{
  "name": "Twisted Experiments",
  "game": "dungeon-world",
  "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)",
  "attribution": "Dungeon World © Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel. Source: Sagelt/Dungeon-World.",
  "monsters": [
    {"name": "Bulette", "tags": ["Solitary", "Huge", "Construct"], "attack": "Bite (d10+5 damage, 3 piercing)", "hp": 20, "armor": 3, "range": ["Close", "Forceful"], "special_qualities": ["Burrowing"], "description": "A seasoned caravan guard learns to listen for the calls of a scout or sentry with a keen ear. One alarm from the scouts that always, always means it's time to pack up, whip your horse and run for the hills? 'LAND SHARK!'", "instinct": "To devour", "moves": ["Drag prey into rough tunnels", "Burst from the earth", "Swallow whole"]},
    {"name": "Chimera", "tags": ["Solitary", "Large", "Construct"], "attack": "Bite (d10+1 damage)", "hp": 16, "armor": 1, "range": ["Reach"], "description": "Well-known and categorized, the chimera is a perfected creature. Two parts lioness, one part serpent, head of a she-goat, and all the vicious magic one can muster. Used as a guardian, an assassin or merely an instrument of chaos unchained, it matters little. The chimera is the worst sort of abomination: an intentional affront to all natural life.", "instinct": "To do as commanded", "moves": ["Belch forth flame", "Run them over", "Poison them"]},
    {"name": "Derro", "tags": ["Horde", "Devious", "Intelligent", "Organized"], "attack": "Pickaxe (d6 damage)", "hp": 3, "armor": 2, "range": ["Close"], "special_qualities": ["Telepathy"], "description": "It's typical to think that all the malignant arcane monsters made in this world are birthed by wizards, sorcerers, and their ilk. These ones, the derro, are the mistakes of a long-forgotten dwarven alchemist. Twisted and hateful, the derro can be spotted by their swollen skulls, brain-matter grown too large. They do not speak except in thoughts to one another and plot in the silent dark to extract sweetest revenge—that of the created on the creator.", "instinct": "To replace dwarves", "moves": ["Fill a mind with foreign thoughts", "Take control of a beast's mind"]},
    {"name": "Digester", "tags": ["Solitary", "Large", "Construct"], "attack": "Acid (d10+1 damage, ignores armor)", "hp": 16, "armor": 1, "range": ["Close", "Reach"], "special_qualities": ["Digest acid secretion"], "description": "Magical experimentation is a messy science. For every beautiful pegasus there's a half-done creature that wasn't quite right. Point the Digester at it and all your troubles drain away.", "instinct": "To digest", "moves": ["Eat away at something", "Draw sustenance"]},
    {"name": "Ethereal Filcher", "tags": ["Solitary", "Devious", "Planar"], "attack": "Stolen dagger (w[2d8] damage)", "hp": 12, "armor": 1, "range": ["Close", "Reach"], "special_qualities": ["Burrowing"], "description": "Things go missing. A sock, a silver spoon, your dead mother's bones. We blame the maid, or bad luck. We never see the real cause: the spidery thing with human hands and eyes as blue as the deep Ethereal plane from whence the creature comes, nesting astral silver webbing and stolen objects arranged in some mad pattern.", "instinct": "To steal", "moves": ["Take something important to its planar lair", "Retreat to the Ethereal plane", "Use an item from its lair"]},
    {"name": "Ettin", "tags": ["Solitary", "Large", "Construct"], "attack": "Club (d10+3 damage)", "hp": 16, "armor": 1, "range": ["Close", "Reach", "Forceful"], "special_qualities": ["Two heads"], "description": "What could possibly be better than an idiotic angry hill giant? One with two heads. Fantastic idea, really. Grade A stuff.", "instinct": "To smash", "moves": ["Attack two enemies at once", "Defend its creator"]},
    {"name": "Girallon", "tags": ["Solitary", "Huge"], "attack": "Rending hands (d10+5 damage)", "hp": 20, "armor": 1, "range": ["Reach", "Forceful"], "special_qualities": ["Many arms"], "description": "The pounding of the jungle drums calls to it. The slab of meat on the sacrificial stone to lure in the great ape. Girallon, they call it—taller than a building, some say, cloaked in ivory fur with tusks as long as scimitars.", "instinct": "To rule", "moves": ["Answer the call of sacrifice", "Drive them from the jungle", "Throw someone"]},
    {"name": "Iron Golem", "tags": ["Group", "Large", "Construct"], "attack": "Metal fists (d8+5 damage)", "hp": 10, "armor": 3, "range": ["Close", "Reach", "Forceful"], "special_qualities": ["Metal"], "description": "A staple of the enchanter's art. Iron is a misnomer, though—these guardians are crafted of any metal, really: steel, copper, or even gold. Unceasing watchdog, stalwart defender, the iron golem lives to serve, following its orders eternally.", "instinct": "To serve", "moves": ["Follow orders implacably", "Use a special tool or adaptation, built-in"]},
    {"name": "Flesh Golem", "tags": ["Horde"], "attack": "Miscellaneous Claws and Teeth (d6+2 damage)", "hp": 3, "armor": 0, "range": ["Close", "Forceful"], "special_qualities": ["Many body parts"], "description": "Stolen bits and pieces in the night. Graveyards stealthily uprooted and maybe tonight an arm, a leg, another head (the last one came apart too soon). Even the humblest hedge-enchanter can make do with what he can.", "instinct": "To live", "moves": ["Follow orders", "Detach a body part"]},
    {"name": "Kraken", "tags": ["Solitary", "Huge"], "attack": "Giant tentacles (d10+5 damage)", "hp": 20, "armor": 2, "range": ["Reach", "Forceful"], "special_qualities": ["Aquatic"], "description": "The Hungerer in the Deep—a mighty squid with tentacles thicker 'round than a barrel and eyes the size of the full moon. Smart, too. Knows just when to strike—when you're all too drunk or too tired or run out of clean water, that's when he gets you.", "instinct": "To rule the ocean", "moves": ["Drag a person or ship to a watery grave", "Wrap them in tentacles"]},
    {"name": "Manticore", "tags": ["Solitary", "Large", "Construct"], "attack": "Stinger (d10+1 damage, 1 piercing)", "hp": 16, "armor": 3, "range": ["Close", "Reach", "Messy"], "special_qualities": ["Wings"], "description": "If the chimera is the first step down a dark path, the manticore is a door that can't be closed once it's been opened. A lion, a scorpion, the wings of a drake, and the hissing hateful face of a human married to the creature with twisted magic. All sense of who they are is lost, but the beast is born from human suffering.", "instinct": "To kill", "moves": ["Poison them", "Rip something apart"]},
    {"name": "Owlbear", "tags": ["Solitary", "Construct"], "attack": "Claws (d10 damage)", "hp": 12, "armor": 2, "range": ["Close"], "description": "Body of a bear. Feathers of an owl. Beak, claws, and excellent night vision. What's not to love?", "instinct": "To hunt", "moves": ["Strike from darkness"]},
    {"name": "Pegasus", "tags": ["Group", "Construct"], "attack": "Sharp hooves (d8 damage)", "hp": 10, "armor": 1, "range": ["Close"], "special_qualities": ["Wings"], "description": "A fine white horse with the wings of a swan. The elves work miracles, in their own way. They breed true—that's the purity of elf-magic at work. Hatching from little crystal eggs and bonded with their riders for life.", "instinct": "To carry aloft", "moves": ["Carry a rider into the air", "Give their rider an advantage"]},
    {"name": "Rust Monster", "tags": ["Group", "Construct"], "attack": "Corrosive touch (d8 damage, ignores armor)", "hp": 6, "armor": 3, "range": ["Close"], "special_qualities": ["Corrosive touch"], "description": "Something like a reddish cricket. Blind, feeling their way around with long moth-looking tendrils. Sift through piles of metal for the choicest bits—their merest touch turns it all to rusted flakes.", "instinct": "To decay", "moves": ["Turn metal to rust", "Gain strength from consuming metal"]},
    {"name": "Xorn", "tags": ["Solitary", "Large", "Construct"], "attack": "Maw (d10 damage)", "hp": 12, "armor": 2, "range": ["Close", "Reach"], "special_qualities": ["Burrowing"], "description": "Dwarf-made elemental garbage muncher. Shaped like a trash bin with a radius of arms to feed excess rock and stone into its gaping maw. They eat stone and excrete light and heat. Perfect for operating a mine, until one gets lost in the sewers below a city.", "instinct": "To eat", "moves": ["Consume stone", "Give off a burst of light and heat"]}
  ]
}