Starship Troopers: Cliff Mite
Name: Cliff Mite
Dexterity: 4D+2
Perception: 3D
- Con: 4D+2
- Hide: 6D
- Sneak: 6D
Strength: 1D+1
Orneriness: 0D
Move: 7; Burrow: 7
Size: ~0.8 meters long
Special Abilities:
- Bite: STR+0D+1
- Natural Armor: STR+0D+2 to resist damage
- Blindsight 10 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.
- Dexterous Attack: Due to their nimble nature, cliff mites are able to use their Dexterity rather than their Strength to attack.
- Wall Crawler: A cliff mite can climb and travel on vertical surfaces or even traverse ceilings as well as a Terran spider can. While the cliff mite is doing so it may continue to travel at its base speed and need not make checks to climb a vertical or horizontal surface, even if doing so upside down. A cliff mite cannot travel any faster than its base speed while climbing.
Description: Cliff mites are often used as sentries and advance scouts due to their small size. These insects are somewhat crab-like in appearance and posses a vicious pair of mandibles capable of slicing through even hardened steel. When a cliff mite attacks an inanimate object as a full-round action it ignores half of the objects hardness.
Source:
- Starship Troopers RPG Sourcebook (page 211)
- Starship Troopers Wiki: Cliff Mite
- thedemonapostle