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Monster Totems - Beta Release

Added 2022-02-13 02:38:27 +0000 UTC

This was a project I worked on for a bit and then it sat for a very long time. After a revisit, I present the first draft ready for beta testing and typo checks.

To add to your campaign, simply shuffle the monster totem innovation into the innovation deck. When a monster is killed at a deathblow hit location (or The Hand is defeated via Respect), the settlement gains the corresponding monster totem and level. Survivors that innovate here can gain Collective Insight abilities that affect the whole settlement and every survivor.

The settlement can only have 3 collective insights at any given time but they can be gained again by innovating at the totem. The design intent here is to

1. Provide more incentives for fighting higher level monsters.

2. Provide a new meta strategy for combining collective insights, which aid in fighting the same monster but higher levels, or other monsters. This mechanic is very much in the same vein as the Mega Man games where you get the weapon of the boss you defeat and some of those weapons give you advantages over the other bosses you fight.

3. Provide opportunities to remove or counter some of the more annoying aspects of any given monster.

A tracking sheet is provided for using these cards in multiple settlement campaigns concurrently so that you can reassemble what is need for your settlement. It also provides an overview with all of the collective insight abilities for strategizing which ones you want to try and obtain.

All feedback is appreciated and feel free to discuss on the discord.

~ Maximo

Project Folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Gv5k6pkzfjl1NKH5purKtloIX5F2wl59?usp=sharing