Lo'ly’bluth Sixteenthly
You don’t remember life outside the laboratory on the Moon. You
were experimented on, fitted with bioaugmentations, injected with
foul, smoking concoctions, and repeatedly shocked. After one such
session, you transformed into a kwallikh beast. Your tormentors
exchanged enthusiastic handshakes and brandy toasts. They put
you on a rocket to Venus with instructions to observe as many
local fauna as possible, and then return. Importing alien fauna for
experimentation is so expensive and tiresome, they said. So much
easier to give you the ability to transform into creatures you’ve
seen, send you on a field trip, then have you return with a whole new
catalogue of creatures in your repertoire. Through a combination
of electroshock therapy, hypnotic suggestion, and tracking chips
embedded in your skull, it would be impossible for you to do
anything other than their bidding – or so they think.
Species: Moonling Armour Class: 16
Class: Anomoly (Druid) Initiative: +3
Level: 4 Speed: 30’
Background: Vagabond
Alignment:
Hit Points Total: 31
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
Current Hit Points: 11 16 15 13 16 7
Hit Die (d8): 4 (0) (+3) [+2) (+1) (+3) (-2)
Proficiencies
(+2 proficiency bonus) Weapons: Simple
Saving Throws: INT +3, WIS +5
Armour: Light, Medium, Hats
Passive Perception: 15
Tools: None
Skills: Acrobatics +5, Perception +5, Stealth +5,
Languages: Moonglish, English
Survival +5
Weapons
Hydroblaugh:
Melee Weapon Attack: +5 Attack Bonus. 1d4 piercing
+ 1d4+3 lightning damage. Reach: 5’. Malfunction
Threshold: 1.
“Just apply the ‘Jabmospikes’ to the neglected
appendage, sit back, and try not to pass out.”
– Grordbort Industries Coupon Clipper Hourly
Anomaly Features Science (Magic)
Spinal Shock-Tap (Wild Shape): As a bonus action Science Save DC (Spell Save DC): 13
you can shock yourself with a Hydroblaugh (receiving 1 Science Attack Bonus (Spell Attack Bonus): +5
point of lightning damage) to transform into any beast
1st Level Science Slots (Spell Slots): 4 / restored after
you have seen with a challenge rating of ½ or less (see
a long rest
Wild Shape Options below). You can stay in beast shape
for up to two hours, then you revert to your normal form. 2nd Level Science Slots: 3 / restored after a long rest
You can revert back to your normal form sooner by using As an Anomaly, you are able to create marvellous
a bonus action, and you automatically revert if you fall effects without using Gadgetronics. Instead, you
unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die. This ability can inject, imbibe, or infuse weird substances, such
be used twice per short rest. as ultra-dense compressed aether or liquidised
While in beast shape: Phlogiston—a “discipline” known as Biofiddlery. To
Ϝ You retain your INT, WIS, and CHA ability scores. cast a spell, you must have the associated Biofiddlery
substance, and you must check for a malfunction
Ϝ You retain all your skill and saving throw proficiencies each time you cast, either using the spell’s attack
and gain those of the beast. If the beast’s bonus is roll, or, if the spell has a Save not an attack, using a
higher than yours, you can choose the beast’s. separate roll.
Ϝ You assume the beast’s hit points and hit dice. When
you revert to your normal form, you return to the Ultra-dense Compressed Aether (Biofiddlery)
number of hit points you had before you transformed. Malfunction Threshold: 1
If you revert as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, Acid Splash (Cantrip)
any excess damage carries over to your normal form. Poison Spray (Cantrip)
Ϝ You may cast spells, if physically feasible (based on Thorn Whip (Cantrip)
the GM’s discretion and your ability to make use of Speak With Animals (1st Level)
the necessary Biofiddlery. Healing Word (1st Level)
Ϝ You may use any other feature of your class or Cure Wounds (1st Level)
background, as long as it is physically possible. Entangle (1st Level)
Ϝ You choose whether your equipment falls to the
Liquidised Phlogiston (Biofiddlery)
ground, merges into your new form, or is worn by it.
Malfunction Threshold: 1
Ϝ You may expend a Science Slot (Spell Slot) to heal Heat Metal (2nd Level)
yourself 1d8 hit points per slot level. Moonbeam (2nd Level)
Electro-instability: If subjected to lightning or
electrical effects or damage, you must succeed on a DC
12 WIS saving roll or transform into a random animal Background Features
(GM’s discretion). This does not expend a use of your
Moonborn: While travelling on Venus you receive
Spinal Shock-Tap (Wild Shape).
the following bonuses and penalties to your
Ability Scores: -2 STR, +3 CHA.
Wild Shape Options
Below are some of the creatures you have seen and
can transform into, though there may well be other Equipment
options buried deep in your scarred subconscious… Hydroblaugh, Biofiddlery bandolier with 20 phials
Ϝ Barnaby’s Thrusk (QS1 p. 107) of ultra-dense compressed aether & 10 phials of
liquidised Phlogiston*, rags, backpack, money (£50,
Ϝ Kwallikh Beast (Crocodile + a roll on the Venusifying
14p), 20 days’ rations
5e Monsters Table (QS1 p. 120)
Ϝ (Lab) Ape *Note: If you are out of spell slots but still have
Ϝ (Lab) Cat Biofiddlery substances left, any attempt to cast a
spell results in failure and an immediate roll on the
Ϝ (Lab) Rat
Biofiddlery Malfunction table (QS1, pp. 73-74)—the
Ϝ Shallow-Beaked Grogan (QS1 p. 117) body can only take so much between rests.
Ϝ Swarm of Blue-Sacked Pillocks (QS1 p. 108)
Ϝ Swarm of Raspy Scodes (QS1 p. 116)
Jessica Sterling
You used to be an assembly worker at Grordbort Industries,
employment hardly commensurate with your King’s College
diploma. One day, while contemplating this regrettable state of
affairs, you decided to make some unauthorised improvements
to the line’s equipment. Things went a bit pear-shaped and your
manager ended up in a de-gammariser. Fortunately, your advanced
training and innate genius allowed you to render up an illusory
manager, which bought you enough time to escape with a bundle of
gadgets before the bobbies arrived. It’s said that talent is in short
supply on Venus. Not for long…
Species: Human (Middle Class) Armour Class: 12
Class: Boffin (Wizard) Initiative: +2
Level: 4 Speed: 30’
Background: Engineer
Alignment: STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
Hit Points Total: 26 9 14 12 18 11 8
Current Hit Points: (-1) (+2) [+1) (+4) (0) (-1)
Hit Die (d6): 4
Proficiencies
(+2 proficiency bonus) Weapons: Simple
Saving Throws: INT +6, WIS +3
Armour: None
Passive Perception: 12
Tools: Repair Kit
Skills: Operate: Robotics +3, Operate: Heavy
Languages: English, Venusian, Robotish
Machinery +5, Operate: Light Machinery
+5, Operate: Heavy Weapons +4, Insight +3,
Investigation +6
Weapons
Saturn 17 Luminiferous Aether Exciter:
Ranged Weapon Attack. +4 Attack Bonus. 2d4+2
piercing damage. Range: 100’/200’. Malfunction
Threshold: 1.
“Saturn Industries are back with their latest hand-
weapon, designed to gift its target 12 excruciating
nanoseconds of existence followed by a holiday in
Explodesville.” – Grordbort Industries Boxing Day
Unboxed Catalogue
Boffin Features Science (Magic)
Spare Mechanisation Cogs (Arcane Recovery): Science Save DC (Spell Save DC): 14
Once per day after a short rest you may recover Science Science Attack Bonus (Spell Attack Bonus): +6
Slots (Spell Slots) of a combined level up to two.
1st Level Science Slots (Spell Slots): 4 / restored after
Knock Something Together (Minor Conjuration): a long rest
You can use your action to whip up an inanimate object
2nd Level Science Slots (Spell Slots): 3 / restored
in your hand, or on the ground in an unoccupied space
after a long rest
that you can see within 10’ of you. This object can be no
larger than 3’ on a side and must weigh no more than 10 Your expertise with engineering and experience in
pounds, and its form must be that of a mundane object constructing gadgetry allows you to use the following
that you have seen. Upon construction, the object emits technology to produce marvellous effects. To cast a
a dim light out to 5’. The object collapses if it takes or spell, you must have the associated Gadgetronic.
deals any damage or after 1 hour, after which you can use
this feature again. Trevethick & Sons’ Fetching Face Shield
(Gadgetronic)
Adaptive Engineering (Ritual Casting): Tenser’s Malfunction Threshold: 1
Floating Disk, Find Familiar, Unseen Servant may be
Mage Hand (Cantrip)
cast ritualistically.
Unseen Servant (1st Level)
Tenser’s Floating Disk (1st
Background Features Level)
Find Familiar (1st Level)
Earthborn: While travelling on Venus, you receive
the following Ability Score bonuses and penalties: Rope Trick (2nd Level)
+1 STR, -2 CON, and -3 WIS (baked into stats).
Engineering Crackerjack (Magic Initiate): Your Saturn 17 Luminiferous Aether Exciter
proficiency with engineering allows you to cast, (Gadgetronic)
through your Force De-Stabilizer, Heat Metal Malfunction Threshold: 1
without expending a Science Slot. Fire Bolt (Cantrip)
Wanted: You are a criminal on the lam. The Ray of Frost (Cantrip)
authorities are looking for you. Chromatic Orb (1st Level)
Engineering Savant: When you trigger a
malfunction, you can roll with advantage and take Capacichronic Cavorite Coater
the lower score on the Malfunction Table. (Gadgetronic)
Malfunction Threshold: 1
Dancing Lights (Cantrip)
Equipment
Destroxulonic Plosive Force De-Stabiliser
Saturn 17 Luminiferous Aether Exciter & 4 compressed (Gadgetronic)
inverse aether phials (10 rounds of ammunition Malfunction Threshold: 1
each), Destroxulonic Plosive Force De-Stabiliser, Heat Metal (once per long rest, does not use up a
Capacichronic Cavorite Coater, Trevethick & Sons’ Science Slot)
Fetching Face Shield, repair kit, two flasks of oil, oil-
Enlarge/Reduce (2nd Level)
stained engineering apron, bottle of blank ink, quill,
Mending (Cantrip)
small knife, backpack, 10 rations, water skin, bedroll,
Hold Person (2nd Level)
component pouch, electric torch, tinderbox, a letter
from a dead colleague, money (£150, 55p)
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