New Level 3 monster suggestions

[rvdpluijm]

Seeing Victor's remark in #195, I thought I'd open an issue for Kerkerkruip 10 with new level 3 monster suggestions (on which I'll be happy to work after I've finished my dream of Montenoir, for which we have to be able to fight in a dream).

I currently have the following suggestions:

• Clay Golem: Based on the classical Jewish Golem, an automaton placed as a statue in a random location, together with two other statues. If one is located in this location for at least 1 turn without the player noticing, the statue comes alive and gets an extra attack. It has a 'statue form', giving the possibility to get extra defence points at the expence for melee points. However, it absorbs the damage as offensive flow. The player gets the same ability. I imagine at as a bulky, hard but not often hitting creature.
• Necromancer: An old (wo)man able to cast a number of spells, one of which is the ability to summon a skeleton (as if a scroll of summoning is cast). The other spells are the ability to cause poison (2-3 damage for each turn, to be countered with a successful body check), to confuse the opponent (to be countered with a mind check) and to make the opponent drowsy (after two failed spirit checks, the opponent falls asleep). In the beginning, a random creature is already present. I'm not certain what kind of ability to give the opponent with this however...

[VictorGijsbers]

Interestingly, I was thinking about something called "The Automaton" as the Nomos champion. This would be a level 4 creature that is very tough and hard-hitting, but follows a completely rigid (randomly determined at the start of the game but thereafter just deterministically repeated) sequence of actions. E.g., it always concentrates 2 times, then attacks, then uses some special power, then restarts the sequence. It never reacts. So after fighting it for a while you should be able to deduce what the best moment is for you to do what.

[mciul]

Those all sound good. I've been thinking there should be a Level 3 spirit power - do you think the statue power makes sense as a spirit power?

Remko, what did you mean about the two other statues? Are they indistinguishable from the clay golem? Do they have special effects? Or are they just there for atmosphere?

Necromancer sounds very powerful - maybe better as a Level 4 creature?

[rvdpluijm]

Mike, what I meant with the two other statues is to place two decoys. One of them is the real clay golem and will get an extra attack if the player doesn't distinguish the golem from a statue. The other two are simply there to give some extra tension, since it could be an unrecognised golem (but doesn't have to be).

Regarding the statue power as a spirit power: I guess one could certainly interpret it as that, namely as some form of help from the spirit which brought the golem to life.

[mciul]

Maybe there should be a decoy ability that makes your opponent hit a phantom, kind of like in the Hall of Mirrors. You can do it as an action or as a reaction, and the decoy stays around until someone tries to hit it instead of you.