As a GM, I love me my monsters. Lots of monsters. They're one of the core tools in the GMs box, and you can't have too many. The DFRPG Monsters book is great, but you can never have too many monsters. The first obvious (and easiest) place to look outside of Monsters is the GURPS Dungeon Fantasy product line, it's spiritual elder sibling. There are five books of monsters for that line, and more in the Pyramid issues and in adventures for GURPS DF (which are all handy anyways). They're pretty easy to pick up and drop into a DFRPG game, once you get used to the slightly different notation for some of the monster Traits.
That's the low-hanging fruit. Where do you go after you've exhausted those? The rest of the GURPS product line of course!
The easiest places to start are the other "genre mini series", sister product lines to Dungeon Fantasy. After The End and Monster Hunters in particular (Action is a great series, but doesn't really have monsters). Both these series have monsters, but both these series are aimed at a post-firearms world, so there's some adjusting to do - if only to remove the guns from the monster equipment lists!

After The End is probably the easiest place to start, as while the setting has guns, it also has a lot of low-tech elements and therefore tool-using enemies also have some sort of (crappy) melee weapons. The biggest selection of monsters for ATE is in GURPS After the End 2: The New World - here you can find gang members (bandits!), mutant people, mutant animals, and an alien. Mutant people make for fascinating nonhuman humanoids, mutant animals are just regular old monsters, and aliens, if you ask me, are one of just more mundane humanoids, fae, demons, or Elder Things. Whichever you feel your campaign needs more of.

However, the humanoid mutants are a bit tricky because the mutation packages they provide refer to the mutation traits in book 1, rather than base trait names that are easy for DFRPG players to figure out.

Over the next while (schedule unknown at this point) I'm going to be making DFRPG enemies out of these After The End gang members and mutants, using DFRPG traits and equipment. No puzzling out required, I'll do it for you :D For GURPS DF players using the optional CER rules, I will be providing CER numbers as well.

Along the way I will sprinkle in some variations as the mood strikes me. Why not?

Precis – This post presents a weaker form of No Depth Perception, for when you can place things really close up (but not at range).

Poor Depth Perception [-10 points]

You might have two eyes and they may be roughly pointed in the same direction, but you still have poor binocular vision and are challenged by visually judging distances. This might be due to a vision disorder, physiology, or a quirk of your neurology. Unlike No Depth Perception you suffer no penalty in normal melee combat and with tasks involving hand-eye coordination within arms reach.
You still take a -3 penalty on ranged attacks (unless you Aim first) and on rolls to operate any vehicle faster than a horse and buggy. You also suffer a -1 to Dodge against ranged attacks, and -1 to -3 on hand-eye coordination tasks that involve elements beyond your reach moving rapidly towards or away from you you, such as striking or catching small objects that are moving faster than Move 15. You're simply terrible at all stick-ball games (-3 penalty).

Precis – A random enchanted fountain table for Dungeon Fantasy!

Enchanted Fountains

Magic fountains and pools are classic dungeon features, dating back to some of the first published adventures for D&D. DF Exploits talks about them quickly, and suggests a table of random effects might be fun. So here's a table!

Enchanted Fountain Table

Roll (2d)	Effect
2	Healing magic! Roll 1d; 1-5: Heals 4d6 injury; 6: Roll HT for each affliction affliction or crippling injury to have the affliction removed or the crippled limb restored. Roll HT-5 for severed limbs.
3	Teleports the character to a nearby (within 50 yards) room (choosen at the GMs whim, or randomly).
4	Random attribute increase! Enjoy a (1d) bonus to a random attribute for (2d) hours. Roll on the random attribute table (below) to pick which one.
5	Monster disguise! For (1d) hours you are magically disguised as a monster from the wandering monster table for this dungeon, as if a Simple Illusion spell and an Illusion Disguise spell were cast on you (DF Spells p. 40). Unlike the spells, this illusion is not dispelled by touch! If there is no wandering monster table, pick a monster type found in the dungeon.
6	Gain Magic Resistance 5 for 1d hours (or increase existing Magic Resistance by 5). This is not Improved Magic Resistance and will prevent spellcasting!
7	Nothing happens... this time! (The magic is on the fritz!)
8	Invisibility! Grants invisibility for 1d×10 minutes, or until user takes offensive action (e.g., attacks) or casts a spell.
9	Random attribute decrease! HT-4 or suffer a (1d) penalty to a random attribute for (16-HT) hours. Roll on the random attribute table (below) to pick which one.
10	Sleepytime. Roll HT-4 or sleep for (16-HT) hours (as per the Sleep Potion).
11	Corrosion! (1d-1 corrosion damage for a dip, 3d HP of injury if swallowed)
12	Dangerous poison! HT or take 2d+6 tox HP of injury (HT-4 if swallowed!)

Random Attribute Table

Roll (1d)	Effect
1	ST
2	DX
3	IQ
4	HT
5	Perception
6	Will

While written for the DFRPG, this material is fully compatible with GURPS DF (and GURPS in general)

This is a breakdown on getting Insubstantial characters to interact with physical things. It's ordered in roughly order of cost of the enhancement(s).

Partial Change, +20% only

You may interact physically with substantial targets, but do so by materializing parts of your body to do so. This renders you vulnerable to Parry/Block, and various kinds of counter-attack (Wait-and-Attack will probably become very popular for your targets). Does not require Affects Substantial, as you are exposing yourself. Your entire hand (or foot, or whatever) becomes substantial as part of any attack.
If you want to attack while insubstantial and be immune to counter-attack by remaining insubstantial, you should take Affects Substantial and add the +40% Affects Substantial enhancement to your ST.
You may only interact by pushing, shoving, hitting, poking, etc. You cannot lift or pull things, nor can you grapple or pin. You may not use extraordinary abilities without taking Affects Substantial - you may only interact crudely; even extraordinary abilities tied to body-parts (the Deathtouch spell, an Innate Attack with the Melee limitation defined as claws, etc) cannot be used without Affects Substantial applied to Insubstantial (and to the extraordinary ability, if appropriate).

Partial Change, +20% + Can Cary Objects, any level

As above, but you may now also lift and carry, pull, grapple, and pin (subject to your Can Cary Objects weight limit). Objects remain substantial, and the body part(s) manipulating the object are also substantial (and targetable in combat by substantial foes).

Can Cary Objects, any level

You may turn objects insubstantial by holding/wearing them when you become insubstantial. When you drop them, they become substantial. You can't throw them or swing them as weapons or use them to manipulate physical objects (unless it's a magic ghost weapon Gadget type thing, which is cheating 😁 ). You may not pick up substantial objects while insubstantial, nor may you turn substantial objects insubstantial without carrying them with you as you yourself turn insubstantial. To acquire more insubstantial objects, become substantial and then pick them up like normal people.
Despite lacking "direct" combat actions, this enhancement still has significant combat applications - pulling the pin on a hand-grenade and dropping it (so it becomes substantial and harmless to you) is only the most flashy. It also allows you to do things like drop caltrops, blow poison powders or smoke/gas issuing devices, and generally deploy environmental hazards.

Partial Change, +100% + Can Cary Objects, any level

You may now also take your equipment that became Insubstantial with you, and turn it Substantial, without dropping it. This allows, eg, a Super-Ninja to walk through the wall with his trademarked poisoned shuriken and throw them or use them to claw at guards, rather than just dropping them - which isn't very ninja-awesome. It's not specified in the quote, but it seems very much that it goes the other way as well - you can steal things and turn them insubstantial.

Affects Substantial, +100%

If you have any ability that notes it can be used while Insubstantial on substantial targets, you must take this enhancement. This includes abilities that work with a penalty when crossing states. This also includes any ability that has the Affects Substantial, +40% modifier applied to it to upgrade it - yes, you have to pay in two places. It's that expensive because it's that awesome.
Failing to take this enhancement locks out all abilities that would normally otherwise cross the substantial/insubstantial border to work only on targets in the same condition as yourself .

Affects Substantial, +40% applied to ST

As per GURPS Power Ups 4: Enhancements pp. 9-10, following the provided procedure to "Enhance" ST with Affects Substantial benefits all unarmed melee attacks, for striking only. Remember Claws, ST-Based Innate Attacks, Strikers, and Teeth will also require the enhancement if you wish to enjoy this enhancement with them.

Untouchable Deadly Assassin (Contains House Rules)

An Insubstantial character who wishes to be able to interact with the physical world as if solid, but be interacted with as if Insubstantial without any of the pesky problems of partial materialization should take the following meta-enhancement on Insubstantial:
Untouchable Deadly Assassin (+350%): Affects Substantial, +100%; Can Cary Objects: Heavy, +100%; Cosmic: Interact Physically While Completely Insubstantial, +50%; Partial Materialization, +100%.

Cosmic: Interact Physically While Completely Insubstantial

This is an application of Cosmic: Removes Restrictions. This house-rule modifier requires every other enhancement in the meta-enhancement; it is not separable. Can Cary Objects allows supporting weight; Partial Materialization gives the ability to manipulate physical objects while otherwise Insubstantial; Cosmic is required to remove the requirement to partially expose yourself to attack, and Affects Substantial is required because you now have an ability that allows you to interact physically with the environment while remaining safely insubstantial.
You will still need to apply the Affects Substantial enhancement to any extraordinary abilities that you wish to also apply to the physical world.
Note that defenders aware of your attacks will still be able to defend. You will need to add separate enhancements to your abilities to bypass this. Being an Untouchable Unstoppable Deadly Assassin is terribly expensive. Go shopping in the Malediction and Cosmic section for the usual heavy-hitters in this respect, but Respiratory, Blood-Based etc may be useful.
Note to GMs: You may wish to also require the player to buy Affects Substantial on ST as the character is now effectively enjoying the complete benefit of this enhancement.

Precis – a paired set of Artifact style magic items: the javelins Shock and Awe. Includes description, a bit of history, and stats.


This was my submission to the GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Magic Items contest; these definitely qualify as artifacts under the 40 Artifacts guidelines :)

Shock and Awe

This pair of Balanced, Fine, Orichalcum javelins have a mysterious provenance, rumored to be the handiwork of a great dwarven craftsman empowered by an airy spirit whoes heart he captured (by romance or by trickery, the stories do not say).

Both are fancifully decorated, counting as Ornate +3. Shock is edged in electrum and the javelin head is in the shape of a stylized lightning bolt. Awe is gilded, and the javelin head portrays the sun, with the blade formed from the suns rays being twisted together.

In combat, Shock and Awe have dazzling features. Neither can be parried or blocked, only dodged. Once either hits or misses, it disintegrates and reforms in its wielders hand on his next turn, instantly ready.

Shock transforms into a lightning bolt when hurled, coursing across the battlefield with a flash and a bang. Whatever it strikes suffers Linked 2d burning damage with the Surge, Arcing enhancement (Psionic Powers page 20), and it produces a Thunderclap (as per the spell, Magic page 171) with itself as the subject.

Awe transforms into a blast of sunlight when hurled, with the fury of a thousand desert noons. The entire line of hexes between the thrower and whatever it finally strikes are lit as per the Sunlight spell (Magic page 114) for one minute. Whatever it strikes suffers Linked 2d tight-beam burning damage, and it produces a Flash (as per the spell, Magic page 112) with itself as the "caster".

Shock and Awe together are a 13 FP Power Item. They cannot be separated for long; at the stroke of noon if they are not in the possession of the same person, both Shock and Awe vanish with a Flash and a Thunderclap.