Wandering Monster, with more malicious monsters, part 2

These are the final two monsters for the core set. There are eight in total. If you missed them, the others are:

Ogre, Ooze, Troll, Lepus, Owlbear, and Jumping Spider!

Today I would like you to meet Fungus and Triclops.

Fungus: "Want... meatfood..."

What I like about mushrooms is just when you think you understand them, they turn and get all weird on you. You might think of common mushrooms as vegetables, but they are really more the fruiting body of a vast, hungry organism living invisibly beneath the earth. That's kind of how it is for Fungus. He's hungry. Additionally, his special ability guarantees some of that mushroom unpredictability. When you play Fungus, you will start the game with a random, zero-cost ability from the deck of Powers. Plus, this is the one monster whose prototype sketch actually frightens me. What unknowable intelligence lurks behind those soulless eyes?

At the other end of the spectrum is the Triclops. He -- or they -- are pure flesh and blood and pounding aggression. So far he, I mean, they, have proven quite popular in playtesting. Where most of my monsters move 4 and have a starting attack of 3, Triclops gives you move 3 and attack 4. Movement can be challenging on the big 10x10 map, but also satisfying when you consistently wallop adventurers that are just out of reach of the other monsters, power-wise. Slow and steady wins the competitive eating race.

Triclops challenges trespassers to poke out his eyes with a sharp stick.

For his special ability, Triclops works around one of the big problems players encounter in Wandering Monster: the Choke card from the Antagonism deck. Just when you've enjoyed a square meal of honey-glazed gnomes, somebody throws this down and you spend the next turn gagging and gulping. Not so for Triclops. He can pay a couple of Sauce and ignore the effects of that Choke, leaving his other mouths to deal with the next fine-dining opportunity.

That's all for the core monsters. They're all ready now for the next playtest, which happens to be this Thursday. I'll write all about it when it happens.

Wandering Monster prototype tokens