quickie wandering monster tables for DCC RPG

By: Unknown on 04:35

Two things I like about the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG are its good supply of neat monsters and its radical devotion to random die charts.  Two things I don't like are its lack of wandering monster charts and the absence of an index.  Well, maybe there are some wandering monster charts somewhere in the book, but without an index, how the heck am I going to find them?  So I made some.  These creeps are sorted mainly by hit dice and most of the die ranges are my guesswork.

Level 1 (d14)

1. 2d4 Acolytes
2. d6 Bandits
3. d6 Deep Ones or Subhumans
4. Demon, Type I
5. 2d4 Dimensional Sailors
6. d6 Giant Ants (workers) or Giant Rats
7. d12 Goblins or Kobolds
8. d6 Hobgoblins or Gnolls
9. d6 Lizardmen or Troglodytes
10. d6 Orcs
11. d20 Peasants
12. Primeval Slime, 1 hd
13. Serpent Man with d6 Subhuman servants
14. d12 Skeletons

Level 2 (d20)

1. d6 Bat Swarms (mundane)
2. Bandit Hero with 2d6 Bandits
3. d8 Berserkers
4. d4 Cave Octopi
5. d4 Colossal Leeches
6. Demon, Type I
7. Gargoyle
8. Ghost
9. d4 Ghouls
10. d4 Giant Beetles
11. d4 Hell Hounds
12. d4 Hollow Men
13. d6 Killer Bees
14. Knight with 2d6 Men-At-Arms
15. d4 Living Statues (crystal)
16. d4 Man-Bats
17. Primeval Slime, 2 hd
18. d4 Serpent Men with 2d6 Subhumans
19. d6 Shroommen
20. d4 Vombis Leeches with d6 Vombis Zombies

Level 3 (d16)

1. d4 Androids
2. d6 Cave Crickets
3. Cockatrice
4. Demon, Type I
5. Friar with 2d6 Acolytes
6. d6 Giant Ants (soldier)
7. d6 Giant Centipedes
8. d4 Giant Cobras
9. d4 Living Statues (stone)
10. Lizard, Giant
11. Magician with d6 Peasants
12. d4 Owlbears
13. Primeval Slime, 3 hd
14. d4 Underdark Slugs
15. Witch with d6 Servitors
16. d12 Zombies

Level 4 (d10)

1. d4 Bat Swarms, vampiric
2. d6 Bugbears
3. Demon, Type I or II
4. d6 Insect Swarms
5. d4 Living Statues (Iron)
6. d4 Ogres
7. Primeval Slime, 4 hd
8. d6 Rat Swarms
9. d4 Giant Vipers
10. d4 Time Travellers

Level 5 (d16)

1. Ape-Man (Giant or Four-Armed)
2. Basilisk
3. Brain Elder
4. Chimera
5. Cyclops or Giant
6. Demon, Type I - VI
7. Elemental
8. d4 Giant Scorpions or Giant Boa Constrictors
9. d4 Harpies
10. Hydra
11. Manticore
12. Minotaur
13. d4 Mummies
14. Primeval Slime, 5 hd
15. d4 Shadows
16. d4 Trolls

Notes:

I put Peasants on the first level chart under the assumption that the party could run into an NPC funnel group.

Given how often they come up, the GM should probably pre-generate some Type I Demons and Primeval Slimes.

Level 4 is kind of boring, isn't it?  It's like the calm before the storm of getting completely clobbered on Level 5.