One Hit Wonders

MOOKS & BOSSES

Sometimes the heroes need to plough a bandit, a guard, a ninja, or a thug. Any
through legions of bad guys, mowing down creature can be designated a mook, as
their foes with heroic ease. Whether they be follows:

stormtroopers, ninjas, or other disposable

henchmen, some foes’ role in the story is 1. A mook must have a Maximum Dice
simply to let the protagonist show off. These Pool less than the PCs.

are the mooks.

2. A mook is automatically killed with a
In other cases, the goblin tribe may have a single hit which exceeds its SOAK.

goblin king, or the faceless soldiers may be 3. Mooks have the Mob exploit,
led by an experienced commander. While described below.

you can always use a different monster the

for such elite opponents, you can also turn a As the PCs increase in grade, so does the
regular foe into a boss.
pool of available mooks. To appropriately
powerful PCs, even xenomorphs, vampire
Mook spawn, and velociraptors might eventually
Mooks may be faceless minions, or the qualify as mooks, at the GM’s discretion.

horde that surrounds the evil mastermind.

In a mixed party, the mook designation
A mook has the same stat block as a can be relative. In other words, if a creature
regular creature of its type, whether that be has an MPD one die less than one of the
Mob (requires Mook). Mooks are best
used en-masse. When three or more
mooks are adjacent to a more powerful
foe, each mook automatically deals 1
point of non-SOAKable damage (although
this does not circumvent immunities) to
the target at the beginning of its turn. The
mooks may not attack the target directly.
In this way, mobs of mooks can slowly
bring down a more powerful foe while
being easily dispatched one at a time.
PCs, but equal to the rest of the party, only
that one PC treats it as a mook. That PC
kills the mook with one hit; the rest do
damage normally.
area attack.
BOSs
A boss might be a larger version of a
creature, or their leader or champion. Or
maybe it’s just a paragon of its species. A
boss doesn’t have to have underlings; but
they often do.
an allied boss, it will stop fighting. It will flee
A boss has the same stat block as a
regular creature of its type. Any creature can
be designated a boss, as follows:
were multiple bosses to begin with), half of
Henchmen (requires Boss). Once per
round, when a boss has an adjacent
mook, it can make that mook take the
damage from an attack which should
normally have hit the boss. The mook is
immediately killed.
1. A boss must have a Maximum Dice
Pool equal to or higher than the PCs.
2. A boss has double HEALTH.
3. A boss gets +1d6 to all attribute
checks, including attacks.
4. A boss deals an extra 2d6 damage on
a successful single-target attack, or
an extra 1d6 damage on a successful
5. A boss has the “Henchmen” exploit
listed below.
Morale
When a boss is killed, mooks tend to break
and flee. If a mook witnesses the death of
if possible, and surrender if not.
If there is still a boss remaining (i.e. there
the mooks will break, while the other half
continues to fight. Determine which mooks
flee and which mooks fight randomly.