Wandering Monster: the boss monsters

Welcome to Gnomekeeper, the home of the Wandering Monster tile placement boardgame. Spooktalker finally convinced me to begin, and I'm already glad of it. Come here to see the game clawing its way from a bond-paper-and-tape mockup to a crisp work of paperboard you will want to replay with all your geek gamer friends.
Today I'd just like to introduce a couple of my own friends, the monsters who call the tiles of the dungeon home. Then I'll finish with a few pics fresh from today's lunchtime playtest.

 This is the ogre. He embodies the spirit of the game Wandering Monster, stomping around the damp tunnels, at turns loud, boisterous, and full of vim, and at other times cunningly lying in wait for tasty adventurers. His innate ability is his meanness, with which he often has the edge when it comes to blows with other monsters. He does well when the ominous, glowing oracles of the dungeon bestow on him powers such as Strong Arms and Terrifying Roar.

Next, meet Ooze. He is a basic organism, but just bubbling with possibilities. If you can collect abilities such as Frog Tongue, Ceiling Crawler, and Acid Breath, it very much plays to type. Also fun is giving this blob the Strong Arms and Nimble Fingers, and watching him walk tall in a biped's world. But he never forgets his roots, with the innate ability to ooze through gates and grates.
I'll share some more beasties next time. For now, here are scenes from today's playtest.

 We built a good, sprawling labyrinth, and got right to the end of the first course. The adventurers we gobbled are aside in the foreground. At the very end Ogre (with Strong Arms) made a bold play for the last party, attempting a monster vs. monster beatdown of Ooze with Frog Tongue and Fearsome Claws. The outcome went the other way though, with a chastened Ogre sitting out a round, leaving Ooze to contend with an already alert and mobile party just around the bend.

 How this would play out we can only conjecture. Lunch hour was at an end and we counted up our eatings. Lepus took the top spot with seven chewed and swallowed in the first course. The others were close behind though and it would have been an exciting second act. Next time.