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More Aliens!

An Alien Anthology Web Enhancement

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On the shelves of any well-stocked game store, you’ll ﬁnd

the Alien Anthology , a major supplement to the Star Wars

Roleplaying Game . The book features more than 100 new

aliens and creatures. With this web enhancement, you can

make that “more than 103”!

The following new creatures, alien species, and extra

adventure hooks are designed to be used with the Alien

Anthology; they follow the format of the entries in the

book. This bonus material is exclusive to the Wizards of the

Coast website: www.wizards.com/starwars .

ERA NOTES

Garrals are a product of Imperial genetic engi-

neering, and thus they don’t exist during the Rise

of the Empire era. If you need guard animals for a game set

before the rise of the Empire, try using nek battle dogs or

veermoks. After the fall of the Empire, garrals become less

common, but certainly still exist. By the time of The New Jedi

Order, scavengers, mercenaries, crime lords, and even the New

Republic occasionally use them. q

Garral

Garrals are genetically engineered guard animals created by

the Empire to supplement Human security troops. They are

the result of work by Luthos Garral—an Imperial garrison

commander—and bear his name. Commander Garral was

well aware that troopers, no matter how extensively trained,

could not remain alert at all times. To overcome this limita-

tion, Garral genetically combined Mantessan panthacs with

several less vicious predators and a few domesticated crea-

tures. The resulting animal eventually was perfected as a

loyal, alert, easily-handled animal common in many Imperial

outposts in the fringe worlds. Closer to the Core Worlds,

Imperial reliance on technology makes garrals less common.

In appearance, garrals look almost identical to Mantessan

panthacs, but larger. They have a speckled coat of gray fur

along their backs, thick manes around their necks and

shoulders, and long, tufted tails. Garrals are territorial pack

hunters, generally assigned to a single Imperial outpost for

their entire lives. They often treat their handlers as pack

leaders, following and protecting them even when not

directed to do so. (Lower all Handle Animal DCs by 5 when

training a garral.)

Garrals have litters of 2d4 cubs and are very protective of

their young. Only a trusted and experienced handler can get

near a garral mother. Garrals grow to their full length of 2

meters in three years and have a life span of 30 years.

Large fangs and powerful claws make garrals dangerous

in combat. They normally attack creatures of Medium-size

or less with a grapple check. (Garrals may also use their

improved grab ability on smaller opponents.) If a garral

succeeds in its grapple check, it has forced its opponent to

the ground. It may then make a bite attack in addition to

its claw damage. This is the only instance in which a garral

will inﬂict both bite and claw damage.

hear one from hundreds of meters away.) This sound

agitates them greatly. If ﬁghting near a repulsorlift, a garral

goes into a killing frenzy, attacking any living or moving

thing it doesn’t recognize. Because of this tendency, garrals

are not used in outposts equipped with repulsorlift vehicles.

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Sand Tick

The sand tick is a nasty parasite found on numerous worlds.

It is approximately the size of a Human’s ﬁst, with a round

yellow or brown carapace. It has no eyes or ears, but can

sense vibrations and wind currents through tiny hairs on its

12 legs. The sand tick can move with considerable speed

despite its minute size. It has three small mouths on its

underbelly; these are used to attach to a larger creature

while feeding.

Sand ticks can feed off any number of animals. Most

often, they are found on banthas and are considered a seri-

ous problem by bantha ranchers. The ticks prefer animals

with thick coats of hair, allowing them to remain hidden

while sucking ﬂuids from their host. Among sentient races,

Wookiees and Ewoks are their favorite victims. Infestations

are most likely to occur during particularly hot, dry weather.

The creatures are capable of surviving for up to a year

without blood. When deprived of sustenance, sand ticks curl

up and enter a state of hibernation until new hosts present

themselves. More than one explorer has been bitten while

examining one he thought was dead.

A Huge creature, such as a bantha, can support two or

three ticks for many months, but will die within days if it

hosts a dozen. Sand ticks dislike reptilian creatures (such as

dewbacks) and will not feed on them. It is possible to create

sand tick repellent from certain compounds in a dewback’s

hide, but the repellent smells extremely foul.

Garral: Predator 3; Init +4; Defense 22 (+8 natural, +4

Dex); Spd 16 m; VP/WP 19/14; Atk +7 melee (1d6+4, 2

claws), +5 melee (1d8+4, bite) or +7 ranged; SQ Acute

repulsor sensitivity, improved grab, keen senses, scent; SV

Fort +5, Ref +5, Will +2; SZ M; Rep 1; Str 19, Dex 18, Con

14, Int 2, Wis 13, Cha 9; Challenge Code: C.

Skills: Climb +6, Jump +6, Listen +10, Spot +10.

Feats: Multiattack, Power Attack, Track.

Special Qualities: Keen Senses—Incredibly sharp hearing

grants a +5 species bonus on all of a garral’s Listen and

Spot checks.

Acute Repulsor Sensitivity—Garral ears are particularly

sensitive to the sounds of repulsorlift machinery. (The base

DC for a garral to hear a repulsorlift is only 5, and it can

Sand Tick: Desert parasite 1, Init +8; Defense 23 (+1 natu-

ral, +4 size, +8 Dex); Spd 6 m, 6 m climb; VP/WP 1/1; Atk

+12 melee (1d4–5, bite) or +12 ranged; SQ Disease, numb-

ing bite; SV Fort –1, Ref +8, Will –1; SZ D; Rep 1; Str 1,

Dex 26, Con 4, Int 1, Wis 9, Cha 2; Challenge Code: A.

Skills: Climb +7, Hide +8, Listen +2, Move Silently +8,

Spot +2, Survival +3.

Feats: Weapon Finesse (bite).

Special Qualities: Disease—The most serious threat posed

by sand ticks is disease. A sand tick bite exposes its victim

to crazed bantha fever. (Injury, DC 15, incubation 1d4 days,

initial damage 1 Int and 1 Wis; Secondary damage 1d3 Int

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and 1d3 Wis. See Disease on page 111 of the Star Wars

Roleplaying Game .) A target bitten several times in a single

encounter needs to make only one save against the disease,

but if bitten in a different encounter, the target must make

a new save attempt.

Numbing Bite—Sand ticks numb a potential host with

secretions from their saliva before attaching themselves;

feeling their bite requires a Wisdom check (DC 20). An

attached sand tick deals 1 point of damage each day.

and are valued as much for their knowledge in this ﬁeld as

for their talent at more violent pursuits.

Defel professionals are experts or thugs. Adventurers are

scouts, scoundrels, or soldiers. In order to function away

from their homeworld, Defel must wear special visors that

allow them to “see” light wavelengths other than ultraviolet.

A Defel who goes without such a visor is effectively blind in

normal light. Defel can easily speak Basic, and their

language similarly is within the grasp of most beings in the

galaxy that choose to learn it.

Defel

The Defel are a curious mammalian species who, under

most lighting conditions, appear to be mysterious bipedal

shadows with reddish eyes and long white fangs. Under

ultraviolet light, however, it becomes clear that Defel are

stocky beings covered in fur that ranges in color from bril-

liant yellow to dazzling azure. They have long ﬁngers that

end in vicious yellow claws and protruding lime-green

snouts. They stand between 1 and 1.7 meters in height and

average 1.2 meters at the shoulders.

The Defel originate on Af’El, a large, high-gravity

planet orbiting the super-giant Ka’Dedus. Due to the

unusual chemical composition of Af’El’s upper atmos-

phere, only ultraviolet light passes freely to the surface of

the planet, while longer wavelengths of light are

completely deﬂected. Because of this phenomenon, all life

forms on Af’El, including the Defel, are blind to the non-

ultraviolet spectrum.

Defel fur also absorbs other light wavelengths. It is specu-

lated that this quality was an evolutionary response to a

now-extinct predator that projected lights on different

wavelengths to locate prey. Regardless, this feature now

makes the Defel highly regarded as bodyguards, assassins,

and commandos. In darkness, a Defel is all but invisible—

even to beings able to see in the dark. Their unnerving,

shadowy appearance in the light makes even unskilled Defel

useful as bodyguards, as few beings are aware of the source

of this strange effect; many incorrectly attribute the Defel

appearance to an ability to become insubstantial. The Defel,

naturally, do nothing to dispel such rumors.

On Af’El, the Defel live in large, well-maintained under-

ground cities considered among the marvels of the galaxy.

While they never developed space travel or even ﬂight—the

violent storms that continuously ravage the surface of Af’El

discouraged the Defel from looking to the sky—they had

developed metal alloys and atmosphere recyclers more

advanced than even those the Republic was using in space-

ships when scouts ﬁrst visited the Ka’Dedus system. So,

while Defel society has almost all the technological hall-

marks of galactic culture, as a species they have little or no

interest in space travel.

Defel who travel the galaxy are proud and independent to

the point of stubbornness. Some leave their homeworld in

search of adventure, but most leave to work for other

beings on speciﬁc contract jobs. Many Defel trade on their

unique physical characteristics and the legends that

surround their kind. However, most work for starship manu-

facturers and smelting plants that produce durasteel and

other alloys requiring a carefully balanced mix of ores. The

Defel have produced some of the galaxy’s best metallurgists

Defel Commoner: Init –1; Def 9 (–1 Dex); Spd 6 m;

VP/WP –/8; Atk +0 melee (1d2, punch) or –1 ranged; SQ

Invisibility, limited vision; SV Fort –1, Ref –1, Will +1; SZ S;

FP 0; DSP 0; Rep 0; Str 10, Dex 8, Con 8, Int 10, Wis 12,

Cha 12.

Equipment: Variety of personal belongings.

Skills: Craft (varies) +2 or Profession (varies) +2,

Knowledge (metallurgy) +2, Read/Write Defel, Speak Basic,

Speak Defel.

Special Qualities: Invisibility—Because of a genetic adap-

tation to a long-forgotten predator on their homeworld,

Defels absorb all light wavelengths except ultraviolet. In

effect, they appear as patches of darkness, much like shad-

ows; in areas of low light, they are effectively invisible.

Unless the creature is under direct normal sunlight (or the

artiﬁcial equivalent, such as a brightly-lit medcenter), the

Defel gains a +2 circumstance bonus to attacks, and its

target loses all Dexterity bonuses to Defense. At the same

time, attacks against a Defel in these circumstances confer a

50% miss chance. Under especially low-light conditions

(such as a dimly-lit cantina) the attacker must guess where

the Defel actually is (see the Star Wars Roleplaying Game ,

page 143) as well.

Limited Vision—Defel can see only by light in the ultra-

violet range. When away from their homeworld, they must

wear special visors. Without them, they are considered blind

as deﬁned in the Star Wars Roleplaying Game core rule-

book.

Species Features: –2 Dex,–2 Con, +2 Wis, +2 Cha.

Automatic Languages: Defel and Basic.

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Adventure Hooks

The following story seeds revolve around aliens and crea-

tures presented in Alien Anthology or in this web enhance-

ment. They are here to help fuel the creation of your own

Star Wars adventures and campaigns. Have fun! —S. M.

Beware the Bantha

The heroes are protecting isolated moisture farms (either

on Tatooine, or another water-poor world such as

Kirdo III) from bandit attacks. After repulsing one such

assault, they ﬁnd a clue to the bandits’ hideout. While

traveling through a narrow canyon en route, they must

avoid being trampled by a bantha stampede: 128 of the

massive beasts come raging down the pass. While this

could look like a trap staged by the bandits, the heroes

soon ﬁnd the hideout demolished by banthas—and the few

survivors swear they had nothing to do with the stampede.

“The beasts have gone crazy,” the bandits claim. Worse,

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reports begin to emerge that bantha herds have begun to

attack farms and even small villages.

A crazed hermit claims the banthas have ﬁnally tired of

servitude and are rising to destroy all sentient beings on the

world. Can this be true? Or is the real explanation related to

those mysterious Lambda -class shuttles seen only on moon-

less nights? Maybe those strange, unidentiﬁable trace

chemicals that have turned up in the water harvested

by the local moisture farms have something do to with it....

Masks

The heroes are approached by a wealthy merchant who

wants them to ﬁnd his runaway teenaged daughter and

bring her home. He claims they had a ﬁght, but says he can

see now that she was right and wishes to apologize. He will

pay almost anything to see his daughter again.

The party traces the young woman to an Ubese enclave

on an isolated island. Informants tell them that she and one

of the Ubese have fallen in love and that she is living

among them, dressed as they are, in armor and a breath

mask when in public. The informant can point the party to

a particular tenement, but is unsure which of the 100 resi-

dents is the girl they seek.

Once the party manages to locate the girl and avoid

bringing the wrath of the entire Ubese enclave down on

their heads, she tells them that she ran away from home

because she discovered her father is engaged in a wide

range of criminal activities. Just then, heavily armed thugs

attack, having followed the heroes covertly as they searched

for the girl. Can the party manage to convince the paranoid

Ubese that they had nothing do to with this assault and

avoid being attacked from two sides? Can they protect the

love of a young Human and Ubese? Can they get revenge

on the merchant for using them as patsies? And on the

topic of the merchant—is he really as bad as the daughter

thinks? Maybe he was somehow being forced into the crim-

inal activity she spoke of, and there’s a much larger situa-

tion here than ﬁrst met the eye.

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The Scent of Credits

A Human hero (most likely a noble or scoundrel) is

approached by a representative of a cosmetic company who

was referred by a mutual acquaintance. The GM character

wants to give the hero a supply of perfume that reportedly

acts as an mild aphrodisiac on many species. The hero (and

anyone else interested in testing the product) is required to

write short reports on how the perfume seemed to affect

other beings. A fee of 100 credits will be paid for each report

the representative ﬁnds acceptable.

Under most circumstances, the perfume grants the char-

acter wearing it + 2 Charisma and an additional +2 circum-

stance bonus to Bluff and Diplomacy checks. Each phial of

perfume has 30 doses, and each application lasts 15 hours

or until washed off. However, there is a 5% chance that an

alien species exposed to the compound will have an unfore-

seen reaction. GMs should check for this response whenever

the character wearing the perfume interacts with a new

species. If the percentile roll indicates the alien is adversely

affected, roll on the following table to see the results.

The Squib Who Knew Nothing

A data storage device containing the only existing copy of a

super-codebreaking computer program was stolen some

months ago from a research lab. Now it has turned up in

the hands of a wandering Squib who has offered it for sale.

Agents of every military and quasi-military organization in

the galaxy, minions of every crime lord and smuggling ring,

and representatives of every self-centered, ambitious politi-

cian race to be the ﬁrst ones to either meet the Squib’s

price or take the program by force. Of course, the heroes are

involved, either on their own or at someone else’s behest.

After eliminating some of the competition, forging

alliances with others (and then having to deal with the

betrayal of that alliance), the heroes and perhaps one or two

other groups ﬁnally confront the Squib. The good-natured

alien doesn’t even know the value of this program. He will

let it go to the highest bidder—and a scavenger hunt ensues

as all the interested parties scramble to ﬁnd obscure items

that could have value only to a Squib.

Random Perfume Effects

1d6 Effect

1 Alien is extremely attracted to the character (grants + 10

to Charisma when interacting with that alien).

2 Alien immediately falls in love with character ( + 15 to

Charisma when interacting with that alien).

3 Alien takes a strong dislike to the character (–5 to

Charisma when interacting with that alien).

4 Alien takes a violent dislike to the character (Alien must

make a Will save [DC 15]—on failure, the alien attacks

the character).

5 Alien attacks character in a sudden homicidal rage 1d4

rounds after exposure.

6 Alien collapses and will die of respiratory failure in

1d6 + 4 minutes unless given medical care (Treat Injury

check [DC 18, DC 20 if the character wearing the

perfume is still present]).

How did the cosmetic company miss that this creation

could have such an adverse effect upon non-Humans? Five

percent is high enough a percentage that even the

simplest of lab tests should have revealed it—the product

was clearly not ready to be released in any public areas.

Was this just another example of corporate greed or

incompetence? Or were more sinister forces behind this

product, such as the intent to harm aliens and create

animosity between aliens and Humans? On the other

hand, perhaps the representative for the cosmetic company

was actually working for an enemy of the heroes and

merely wanted to make their lives difﬁcult....

Target: Garral

Alliance agents get word of a project headed by geneticist-

turned-New Order-military ofﬁcer Luthos Garral. Rumor has

it the project is directed at creating a new breed of

warbeast. The heroes are charged with a mission to inﬁltrate

a Carrack -class cruiser that will be carrying Garral and the

ﬁrst mated pair of his creatures to a meeting with a group

of moffs and an Imperial Advisor. The party is to kidnap

Garral and secure—or eradicate—his creation. (Alliance ofﬁ-

cials know they can’t destroy Garral’s research, but they

hope to force him to explain everything he did and possibly

help in creating a counter.)

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Anything but the most poorly-devised plans should allow

the heroes to inﬁltrate the ship carrying Garral and his crea-

tures. As they begin to enact the next stage of their plan,

however, an accident occurs: Garral’s creatures escape their

cages. Not two, but 12 of the deadly creatures go on a

rampage through the ship. The captain orders the compart-

ment with the loose creatures sealed … and, as fate has it,

the heroes and Garral are in that section as well. They now

have to ﬁght for their lives alongside the Imperials.

Wizards of the Coast, where he continued to write for the

D&D® worlds until he joined the design team for the new

Star Wars roleplaying game. His recent work for this line

includes the Secrets of Naboo campaign pack. Steve lives in

a cluttered apartment with his cats, Archie and Edith.

Owen K.C. Stephens was born in 1970 in Norman,

Oklahoma, and attended the University of Oklahoma. He

enrolled in creative writing courses (taught by F ORGOTTEN

R EALMS ® novelist Mel Odom) and in 1997 attended the TSR

Writer’s Workshop at the Wizards of the Coast Game Center.

Owen’s ﬁrst work in the adventure game ﬁeld was an article

on elven names in issue 250 of D RAGON ® magazine. He

moved with his wife to the Seattle area in 2000 after joining

Wizards as part of the Star Wars design team.

About the Authors

Steve Miller joined the staff of TSR in 1994, contributing

heavily to the development of the R AVENLOFT ® and

D RAGONLANCE ® game settings. In 1997, he made the move to

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