Dug



Dugs are an aggressive mammalian species native to the planet Malastare which use their upper limbs as legs and their lower limbs as arms.

Biology and Appearance
Dugs are slender, powerfully built beings with a somewhat humanoid build and a unique method of walking that hails from the high gravity world Malastare. Their primary means of locomotion are their strong arms, while their lower limbs and feet are used for grappling and other fine motor manipulation. They hardly ever walked on their lower limbs. Although most Dugs may walk on all four limbs, others like to use their strong arms as legs and their feet as hands like they would normally do.

Dugs have smooth skin, which hangs loosely around their tall necks, only to inflate during mating season calls. They also possess fin-like ears and pronounced snouts. They live mainly in the forests of the western continent of their homeworld in primitive tree villages called "tree thorps". On their homeworld, Malastare, the Dugs are arboreal beings. They brecciated among the canopies with alarming speed using all four limbs.

Society and Culture
Dugs view themselves as embattled warriors, always fighting for what is rightfully theirs, but always being beaten back by just about everyone else in the galaxy. Their first contact with aliens occurred when the Gran established a colony on Malastare, triggering a long and brutal war. The Republic settled the dispute in favor of the Gran, pushing the Dug to the political and economic fringes of their own world. This was but the first in a long string of clashes with aliens. The Dug responded by pitying themselves, yet in return, the rest of the galaxy just felt more disgust and disappointment.

Knowing that no one else wants to have anything to do with them, the Dugs have developed a culture that is openly self-congratulatory. There isn't a Dug alive who doesn't claim an ancestry that includes legendary heroes and patriots.

Few Dugs bother to lean Basic, but those who do can speak it with only minor difficulty. They rarely do so, however, hoping instead to force others to acknowledge Dug society by making them learn their language. Of particular note are the thick folds of skin at their necks. These folds can be inflated to let loose a bellow that can be heard for kilometers. In the wilds this bellow is used to denote a threat or to even warn off predators.

Stats & Skills

 * Attribute Dice: 12D
 * DEXTERITY: 2D/4D+2
 * KNOWLEDGE: 1D/3D+2
 * MECHANICAL: 1D+2/4D+1
 * PERCEPTION: 1D/3D+2
 * STRENGTH: 1D+1/4D
 * TECHNICAL: 1D/3D+2
 * Move: 6/8

Special Abilities
Climbing/Jumping Bonus: Due to their physiology, Dugs gain a +1D bonus to their climbing/jumping skill.

Shout: Dugs can issue forth a deep bellow which can be heard up to 3 kilometers away.

Story Factors
Reputation: Dugs are known as bullies and thugs by most other sentient species’, and are almost universally disliked by non-Dugs. Many crime lords, however, employ them as assassins and henchmen.