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Vicerious: Created page with "So you want to play Frankenstein, get your lightning on, maybe unleash a monstrosity on your players? We can help with this. In fact, we'd love to. Most monsters in ''Legend''..."

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So you want to play Frankenstein, get your lightning on, maybe unleash a monstrosity on your players? We can help with this. In fact, we'd love to. Most monsters in ''Legend'' are made exactly the same way you would make a player character, unless they are [[Mooks]]. Simply follow the rules for [[Creating a Character Above First Level|making characters higher than level one]], if needed, and the additional rules in this section:
* GMs are allowed unlimited track substitutions.
* GMs are allowed to assign whatever [[Creature Types|creature type]] they see fit to monsters.
* GMs may pick the [[KOM|key offensive]] and [[KDM|defensive]] attributes of monsters as they see fit.
* Monsters should not have [[consumables]] unless they are recurring villains or loot on legs.
* Most monsters are [[Full Buy-In]].

==Building a Monster==
As an example, let's make a dire wolf. First, we're going to use the [[Utter Brute]] track as our [[racial track]]. This gives us a great layout, and fits with the idea we're trying to convey mechanically. We don't even need to change the key modifiers. Next, we decide that we'd like to make this critter a 4th [[level]] character. We'll have a progression from one to twenty, so that if we need to adjust its power we can just bump it up or down a level later. Next, let's pick our other tracks. Dire wolves are pretty mundane in nature, so we'd like to avoid magical offensive abilities. This limits our access to some of the more interesting melee options. Let's use two [[barbarian]] tracks, [[Path of Destruction]] and [[Path of the Ancestors]]. We're going to go with [[Full Buy-In]] as well. For the final track, let's use [[Battle's Tempering]].

Next, we have to figure out what our [[Classes#Ability Track Progression|progression]] looks like. We definitely want the second ability from [[Utter Brute]], so Utter Brute is our fast progression track. We also want the second ability from [[Battle's Tempering]], to make our wolf more difficult to take down easily. So it turns out that we want to have [[Path of the Ancestors]] as our [[Full Buy-In]] track and [[Path of Destruction]] in our slow progression.

For added effectiveness, consider pairing your monsters up with allies that can take advantage of their strengths, and shore up their weaknesses.

===Sample Dire Wolf===

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