Welcome back to the Wanderer’s Creature Feature! It has been TWO YEARS since my last post featuring movie monster conversions for a game system. With the start of 2020, I’m resolving to stay on top of this blog and keep you supplied with fun and entertaining critters for your adventuring party! In addition, I plan to include some design notes when applicable. This first entry of 2020 is a great place to start!
I present you with an option for the aratare, a ghost-like creature from the movie Spectral. While the movie is an action-filled romp through sci-fi pseudo-science, I knew immediately that I wanted to attempt a conversion for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.
Now, I will be the first to admit, the aratare as presented in the movie are TERRIBLE roleplaying game monsters, especially for the more player-friendly 5th Edition rules. They are virtually indestructible (unless you know their secret), and kill with a touch. Yikes! So I took some liberties with the conversion, leaving them highly deadly and still very difficult to defeat, yet they won’t kill most characters that are of sufficient level for their Challenge Rating. At least not instantly. Low level characters and commoners? Oh yah, they’re (frozen) toast. But that isn’t really the spirit behind 5E, so I had to do some concept bending.
Now, in a game like Call of Cthulhu, I could see the aratare being more true to their original concept. Yes, you might end up with a dead party, but for the most part, the idea in CoC is that if something is too deadly for you, you RUN! Otherwise, it’s your own fault you died. I may do up a CoC version of the aratare, and update this blog in the near future if I do so.
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I hope you enjoy this crazy creature that should keep your players guessing (and probably running)!
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