(Oh? Still doing this? After so long? Am I the eagle, or the mountain?)
Faster than a loosed arrow, more powerful than a siege engine, able to leap tall towers in a single bound!
They have the shapes of men but not the hearts. Within they are jelly and worms. Their delights are cruelty and subjugation, cold as the stars they fell from.
They are
Meteor-Men
HD: 8 AC: 18 ATK: 2d12 punch SAV: 15 vs. most things, 10 vs. magic MOV: Can outrun an arrow in flight, leap 100' horizontally or vertically INT: On par with most humans ML: 7
No. Appearing: 1
Also called uligoths by scholars and wizards. They prefer to humiliate, maim, and/or force into servitude rather than kill - killing you would mean acknowledging you as a threat.
They arrive at this world accompanied by a shower of mutagenic asteroids. The asteroids mutate you by exploding and embedding their shards in you.
To create a meteor freak, roll a few times on your mutation table of choice, and on top of that give them a superpower, like being permanently hasted or somesuch. Any uligoth's territory will also be home to a smattering of meteor freaks, which they uncomfortably avoid thinking about.
If you kill a meteor freak you can extract enough asteroid shards to craft 1d4 weapons. Weapons crafted from asteroids treat meteor-men's AC as 10.
I like how they're sadistic bastards lol. I also like that they each have unique mutations/superpowers on top of their base stats, makes them more unique, as they should be if presumably they come from different meteors. I'd maybe add that weapons created from the extracted asteroid shards also provide some benefit relating to the mutation?
ReplyDeleteI'm a little confused actually upon further reading, my head's been a bit hazy the last few days so maybe it's just me, about the relationship between Uligoth/Meteor Men and Meteor Freaks. Am I understanding correctly that the former are the creatures of the meteors, and the latter are "terrestrial" beings mutated by the meteors?
Yeah it's like Smallville.
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