“My god, it’s full of stats…”*

What monstrosity lumbers forth? The ST Monster Table for GURPS! Why has it risen? None can say – or perhaps none dare. Born of a mad notion that the Damage Table and the Basic Lift and Encumbrance Table could be fused into a single heaving entity, this Qabalic construct reveals even damage scores expunged from the Damage Table. For while summoning new tables for STROLL of late, it was discerned that the stars are aligned and the portals are open; now is the time. The time for what? To create that accursed chimera of a table – and to cram it full of everything!

What lies within? Madness, that’s what! Damage, Basic Lift, encumbrance levels, key weights for strength-based feats of lifting and moving stuff, and one non-official, homemade thing: ST Roll, the score you really want to use in Contests and other ST-related rolls. (Read about that here.)

What feeds its massive bulk? Spreadsheets! When technology puts such power within man’s grasp, the only ethical sin is to not delve too deeply! The numbers mystically fill themselves in – except those damage scores. (I had to extrapolate scores that the Damage Table skips; I can’t find official published numbers.)

Thank your cowering gods that the Table stops where it does. At ST 70, “add 1d to both thrust and swing damage per full 10 points of ST” kicks in on the Damage Table. With the progression revealed, GMs can freely extend the Table to whatever end. (Again, I’m filling in missing numbers; if some resource shows how 1d is supposed to be split up over 10 levels of ST, tell me where it lies buried.)

But hark! What ghastly wail rings now across the moor? Lo, the son of the creature looms in the murk, mewling its rage at the world and its own loathsome birth! Succumbing to the profane urgings of whispers from beyond*, the noisome green ST Monster Table v2 unveils columns for the cost of ST – both the classic GURPS progression and the alchemically-crafted alternate progression divined in Rules Bit (GURPS): A better cost for ST and HP. To further sate its blasphemous lusts, this ill-spawned colossus pierces the barrier to stretch its entries to ST 100, a number of gematric insignificance – or so They would have you think. (Actually, I went to ST 100 just so the alternate cost progression ends on a pretty number. Also, while v2 stops at ST 100, further ST up to 200 is a dead-simple 1 point per +1 ST.)

What is humankind to do with these abominations? I don’t know! Print them life-size, to paper over secret lair exits. Wrap dire fish. Line your owlbear cage. Transcribe them onto parchments of unhallowed leather to be buried under eldritch wards in the restricted collections at Miskatonic University. Flash one at non-GURPS gamers to scare them off the system – forever!

Or maybe even use one of the Tables in games. It’s handy if you want a one-stop look-up for a bunch of ST-derived stats. The power-hungry may even be tempted to add character sheet spaces to hold those lifting-related numbers.

Dare we feed the beasts more? Did I leave out any Table-ready feats of strength or key ST-derived stats? Could we – and should we – further sate the creatures? Will the lurching advance of such mad GURPS science prove our savior? Or do we risk birthing a Table so large it will destroy us all?

*Thank you, Esteemed Commenters!

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ST Monster Table v1

ST Monster Table v2

Original tables online

ST Monster Tables (Numbers format) – Online Numbers file containing the original tables.

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