Snagorroth

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Snagorroth by Gryphon Chick and Stone Gargoyle

These aliens appear to be humanoid slugs due to being bipedal and having human-like arms and hands. Their heads also bear the same general shape as human heads, if not the same features. Their eyes grow on stalks which protrude from their temporal lobes and are 3d6 inches long and providing 360% vision. Incapable of speech, they communicate via grunts and growls as well as telepathy.
They are considered minor psionics in most cases, though different races of the species have differing capabilities. The different races appear in a wide range of skin colors. Blue and green colors, for example, are amphibious; pale white ones analytical geniuses and hardware experts; and purple ones are highly psychic and mystical. Orange skinned Snagorroth are brutal warriors and can have a bite doing as much as 5d6 damage and their strength is considered Extraordinary. Yellow Snagorroth have face tentacles and spiked on their tails adding +1d6 to their strike damage with the tail. Snagorroth are believed to have evolved from an earlier creature with flippers rather than arms and legs, as well as fins on the tail and a bite doing 5d6, known as a Snaga, on an aquatic planet. Given that they travel between dimensions, different races are believed to be at differing stages of evolution, with the aquatics being the earliest race and the purples the most evolved.
The Snagorroth are asexual like worms, their sex organs located in a tail-like section, and mate by intertwining these tails. The tail is used as the womb for the developing child as well and may by dropped off if the child slows escape from predators. The tail will regrow in a matter of weeks in this instance. Their mammary glands and breasts appear on the back, allowing them to run while nursing young. Pregnancy usually lasts six months.
Their breathing is done through gills which are attached to their rib cages and feed air directly to the lungs. Their mouths feed directly into the stomach and are in their belly section, the lower ribs and pelvis being the bones into which teeth are rooted.

Snagorroth

Alignments: Any

Attributes: I.Q. 3d6, M.E. 4d6, M.A. 4d6, P.S. 3d6, P.P. 3d6, P.E. 4d6, P.B. 2d6, Spd 4d6

Hit Points: P.E.X2, plus 1d6 per character level

S.D.C.: 20, plus 1d10 per foot of character height and length

P.P.E.: 3d6

Height: 3d6 feet plus 1d12 inches tall, plus 2d4 foot long tail

Weight: 40 pounds per foot

Horror Factor: 12, as a result of their inhuman appearance

Average Life Span: 200 years

Natural and Super Abilities: All of them possess telepathy at a range of 60 feet and 360 degree vision. Can bite for 2d4 damage unless otherwise noted and slam with tail for 2d6 plus PS bonus damage unless otherwise noted.

01-10% Blue- Aquatic: Cannot breathe air outside of water. Swim 90% at three times land speed, bite 5d6, strength considered Extraordinary in water.
11-20% Green- Amphibious: Possess abilities the same as the Amphibious superability.
21-30% Yellow: Facial tentacles can entangle at +4 in close combat and are 1d4 feet long. Tail spikes add +1d6 to damage from tail strikes.
31-40% Orange: Bite for 3d6 (01-30% of them bite for 5d6), strength is Extraordinary.
41-80% Brown and tan: No additional Abilities
81-90% White- Elite: +1d6 I.Q., and 01-50% are Hardware, 51-00% are Natural Genius.
91-00% Purple- Mystics: Master Psionics, +1d6 I.Q.

Standard Weapons and Vehicles: Other than Elite and Mystics, they are limited to ancient weapons. Armor: Typically use plate armor and shields.

Familiarity With Earth: Limited, and cannot pass for human.