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I would also love to have that creature from forbidden planet.
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How about a whole section of 'Build your own Aberration'?
Basically a bit like an eidolon and its evolutions, but with classic alien abilities set up to a point buy cost.
It doesnt exist in pathfinder/starfinder? Built it.
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The creature from the original Jonny Quest TV show episode, "The Invisible Monster." One of the very few things that scared the hell out of me as a kid.
The moorwen from Outlander.
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How about the probe from "The Inner Light?"
Actually, that could translate great to D&D/Pathfinder/Starfinder...a randomly-appearing Minor Artifact that zaps a character out of the main continuity and into a low-risk single-player minigame, then lets them return to the main game with a couple odd new quirks and abilities to show for it (free ranks in Perform [Wind Instruments] and a masterwork flute, for example, but why stop there)?
Need them green skinned girls
We already got lashunta. ;)
I like Lashunta but they are not green, I would also love a race like the Orions from Star Trek.
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A rare PC race that speaks entirely in metaphors and allusions based on their cultural mythology. They have terrible language options and a penalty to Linguistics, but are good fighters, impose penalties to Linguistics checks used nefariously against them, and (saving grace) a large bonus to Diplomacy, Sense Motive, and to Bluff checks to innuendo.
An evolutionary offshoot of Goblins or Kobolds who can barely manage space travel, but have learned to be good at suckering superior spacefaring races into helping them "fix" their ships ("We are far from home, can you help us?"), only to take them hostage and start demanding more and more cool spacefaring technology ("Make us STRONG!"). However, they are not smart, and trickery of all sorts works well against them.
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A rare PC race that speaks entirely in metaphors and allusions based on their cultural mythology. They have terrible language options and a penalty to Linguistics, but are good fighters, impose penalties to Linguistics checks used nefariously against them, and (saving grace) a large bonus to Diplomacy, Sense Motive, and to Bluff checks to innuendo.
An evolutionary offshoot of Goblins or Kobolds who can barely manage space travel, but have learned to be good at suckering superior spacefaring races into helping them "fix" their ships ("We are far from home, can you help us?"), only to take them hostage and start demanding more and more cool spacefaring technology ("Make us STRONG!"). However, they are not smart, and trickery of all sorts works well against them.
We gobs are the Junkions of Starfinder and smart enough to build our own tech out of the pinkskins' castoffs! O hai, do u talk memes, Much-mime-so-closet-such-cranky?
I like Lashunta but they are not green, I would also love a race like the Orions from Star Trek.
I'm sure Succubi/Incubi could be green if they thought the market was right for it . . . .
I can't stand demons or devils. Besides Succubi/Incubi should have been denizens from the dimension of dreams not demons.
An alien species that looks like an elf with green or blue skin and a +2(maybe +4)cha bonus. It could be a new type of elf or something else entirely.
Elves adapt to their environments over living in them, so there can be red or green or blue or orange, etc. elves without needing different stats, just a reason to be that color.
Elves adapt to their environments over living in them, so there can be red or green or blue or orange, etc. elves without needing different stats, just a reason to be that color.An alien species that looks like an elf with green or blue skin and a +2(maybe +4)cha bonus. It could be a new type of elf or something else entirely.
Why not do something original, rather than just reskinning it?
That is so lazy and unoriginal in my opinion.Plus the designers already want to avoid the 'fantasy races in space' cliche as much as possible. You'll probably still find them out there, but they will not be main races.
I said like an elf it doesn't have to be an elf. I have seen plenty of sci-fi fantasy series with races like that. An attractive and charismatic race(+2 to +4 cha) of blue/green/violet skin people that are driven by passion, love, romance, friendship, and family instead of knowledge, anger, greed, logic, war, etc. would be interesting. Maybe give them immunity to charm effects, ability to learn a language by kissing, powerful empathy(+4 racial bonus to sense motive), etc. The only elven features I really want are the ears and the eyes being a solid color like dark blue or violet. Though unlike elves make them slightly shorter then humans.
The invisible energy creature from Jonny Quest and the one from Forbidden Planet are both very similar. I could see ether version being used.
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Vogons
Just so I can have the Craft: Vogon Poetry skill
Vogon poetry is so bad I think you'd need mythic rules to represent its epic awfulness.
We gobs are the Junkions of Starfinder and smart enough to build our own tech out of the pinkskins' castoffs! O hai, do u talk memes, Much-mime-so-closet-such-cranky?A rare PC race that speaks entirely in metaphors and allusions based on their cultural mythology. They have terrible language options and a penalty to Linguistics, but are good fighters, impose penalties to Linguistics checks used nefariously against them, and (saving grace) a large bonus to Diplomacy, Sense Motive, and to Bluff checks to innuendo.
An evolutionary offshoot of Goblins or Kobolds who can barely manage space travel, but have learned to be good at suckering superior spacefaring races into helping them "fix" their ships ("We are far from home, can you help us?"), only to take them hostage and start demanding more and more cool spacefaring technology ("Make us STRONG!"). However, they are not smart, and trickery of all sorts works well against them.
More seriously though... (Pathfinder) Goblins don't take a racial penalty to Int or Wis, and with their social and resource pressures they have to be quite sneaky and cunning just to survive, so I don't think the "not smart, trickery works" idea works for them. While they don't have the organization, focus, and militaristic bent of the hobgoblins, they could easy do quite well in a sci-fi/futuristic society. With icon-GUI interfaces and/or voice commands, they could operate most tech; with bioware or a chem treatment that properly regulates or dulls their constant hunger, they'd likely be able to remain focused on their tasks to achieve success. They are remarkably adaptable, so I think they could take quite well to extraplanetary life and travel.
Also, I really really really hate the concept and execution of Star Trek's pakleds, which seemed to be the inspiration for your idea; no Starfinder race deserves that terrible treatment.
It's a rubbish bin. That's on fire.
Actually, speaking of the Hitchhiker's guide, what about Babel Fish or whatever Zaphod Beeblebrox is.
Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but symbiotic or even parasitic race as a PC race. Of course to be a PC race, the body race would have to be compatible with the symbiote in a way that other races aren't, like the Trill. I think Eberron had something similar too.
My all-time favorite has already been confirmed as off the table, unfortunately.
Alien life forms that are living energy, pure thought, silicon based, parasite/symbiotic, shapechanger, living sound waves, and other strange things.
Bring back the phasm, maker it CR20 ooze, and give it the ability to change into any creature it wants.
I'd be pretty glad if nothing from this thread gets in. No offence, guise, but I want a fresh start.
However, since my soap box is out, might I suggest some kind of interstellar development for the Azlanti prison colony on Somal? Might be cool to have Absalom Station's very own demon pirates.
Apparently the moon disappeared alongside Golarion, based on the Know direction interview with James Sutter
I am fine with Golarion's moon being gone, it is not like we don't have plenty of other moons to explore.
I would like some race inspired by star wars like the various types with head tentacles like the one in the third movie and like Ahsoka's race. There are also plenty of weird stuff in the original Star Trek like that silicon based like form that used acid to burrow through solid rock and was only dangerous because the miners were destroying her eggs.
Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but symbiotic or even parasitic race as a PC race. Of course to be a PC race, the body race would have to be compatible with the symbiote in a way that other races aren't, like the Trill. I think Eberron had something similar too.
Goa'uld and Jaffa too.
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A nebula ooze would be cool for a CR26-30 range type creature.
Xenomorphs of course. Some good old fashioned eusocial parasitology at its best.
Kif: an apex predator/raptor-based psychology
Atevi: Humanoid with non-human emotional psychology based on follow-the-leader style dominance (man'chi).
Mri: mercenary race of soldiers dedicated to honorable weapons
Hani: a pride-based apex predator-based psychology
Stsho: biologically incapable of violence
Mahendo'sat: simians with religious fads and linguistic hang-ups
T'ca & Chi: symbiotic serpentine & twig-like chlorine breathers with multipartite brains and matrix-based grammar
Knnn: wiry spidery insane geniuses
Majat: hive-mind insectoids
I want the aliens to be truly alien. Not just "humans in funny outfits," but with truly alien psychologies.
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My all-time favorite has already been confirmed as off the table, unfortunately.Who's/what's that?
The coeurl.
I would love to see the Coeurl but for legal reasons they can't.
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What about Giant Space Hamsters? Lest we forget, they're totally legit!
Mechalus.
Nopon.
Elves adapt to their environments over living in them, so there can be red or green or blue or orange, etc. elves without needing different stats, just a reason to be that color.An alien species that looks like an elf with green or blue skin and a +2(maybe +4)cha bonus. It could be a new type of elf or something else entirely.
Why not do something original, rather than just reskinning it?
That is so lazy and unoriginal in my opinion.Plus the designers already want to avoid the 'fantasy races in space' cliche as much as possible. You'll probably still find them out there, but they will not be main races.
Pathfinder's elves are already original in that their power to adapt to new environments over the course of a lifetime.
I want the aliens to be truly alien. Not just "humans in funny outfits," but with truly alien psychologies.
And physiologies please.
And hopefully more creative than 'animals standing up' as aliens.
Less Kzinti.
More Pierson's Puppeteers.
And hopefully more creative than 'animals standing up' as aliens.
Less Kzinti.
More Pierson's Puppeteers.
Exactly, more Wayne Barlowe, less George Lucas.
Wayne Barlowe's stuff definitely gets a thumbs up from me. I recently watched 'Alien Planet', which is based on his artbook, 'Expedition'.
Tribbles?
I would love something like tribbles.
There is just as much room for star Trek, and Star Wars, and there is for Wayne Barlowe, or Pierson.
Some stuff based on races from Farscape would be cool as well.
Oh, I had a race of evolved familiars once.
One of the things wizards would do for their 'heir apparent' is pass on their familiar to them. Familiars would live as long as their owners did. Over time the exposure to the magic of being a familiar and the passing on of the same familiar over and over caused them to evolve into an intelligent race in their own right. They had a mage hand/ telekinetic power that they could use to interact with things with, however they were still generally animals (well magical beasts now) and therefore their desires and focuses were different than most other races.
"Why do I need weapons? I have claws and can run from not-food."
"Why wear clothing? I have fur and the weather isn't that bad."
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Also elves have always bothered me. The description is always about grace and beauty - never brilliance or geniuses. But their stat bonus is intelligence not charisma.
I agree about elves' mental mods but ever since 3rd edition they want elves to be Vulcans instead of elves.
I agree about elves' mental mods but ever since 3rd edition they want elves to be Vulcans instead of elves.
Speaking of, I would not mind Vulcans considering the thread we are in.
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Why would Paizo want to include an unrelated company's IP?
They wont. But i'll be surprised if the "space bugs with a queen" trope doesnt make the cut. Be it Zerg, Aluens, Marvrl's The Hice, Spaceshup Troopers arachnids, Ender's buggers, etc.
With it's own twist, but they'll exist