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    Monster Trove: Things Others Swore They Saw

    Brownie

    Small - Orderly Kind (Guardian)
    HP
    18
    AC
    13
    DR
    0
    Attacks
    1
    Attack
    1d4+1
    Size
    Small
    Alignment
    Orderly Kind (Guardian)
    Intelligence
    Average (8-10)
    Magic Resistance
    Cold iron in the house makes it uneasy but does not harm it. It is bound by the older law of hospitality: a promise made to a brownie holds, and a promise broken to one cannot be mended by magic of any kind.
    Saves
    Quick 2 / Tough 1 / Mind 1

    It threshes the grain, scours the pots and mends the thatch, all between the banking of the fire and first light, and it asks for a bowl of cream on the hearthstone and nothing else. A brownie is not a servant and takes bitter offence at being treated as one. Leave it wages and it is insulted. Leave it clothing and it is gone by morning, forever, often with a rhyme about the gift left ringing in the rafters. Households that lose one rarely prosper again.

    Special Attack

    A wronged brownie fights with whatever the house provides - the poker, the boiling pot, the loose flagstone. Improvised Strike: bludgeoning, melee 5 ft, +2 to hit, 1d4+1, and it always has something to hand. Souring: 20 ft, save Con Tough, fail save roll 1d4 poison as milk curdles, ale turns and rations spoil in the pack, cooldown 3 rounds.

    Special Defense

    Of the House: within a dwelling it knows, it moves through walls, floors and locked doors freely and cannot be cornered. Gift of Clothing: offer it any garment and it departs at once, permanently, and the encounter ends. This works, it always works, and the household will regret it.