Feudal Wilderlands - Part III - The Restless North

Great Fiefs of the Wilderlands

The Restless North

    The northern coastal provinces  (barely coastal in th case of the Dwarven subkingdom of Thunderhold) have some of the most tenuous relationships to the Invincible Overlord.  In the case of Thunderhold, the dwarven king pays homage to the Overlord, but promotes trade with his most dedicated enemies - both Gwarenne and the City State of the World Emperor.  Gwarenne is notoriously independent, dominating trade with Valon and the Elphand Lands, Valley of the Ancients and controlling the most direct sea route to the City State of the World Emperor, giving it economic clout to resist the Invincible Overlord.  Vinnior is a narrow windswept coastal plain on the backside of the Majestic Mountains, it's inhabitants are considered to be the most rustic and boorish of all the City State's provinces.

 Duchy of Gwarenne - ruled by the illustrious Sana family, who where among the original conquerors and colonists from the City State of the World Emperor over 1000 years ago.  This fief is ruled more as a rival to the City State of the Invincible Overlord, rather than as an inferior.  It's boundaries start at the confluence of the central tributary of the Stillring in hex 2511, it follows the Stillring to it's mouth in hex 3110, then turns north and follows the coast around the Wormshead peninsula to hex 2904, then due south to the mountains east of Demon Tongue, turning generally south west along the crests of the hills and mountains to hexes 2607 and 2608, south southwest back to the confluence of the central tributary of the Stillring in hex 2511.  It also includes Brezal Isle.

County of Rorystone and Kingdom of Thunderhold - ruled by the Dwarven Iron-helms.  The Dwarven Kingdom of Thunderhold has been, for years, a major trading partner of the City State of the Invincible Overlord.  In the files of the Litigation Trickster's Guild and the various courts of the City State, it has acquired a dual character.  The ruler is still King of the Dwarves, but is also legally the Count of Rorystone ruling the humans above ground, one of the few rulers acknowledged by more than one race.  As the Count he pays homage to the Overlord in return for the rights to collect tolls on Rorystone Road.

     It's boundaries start at the confluence of the central tributary of the Stillring in hex 2511, generall north northeast to the crests of the hills in hexes 2608 and 2708, then generally northeast along the crests of the hills and mountains to the mountains east of Demon Tongue. Due north from the there to the coast in hex 2904, west along the coast for ten miles to the deepest point of the bay in hex, then west to Nimbus Tor.  From Nimbus Tor it tends southwest along the edge of the seaward slopes of the Majestic Mountains to through mountains in hex 2106 to the Carrion Abyss in hex 1808.  Turning east it passes over Sabre Scarp to the crest of the Majestic Mountains, thence south west along the crest of the Majestics and the hills to their southern outlier in hex 1613.  The border runs from there southeast to the source of the River Stillring, then back up the Stillring to it's confluence with it's central tributary.

County of Vinnior - ruled by the Seighard family. Once powerful chieftains in Altanis, they were elevated to the major nobility and exiled to this cold and windy land far from their southern home and kinsmen.   They have little in common or respect for the mostly Tharbian peasants native to the land.  This rustic backwater consists of the small coastal plain, dominated by the north wind off the Winedark Sea, where the population practices subsistence farming and fishing.  The hills and slopes on the far side of the Majestic Mountains and nearby ranges provide grazing for sheep and goats as well as a source of monster parts for magic users through out the region.

     Vinnior's boundaries run from the deepest point of the bay in hex 2803 west to Nimbus Tor.  From Nimbus Tor it tends southwest along the edge of the seaward slopes of the Majestic Mountains to through mountains in hex 2106 to the Carrion Abyss in hex 1808.  From Carrion Abyss it runs generally northwest along the crest of the hills and mountain south of Harridrim Cap to the tributary of the Syfwitch River in hex 1307, down the stream to the Syfwitch and down the Sywitch to it's mouth on the Winedark Sea.  It turns back along the coast to the east to the deepest point of the bay in hex 2803.

Previous Posts in this Series

Wilderlands Trade Radius

Wilderlands Market Areas

Wilderlands Where the Barbarians Roam

Wilderlands Baronies

Wilderlans Baronies, Further Considerations

Wilderlands The Roglaroon

Feudal Wilderlands Part I

Feudal Wilderlands Part II - The Heartlands

Feudal Wilderlands Part II

     This portion of the series will concentrate on defining the boundaries of the independent fiefs, name the noble family that rules it and add my initial observations of the area.  I intend (and we all know what's paved with good intentions) to do fief by fief posts adding detailed information about the fiefs and their sub-demesnes.    In short this is a work in progress allowing me to flesh out a great many details about the Wilderlands using Chivalry & Sorcery as the game system.  Note that I am currently being influenced by Merovingian Francia in my concept of the politics of the Wilderlands.  Not independent cities, but no strong central authority either. 

  The Great Fiefs of the Wilderlands 

The heartland along the Roglaroon

    These are the core of he provinces claimed by and usually acknowledging the Invincible Overlord.  They are loyal to the City State due to the shared trade highway of the Estuary of the Roglaroon.  The fact that they're also the easiest for the Overlord to send and support a Vasthost when putting down dissent and rebellion may play a factor in their overt professions of loyalty.

The City State - the personal demesne of the Invincible Overlord.  It's core is the City State and the rich farmland to the west, but contains the Moonraker Moorlands as well as the Troll Fens and Mermist Swamp.  It claims much of the Dearthwood, but those claims are subject to dispute by the Orcs of the Purple Claw.  

     It's boundaries start where the Forest River enters into the Roglaroon in hex 3518, follows the river upstream along the northern branch to hex 3017, south to the headwaters of the tributary of the Conqueror's River in hex 3018, down that stream to it's confluence with the Conqueror's River then upstream on the Conqueror's to it's headwaters in hex 2714, continuing across to the headwaters of the river Stillring and it's tributaries in hexes 2613, 2314 and 2014.  Thence south along the Howling Hills to the headwaters of the Eorlbane in hex 2121, on to the headwaters of the river defining the northern boundary of the Mermist Swamp in hexes 2122 and 2123 and then to the headwaters of the northern fork of the southern river defining the Mermist Swamp.  It follows that river down to the Roglaroon and along the estuary back to the start on the far side of Dearthwood.

County of Severnais - ruled by the Catilia family of Virdii extraction.  The coasts and banks of the estuaries cutting this demesne are high and steep, making water transport much harder than the you might expect from the map.  Small fishing and smuggling settlements exist, but no major ports.  

     The demesne follows the boundary of Roglaroon from it's beginning at the mouth of the Forest River in hex 3518, all the way through the headwaters of the River Stillring in hex 2014.  From there it turns and follows the Stillring all the way to it's mouth on the coast in hex 3110, thence along the coastal hexes to the Mouth of the Roglaroon in hex 3712, then back up the estuary to the beginning.

County of Losthaine  Ruled by the de la Vora family from Antil, recent favorites of the Overlord.  The wide plain between the Cloudwall Mountains and Ered Losthain is an important agricultural area feeding the City State.  The fortress at Bier (hex 2926) not only protects the Old South Road and the ferry crossing, but also serves as a sheltered anchorage for vessels awaiting better wind and tide conditions to minimize their exposure to the hazards of the Estuary.   

    The county's border follows the Roglaroon from the mouth of the southern river draining the Mermist Swamp to the mouth of the minor stream east of Bier (hex 3124), up that stream to it's source on the slopes of the mountain (hex 3426), along the crest of the hills joining that mount to Ered Losthain proper (hexes 3127-3428).  Down the crest of Ered Losthain to Fatherhorn Mountain (hex 3431) , bending southwest along the spur to the south (hex 3333) then west along the edge of Quean's Waste and the Hetflad Dunes to the Cloudwall Mountains (hex 2734), turning northwest along the crest of the mountains to Lanshan Gap (hex 2129), across Ered Cantref and Twinhorn Gap (hex 2127) to the source of the central tributary (hex 2126) to the southern river draining the Mermist Swamp, back down that stream to it's mouth on the Rogalroon.

County of Brythange - Ruled by the pleasure loving Vespillia family, who emigrated from the City State of the World Emperor due to excesses too great for that decadent court some 800 years ago.  This realm is tucked along the southern bank of the estuary.  It's extensive forests (for it's size) are hunting preserves of the nobility, being generally safer than the Dearthwood across the water.  The fortunate peasants toil for their overlords on the central and eastern plain adjacent to the Hagrost.  The less fortunate have to toil in the rocky uplands of the west and south.

   The border starts at the mouth of the minor stream east of Bier (hex 3124), down the Roglaroon to the confluence of the river Hagrost (hex 3522), up the Hagrost to the first tributary of the Archlin Stream (hex 3925).  It goes up that tributary to it's sources in the hills (hex 3826), along the crest of the hills through Neuwag's Neck (hex 3527) to Ered Losthain (hex 3428).  It follows the crest of the hills north to the mountain east of Bier and the source of the minor stream (hex 3426), thence down stream to the mouth on the Roglaroon. 

Duchy of Difrios  Known as the loyal duchy, it's sobriquet is more a reflection of the Overlord's problems with the other Dukes than any fond feeling on the part of the debauched Vespillia family.  This is the family's major holding and the Dukes, who often privately style themselves Rex Modronia, have as much control of their relatives - including the infamous Rumps of Tegel - as the Overlord does of them.  The duchy is a prosperous province with many agricultural, mineral and raw material resources.  It also benefits from controlling the trade at the mouth of the Roglaroon, the city of Modron being a major transshipment point as well as the entrepôt for the goods of the province.  

   The border starts at the confluence of the River Hagrost and follows the Roglaroon down to it's mouth.  It controls the entire coast down to the River Torn (hex 5123).  The boundary follows the Torn up to it's source (hex 4424), then across to the source of the Archlin Stream (hex 4226) and down the Archlin and Hagrost back to the confluence of the Roglaroon.  Difrios also includes the isle of Croy and a number of smaller islands in the Winedark Sea within it's borders.

Wilderlands guides and maps are copyright 2018 Judges Guild.  They have been  used without express permission to illustrate my personal version of  the classic campaign setting.

Rob Conley, who did the Layout and Cartography for the Revised Edition, has  new a Kickstarter for his  RPG rules based on his long running campaign.

Feudal Wilderlands Part I

     Continuing with the series I was posting back in April and May, I am now ready to start designing a feudal version of the Wilderlands using the 'Designing the Feudal Nation' rules from Chivalry and Sorcery's old red book.  To recap, I've followed Chesterton's advice and studying the Wilderlands canon to understand how the pieces work together - now I'm ready to make changes to take my version to my version of the setting to add a richer background.

 

     

     Two things are required by C&S when designing a feudal nation - a map of the nation where you can draw the boundaries and the number of great nobles of varying denominations.  C&S recommends a King (the eponymous Overlord), 2-3 Dukes, 2-3 Marquises and about 10 Counts.   Now this doesn't really line up with the Social Level table from ready Ref Sheets, etc that are part of the Wilderlands canon.  

BOOM!  Down goes a fence.  As long as I'm using C&S, its Social Class system will be used including the calculated Basic Influence Factor or BIF.  If they interact personally with any of the gods running around in the Wilderlands - Baldur comes to mind - I'll adapt the C&S Social Class to the circumstances instead.

    Looking at the map and the canonical castles - including the one in Hex 4014 of Map 1 that isn't  listed in the Wilderlands campaign book; I've decided to start with three Dukes, twelve Counts and one Baron who hold their lands directly from the Overlord.  They will determine all the other feudal holdings, which will include the canonical castles and citadels as well as I expect a number of additional fiefs that I will need to place.

   One other design consideration is how strong is the Overlord?  C&S says a strong King, like most of the Plantagenets of England would have holdings equal to 2-3 dukes; while a weak King, like the later Carolingians and early Capetians of France would only be the equal of a duke.  The canon is mixed on this question, the discussion of hosts and vast hosts would indicate a strong king.  The repeated losses to the World Emperor and the tribute paid to him, along with allusions to Warwick rivaling the City State would indicate a weaker king.  What tips me to the weaker Overlord is ineffectual response the Skandik take over of the Pagan Coast around Ossary.  It's far too reminiscent of Rollo in Normandy for me to ignore.  And AFAIK the Pagan Coast was based on that incident.

     So I'm basing my Wilderlands more on the politics of medieval France than England.  I do intend to ensure that the holdings of the great nobles are scattered across each others nominal domains.  While this was a lesson that William the Conqueror had learned - contiguous power blocks, like his in France, were detrimental to a central authority.  In late Carolingian and early Capetian France successively inferior tenants had similarly fractured the great feudal demesnes by arrogating rights and holdings to themselves that Charlemagne and his initial successors had only granted to the great lords at their pleasure.  The 1358 years since the founding of the City State surely gives enough time for that to happen.

Here's the starting map of the fiefs of the great lords.

C&S in CSIO - Voyage to Modron Part II: Perils Abound!

     This post details the rest of the Random Encounters the party had during the voyage from the City State to Modron, each encounter is prefaced by the hex on Campaign Map 01 where it occurred.

Hex 3522

     An hour or so later, as the Blesinde navigated through the winding channels, whirlpools and eddies between the Confluence Islands, where the Roglaroon bends north and the Hagrost  enters from the east.     

    At a cry from one of the crew, the party looked over the starboard side and saw a large dragon like creature swooping down on Captain Chiramnesind¹ as he steered the caravel through the turns between the hazards at the speed of  trotting horse.  Not having work to do maneuvering the ship, Ysolt and Mordacis loosed arrow and stone as the salt-rimed, horse head monster², reeking like dunghill, grasped futilely at the ducking helmsman.  Adenin gave a surprisingly bass roar and began hurling imprecations at it.³  The boatswain and four of the crew ran back to the ballista at the stern. 

     With a shriek like grinding glass, the beast performed an Immelmann and sped back towards the ship, higher and forward of the first pass.  Ysolt's arrows passed by the beast.  

     The ballista thrummed and the projectile slammed into the horse like head, followed by two stones from Mordacis' sling striking the beast fairly.  The monster plunged into the estuary a hundred yards to starboard.

     The oily slick where it landed was peppered by rocks and arrows and another ballista bolt to no effect before the creature flapped soddenly off in the direction it had first attacked from, pursued by a final futile arrow and sling stone.⁴

  ^{Hexes 3521 and 3522}

     Running free of the channel, they encountered Maelstrom again, who came close along side and spoke to the captain privately for over an hour before she turned and dove behind the ship as it slowly sailed against the flood tide.

Hex 3520

     The lookout shouted a warning and pointed over the port bow at two canoes angling towards the ship from the Dearthwood shore.   The orcs in the canoes were taking advantage of the flood tide to close with the caravel struggling against it.  With the ballista blocked by the ship itself, they quickly ranged one on each side of the ship and boarders began to climb.  It was all over in a flash, with half the orcs and a third of the crew dead on the deck or floating in the estuary.  The big orc with the red stripe tattooed diagonally across his face pulled the surviving pirates and the canoes back towards the Dearthwood shore.⁶ ore Adenin and Mordacis did what they could to heal the casualties as the caravel continued past the mouth of a river flowing out of the Dearthwood. 7

Hex 3517

    "Chiramnesind, Chiramnesind, I will be merciful", the orca declaimed from the water.  The whale was covered in tattoos of eldritch figures in a bilious yellow on it's black forehead,  "When the Dreamer Below wakens, apostates will suffer torment deeper than the Kraken dives!  I would spare my old companion the suffering!"

    

 

The captain removed a small stone from a pouch and chanted "Effer citatum turpi creatura, quas eiecite te quos eieci!"

     "That incantation only works on Those from Without,"  replied the cetacean , "not such as I.  The shantak will not be the last hunter.  And now you have revealed your defense, so the others will not be affected!  Your torment shall be great, as will that of your crew."  The last word was burbled as the whale subsided back below the Roglaroon.⁸

  Chiramnesind turned to the crew and shouted "Let's get to port, you swabs, first round is on me!  That blubber eater is a bigger threat to the sea birds than to us in the goddess' harbor!"  Which raised a cheer from the crew at the immanent prospect of beer vs a more distant prospect of grisly death.

    Adenin approached the captain and questioned him about the curious sigil on the stone.  He was rebuffed "If you know it not, priest, it's best you avoid it and return to your temple.  There are things older than the gods that will eat your soul for dinner."  Adenin returned to the group and sketched out teh curious sign when related the captain's warning.

^{Hex 3615}

As Blesinde made the harbor at Modron, the fin of a great shark circled the ship.  Adenin approached the captain and asked permission to try shooting it with the ballista, explaining he had been raised in Baron Jaquob's household and had been trained on the machine's operation.  "Fine, one shot, the bolts are expensive." was Chiramnesind's grudging permission.    The bolt flew far wide of the fin before it splashed in the water.  The shark followed close along until the mooring lines were passed over at the dock.  Then with a flick of it's tail it swam swiftly to the mouth of the harbor and out of sight.⁹

Previous Posts in the Series

Voyage to Modron Part I

Encounters on the Roglaroon

Meet the Party

Mordacis

Chivalry & Sorcery 1e - Shantak

     

Shantak
After Call of
Cthulhu illustration

The Shantak is a monster from Call of Cthulhu, based, of course, on the works of H. P. Lovecraft and needs to be converted. 

They were not any birds or bats known elsewhere on earth...for they were larger than elephants and had heads like a horse's. .... The Shantak-bird has scales instead of feathers and those scales are very slippery. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

      Here at least I have a an animal in C&S to start the conversion process with, since the Shantak is bigger than an elephant, I'll start with a Woolly Mammoth. The characteristics come from the Saurians book, which includes Ice Age fauna as well as dinosaurs.

Mammoth

Height/ Length	Body	WT.	Move	Armor	%Hit	%Dodge	Exp
9'/12.5'	150	10,000	60/ 180	4	+20% 5*WDF MLH(4) +10% 5*WDF  MLK(2)	0	2250

Shantak
     Height and Length - the description says bigger than an elephant, but it flies, rtaher than trimping around on the ground.  The drawing from Call of Cthulhu 1e shows a wyvern-ish shape with a long neck.  I'll leave it at 9' tall, but stretch the body to 18' and assume it has about a 40' wingspan.
     Body  CoC includes stats for elephants as well as Shantaks.  It gives an elephant 31 HP and the Shantak 32 HP, so I'll leave Body at 150.
     Weight - I'm going to thin it down since it's a flier.  Mature Dragons in C&S weigh 250lbs for every foot of length, so 4,500
     Move-  C&S give a mature dragon a movement in the open of 225 yards/2.5 minutes walking (same as a man).  CoC gives a man a movement rate of 8 yards/combat rounds"of a few seconds".  If I assume 11 combat rounds per minute in CoC [It was probably 10, but trying to make the numbers work.] I get 220 yards /2.5 minutes.    So as a Shantak moves at 6 on the ground and  30 flying in CoC, multiplying it out for C&S it has a ground movement of 165 and a flying movement of 825 yards/ 2.5 minutes.  Making it the slowest flyer in the sky.  For combat turns, divide by 3.75 to get feet per turn, triple that for maximum movement speed of 132.  Same calculations for flying speeds.
     Armor - CoC reduces damage by the armor value, C&S changes the chance to hit.  So conversion by analogy here.  An elephant in Call of Cthulhu is is unarmored, a Shantak has an AC of 9, making it bullet proof more often than not.  I'm going to keep it's AC at 9, including the damage reductions from Plate and Chain armor.
     Hit  - the Mammoth has Large Horns (tusks) and Large Hooves (kicks).  Despite being depicted with large bird like talons, the only attack CoC lists for the Shantak is a bite.  I'm going to increase the size to compensate for fewer attacks, and give the the ability to 'toss' a victim.  In CoC an elephant has an average strength of 50, while a Shantak is 34, so I'll decrease the hit bonus by 5% and Weapon Damage Factor by 1.
    Dodge - 45% slower than the next slowest flier, these are large clumsy fliers.  No dodge.
    Experience -  Shantaks are malevolent, evil intelligent beings from the outer planes.  They will fight to cause terror and flee if their robust physical defenses let them down.  So I'll set it equal to a fire breathing wyvern - 3000 xp.

Height/ Length	Body	WT.	Move	Armor	%Hit	%Dodge	Exp
9'/18'/40' wingspan	150	4,500	44/ 132 220/ 660 Fly	9	+15% 4*WDF MGB(2)	0	3000

MGB - Monster Giant Bite

Type	Weapon	Blows	WDF
MGB 9	Giant Fangs/Teeth	2	5**

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Hit	55	55	50	45	40	35	30	25	20	15	15
Critical	45	40	40	35	30	25	25	20	20	15	15

** A hit by one of these natural weapons permits an attacker to bash or toss a victim 5-30 feet.  There is a 60% chance that a victim in AC 0-2 will be stunned and a 25% that others will be stunned.  Increase chance of stunning by 5% for each 5' short of possible distance thrown if the victim is bashed into a wall.

From Chivalry & Sorcery Combat Tables page 52

C&S in CSIO - Voyage to Modron Part I

 

Trying my hand with Google 
Canvas and a stylus

   Mordacis and Ysolt take a load of exotic woods down to the docks to deliver to Captain Chiramnesind of the caravel Blesinde.  Athelbrus, his master, has arranged passage for  them to take the wood to Modron, then cross the estuary and trade with the elves of Elfburn for lotus flowers.  Mordacis' friend Wulfgar skulks along with them and arranges for his own passage out of town.  He manages to negotiate a standard 5 sp fare from the 7 sp originally requested ¹.  Chiramnesind oversees loading the wood into a boat and tells them to meet him at the Sea Nymph  Inn on Water Rat Road at sunset to be rowed out to the ship, the ebb starts sunrise and they'll be underway before then.

     At the Sea Nymph, they are joined by Adenin, bound for a month long stint in a hermit cell outside of Limerick, near Elfburn.  Ysolt recognizes him as a fosterling of Baron Jaquob, her father's lord, and makes the introductions.   Despite his abysmal dexterity, Adenin manages to board the ship without falling in.

     The next morning the conditions are near perfect with a strong breeze from the southeast pushing them along with the tide at an average of almost knots.

     Weighing anchor is unexpectedly difficult as a giant amoeba² has hitched a ride and is drawn up with it.  As the anchor reaches the cathead, one of the crew³ attempts to knock it off with a boat hook.  The amoeba crawls along the cathead to the ship with the sailor bashing it with a boat hook (Improvised Weapon, Non-fighter.  A boat hook is a short pole with a combination blunt tip and hook.  It is used tby the wielder to fend off (push) and pull objects in the water.). When it reached the side, Ysolt and Adenin joined in with their spears.  After several rounds, Wulfgar stepped in and poached the kill by bashing it with his Heavy Club.⁴

    As the sun rose, they saw giant beaver attempting to build a dam across the river, later Wulfgar observed an immense fish (giant gar, but he only knows fish by taste) swimming just below the surface.

     Four and a half hours after departure, the ship already far down the Dearthwood Reach, a great sea dragon (Maelstrom, the guardian of the estuary) broke out of the water and roared, "Beware, beware!  I scent evil on the tide!"  Then dove and swam swiftly ahead of the ship.  Captain Chiramnesind ordered pikes and cutlasses to be brought up and placed in racks around the railing.  Ysolt and Adenin put on their armor, Wulfgar rummaged in his bag and brought out a slightly dented Watch helmet, saying "Good thing I picked this up after that last dust up."

Leaving it here, as I have another monster to convert.  The amoeba, beaver, gar and sea dragon were all random encounters; which I do not assume are automatically combat.  The beaver and gar were simply seen and not interacted with.  Maelstrom came up ALOT randomly, she'll feature prominently in Part II.  I'm using ACKS random encounter frequency, which is check once per hex entered and a 50% chance on water.  Since they are making a sustained 8.4 knots (topping out at 14.5 knots) I made a lot of checks for a 12.5 hour voyage.

Previous Posts

Meet the Party

Mordacis

Encounters on the Roglaroon

Chivalry & Sorcery 1e - Giant Amoeba

Phagocytosis

The Giant Amoeba is a Warhammer FRP monster and needs to be converted.  I consulted the C&S Sourcebook which has guidelines for conversion and creation of monsters.  It actually calls out giant amoebas as possible but gives no stats.  The conversion guidelines turned out to be not  much more than, start with something similar (which doesn't exist in C&S) and it should follow real word physics.  OK I can deal with that.

The following is for a giant amoeba which would form a two foot (61 cm) diameter sphere.  Spread out it would be about six inches  (15 cm) thick and four feet (122 cm) in diameter radius, obviously it can reshape it's body considerably.

Giant Amoeba
A large single celled organism that scavenges dungeons and waterways.   Some amoeba have an Armor of 1 or 2 from chitin nodules embedded in their bodies, but most are AC 0.

Amoebas only Combat Maneuvers are Close and Retreat.  They will only retreat from fire the size of a torch or greater that has been applied for a minimum of three rounds.

Amoebas take no damage from Missile weapons.  Melee weapons do damage only on a critical hit.  Edged weapons do half damage, and thrusting weapons do one quarter damage in those cases.  No roll on the critical hit table is required, the only critical location is the nucleus. 

Body	WT.	Move	Armor	%Hit	%Dodge	Exp
50	300	10/20	Varies	nil	nil	50

Attack Mode and Special Considerations 

1*WDF MMP. 
Giant amoebas attack prey by encircling them in pseudopods and dissolving them using a process known as phagocytosis.  The creature takes damage every round until freed.

MMP - Monster Medium Pseudopod

Type	Weapon	Blows	WDF
MMP 2	Pseudopods	2	2

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Hit	40	30	30	30	30	30	30	25	25	25	15
Critical	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--

Pseudopods do not score criticals, but all damage from phagocytosis is scored against the Body.  Opponents automatically take damage every melee turn after a successful attack until freed from the encircling pseudopod.  Attempting to free oneself or another character expends one blow and requires rolling under the character strength on a d20. 

Phagocytosis - involves secretion of chemicals that dissolve bonds in proteins, basically digestive acid attack.

Edited to improve table formatting.