Tiny Goons mini adventure: The entity that cried nasty grublings.

• Oh no! Demon faced grublings are eating everything. (DS6 for a few, DS8 for a swarm)
• The tiny goons can easily track back their sulfuric and slimy trail to find from where they came. 
• On the road they encounter a few random creatures who are angry or sad because the demon grublings ate their stuff. 
• The trail lead to a Nasty-Gross entity that seem in pain, it is cursing nasty words and crying. It tears sprout grubling demons when they touch the ground! 
• The entity roots are chained down a hole.
• Someone is cooking down the hole and the smell attract the grublings down the hole. 
• Climbing down the hole the tiny goons encounter demon grubblings trapped in all kind of slimy traps (traps are DS6).
• At the bottom the goons find the Creepy-Gross Moleman Chef who chained the entity, he is preparing a delicious and spicy demon grublings soup! The Moleman Chef don't want to share the soup or to liberate the entity (DS10). He may offer to do so in exchange of a fetch quest to get exotic ingredients but he is lying and wont keep his promises. 
• The key to the chains hang from the roof. Climbing up there is not easy (DS10) 
• Other kinds of creatures are caged in the kitchen. The kitchen also contain all sort of pretty loot. A mutating and a rotting pepper (DS8) are guarding the kitchen. 
• Liberating the entity turn it into a Pretty-Gross entity and it will emit magical dust that can be collected or maybe it can even award it flaming heart. 

Tiny Goons

I missed the Tunnel Goons jam but here is a quick hack inspired by my blog article about how the gross can be positive too. (PDF version)

You are a ugly but cute creature looking for pretty things in a mutating landscape full of strange entities.

• Distribute 3 points between CUTE, GROSS and NASTY. 
• You start with one cute, one gross and one nasty item. 
• Your max inventory is 6.
• Your starting HOPE is 10.

When you try to do something roll 2d6 + CUTE, GROSS or NASTY. 

Add one for each item that apply to the situation.
For each item that exceeds your max inventory subtract 1 from any CUTE or NASTY rolls.

If the total is equal or greater than the action’s Difficulty Score (DS) it is successful.

If the task is super important or meaningful a miss reduce your HOPE by the margin of failure.

DS are 8, 10 or 12.

Regain HOPE by: 

• finding pretty things (d6)
• making new friends (d6)
• eating something tasty (d6)
• sleeping in a warm cozy place (2d6)
• finding something truly wonderful (2d6)

If you lose all hope you become melancholic and can do nothing until you regain some.

The creatures, entities and obstacles that you encounter are:

(d6) 1-2 small like you (DS8), 3-4 bigger (DS10), 5 way bigger (DS12), 6 gigantic (DS14). 

(d6) 1-2 cute, 3-4 gross, 5-6 nasty.

(d6) 1 spooky, 2 creepy, 3 moody, 4 spiky, 5 sleepy, 6 pretty. 

Advancement

Level up at the end of a game session: add 1 point to one of your CUTE, GROSS or NASTY attributes and raise your HOPE or max inventory by 1. If your HOPE reach 20 you make a chrysalis and become something truly wonderful.