HP help with "locationless" monsters...

[iamtim]

Ok, I'm thinking something like a formless spawn of Tsathogghua. A creature that can form limbs as needed, but is otherwise a formless blob of black goo.

I'm thinking just assigning a number of hit points to the beasts one location, but I don't know how much or if that will work well.

Thoughts?

 

[Rurik]

Ok, I'm thinking something like a formless spawn of Tsathogghua. A creature that can form limbs as needed, but is otherwise a formless blob of black goo.

I'm thinking just assigning a number of hit points to the beasts one location, but I don't know how much or if that will work well.

Thoughts?

I would give it one fixed HP - maybe Average of CON and SIZ?

I would think such a creature would be immune to normal damage, only succeptable to say fire and cold. I'm not even sure I'd let non-elemental magic damage hurt it (i.e. bladesharp).

 

[atgxtg]

Ok, I'm thinking something like a formless spawn of Tsathogghua. A creature that can form limbs as needed, but is otherwise a formless blob of black goo.

I'm thinking just assigning a number of hit points to the beasts one location, but I don't know how much or if that will work well.

Thoughts?

Go with the one location idea, but with a twist.

Find the value of the creature's HP as if it had a Arm. Treat any "psedopods" as having this many HP for effeces (severed, resiilence rolls, etc.). THen just apply damage taken to the One hit location HP.

 

[simonh]

Gorp (large mobile chaotic blobs of acid exuding protoplasm) have only one hit location (under RQ3). Chopping them up with bladed weapons simply creates more smaller Gorp though.

Simon Hibbs

 

[iamtim]

Well, it's not actually a blob of goop, it's a demon of sorts from my in-house fantasy world. I can't go into a lot of detail, because one of my players reads the board... essentially it's a failed attempt at creation by a failed god, and people on this world consider them demons.

Chopping it will kill it. Chopped parts will just be dead hunks o' demon flesh. I like the idea of keeping track of pseudopods, however.

Good ideas, thanks.