Stupid Sexy Cryptid/Monster Generator
For all those people who want to date the Mothman or Venom or Biblical Angels or Nessie I guess.
D2 Can you date them?
- Yes
- YES
D4 Preferred Time of Day
- They’re a Morning Monster
- Twilight, ooh so dramatic
- Only comes out at Night, like the rest of us
- THE UNKNOWABLE SPANS OF THE 13TH HOUR
D6 Temperament
- Shady Bitch
- Mischievous Gobbo
- Shy Smol, not necessarily reflective of actual size
- Angry, but hot
- Beautiful, but stupid
- INTENSE ALL THE TIME
D8 Theme
- Analog Horror
- Urban Legend
- Old Folktales
- Cosmic Monstrocity
- Alien
- Modern Mythology
- Liminal Nightmare
- Body Horror
D10 Rumor/Gifts
- Will show up if you look in a mirror and say its name three times while spinning clockwise. They like beauty products.
- If you stand on that haunted bridge at the right time, you can hear them cry. Give them a jar of your own tears, alternatively tissues with lotion are nice too.
- Their presence quickly drains all electrical (or magical) power from devices. They’d really like some longer lasting batteries.
- Their lairs can be identified by great quantities of black slime and ooze. They’d honestly love some scented soaps.
- Everyone who has gone looking for them eventually disappears, never to be seen again. They’re polyamorous and really like gifts that tell them something about you.
- Their footprints are found fairly regularly, even if the scientists don’t believe the casts. They would appreciate some tennis shoes that actually fit.
- They haunt abandoned places of urban decay. They collect a very specific sort of knickknack.
- Anywhere they reside slowly warps into something strange and otherworldly. They enjoy similarly creepy gifts, it is an aesthetic choice for sure.
- They choose a single victim that they stalk until the curse is passed on. They’re really hard to buy for, maybe try something homemade?
- They totally like you but are too shy to admit it. Just talk to them damnit
D10 Where is it from?
- They’ve been here all along
- The Stars
- Another dimension
- The Dreamscape and/or Under your Bed
- An unholy union between man and monster
- Escaped lab experiment
- A collectively manifested tulpa
- A spreading curse/illness
- Directly from Hell
- Lost evolutionary line or Lost Island or Inner Earth?
D12 Common Feature
- Faceless
- Chimerical
- Uncanny Valley
- Everything Is Too Long
- So, so many teeth
- Huge, meaty tongue
- Tendrils, many many tendrils
- Horns, ribbed for–
- Contortionist flexibility and twitchy
- Big, strong claws
- Lots of eyes
- No shadow
D20 Common Ability
- Possession
- Hypnosis/Mind Control
- Selective Invisibility
- Precognition/Prophecy
- Telekinesis
- Dream Manipulation
- Shapeshifting
- Shadow Control
- Short range teleportation
- Aura of Fear
- Flesh Manipulation
- Electro-Magnetic Interference
- Apparent Immortality
- Size manipulation
- Bi-Location
- Flight
- Immense Strength
- Heightened Senses
- Apparent Indestructibility or Extreme Durability
- Converting Victims e.g. vampires, werewolves
D100 Quirks
- Really big, like holy shit Kaiju sized. How has nobody found them yet?
- Ity bity! They can fit in your hand
- Their presence dims all light sources
- Their presence causes headaches in the more psychically attuned
- They are driven off by some specific sign or sigil, such as religious iconography or the Elder Sign
- They come with a terrifying Steed
- Their presence attracts a variety of strange, unnatural insects. They might actually be MADE of insects.
- They disguise themselves as ordinary, even perhaps especially sweet, humans.
- They were cursed into the present shape by
- A Wizard
- Another Cryptid
- Their own vices
- Delving too deep into awful knowledge
- Ancestral/Generational Curse
- Abuse of a cryptid derived drug
- Poltergeist activity becomes increasingly intense as they linger in an area.
- They disguise themselves as a clown, for some god awful reason.
- They can travel through:
- Radio Signals
- Television
- Water
- Trees
- Dreams
- Mirrors
- Has 1d6 extra heads
- Has 1d6! Extra limbs, beyond what would be expected
- Their appearance is so horrifying that they are frightened of their own reflection
- Knows the name and location of anyone who speaks their name
- Is known in other circles as a Demon
- Is able to harness and manipulate very specific phobias
- Any water they touch is converted into some other strange ichor or fluid
- Their Unreal Shape is pulled from humanity’s own shattered collective consciousness
- They are completely unique, there will only ever be one of this creature truly existing at any one time.
- They are one of many, it is honestly surprising that we are not tripping over them constantly.
- They are technically undead and adhere to many of those related tropes.
- They are merely a limb or an appendage of a higher dimensional being dipping into our 3D space.
- They are not entirely bound by conventional causality
- They can phase through most objects.
- They feed primarily off of
- Fear
- Orgone
- Blood
- Delta Waves
- The static in your television
- Literal Garbage
- Can move in the Ana and Kata directions, can pull a victim (or lover) along with.
- Cannot knowingly be photographed or recorded.
- They can remove their various appendages and reconnect them without apparent harm
- Their genealogy is somewhere on this chart.
- Secretes a bioluminescent fluid
- Can unhinge its jaw and swallow exceptionally large prey.
- Is exceptionally sticky
- Has vicious spines, 50% chance retractable
- Fangs are coated in a
- Deadly Toxin
- Powerful Aphrodisiac
- Hallucinogen
- Mutagen
- Paralytic venom
- Amnestic
- Eyes glow brightly in the dark
- Has a tail
- It is long and sinuous
- It is thick and powerful
- It has a stinger at the tip
- It is lined with fins
- It is as dextrous as a human hand
- It is very fluffy
- They have both secondary sex characteristics
- They have neither secondary sex characteristics
- They can change secondary sex characteristics on a whim.
- Can slip through any crack, not matter how small
- Can travel through corners
- They appear differently to each person who sees them, even if multiple people are looking at them at once.
- They exist slightly out of step in time.
- They can reproduce asexually
- They can move faster than the human eye can track
- Is highly communicative but only speaks in riddles and rhyme.
- They have extremely powerful pheromones that follow in their wake
- They can split themselves into multiple smaller copies and combine into a whole again
- Anyone in its sight is frozen to the spot
- Becomes a frozen statue when someone can see them.
- They lay eggs.
- They viscerally mutate to respond to external threats
- They’re actually a parasitic eel-like creature that inhabits another cryptid’s corpse
- Has Wings
- Insectile
- Angelic/Bird-like
- Leathery/Bat-like/Demon-like
- Scaly/Dragon-like
- Biomechanical
- Fractile/Alien
- They have a long sinuous neck, 50% chance neck can stretch infinitely
- They are rubbery, things seem to bounce right off of them.
- How the fuck did Buer get in here? Go away! No one wants to date you!
- Has a dire warning that they wish to convey to humanity, but their language drives mortals insane.
- Has a long, prehensile tongue
- No mouth should be able to contain that many teeth, like this is an absolutely preposterous amount of teeth.
- Has ultra-sensitive whiskers or antenna
- Rapidly phases in and out of existence when highly emotional
- Can produce glass-shattering ultra-sonic screams
- Can mimic any voice or sound they’ve ever heard
- Is bound to a specific location
- A specific forest
- A specific town/settlement
- A specific landmark, such as a bridge
- Must stay underground
- Stuck between two leylines
- Isn’t actually bound, but makes people think they are
- They are technically a fairy and are not very pleased with you referring to them as a monster.
- Used to be a local minor divinity until belief and sacrifices ran thin, now they’re little more than a bogeyman.
- They are a fully fledged fishman, gills, hand-fins, a love for boiled eggs, etc. This one’s for you Alex.
- They are made from some sort of amorphous goop that can form into a variety of limbs, mouths, eyes and other things as needed.
- They disguise themselves (somewhat poorly) every so often to go into town and have some fun. Have a beer, take a pottery class, go bowling, that kinda thing.
- All of their stiff movements are accompanied by a cacophony of cracking and crunching noises.
- Their seven fingered left hand drips with terrible cursed magics.
- They’re actually the real Elvis.
- Their mother is a witch, they still visit for the holidays. Maybe they can introduce you.
- They once dated the Lindworm but have since purged themselves of such toxic relationships. (Buy Sleepaway)
- They have pedipalps
- They’re technically a fungus
- They use They/Them plural pronouns, Hivemind!
- That porcelain mask is actually a part of their face.
- Why yes, those are hooves. 75% chance cloven.
- No, those are actually poison sacks.
- Their presence
- Causes grasses and flowers to grow
- Causes living things to wilt
- Causes everything nearby to become damp and drip
- Causes temperatures to suddenly soar
- Causes Temperatures to suddenly plummet
- Causes local entropy to speed up, causing rust and decay
- Their saliva has healing properties.
- Their eyes change color to match their mood
- They have a habit of eating and/or regurgitating the weirdest things.
- They have a week-long life-span, but that’s okay they’ve got inherited genetic memory.
- Their sexually active form is…rather intense.
- They are only corporeal in moonlight
- They can make wishes happen, but they’re always tainted despite any intentions
- They’re currently on the run from a secret organization formed to capture and contain creatures like them.
- They have specialized appendages for latching on.
- They need constant new experiences to hold the ORKUS within them at bay.
- Their every movement and action is dictated by some horribly complex set of ritual and rules.
- They are the physical incarnation of your own twisted psyche, Silent Hill style.
- Starts every social interaction with “Be Not Afraid”
- Roll on Quirks for as many cryptids you can name
- Roll twice, you have two Stupid Sexy Monsters on your hands now.
- Screw it, it’s just mothman.
ALTERNATIVE TABLES
D6 Simple Environment
- Aquatic
- Terrestrial
- Amphibious
- Airborn
- Interdimensional
- SPACE
D12 Expanded Environment
- Plains
- Swamps/Marshes
- Rivers
- Large Bodies of Water
- Pond
- Lakes
- Loches
- Oceans
- Deserts
- Forests
- Tropical
- Temperate
- Boreal
- Coniferous
- Tundra
- Mountains
- Valleys
- Airborn
- Interdimensional
- Unbound
D10 Size
- Insect
- Cat
- Large Dog
- Deer
- Human
- Bear
- Moose/Bison
- Elephant
- Giant
- Unfathomable
I love it.