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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 7134139" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>What are your ideas for unique alien races? I'm trying to brainstorm a few ideas, and figured a list might be useful to folks in the same situation.</p><p></p><p>Couple of caveats:</p><p></p><p>- must be suitable as player characters; a Q or a sentient pot plant might be fun to imagine, but probably not suited for PCs.</p><p>- don't worry about the stats; just describe the race briefly and highlight its abilities. That was GMs can use/adapt them for any system.</p><p></p><p>Here's my starter for ten:</p><p></p><p><strong>Nerons. </strong>Aquatic "merfolk" who live underwater and never saw the sky until visitors arrived. For that reason, they never developed space travel, but they welcome the galactic community and have built underwater domes for their guests. Nerons are half fish - their lower half, like the mythical menfolk, comprise a fish tail, and their upper halves are completely hairless. Gills allow them to breathe underwater; they cannot breathe air without breathing apparatus. While way behind their neighbours in many technologies, for some reason the Nerons developed highly advanced medical sciences, and are galactic leaders in the medical field. Nerons can also speak to fish.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 7134139, member: 1"] What are your ideas for unique alien races? I'm trying to brainstorm a few ideas, and figured a list might be useful to folks in the same situation. Couple of caveats: - must be suitable as player characters; a Q or a sentient pot plant might be fun to imagine, but probably not suited for PCs. - don't worry about the stats; just describe the race briefly and highlight its abilities. That was GMs can use/adapt them for any system. Here's my starter for ten: [B]Nerons. [/B]Aquatic "merfolk" who live underwater and never saw the sky until visitors arrived. For that reason, they never developed space travel, but they welcome the galactic community and have built underwater domes for their guests. Nerons are half fish - their lower half, like the mythical menfolk, comprise a fish tail, and their upper halves are completely hairless. Gills allow them to breathe underwater; they cannot breathe air without breathing apparatus. While way behind their neighbours in many technologies, for some reason the Nerons developed highly advanced medical sciences, and are galactic leaders in the medical field. Nerons can also speak to fish. [/QUOTE]
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