I love the new Bolida race in AA2, but I think it's a little weird they don't have their multiple arms and many legs as a listed racial feat. They pretty clearly have four arms and ten legs.
It depends how you look at those pictures;they definitely have multiple legs but the one on page 20 has 14 limbs total and the one on page 21 has 12 limbs (not including those things on their ends). The one on page 20 has limbs with three fingers on all of them and the one on page 21 has four fingers on the top pair and three on the rest and only the top pair on both are holding anything (except for one tucked into its 'belt' in the first picture) so my assumption is that only the top pair are really dexterious enough to use as 'hands' and the legs give no mechanical benefit other than the whole rolling into a ball thing. It might just have been a judgement call on balance though.
In either case it wouldn't be the first time that art and mechanics didn't entirely match.
Not to mention they are described as resembling centipedes, which are generally known for having tons more legs than that shown in the artwork.
I think that they effectively have two "legs" (each representing a bunch of tiny limbs) for game purposes. If they take a severe wound to the legs, then they are crippled just like a two-legged person (maybe several of the centipede legs are severed, hobbling them), and it assures that, while the specifics of leg augmentations might be different, mechanically they still only have the same number of slots.
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Still makes you wonder what happens when a bantrid loses a "leg."
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Still makes you wonder what happens when a bantrid loses a "leg."
A chunk of its pearl gets blown off and it's all wobbly, suffering exactly the same penalty as if a human lost a leg.
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Still makes you wonder what happens when a bantrid loses a "leg."
That reminds me of a sci-fi story I read in which an alien was tried for murder when he chopped off a human's legs and left him to bleed to death. He was acquitted of that crime (although of course he should have been tried for an appropriate lesser crime) when it was discovered that he thought he was only slowing him down until his legs grew back.
But does Starfinder have any method for severing limbs?
But does Starfinder have any method for severing limbs?
Yes, any weapon with the wound or severe wound critical hit property can potentially sever a limb.
Still makes you wonder what happens when a bantrid loses a "leg."That reminds me of a sci-fi story I read in which an alien was tried for murder when he chopped off a human's legs and left him to bleed to death. He was acquitted of that crime (although of course he should have been tried for an appropriate lesser crime) when it was discovered that he thought he was only slowing him down until his legs grew back.
But does Starfinder have any method for severing limbs?
The Wound crit effect does it. I also happen to know, to my dismay, that there's at least one enemy in a Starfinder Society scenario that has an attack that requires a Fortitude save to avoid getting a limb destroyed.
That dude there. I need his prosthetic leg.
His leg?
Yeah. God knows I don't need the rest of him. Look at him, he's useless.