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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6179401" data-attributes="member: 57383">I'd better warn you that I believe Burroughs' estate still have a stranglehold on his IP - it's the main reason there's no "Barsoom the RPG" out there.Using Green Martians is likely on as shaky a legal footing as using Thri-Kreen, so you might be safer reskinning and renaming them if you want to publish them.As for the stats, they look pretty good.It might be worth considering cutting out a few of the racial traits to lower the RP cost.The Green Martians in the books weren't noticeably stronger than John Carter so I'd consider cutting the Advanced Strength. They were also pretty fragile - Carter once killed one with one punch - so you could cut the natural armor and Con and maybe lower the HD.Although they have impressive tusks, did they ever use them in combat? I don't recall a Green Martian ever trying to stab anyone with them, so maybe they're just for display? If so, you can cut the Gore attack.The Limited Telepathy is sort-of-fitting the original creature, but I don't think they really need it. You could cut that and save 3 RPs.Finally, I'd seriously consider breaking from the original height and making them Medium sized instead of Large. I know they were twice human height in the books, but this never seemed to actually have any impact on their interactions with human-sized characters.</blockquote>