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Starship Troopers: Blaster Bug

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Name: Blaster Bug
Dexterity: 3D+1

  • Dodge: 5D+1
  • Running: 5D+1

Perception: 1D+1

  • Hide: 3D+1
  • Search: 3D
  • Sneak: 3D+1

Strength: 3D+2

  • Climbing / Jumping: 7D

Orneriness: 2D

Move: 17
Size: 4.25 meters length x 2.9 meters height

Special Abilities:

  • Claws: STR+1D+1
  • Natural Armor: STR+1D+1 to resist damage
  • Blindsight 20 meters: Using non-visual senses, such as sensitivity to vibrations, keen smell, acute hearing or echo-location, a creature with Blindsight maneuvers and fights as efficiently as a sighted creature. Darkness and most kinds of concealment are irrelevant, though the creature must have line of ‘sight’ to a creature or object to discern it. The creature usually does not need to make checks to notice creatures within range of its Blindsight ability. Unless noted otherwise, Blindsight is continuous and the creature need do nothing to use it. Stealth checks made to evade a creature with Blindsight suffer a –1D+1 penalty.
  • Fiery Blast: These bugs are capable of generating a stream of fire 5 meters wide and 13 meters long. All creatures in that area must make a Dodge Difficulty 16 check or suffer 5D+1 fire damage immediately. For 1-4 rounds thereafter, victims of the Fiery Blast that suffered its initial damage suffer an additional 2D+1 points of fire damage each round unless they take a full round to smother the flames.

Description: Blaster bugs are almost a specialist form of the blister bug and likely come from the same hive or one very similar because its external appearance is quite similar. These terrifying bugs can spew streams of extremely volatile chemicals that ignite in contact with the air to create sweeping sheets of torrential flame. This chemical reaction renders the blaster bugs useless for fire support outside of an oxygen-rich atmosphere, but the hive has other breed-forms for such instances. The blaster bugs are extremely difficult to generate as eggs and most brain bugs conserve their numbers whenever possible.

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