Alien races?

[Calico_Jack73]

What is wrong with a game featuring only humans? That was one of the things I liked about Firefly.
You could take a Warhammer 40K spin and retool Dwarves, Halflings, Elves, and Orks to fit into a T20 game as Squats, Ratlings, Eldar, and Orcs.
Squats used to be human colonists on worlds with high gravity and low sunlight so they genetically grew shorter but more stout and also developed darkvision. See... it makes sense from a Sci-Fi standpoint.
One of my friends started a T20 game where Mind Flayers were invading known space. Worked well with the setting since Psionics does play into T20. I had to move before we got too far into it.

 

[Psion]

What is wrong with a game featuring only humans?

Nothing, other than it's not what I am looking for.

You could take a Warhammer 40K spin and retool Dwarves, Halflings, Elves, and Orks to fit into a T20 game as Squats, Ratlings, Eldar, and Orcs.

Um, no. NOT what I am looking for.

 

[Psion]

Dude, the "four-armed women" are SO not my fault . Some of the templates may prove usefull though. You'll have to tell me what you thought of the Quasta and Ulb (my guys).

To be fair, I have no problem with four-armed women considering the context of the book -- for a science FANTASY game. (For that matter, they are originally from FFG's Mythic Races.

That said, I guess I'll have to dig up my copy and take another look at your creation. My memory is dim...

How 'out there' do you want to get. largely wet-and-squishy carbon-based critters? crystaline, rocky or energy based beings an option?

I want beleivable, which means that they souldn't be humans in funny suits, or single trait exaggarations, but they shouldn't be outlandish "energy beings" either.

 

[Breakdaddy]

Damn you Psion! I've been mulling over getting T20 and now you've made me buy it! I am compelled....arrrrggghhhh

 

[NeghVar]

Have you looked at:

Dream Pod 9 Core Command: Big Nasty Aliens

I do not own it myself - but it is the only other book on aliens I know of...

 

[Kesh]

Just pull out some of the stranger critters from the various d20 monster books. Especially stuff that came from Spelljammer. Here's a few examples:

Braxat (MM2, pg 37)
Grell (MM2, pg 121)
Kopru (MM2, pg 134)
Mooncalf (MM2, pg 150)
Neogi (MM2, pg 158)
Ormyrr (MM2, pg 167)
Thri-Kreen (MM2, pg 195)
Darkweaver (Fiend Folio, pg 39)
Alkilith (FF, pg 46)
Inevitable, Quarut (FF, pg 102) {Consider them the time-police. }
Kaorti (FF, pg 108) {Perhaps the 'cyst' is a true parasitic hive-mind race, infecting other races}
Steel Predator (FF, pg 163) {C'mon, this thing just screams Alien }
Kython (BoVD, pg 178)
Etoile (Menace Manual, pg 35)
Fraal (MeM, pg 45)
N'sss (MeM, pg 71)
Sesheyan (MeM, pg 83)
Zeikune (MeM, pg 97)

Hope some of those help!

 

[Kesh]

A lot of Dark Matter races were copies of these races. Sasquatch were basically Weren but with a different history (lower-tech, replace human with frrall in their history). In Menace Manual they're the same thing... but use the Dark Matter history.

Sesheyans became mothmen (same balance, different flavor), fraal became greys (got Dex +0 but otherwise were the same), t'sa became kinori and the mechalus became sandmen with some slight stat mods.

Interesting. In the Menace Manual, the Sesheyans and Mothfolk got seperate writeups, as if they were different species.

So, let me amend my other list.

 

[Ghostwind]

Eden's Liber Bestarius has several appropriate sci-fi feeling entries. You should also take a hard look at Inner Circle's first book, Denizens of Avadnu. Might be what you are after.

 

[DonaldRumsfeldsTofu]

Is D20 Future still coming out? If that doesn't have alien races, I'll be disappointed. But if it did, it'd be awesome. Especially if they were aliens based off of actual folklore, like greys, schwa, reptilianoids, nordics, blues, annunaki, ect.

 

[Ranger REG]

Actually, I'm more concerned about science fiction rules than I am with science fiction monsters, if they can fit them all in a $35 HC supplement.