Eliminate a rakshasa kingpin, reanimate your deceased character as a mycelian, and cook up a feast with the College of Cuisine Bard, all with Loot Tavern’s Heliana’s Guide to Monster Hunting: Part 2. This supplement brings fun new player options that you can try out in five epic monster-hunting adventures!
Heat your skillet, pray to Skadi (or whichever deity is in charge of hunting in your pantheon), and don your +1 Eyeglasses of Reading, because it’s time to plunge into what Heliana’s Guide to Monster Hunting: Part 2 has to offer!
Explore Hunting & Cooking with New Character Options
5 New Subclasses
These new subclasses incorporate Heliana’s themes of hunting, cooking, and biomancy, giving you unique approaches to building your character
- College of Cuisine Bard: Talk about fast food—these Bards can teleport petits fours in front of your mouth, ready to be chomped! In addition to inspiring allies, Cuisine Bards can choose one of three specialities, each linked to a combat style: Slow Cooking turns you into a front-line tank, Fast Food into a mid-line DPS, and Patissier into a back-line spellslinger. Inspire your party to a chorus of “Yes, Chef!”
- Hunt Domain Cleric: Whether your deity be Artemis, Diana, Skadi, or Wōden, all gods of the hunt relish the chase. As a Hunt Domain Cleric, you will locate your prey, discover their weaknesses, and deal serious single-target damage with your choice of Martial weapons!
- Trapper Ranger: Wielding an arsenal of magical and nonmagical traps, these Rangers are masters of preparation and ambush. But it doesn’t stop there: trapping everything from their weapons to their bodies, trapper rangers can become walking bombs, ready to detonate the moment their Hit Points drop to 0!
- Skinshifter Sorcerer: Wild magic meets Alter Self with this shape-shifting Sorcerer! Whenever you cast a levelled spell, roll a d20—if the result is equal to or less than one-third your Sorcerer level, you change (temporarily)! Will you get the vulnerability of the Paper Skin adaptation or reflect spells with a Tarrasque’s Reflective Carapace? Either way, you’ll be keeping your tailor in business with these unceasing morphological changes.
- Parasite Patron Warlock: Venom meets Flubber in this symbiotic Warlock subclass. Switch Eldritch Blast for amorphous melee attacks and birth parasitic oozes that can protect allies or explode in a cloud of necrosis! Includes a new Eldritch Invocation!
5 New Species
You’ll find a collection of unique species that can help you create characters from different walks of life, whether you’re an oozekin in a trenchcoat trying to sneak into a human village, or a mycelian reanimating the corpse of a recently fallen adventurer.
- Lotol: Creatures of swamp, river, and lake, these salamander-kin go with the flow—literally. Where the water wends, these polymorphic creatures make their home, and their morphology adapts in the process. Will you choose a prehensile tongue with which to steal coin purses from afar, or electrified skin to shock those who’d grapple you?
- Mycelian: Reduce, reuse, recycle, right? Well, what better way to reuse an adventurer than to reanimate their flesh? Much like hermit crabs wear shells, mycelians inoculate corpses with microscopic spores, gaining some of the memories and traits of their forebear.
- Ombrask: Did you lose a character to the Shadowfell? Maybe they’re less lost than you thought. Ombrasks are faded facsimilies of the dwarves, elves, and orcs you know, translucent-skinned creatures that even light would rather avoid—a handy adaptation if turning Invisible seems useful!
- Oozekin: Live your dream of becoming a Gelatinous Cube as the amorphous Oozekin! Naturally curious, these Acid-damage-resisting ooze-people do not have a culture of their own; instead, they tend to assimilate with whoever is ready to accept their slimy, invertebrate form.
- Opteran: Opterans can, in theory, live forever in their stubby-limbed caterpillar-like form. However, should war arrive, or a larval opteran experience a particularly potent fit of passion, it can enter a chrysalis and emerge in a beautiful, winged form. But the clock is now ticking! They live no more than 2 or 3 years in this form, just long enough to find a mate and produce a new batch of larvae!
Five Ready-to-Run Hunts
At Loot Tavern, we LOVE it when a plan comes together. Inspired by our favourite video games, we’ve crafted a new type of adventure—Monster Hunts! These fights are beyond deadly for those who are unprepared, so finding clues about your quarry before you head to the battleground is essential. Each hunt comes with unique monsters, NPCs, wanted posters, clues, and anatomy diagrams!
Clues. A Monster Hunt comes with three clues, which your players can gather. This will tell them how to find their prey, what damage types to prepare, how the enemy might attack the party, and many more things besides. Each clue is illustrated as a handout that you can give to your players—a visual reminder of what they have learnt! Pro tip: Be very, very obvious with these clues. The reward for your players comes from seeing how their preparation pays off!
The Hunts. Five hunts await your players, and each hunt is playable at one of 3 different levels, with unique enemies and compositions to make sure it’s always a challenge.
Magic Items
At the end of each hunt, there are 3 magic items available (each with rarity variants), a magical meal to empower your next adventure, and a bespoke familiar you can adopt!
Items That Grow. Leveling up is a glorious moment in any session. Our rarity variants double down on that by allowing you to level up your magic items, too! Weave a rich story for your players by having their items grow with them as they complete quests and fulfil oaths.
Get a Discount with Heliana’s Guide: Part 2
Part 2 can be run as a standalone supplement, but the adventures get SO much more memorable when you add in the Tracking, Harvesting, and Crafting systems available in Part One. If you haven’t checked that out yet, this handy article should tell you everything you need to know!
Discounts. If you don’t have Part One already, you can bundle both parts at a discount! Check it out here.
More. Moar!! MOAR!! Now is a GREAT time to get into Heliana’s Guide! We’ve just launched a new project on Kickstarter—Heliana’s Guide to Forgotten Monsters—that builds on all the content in the Guide to Monster Hunting. The Harvesting system becomes more empowering with Spellhancements, the practice of using harvested components to empower your spells. The Crafting system gains a new way to brew potions and poisons. And there are eight brand new hunts!
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