Thursday, September 21, 2023

3D6x6 Aliens

To populate your cantina scenes, for sci-fi rpgs that use the D&D stats - there's gotta be at least one.

Click the button below to generate your alien:


Special thanks to Spwack for the generator generator here: http://meanderingbanter.blogspot.com/2018/10/automatic-list-to-html-translator-v2.html, and to Phlox for help brainstorming.

3D6 Strength
3 3: An amorphous body they must consciously force into shape
4 4: A cone-shaped body
5 5: Oversized extremities, relative to their body
6 6: An oddly hollow-seeming body
7 7: A twiggy body
8 8: A flattened form
9 9: A globular form
10 10: A reasonably humanoid body
11 11: A ratite-esque shape
12 12: A literally barrel-shaped torso
13 13: A radial body plan
14 14: A torpedo-like shape
15 15: a broad, columnar body
16 16: A centauroid body
17 17: A segmented body like an arthropod
18 18: A tank-like profile
3D6 Dexterity
3 3: Clawed nubs like a caterpillar's legs
4 4: Semi-flexible hooves
5 5: Clunky pincers
6 6: A long, flexible trunk
7 7: Wings with clawed tips
8 8: Wicked talons
9 9: Slug-like muscular frills
10 10: Grabby fronds
11 11: Hydra-like extra heads with dextrous lips
12 12: Prehensile feet and tail
13 13: Six pairs of arms
14 14: Manipulator-pads covered in suction cups
15 15: A "beard" of pronged feelers
16 16: Limbs that can change their shape to a limited degree based on need
17 17: Hands with branching digits
18 18: A mass of tentacles
3D6 Constitution
3 3: Soft flesh coated in collected detritus
4 4: Dripping, gelatinous flesh
5 5: Papery skin like a wasp hive, that they must regularly eat and regurgitate
6 6: Perfectly smooth, rubbery skin
7 7: Skin covered in fine and patchy hair
8 8: Fine scales that shed often
9 9: Deeply-wrinkled skin, like a naked mole rat's
10 10: A covering of feathers
11 11: A body covered in tick-like symbiotes
12 12: A shaggy coat of fur
13 13: A dense and warty hide
14 14: A heavy shell
15 15: A bony, thick-skinned faceplate
16 16: An armoured hide studded with osteoderms
17 17: Bark growing all over their body
18 18: Quartz-crystal skin
3D6 Intelligence
3 3: An inability to communicate except through grunts and growls
4 4: An extremely limited vocabulary
5 5: An inability to lower their volume
6 6: A shrieky, high-pitched voice
7 7: A malapropistic vocabulary
8 8: A stoner-type accent
9 9: A rapid-fire manner of speaking
10 10: A raspy voice
11 11: A habit of refering to themself in the third person
12 12: A nasally voice
13 13: A slow, rumbling voice
14 14: A whispery voice
15 15: A baroque vocabulary and tendency to ramble
16 16: A melodic voice
17 17: A posh accent
18 18: A robotic, flat affect
3D6 Wisdom
3 3: No apparent sensory organs
4 4: Telescoping, probing appendages
5 5: A crusty, cyclopean eye
6 6: Twitching setae
7 7: Tubular spiracles
8 8: Bulging compound eyes
9 9: A forking tongue that flicks at the air
10 10: Long curling whiskers
11 11: Hundreds of tiny eyes
12 12: Columns of snorting nostrils
13 13: Tall, disc-shaped ears
14 14: Plumy antennae
15 15: A trio of gently waving eyestalks
16 16: A cybernetic visor
17 17: A translucent dome full of receptors
18 18: An organ like a satellite dish
3D6 Charisma
3 3: Maggot-like endosymbiotes crawling in and out of sores across their body
4 4: A horrid stench
5 5: A lamprey-like mouth
6 6: Protruding boils with things swimming around inside them
7 7: A stiff, sucking proboscis
8 8: Eversible guts they use to externally digest food
9 9: Visible iridescent flatulence
10 10: Curling tusks
11 11: Large eyespots
12 12: Ballooning vocal sacs
13 13: Elaborate mandibles
14 14: A bioluminescent lure
15 15: Proud horns
16 16: A colourful crest
17 17: Flower-like tufts
18 18: Big ol’ honkin’ titties, regardless of sex or class - might technically be swim bladders, eggs-sacs, or brood-pouches rather than mammary glands

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2 comments:

  1. These artistic renditions are excellent. Are the original specimens available for examination?

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