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ALIEN RACES:

GRALLIK

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David Woodrum

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David Hamilton

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GRALLIK

The grallik are a crafty race of green, leathery-

skinned humanoids. As with most sentient crea-

tures, a grallik is capable of being honest and

straightforward, or deceiving and shadowy. A

stereotypical standard for a grallik, however, is a

painted picture of crime, deception, and oppor-

tunist cravings.

ronments. As with humans and other mammal

species, however, a grallik will complain about

temperatures that are both scorching hot and bit-

ter cold.

The grallik are omnivores and enjoy a broad, di-

verse diet. On the grallik’s home world there are a

wide variety of both edible meat and plants, and

grallik cuisine tends to be as sophisticated as the

gourmet offerings of any other developed race.

If the grallik are discovered in a campaign where

the early exploration of space travel is an issue,

the grallik will be friendly enough as long as the

leaders of the species feel that they are getting

the better end of a bargain by doing so. If en-

countered in a campaign where colonization is

already heavily established, the grallik will make

up a notable portion of the galaxy’s population of

shady gamblers, smugglers, bounty hunters, and

thieves.

BREATHING:

The grallik’s native homeworld environment has

an atmosphere much like that of Earth, with nitro-

gen making up the greatest portion of what the

grallik refer to as their “air , followed by oxygen.

Argon, however, makes up a more signiﬁ cant pro-

portion of the additional trace elements. This can

cause the grallik to suffer from argon deﬁ ciencies

when exposed to the air of human (and similar

breathing species) operated spaceports and in-

habited planets. In order to counteract such de-

ﬁ ciencies most grallik take an argon booster cap-

sule.

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE:

The grallik are rather unusual looking humanoids

with Kelly green to yellowish colored skin that is

leathery in texture. Their slanted, bestial shaped

heads have large, mouse-like ears, bulbous round

eyes much like an insectoid, featureless pits for

nostrils, and a tiny mouth that is not unlike that of

a tapir. Surrounding the tapir-like mouth are four

tiny tendrils, which are much like the feelers of a

catﬁ sh. The grallik physique tends to be lean yet

muscular, and the long, dexterous hands of these

creatures are tipped with stiff, black, claw-like nails.

Most grallik tend to dress for adventure, and favor

form ﬁ tting, padded, outﬁ ts. Leather and stretchy

polymer cloths are amongst the common fabrics

that make up a typical grallik outﬁ t. Active trav-

elers of the stars, the grallik’s clothing are usually

completed with a form of utility belt and durable,

yet comfortable boots.

REPRODUCTION/AGING:

Though their green, leather skin often causes the

grallik to be confused as a reptilian species, these

creatures are mammals. The female carries a sin-

gle infant or twin developing infants for a period

of 5 months before giving birth. From this point,

the grallik infants develop at about the same rate

as a human, reaching young biological adulthood

at the age of 15 years. The adult grallik’s lifespan

and aging process is quite comparable to that of

a human being.

SPECIES SPECIFIC ALLERGY/TOXIN

PRECAUTIONS:

The grallik have a biological makeup that is quite

similar to that of a human, giving the grallik more

or less the same reaction to toxic and non-toxic

substances. They can easily handle a greater

amount of argon in atmospheric conditions, how-

ever, and require argon capsules in normal nitro-

gen and oxygen environments in order to avoid a

deﬁ ciency.

The grallik are rather lean, and of medium height.

The typical male grallik weighs between 100 to

150lbs. and stands between 5’ 5” and 5’ 11 . Female

grallik are usually an average of 20lbs. lighter and

stand an average of 5 inches shorter.

Being temperate weather-loving mammals, gral-

liks are capable of dwelling in a range of envi-

SOCIETY AND CULTURE:

The grallik are reasonably well developed in a so-

cial and cultural sense, and have impressive forms

of art, drama, music, and literature. Dancing and

acrobatics are also quite well developed within

the grallik culture, and it is not too surprising to

ﬁ nd a traveling grallik talent troupe offering such

performing arts to patrons throughout the galaxy.

Despite the stereotype that gralliks are shady crim-

inals with no love for anyone other than their own

selves, these creatures have strong family ties; for

a grallik to kill one’s own brother, sister, or family

member is considered the most offensive of crimes

and evils. As such, gralliks traveling with other ex-

plorers tend to adopt much of the same philoso-

phy towards their crewmates that

are his or her acquisition. It is often said however,

that one should carefully watch out for the friend-

liness of a grallik as the stereotypes portray these

individuals as constantly seeking to get the better

of an unsuspecting victim. This, as with all stereo-

types, is generally untrue, unless the grallik hap-

pens to be a loan shark, gambler, or smuggler.

ADVANCEMENTS AND

UNDERDEVELOPMENTS:

Grallik technology is reasonably well advanced,

though, interestingly enough, the gralliks have

the

grallik does with their family mem-

bers. While their fellow crewmates

may never quite trust the grallik

not to steal their petty personal be-

longings, they can be assured that

the grallik would never do anything

that would cause intentional harm to a

crewmember.

RELATIONS:

Though they have strong family bonds, the

grallik are not exactly a reclusive species, and

they hold strong relations with members of oth-

er species. If discovered in a campaign where ex-

ploration of the stars is in a pioneering stage, the

grallik will most likely be initially friendly, espe-

cially if they are unsure of the exact power and

might of a visiting species or feel that such crea-

tures may have something to offer the grallik

species as a whole. If the grallik ﬁ nd themselves

being exploited, however, they are capable of

quickly uniting against a common enemy. While

these creatures often try to kill each other off in

commerce or criminal related battles, the gral-

lik are capable of putting personal differences

aside long enough to band together against a

greater common foe.

Gralliks that are encountered in areas of space

where star travel has long been established are

usually friendly and social unless, of course, the

grallik in question is a bounty hunter and you

never managed to make a strong military pres-

ence within their own star cluster. Much of this

has to do with the grallik philosophy. Gralliks

naturally form family governed units but are less

capable at handling fair, diplomatic relations on

a large national, global, or galactic scale. Much of

this is due to a mentality of the common grallik

that is somewhat akin to organized crime. More

often than not gralliks seem to either be a criminal

themselves, or seek to catch a criminal in the role

of a bounty hunter. While this mentality is

more subtle in their relations

on their home world, a gral-

lik most often chooses such

endeavors once they reach

the social environments of

crowded, seedy, space ports

and large urban environ-

ments on foreign worlds.

SPECIES TRAITS:

The grallik have the following species traits:

Type: Humanoid

Size: Medium

Ability Modiﬁ ers: None.

Speed: 30 feet.

Argon Dependency: In atmospheres that hu-

mans would typically accept as being “perfect air ,

the grallik begins to develop a physical deﬁ ciency

for argon. This can be corrected with a regular in-

gestion of argon boosting capsules. The reg-

ular intake of such capsules is

equal to 1 capsule per 1 Earth

day (24 hour period). If such

capsules are not available,

and the grallik cannot other-

wise obtain a boost of argon

for their bodies, then the gral-

lik begins to suffer a danger-

ous deﬁ ciency. After going

without a boost of argon for

a total of 15 Earth days, the

grallik must succeed a For-

titude save (DC 14) each

following day or lose 1d2

points of Constitution tem-

porarily. Until a daily boost

of argon is restored, the

grallik will be unable to “heal”

these lost Constitution points.

Should the grallik’s Constitu-

tion reach 0 then the grallik will

fall into a comatose state and die within

1d4+1 hours unless emergency argon is provided

and the grallik revived (Heal check, DC 16). Upon

being administered successful emergency argon

treatments, the grallik’s Constitution score will re-

turn to 1 pt. and the grallik will be able to heal the

remaining Constitution loss normally provided

that argon booster capsules are provided once

per Earth day. Administration of emergency argon

treatment requires an argon treatment kit con-

sisting of a regulated breather mask and a tank

of mixed argon, oxygen, and nitrogen gasses. Full

administration of the emergency treatment takes

around 5 to 10 minutes time. Once used, the treat-

ment kit must be reﬁ lled.

On the grallik’s home world,

many lesser national gov-

ernments tend to reﬂ ect a

maﬁ a-style viewpoint and

establishment, offering a

strange sense of combined

tyrannical dictatorship and

capitalism. Often leader

changes are both preceded

and followed by bloodshed,

as the new rising ruler kills

off any opposition to gain power

and then kills off any competitors. Most

of the larger nations, however, have adopted a

greater sense of diplomacy and fairness towards

capitalism. Corruption still widely exists in these

nations, but the bloodshed is usually caused by

the covert, illegal operations of competing cor-

porations and not by the leaders of the govern-

ment.

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