Lost Galmagia: Wandering Monsters

 For our wandering monsters we’re going with my newly developed Fibonacci Die:  a d20 where a 20 gives you one result, a 19 gives you another, then 17-18, then 14-16, then 9-13, then 1-8, so you have 1,1,2,3,5,8 in the classic Fibonacci sequence. This happens to work out on a d20 so that the first three results are a 1-in-6 chance, as is the next result, so you have a clear 1-in-6 or 2-in-6 chance of encounter roll that also tells you what monster you’re facing. Going through the monster charts I came up with this list of monsters for use in the dungeon (obviously subject to change).

Level 0	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5	Level 6
Goblins, gen.	Goblins, skill	Goblin, Bdygrd	Goblin, King	Ogre		Giant, Hill
Rats, Horde	Beetle, Fire	Ferret, giant	Hobgoblin	H-goblin, Bgd	H-Goblin King	Minotaur
Rats, Giant	Acolytes	Neanderthal L	Nean. High	White Ape	Nean. Witch	Nean. Lead
Sprites	Pixies	Spider, Crab	Unicorn	Rust Monsters	Nean. Faceless	Chimera
Stirges*	Spitting Cobra	Pit Viper	Living Statues	Giant Rattler	Cockatrice	Naga
Soul Echoes	Skeletons	Zombies	Ghouls/Pledged	Wight	Mummy	Specter

Wandering Monsters Level 1

Wandering Monsters are rolled for once every 2 turns, with rolls of 17-20 indicating the monster listed.

If the party spends longer than 3 turns in one place (room, patch of corridor, etc.) rolls of 14-16 also indicate a monster.

D20	Trade and Park	Acolyte	Ancestor & Noble	Sword	Moon
01-08	Nothing	Nothing	Nothing	Nothing	Nothing
09-13	Smell of goblin musk	Desiccated giant rat husks	Patches of white fur on ground	Smell of goblin musk	Evidence of human habitation
14	Goblins, generic	N/A	N/A	Goblins, generic	Soul Echo
15	Sprites or Pixies	N/A	N/A	Goblins, trained	Skeleton
16	Spider, Crab	Unicorn	N/A	Ferret, Giant	Unicorn
17	Rats, Horde	Rats, Horde	Rats, Horde	Goblins, generic	Acolytes
18	Goblins, Trained	Rats, Giant	Rats, Giant	Beetles, Fire	Spitting Cobra
19	Beetles, Fire	Spider, Crab	Neanderthal	Goblins, trained	Berserkers
20	Neanderthal	Neanderthal	White Ape	Ferret, Giant	Ogre

On the Origin of Monsters

There are 2 crab spiders on the level, one nested in a dead end in the Trade ward and one in a dead end of the Acolyte ward (both 2.28). Once these are killed, they won’t be seen again.

There’s but one Ogre – the cursed one from room 1.9 – so it is at half strength and once defeated won’t turn up again.

The sprites and pixies live in the Mage’s Ward, and can ‘blink’ 10, which lets them bypass the Amber Ward. They will generally only appear in the Trade and Park wards because they love joking with the goblins and fucking with the Neanderthals. The goblins tolerate this with bemused head shakes. The Neanderthals like collecting pixies and sprites as curse components.

The snakes in the Moon Ward don’t leave it. They’re touched with divinity from being in the cathedral vaults and know where they’re needed.