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Starship Troopers: Blister Bug

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Name: Blister Bug
Dexterity: 2D+2

  • Dodge: 6D
  • Running: 6D

Perception: 1D+1

  • Search: 2D+2

Strength: 3D+2

  • Climbing / Jumping: 7D

Orneriness: 2D

Move: 13
Size: 4.25 meters length x 2.9 meters height

Special Abilities:

  • Claws: STR+1D+1
  • Natural Armor: STR+1D+1 to resist damage
  • Acid Spit: The jaws and thorax of a blister bug generate a very powerful acid that it can forcibly hurl at opponents. A blister bug can fire acidic spittle once every 1-4 rounds after having used it once in combat; a blister bug can always spit during the first round of combat if it wishes to do so. Targets struck by a blister bug’s acid suffer an additional one hit point of damage each round for 1D rounds unless they spend a full round action cleaning it. The blister bug’s acid also permanently reduces the effectiveness of any armor worn by an opponent by one pip.
  • Damage: 3D/2D/1D; Range: 1-7/14/20m; Blast Radius: 1/2/3m
  • 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.

Description: Blister bugs are a very low-level ranged troop for the Arachnid army and are treated as even more expendable than other ‘soldiers’. They are easily produced as eggs, making them less valuable than other hive types; this places them firmly in the line of fi re whenever a hive is attacked. En-masse, they can be incredibly deadly, but their fragile exoskeletons make them easy to take down with concerted firepower. With an oversized, bulbous upper body and spindly legs underneath, blister bugs are very distinctive on the battlefield and readily identified.

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