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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6261109" data-attributes="member: 4937">Ok, well you've created a twink race par excellence.  They have +6 racial to STR, +6 racial to DEX, large size, natural armor, 4 arms, multi-attack and pounce.   Everyone in your party is going to want to shape-change into one.   In 3x/Pathfinder context, they are broken beyond belief.John Carter kills them his bare hands without even meaning too.  Granted, he's some sort of immortal God of War, but he doesn't generally do that to a Banth, Calot, or Sith.And even in 3x/Pathfinder, that doesn't follow.  You don't have to write the tusks in as an alternative weapon.   You just have to right something like: "Natural Weapons (ex): Martian Green Men have heavy bony knuckles and large fighting tusks.  Their natural weapons do lethal rather than non-lethal damage, and in a grapple they do base 1d8 damage."Ok, so "Usually Lawful Evil".   No, the fact that they aren't outer planar fiends that actually embody evil gives them the capacity to learn compassion (though, given that we've only seen 2 examples of them actually learning compassion out of thousands of green men, even "Always Lawful Evil" isn't out of the question).Completely uncaring and delighting in the suffering of others is pretty evil, whether deliberate or not.I don't know much about the Psionics rules, but I generally agree with 'very weak natural telepaths'.The actual Radium guns from the books would be grossly OP, considering that they are used by the Greenies not only as anti-personnel weapons but to engage titanic capital warships and fortifications.A typical modern semi-automatic rifle has a stat line similar to:Range Increment: 200', Damage: 2d8+4 (19-20/x3), Accuracy: +1, Penetration: +8, Recoil: 4, RoF: Triple, Ammo: 8 round clipThe Radium Rifles are the military grade TL+1(or higher) equivalent of that, probably something like:Radium Rifle: Range Increment: 400', Damage: 2d6+6 (19-20/x3), Accuracy: +3, Penetration: +9, Recoil: 3, RoF: Triple, Ammo: 100 round clip, Special: Effective range is line of sight, as a radium rifle can engage targets even in orbit.  Each +2 BAB allows the wielder to attempt shots up to one additional range increment away.   When fired in sunlight, ammo explodes on impact doing 2d6 sonic damage over a 5' radius.   Rounds fired at night will explode at sunrise unless buried or disposed of.</blockquote>

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