Manual of Monsters, Minions & Mountebanks

300+ entries with conflicting drive statements to spark your imagination. 

200+ SFX to flesh them out. 

100+ pages.

Manual of Monsters, Minions and Mountbanks is a beastiary collection of monsters intended for use in Cortex RPG games and compatible with Cortex Lite and its in development fantasy extension Torchlite. 

Presented as challenge blocks, all of the entries can be used as is or carved, substituted, and swapped together to create brand new entries. Homebrew hooks for swapping in new playable peoples to GMC tropes are available alongside classic monsters translated for Cortex. 

All monsters are also available in .json format compatible for use with Kaelri's Cortex utility for character sheet creation and visualization here: https://cortex.engard.me/

As an ashcan edition, any playtest notes, questions, or commentary are welcome!

Attribution

This work is based on the Cortex Prime role playing game system, designed by Cam Banks, edited by Amanda Valentine, and owned by Dire Wolf Digital ™©.

This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 (“SRD 5.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

Page and cover art from Mariana Ruiz Villarreal