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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Capn Charlie" data-source="post: 7074309" data-attributes="member: 16046">I am thrilled you find this usable, this is the ruleset I use at my table, and it is very interesting to see what other people do with it.  As to the character sheet: okay, I will hack something fillable together.  I had not thought about people needing it that way.  I might not be able to make it auto-calculate, this is not my forte, but I will try to get it at least fillable.  There is a really pretty sheet up above, but I did not make it, so I am loathe to mess with it, but I feel comfortable making my shabby old ones fillable.  As to speeds: 30 feet is the default, technically the layout I used for the races mirrors that of the PHB, so the base speed is set in the initial stat block, and then would be modified as an ability in the subrace (which is what the stoph and daht are) but I can see how this is confusing, the alien races came a lot later in the design process and were more of an afterthought, examples of what weird alien races might look like, than any big part of the core rules.  This is why synthetics and greylians have so many more words than they do.  I run the stoph at 30 feet, it seems fine.  Remember, they are only vaguely sluglike to a human frame of reference, though the climb speed is super weird.  Interestingly, due to their high wisdom scores (and weird senses) stoph make incredible doctors and navigators, which jives with their flavor.  Glad you are getting use out of it!  It would take fairly minor re-skinning (no pun intended) to work for an AVP game, the human side of things works as-is, and I have seen statblocks for xenomorhps before, so that isn't a big deal.  Probably the biggest issue would be playable predator, but honestly the savage hunter would work with minor tweaks (mostly weapon and armor proficiencies, which might be better handled by just adding those to the yautja race instead, and let them just be savages with nice ships that do as they are told).  Let me know if you run into any snags, and as always: I love feedback about what works and what doesn't, what seems balanced, etc.  This is my favorite project, and I am really going deep on it.  Finesse weapons are a sore point for me, Dex is pretty heavily loaded in 5e in general, and even more so in space (what with guns, less armor, etc) and I was afraid to load it down too much.  In my initial game I let combat knives be finesse, and it just let gun guy be a badass in hand to hand as well (albeit not as much as the daht with a power sledge).  Honestly, I would rule it case to case depending on what you want at your table.  Synthetic particulars are left intentionally vague, I would only worry about charging times and such as a plot point or as a part of general DM dickery.  If I had to get nailed down to something specific, I would say every 24 hours with a charge cycle, a synthetic gains a level of exhaustion, until finally they shut down.  Something to keep in mind is the energy density of batteries in my default setting.  For a laser handgun to exist, you need a pretty impressive amount of power, so a big 'ol robot?  Their battery packs should be quite extensive.  In a lot of places, there might even be passive wireless power, and some synthetics might have 'skins' with photovoltaics to help passively recharge their onboard power reserves.  As to saving throws: I am intentionally stripping saving throws from the system, as most of them are fairly pointless even in normal 5e, and it becomes even more slanted here.  In my last pass, I thought I got rid of them all, but I must have missed a few.  During playtest at the table the issue was brought up, and after discussion, I decided that letting the savage have universal saves made a lot of sense, and I will be keeping that, probably as a frontloaded benefit alongside natural explorer.  As for the civilian: Honestly, I am not proud of this class.  I feel like it needs a major re-flavoring, and nine lives is silly.  I mean, the class works, even the Luck based specialization, but... it doesn't feel on flavor for the rest of the rules.  I was in a whimsical mood when I wrote it.  As for ruling it as-is, I would let them stay alive, but take them out of play.  Think taking them hostage, or letting them be downed with a debilitating wound.  Sure, the soldier might have hit 0 hp, then soaked that grenade blast and died, but this guy survived and is in traction for the next session.</blockquote>

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