future attacks with unclean or poisonous aspects).
2 Horny – Curved, bony knobs poke through the
skin of the creature, slightly increasing its armor and the
damage inflicted when delivering a crushing concussive blow.
3 Bioluminescent – Hideous blisters and boils
on the surface of the monster’s skin glow with a pale: 1-2 –
blue, 3-4 – yellow, 5-6 – red luminescence. Oddly, this seems
to work against them, making them easier to target from a
distance, though the creatures may adopt a strategy of running
in single-file packs if intelligent or guided by an intellect.
4 Leprous – The entity’s skin looks diseased and
pale, hunks of sickened and dying flesh falling away as it
moves. Roll again on the Unclean table, in the previous
Fluids section, to see what side effects exposure to the sickly
flesh of the entity might have.
5 Sickening – The horror wears the torn and
blooded remains of past victims, like ears, eyeballs, fingers or
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genitals. While attacking, the horror takes pleasure in
inflicting grievous and horrible wounds, and bathes in gore of
its victims.
6 Someone Else’s – The creature wears the
flayed skins of past victims, like a mask or disguise. From a
distance, the tattered remnants of skin might pass the creature
off as a wounded human, long enough for it to close range for
a melee attack.
3-4 PROTUBERANCES
1 Young – The horror carries the partially matured
or half-formed young of its species on, in, or underneath its
skin. Slashing or piercing the skin of the horror will cause the
young to spill out: 1-2 – dying instantly, 3-4 – attacking in the
final throes of life, 5-6 – attacking as juvenile, semi-capable
combatants angered by their sudden eruption into the world.
2 Organs – The creature has translucent or opaque
skin that allows onlookers to see the gruesome function of
every organ in its body.
3 Victims – Tortured faces and clawing fingers
poke through the stretched and hideous flesh of the entity.
Little prospect exists of saving victims in this state, even with
the immediate destruction of the horror – though characters
with some means to expend ‘luck’ might have a fortuitous
escape if rescued.
4 Detritus – Random bits of rubbish adhere or
stick out of the spongy or gooey flesh of the monster, which
might include weapons, weird artifacts or odd personal
possessions.
 5 Digestion – Through the surface of the horror’s
skin, you can see recently, and not so recently, consumed food
(or victims) passing through phases of digestion.
6 Augmentation – The surface of the creature’s
skin bears the scars and evidence of strange and artificial
augmentation. Rubbery, metallic or ceramic devices stick out
through or just under the stretched and scarred flesh of the
creature, though without clear evidence of purpose. Devices
might serve as nodules or mounts intended to support the
insertion of some other object of artifact.
5-6 THAT LOOKS LIKE
1 Petals – The creature has skin like fleshy petals.
The petals effectively function like disposable armored plates,
their fleshy thickness absorbing impacts and ablating bullets.
Under certain conditions the petals provide an advantage in
stealth and hiding. The creature exudes a foul but intoxicating
odor that causes: 1-2 – nausea and light-headedness, 3-4 –
drossiness and poor concentration, 5-6 – confusion and
disorientation.
2 Leaves – The horror looks like it might have just
rolled down a hill in the autumn or dragged itself out of a
bush. In natural environments, the leafy surface of the horror
allows it to blend in and employ incredible feats of stealth. The
thick leafy layer cushions impact attacks against it. Engaged in
a grappling attack, the leafy skin makes it possible for the
horror to stifle and surround prey, cutting off their ability to
breathe with mechanical assistance.
3 Scales – The entity has an interlocking carapace
of scales, like a dragon or a salamander. The squamous
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carapace provides protection from physical attack, as well as
some measure of environmental harm (e.g. fire resistance).
4 Living Hair – The surface of the horror’s body
looks like a mass of wafting tentacles, like an anemone. The
hair on the surface moves as if buffeted by currents or
possessed by some fiendish follicular intelligence. The hair: 1-
2 – forms an additional passive sense that the horror doesn’t
need to control to get valuable feedback from about its
environment, 3-4 – captures a static charge that the creature
can expel in bolts of crackling energy, 5-6 – detects and
adjusts to surroundings providing a measure of natural
camouflage, allowing the horror to blend in like a chameleon.
5 Molten Slag – The entity’s surface gives off a
dull glow and a wash of heat haze. Somehow, the entity draws
heat from the ground or the air around it, and that heat pushes
out through the surface of its silicon-based body. Touching the
surface causing burns and flammable material may catch fire.
The heat draw from around it might effectively surround it
with a sphere of biting cold, to which the heat renders it
immune.
6 Ooze – The creature’s skin glistens with a strange
slime, allowing it to squeeze through narrow spaces and glide
across the ground, like skating on ice. The oozing makes the
creature near silent while moving and fiendishly hard to grab
hold of or grapple in melee. The ooze also: 1-2 – makes it
impervious to water, 3-4 – makes it impervious to gas attacks
and loss of breathable air, 5-6 – makes it impervious to flame
or heat.
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OTHER FEATURES
Something essential to the culture or existence of
the horror sets it apart and gives it purpose:
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1-2 BIRTHING
In all cases, unless stated, an egg or eggs have a gestation
period of 2D6 [1: minutes, 2-3: hours, 4: days, 5: weeks, 6:
months]. The egg may have a mechanism to camouflage, hide,
merge or latch on to preserve itself from detection or removal
before completion of the gestation cycle.
1 Sac – The horror has a form of gestation that
involves an extended birthing sac. The sac: 1-2 – contains the
early stages of their young in vital fluids needed for growth, 3-
4 – contains victims of the horror in a conscious state while
the fetal youths grow and mature inside them, 5-6 – contains
thousands (or millions) of immature horrors in a state of bio-
stasis awaiting a time when plentiful food supplies make it
viable for the sac to erupt and the young to flow out.
Rupturing the sacs with weapons might destroy the
young or prematurely trigger their ‘birth’. Application of heat,
flame or corrosives might suffice to destroy the sacs outright.
2 Grasp – The entities spread by grasping hold of
their prey and inserting fertilized eggs directly into their
bodies, usually through an existing orifice, but opting, if
necessary, for open wounds. After the gestation period the
young: 1-2 – claws its way out, 3-4 – consumes the carrier
from within, 5 – latches on to and controls the carriers
nervous system until maturity, then ‘sheds’ the shell, 6 –
infects the carrier with a biological mutation that causes
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psychopathic rage and spreads larvae through tainted bodily
fluids.
3 Puncture – The creature punches through the
surface of the skin and leaves eggs in the: 1-2 – wound, 3-4 –
blood, 5-6 – sub-dermal layer. As part of the gestation period,
the presence of the horror causes: 1-2 – nausea, convulsions,
death, 3-4 – itching, biological mutation, rampage, death, 5-6
– rash, sores, buboes, blood poisoning, death. On death, the
fledgling horror emerges from the twisted and mutilated
corpse ready to continue the cycle of destruction.
4 Grenade – The horror launches whole eggs or
larval ‘grabbers’ from an orifice or bio-weaponry extension of
its body. The ‘grenade’ form of horror: 1-2 – shatters on
impact and covers the target with invasive and many toothed
spermatozoa, 3-4 – grapples on impact and attempts to either
insert genetic material or assume direct control, 5-6 –
explodes on impact infecting the target like a virus, with the
same potential to combat it whether with strong medication or
potentially harmful therapies.
5 Spray – The monstrous beast ejects a shower of
liquid, through one of many orifices, showering anyone within
range with ‘birthing’ fluid. The fluid contains: 1-2 – parasitic
larval young, 3-4 – spermatozoa capable of fertilizing human
bodies with animal genetic material (and not necessarily just
females), 5-6 – spermatozoa capable of mutating human DNA
with horror nuclear genetic information capable of
transforming all future progeny of that individual into human-
horror hybrids. The potential may exist to stop the process
with deep cleaning, chemical scouring, burning or something
even more invasive and painful.
 6 Haunt – The creature ejects a semi-sentient,
grasping, desperate homing ‘sperm’ – an embryonic hellion
seeking out a host or a rivulet of self-guided gunk. The
incomplete wretch may possess vestigial limbs or sensory
faculties, trailing amniotic fluid and slime in its wake, or
simply manifest as a noisome genetic porridge.
3-4 FORM
While the rest of the tables highlight key features and unusual
mutations in the abominable entities, Form defines a general
and pervasive set of features suggesting a subsumed animal.
1 Insectoid – The horrors possess six legs and a
body segmented into three parts. They breathe through
spiracles, holes in their sides that puncture the surface of their
armor or skin, and have no internal skeletal structure. They
have mandibles that gather and draw food into their mouths
and have antennae somewhere on their bodies that provide
them with extra sensory input. Some Insectoid horrors possess
wings or at least vestigial evidence of their existence. The
simplistic nature of Insectoid horror can make them hard to
kill.
2 Arachnoid – The entities have eight legs, or
limbs, and bodies segmented into two parts. They have an
external skeleton, which may extend to a thick protective
armor-like covering. Arachnoids secrete substances suited to
building nests, traps, containment webbing and climbing
lines. They have methods of injecting poison or vomiting
corrosive bile. The entities have extra senses that can detect
motion and vibration.
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3 Lupoid – The creatures have the appearance of
hunting animals, low, long and narrow, with sharp features
and sharper teeth. They possess great speed and short-term
endurance to catch up on and overcome any prey, with
clamping jaws that close with puncturing force and hold fast.
They have keen senses, including acute hearing and vision
adapted to both light and darkness. They hunt in packs,
effectively using their numbers to outnumber, outflank and
overcome.
4 Ophidian – The horrors have thin, limbless
bodies – or at least bodies with retractable limbs, with linear
organs running the length of its body and an internal skeleton.
As well as normal senses, the Ophidian horror can detect heat,
with fleshy membranes about its face, and taste odors with its
tongue. Cold blooded, it seeks out warmth and hunts warm-
blooded prey. Ventral scales on the belly allow it to grip and
propel itself forward at speed. Many Ophidians have means of
venom delivery, whether through fangs, spit or some other
medium, and expandable jaws, allowing them to swallow prey
whole.
5 Pachyderm – These monstrous creatures
possess massive bulk and considerable strength, with dense
musculature and skeletons. They have thick limbs and heavy
hides, sometimes leathery and armored, other times layered
with thick, bristling fur rank with musk and sweat. While they
may appear ponderous, they gather speed quickly and prefer
to bull rush, trample and generally barrel prey to the floor,
crushing them flat. Most have prominent horns and tusks,
suited to goring and impaling. Like wild boar, Pachyderm
horrors maintain an omnivorous diet.
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 6 Rattus – Opportunistic survivors, displaying an
unsettling level of intelligence and sense of society amongst
brethren, the Rattus entity always finds a way. Capable of
adapting to almost any climate or environment, they can
swim, tunnel, climb, and travel at considerable speed, fitting
into small holes and spaces. They have very keen eyesight and
sense of smell. They often carry and transmit disease and
infection without suffering any serious side effects themselves.
5-6 SPECIALISTS
The characters have encountered a specific and specialized
caste of the horror. The specialist may be the key component
of a mixed group or the sole type uncovered – in which case
the more general population might lie elsewhere. For example,
the Sentries might appear far removed from the core group as
they serve as shock troops against a perceived threat, whereas
a group of Workers might be discovered foraging or gathering
a great distance from the central ‘nest’.
1 Workers – The horror is of a class solely suited
to menial tasks or feats of great strength and endurance. They
may travel long distances or move through dangerous ground
and carry back supplies, food, or prisoners. Workers tend to be
dull witted, but with enough commonsense to get the job done
right regardless of the difficulties and obstacles. They opt for
the most direct route, even where physically damaging or
hazardous to their existence. If encountered before any other
type, the experience of meeting a Worker might lure the
unwitting to completely underestimate the threat potential of
the horror – or they might be the worst of their kind.
2 Movers – The horror is of a caste with a
specialized means of locomotion not known amongst the
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others. The Movers have: 1 – wings, 2 – tunneling claws, 3 –
muscular leaping limbs, 4 – gliding flaps, 5 – gills and fins for
swimming, 6 – hooks or suckers for wall-crawling or for
scampering across ceilings. The Movers often serve as shock
troops, scouts, or decoys, vital for gathering information,
softening up the enemy, or spreading doubt and breaking
morale.
3 Sentries – The horror is of a warrior caste solely
responsible for the defense of the group. While general horror
physiology supports a flexible range of faculties and tools
intended to serve in completion of various tasks, the Sentry
has only one function and its body makes this clear. A Sentry
might lack many sensory, reproductive and digestive features.
In place of these unnecessary extras, the Sentry has armor and
a dominant weapon – something that defines it and shapes it,
like an impractically massive gun or body spanning blade.
4 Queen – The monsters have one or more Queens
responsible for the continuation of the species. The Queen
may have total control over everything, or might simply serve
as a birthing vessel, tied to a complex biological mechanism
producing the next generation. One Queen might nurture a
batch of her own replacements, before she is banished,
consumed or destroyed on their maturity. Alternatively, more
than one Queen might serve a splinter of the whole group, the
core of several ‘cells’ encroaching upon or invading the world
about them.
5 King – The entities have a controlling influence,
like a bull of fearsome power or perhaps an intellect weak in
body but incredibly cunning. The King may coordinate the
whole drive of the horrors, or may simply serve as a central
means of control, like a node or heart for the greater masses. If
 a Queen exists, the King may serve as a mate, and might also 1 Strange stories 4 Inexplicable experience
be entirely disposable as a result. 2 Newspaper report 5 Visited by chance
3 Intriguing artifact in the mail 6 Unexpected invitation
6 Food – The horror encountered was maintained
as a source of food for something more horrible, or serves as a Organization?
strange feast for witless human worshipper. The creatures
engage in a cannibalistic phase: 1-2 – when they’re hungry, 3 – This organization backed, funded and may currently occupy
after sex, 4 – before sex, 5 – before hunting, 6 – before the location now under threat:
transforming into something else more gruesome. The Food
1-3: Roll again 4-6: Roll again
exists in a: 1-2 – state of bliss, cared and waited on until the
time of consumption, 3-4 – docile and dull-witted state, doing 1 The (Predominant) Church 1 National government
little more than sleep and consume until the fateful day of 2 Wealthy Cult / Sect 2 Scientific research group
feeding, 5-6 – battling and competitive state where only the 3 Front for a Crime Syndicate 3 Cover for anarchists
most worthy and able Food can expect to feed the other 4 Heritage preservation group 4 Bank or investment firm
horrors, the less able killed and consumed by the victor only. 5 Local government 5 Inventor
6 Aspiring troublemaker 6 Artist
The Obligatory Appendix Reason?
While you might have used the tables that make up the bulk The organization’s purpose in funding the location:
of this supplement just to excite some ideas on the nature of a
new horror, you might need further nudging. The following 1-3: Roll again 4-6: Roll again
tables can offer you a sort of ‘mission statement’ for your 1 Tax reasons 1 Scam
adventure, although you’re free to choose or ignore anything 2 Medical research 2 Removing competition
that doesn’t suit. 3 Searching for something lost 3 The voices told them so…
4 Government directive 4 Influential benefactor
[THE HOOK] leads to a [LOCATION] owned by [ORGAN-
ISATION] for the last [D6 x D6 x D6] [1-2: years, 3-4: months, 5 Controlled experiment 5 Playing a hunch
5-6: weeks] for the purpose of [REASON], which has become 6 Site once occupied 6 Accidental
the target of the horror because [MOTIVATION].
Location?
The Hook? Depending on the sort of game you’re playing, the location
How did the investigators get roped in to this whole affair? might involve significant travel for the characters to reach and
explore, or it might be a quick hop across a local or country

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 border. Tweak the specifics or re-roll where an anachronistic 1-3: Roll again 4-6: Roll again
outcome arises (i.e. the result suggests an environment 1 Protecting their young 1 Attracted by radio signals
unsuited to your current campaign setup): 2 Protecting their birthing site 2 Drawn by heat or light
1: Roll again 2: Roll again 3 Protecting an artifact 3 Ancient programming
1 Mine 1 Inhospitable scrub 4 Built on their food source 4 Basic Fight or Flee response
2 Foundry 2 Scientific establishment 5 Periodic breeding cycle 5 Slaughter the “animals”
3 Dead lands or desert 3 Wooded hills 6 Hungry 6 Summoned
4 Remote research camp 4 Bank reserve
5 Crumbling old building 5 Hospital
Nightmares?
6 Cave or tunnel network 6 Warehouse People (or investigators) who sleep at or near the location
might experience strange and disturbing dreams?
3: Roll again 4: Roll again
1 Slaughterhouse 1 Sprawling slum 1-3: Roll again 4-6: Roll again
2 Fort / Castle 2 Farm 1 World overrun 1 Bloody sacrifice of dreamer
3 Boot camp 3 Holiday resort 2 Weird catastrophe 2 Humanity enslaved
4 Ship 4 Ancient ruins 3 Feasting upon humanity 3 Insignificance of humanity
5 Border outpost 5 Ghost town 4 Disturbing chant 4 Stupidity of humanity
6 War zone 6 Remote villa 5 Reflection of deformity 5 Hunted
6 Watched from space 6 Sanity-shredding experiment
5: Roll again 6: Roll again
1 Church 1 Natural cavern Strange Discovery?
2 Penal colony 2 Lost city
Searching around a location the discovery of something quite
3 Place of exile 3 Ancient tomb out of the ordinary leads to questions or a hint of more.
4 Pilgrimage site 4 Partially drowned village
5 Corporate headquarters 5 Heritage site 1-3: Roll again 4-6: Roll again
6 Drifting wreckage 6 Primitive settlement 1 Scratched design or symbol 1 Desiccated corpse
2 Severed appendage 2 Stained altar
Horror’s Motivation? 3 Sealed container 3 Weird footprints
What does the horror want? Of course, it might not have any 4 Disturbing artwork 4 Mutated wildlife
motivation – or at least nothing comprehensible to humans. 5 Inexplicable skeleton 5 Unsettling landscape
6 Forgotten stairway 6 Lingering presence

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