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Starship Troopers: Rippler Bug

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Name: 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: 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.

Description: At first glance, rippler bugs look like heavily armored hopper bugs and possess all the same flight characteristics and deadly combat prowess as those aerial horrors. In addition to the hopper bug’s formidable skills, ripplers can unleash a barrage of lethal barbs from their mouths at targets below them as they fl y past. The nature of a rippler bug’s attack focus prevents it from using its spike spitting ability and its deadly pass at the same time; they are too single-minded to be quite that flexible in battle. Singular of purpose or not, rippler bugs are very dangerous and contact with them should be avoided at all costs. Their thorns fire with enough velocity to pierce power suits with ease and can even crack the plating of a Marauder.

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