We’ve been tinkering with this to generate the Challenge Levels for our Second Edition monsters. Now, we’re releasing it to the public so you can play with it too!

Please note a couple changes.

• First, monsters now have full Attributes. Use these instead of the CL for monster ability checks.
• Second, Appearance has become Presence. All Talents that previously referenced Appearance now work off of Presence.

Elite and Boss monsters require a little bit of prep by the GM. Elite monsters have a single Talent from the Talent Pools chapter. Boss monsters have an entire Advanced Talent Pool. There are a couple other fun things about these two types of advanced monster, but we’re tweaking those yet in playtesting.

Find the calculator over here:

The Ingenium Second Edition Monster Challenge Level Calculator!

Both Fortress Fairling and Summerfort have a significant monster presence a relatively short distance away; being a border outpost and border town, respectively, they have to deal with a number of threats that more civilized areas don’t.

The most common monsters in the area are gurunil and hollow men, though there are a few nests of vikors in the woods near Fortress Fairling. The goblin-like gurunil and bat-like vikors are presented in the Ingenium core book, but the hollow men are a new monster whose stats are presented below.

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What follows is an excerpt from the Eiridia campaign setting. It describes the people of both Rekellia and Redami. Players looking to get more insight into how Rekellians and Redami act will find this useful. Also, it serves as a good primer on the people in and around Summerfort (and, by extension, Fortress Fairling).

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