Most interesting and balanced PC race stats for this alien wins. There's extra credit if you also provide a unique name and brief cultural description. Go.
Looks like an Izulguun reskin. Probably call it a Candrifor, personally.
I took a shot at it. Couldn't come up with much for culture, but I'm reasonably happy with how things turned out.
Ability Adjustments: +2 Con, +2 Wis, -2 Dex
Hit Points: 6
Size and Type: Strigopods are medium monstrous humanoids with the strigopod subtype
Strigopod Senses: Strigopods have low-light vision and blindsight(vibration) 60 ft.
Advanced Lenses: Strigopds receive a +2 racial bonus to vision based perception checks
Focused Vision: A Strigopod can take a move action to focus her complex eyes on a particular target. Attacks made against this target before the end of her turn reduce the penalty to attack rolls due to range by 2, and treat the target's AC bonus from cover against the Strigopod's attacks as 2 lower. Focused Vision can be used as part of the same move action required to aim a weapon with the sniper weapon special quality, or as part of a trick attack where she does not take any movement even if she also aims a sniper weapon as part of that action.
This was my original idea for Focused Vision, but I'm worried it might be a little too powerful.
Focused Vision: A Strigopod can take a move action to focus her complex eyes on a particular target.The Strigopod's next attack against this target before the end of her turn receives a +1 racial bonus to the attack roll. Focused Vision can be used as part of the same move action required to aim a weapon with the sniper weapon special quality, or as part of a trick attack where she does not take any movement even if she also aims a sniper weapon as part of that action.
Fast: Thanks to their 4 long legs, Strigopods have a base speed of 40 feet.
Multi-Legged: Strigopods have four legs, which makes them particularly stable. A strigopod gains a +2 bonus to its KAC against combat maneuvers to trip or move her from her position.
Multiarmed (4): See AA2, page 151
The 8-limbed Strigopods are a race of traditionally nomadic insectoid creatures native to the dry savannas of Norus-6. They have large grasshopper like bodies with 4 long legs, and 2 pairs of short arms. Their large finch like beaks evolved to be equally adept at crushing the hard shells of gore-tree seeds and at cracking open the carapaces of burrowing quartz-mites. While outside observers originally assumed that Strigopods were a sexless race, they are in fact so highly sexually dimorphic that the males were initially assumed to be a different species.
Strigopod sensory organs consist of primitive scent-receptors in their beaks, a mane of specialized hairs for detecting sound, and specialized pads on their rear legs for sensing vibrations in the ground. Most impressive to xenobiologists, however, are the Strigopods complex eyes, consisting of an array of chitinous lenses that can be independently adjusted to grant the creatures exceptional visual acuity. While this adaptation helped ancient Strigopds avoid predators and pick out distant food sources, modern Strigopods find their eyes make them natural marksmen.
While advancements in technology have allowed many Strigopods to adopt a sedentary life in permanent settlements, all Strigopods return to the wilderness in order to reproduce. They seek out groves of wild gore-trees on which the mindless barnacle-like males of their species grow, there the males release clouds of gametes in response to female Strigopod pheromones, after which most males shrivel and die. Females then lay their eggs in the fleshy bark of the gore-trees. Male eggs hatch first, and burrow into the tree bark to begin maturing for the next spawning season. Female eggs hatch later, the Strigopod nymphs climbing on to their mothers' backs where they'll remain for the first year of their life.
Most interesting and balanced PC race stats for this alien wins. There's extra credit if you also provide a unique name and brief cultural description. Go.
He doesn't look real to me. So I'll pass.
OK, it looks like a cross between Jurassic Park and centaurs.
Why are tufts of hair sticking out of it's space suit?