Adaptations
Roll 1d3, or Judge chooses. For sentient beings (PCs in particular) most of these should be thought of as minor, or vestigial, rather than as Mutant powers (use MCC powers for those). The aliens’ ancestors may have relied heavily on them, but now they have civilization and technology making their adaptations more of a biological curiosity than necessity, just as with human skin color variations or high lactase tolerance among dairy herders. Roll a d100.
Standard Adaptations
- Camouflage
- Chameleon skin
- False eyes
- Mimicry
- Armored hide
- Shell
- Loose hide
- Exoskeleton
- Woolly/Hairy
- Feathers
- Blubber
- Oily
- Slimy
- Asymmetric to press flush against surfaces
- Swift runner
- Tireless runner
- High jumper
- Ambush from hiding
- Poisonous flesh & warning marks
- Electric field sense
- Magnetic field sense
- Stellar navigation
- Weather sense
- Electric shock
- Venomous bite/sting/spit
- Paralytic bite/sting/spit
- Acidic bite/sting/spit
- Projectile spit/vomit
- Extremely acid digestion
- Horns
- Echolocation
- Sonar
- Radar
- Ultrasound
- Wide field of vision
- Multiple fields of vision
- Wide spectrum vision
- Keen eyesight
- Heat sense
- Hibernation/Estivation
- Cold resistance
- Heat resistance
- Thirst resistance
- Hunger resistance
- Asphyxiation resistance
- Sonic resistance
- Poison resistance
- Psionic resistance
- Radiation resistance
- Withstand indefinite freezing
- Withstand indefinite dehydration
- Withstand indefinite vacuum
- Gliding
- Flight
- Hovering
- Soaring (long distance)
- Regenerate lost limbs
- Regenerate organs
- Track by scent
- Defensive spray
- Pack hunter
- Live in herds
- Bone crushing jaws
- Bony club
- Retractable claws
- Spines
- Webbed feet
- Swallow prey whole
- Retractable fangs
- Periscopic breathing tube
- Independently directed sense organs
- Emit choking slime/gas
- Play dead
- Walk on water
- Create bubble of breathable air
- Extrude webs for trap/lasso/parachute/lair
- Change sex
- Use body part as lure
- Use pheromones as lure
- Parasitically control another specific organism
- Hemovore
- Silent locomotion
- Inflate to make self look more imposing
- Climber
- Cling to surfaces, even upside-down
- Burrow through dirt
- Luminous
- Kill mate during sex
- Implant eggs in paralyzed victim
- Secrete hallucinogens
- Reproduce via spores
- Oviparous
- Gills
- Brachiate
- No need to urinate (emit all waste as solid)
- No need to drink (get all necessary water from food)
- Migratory
- Immortal
- Explosive
- Roll on Exotic Adaptations
Since WordPress ate the first 30 entries of the table of Exotic Adaptations, I’ll save that for another post.
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