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Starship Troopers: Kamikaze Rippler Bug

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Name: Kamikaze Rippler Bug
Dexterity: 4D

  • Dodge: 6D

Perception: 1D+1

  • Search: 3D

Strength: 3D+1

  • Climbing / Jumping: 5D+1

Orneriness: 2D

Move: 7 Walking; 20 Flying
Size: 5 meters tall

Special Abilities:

  • Claws: STR+1D+1
  • Spike Burst: Damage: 5D+1; Range: 1-10/20/40 meters
  • Natural Armor: STR+1D+1 to resist damage
  • Blindsight 30 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.
  • Deadly Pass: Kamikaze rippler bugs can move their full aerial speed and gain a single attack action. To do this, they must fly in a straight line during the round in which they make their deadly pass. The target of this attack is subjected a claw attack, which takes place when the bug sweeps past it on its flight path. This motion does not offer a free attack. If the claw attack hits during a deadly pass, it deals an additional 1D+1 damage.
  • Poison: Kamikaze ripplers have the ability to poison their barbs before spitting them. This can only be done if the spikes are fired singly; they are just normal spikes if fired as a spike burst. The poison has a Strength Difficulty of 17, initial damage is -1D (rolled) to targets's Dexterity and Strength, and secondary damage of 1D+1 Dexterity. This makes it a very effective immobilizing poison and one of the key ways Arachnids possess for capturing targets.

Description: Kamikaze rippler bugs look exactly like a regular rippler, however, these airborne nightmares have a hidden sting. In addition to the rippler bug’s formidable attacks, kamikaze ripplers unleash a barrage of lethal poisoned barbs from their mouths at targets below. As with the rippler bug, this kamikaze rippler cannot use its spike spitting ability and its deadly pass at the same time. Again, as with the rippler bug, this variant is very dangerous and contact with them should be avoided at all costs.

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