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Here's a little something I was working on for the past few days, have fun with it.

Name:Marlith
Sex:Female only
Average Life Span:1500 years
Average Age:375
Average Height:7 feet even
Average Weight:275lbs
Average Cup Size:DD
Average Hair Colors:Stark white, platinum blond
Average Eye Colors:Pale ice blue, light neon green, violet or blood red
Average Skin Color:Ivory white to pale pink with a dark green scaled tail with same colored scales along their backs
Diet:Carnivore
Appearance:A tall humanoid female with a long snake like tail in place of legs and six arms.
Disposition: A crude, crass and lusty personality that belays a high intelligence and cunning.
Reason for coming to Earth:To breed and conquer
Familiarity with Earth:None
IQ:4D6
ME:6D6
MA:1D6
PS:2D6(super human)
PE:4D6
PP:4D6
PB:4D6
SPD:3D6
Average Hit Points:18
Average SDC:20
PPE:2D6
ISP:5D6+10 per level
Natural Abilities:20/20 color vision supervision infrared&ultraviolet
Average Alignments:Any of the evil alignments with Aberrant being the dominant alignment
Number of attacks per melee:8
Minor Abilities:See Notes:
Major Abilities:See Notes:
Magic:None
Psionics:Dimensional Teleport(See Notes), Empathy(4), Telepathy(4)
OCC:Any save for magical OCCs
Average Level:6
Average Education:Equivalent to street schooled

Skills:
Speak native language:98%
Read and write native language:98%
Streetwise:46%
Climbing:70%
WP:Blunt
WP:Sword
WP:Knife
WP:Whip
Hunting
Identify Plants&Fruits:55%
Preserve food:55%
Skin&Prepare Animal Hides:70%
Land Navigation:60%
Wilderness Survival:65%
Track Animals:55%
Tracking:55%
Detect Concealment:55%
Seduction:38%
Hand to Hand:Basic
Secondary Skills:
Cook:55%
Fishing:70%
Sewing:70%

Bonus:
+2 to roll with punch/fall/impact
+2 to parry dodge
+1 to strike and +1 on initiative
Critical Strike on a natural 19 or 20

Special Weapons:None
Special Vehicles:None
Earth Clothing:None
Money:None

Background:
Marliths are a female only race who seek to find a suitable male to not only breed with but also to conquer new lands/worlds.

When a Marlith reaches adulthood(120 years) she will leave her tribe and see out to find a suitable male to breed with as well as to conquer a new land or in some cases she will use her dimensional teleport ability to leave her world without weapons, equipment or clothing to find a suitable male on the new world she has teleported to and conquer it by having as many babies as possible to start a new tribe to conquer the new world she has teleported to.

Once the Marlith in question has not only learned to survive on the new world she has teleported to but also finding a safe and secure lair she will set out to find her mate by observing a potential mate and once she has decided she has learned all she can about her potential mate that she has deemed as worthy of being her mate she will attack him and attempt to subdue him and drag him back to her lair to get on with the breeding.

Marlith will treat her mate as a loving companion but she will be the one wearing the pants in the relationship so to say, however should the male she has chosen to be her mate completely, ruthlessly and utterly dominate the Marlith in the bedroom she will become his completely loyal, loving if some what lusty slave.

Should her chosen mate dominate her completely she will speak highly of him and defend him on to death as well as fighting his battles for him but this is not some sappy romantic speech or mind set she has for her master for she sees him as some kind of evil overlord and will act accordingly such as saying “ My Master is far more powerful then you can image. “, My master finds you to be annoying, begone pitiful sub creature or die by my hand. “ and the like even if her master is not evil.

Marlith will treat other non Marlith females and other Marliths as competition and will ruthless kill or drive off the offending female(s) from her territory/mate/master unless she things that her master(not mate) might enjoy having said female(s) as his slaves and will suggest that her master start a harem because he so powerful and it is his right to claim all females as his with her as the head slave and his right hand.

Notes:
All Marliths have the ability to teleport from one dimension to another.
Dimensional Teleport
ISP:50
With this power the Marlith can teleport herself and 300lbs of items or equipment and can bring with her an extra 50lbs of gear with her for an extra 10 ISP per 50lbs of gear or equipment or another person.

To determine a Marlith's super powers roll on the following table.

Number and types of super abilities
01-05:One minor ability
06-10:One major ability
11-15:Two minor abilities and one major ability
16-20:Two major abilities and one minor ability
25-30:One psionic ability and two minor abilities
35-40:Four minor abilities
45-50:Four major abilities
55-60:Three psionic abilities and one major ability
65-70:Four psionic abilities
75-80:Three psionic abilities and one minor ability
85-90:Two major abilities and two minor abilities
95-00:Two psionic abilities, two major abilities and two minor abilities

Marliths give birth to one 1D4 offspring that are always female Marliths and their offspring reach full maturity at fifty years of age.

Would not this, being a RCC, be more appropriate to be posted in the rifts or the dimension book forums?

If you mean this to be a NPC race then leaving that information out is misleading.
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Disposition and cup size, should be left to the player's choice.
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Age: you have the starting age of a player character char set at 100 years of age.
If you meant the ""average age"" to be ""Average age of NPCs""....then say that.
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HP&SDC: If you are going to add a bonus to the normal HP score (normal is HP=PE +1d6/L) then say that.
In HU the starting SDC for aliens is set via the Aliens power cat or have a defined amount as per the format in HU:AU.
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number of melee attacks:
If you meant that that memebers of this race can use all their arms naturally (as naturally as humans use just two arms) then say that.
If you are Adding 4 APM on top of the H2H APM to account for the multiple arms, you are 2 too many additional APM. In HU, each pair of arms only adds only 1 APM.
If you are saying that the typical NPC will have 8 APM. Say that you are telling us that you are talking about the typical NPC of this race.
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"OCC:Any save for magical OCCs"
There are no CCs in any of the HU books.
Adding a CC on top of the RCC skills would be making the char skill heavy.
You have already noted that they cannot make magic in the line above the one quoted.

I would limit characters from this race to Job Classes if they change their class. That is CCs that do not give the char ""class powers"". Magic/psi or otherwise.
OCC's with ""class skills"" would be okay with GM okaying the OCC.
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Skills: These should be listed with what bonus they get to each skill.
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The Psi D-T-port power cost seams to be too low.

The number of super powers are high by 1major/2minor powers due to the racial power taking up a major power slot already.
The multiple arms of this number is considered a major superpower in HU.
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There are also all the Jeridu (PF:LotD1) arguments that have been presented in other topics for disallowing this race because of the multiple arms.

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To convert this to a HU Race I would pare down the skills to be 5 or 6 for a ""Racial"" Skill program. And to have text saying that one skill program slots rolled for in the education roll is dropped because it is already taken up by the ""racial"" skills. (See the Mystic Study power cat. for an example of a power cat that has this game mechanic in it.)
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As it is.......It looks like a monster out of the PF:M&A or the RCB1, not a player character race.
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As it is I would not allow a char of this race into a game I was GMing.
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writing critiquing: a space is needed after a : and when talking about the ""typical"" eye, skin or hair color the word ""average"" is not applicable for the usage.

Just a note... it is very unlikely that a race that takes 120 years to mature will be natural conquerors... as such an endeavor is inherently dangerous and likely to see many deaths. If it takes a species over a century to raise a child, then they will likely need a relatively peaceful environment to do so... or risk their offspring being targeted by enemies before they are ready to contribute to society.

Orcs, Wolfen and many of the monster races in many of the various books have very fast maturation rates... allowing them to repopulate their numbers lost through conquest fairly quickly... often in less than a decade. This is part of the reason they are difficult to completely eradicate as a potential threat... as it doesn't take long before their numbers reach high levels once more... even if 90+% of a horde is killed. A species that requires decades or centuries to raise children to maturity however has a lot more invested in them... meaning that each death is a far more serious blow to such a species... because it will take decades or centuries to replace even one person.

Biologically... an aggressive species needs a short maturation time to maintain its numbers unless the species has a superior technological or magical advantage that allows them to offset the risks of such a lifestyle. Even then, it isn't always a guarantee of success... and as stated, they will be investing a lot of resources to see a single child (let alone multiple children) to maturity.

Sadly, this is an all too common mistake many make when creating fictional races... especially when they make a species that lives much longer than the human norm (thinking that it must mature at a comparatively lower rate to maintain balance... yet be just as prone to violence, if not more so than humanity is).

Kargan,

Thank you for taking the time to create this and share it with everyone. You put a lot of effort and imagination into your creation!