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Chapter 1: Race and Gender
Bugbears prefer melee weapons and medium
armor. The favorite weapons of bugbears are spiked
bludgeoning melee weapons, such as military flails
and morgensterns, though axes and polearms are
also utilized. Although full-scale warfare is rare, when
it occurs bugbear military is organized into massed
formations, in which soldiers with polearms rush
the foes first. Bugbear soldiers of lower rank are
the first to fight. Their favorite armor includes
bronze plates. When raiding, bugbears wear
spangenhelms.
The most seagoing of the available races,
bugbears are skilled shipwrights and sailors. Bugbear
communities are either coastal or near rivers.
Their favorite vessel is the longship, which they use
to plunder coastal human communities at night.
If bugbears raid a human community, then
the vessel is beached in or near the harbor. Next,
small groups of 2-3 bugbears enter nearby cottages,
immediately seeking and killing the father or adult
males. Victorious bugbears will often rape human
women before devouring the children. Human
women who are raped by bugbears may become
pregnant, though the fetus aborts prior to birth. In
fact, 50% of human women who are ravished by a
bugbear die due to ripped uteral lining.
After the raiding bugbears have had their
fun, they collect the women and children who are
still alive, board their vessel, and go home to brag
about their exploits. When bugbears lose the element
of surprise, they abandon their raid and return
to the north. Raiding expeditions serve many
purposes, including a ritual passage into adulthood
for males.
Throughout the spring, summer, and fall,
bugbears plunder coastal human communities for
food, slaves, and supplies. During the winter, bugbears
do not venture away from their communities,
but remain inactive and indoors. While it is cold,
bugbears eat, sleep, and mate.
Slaves brought back from raided communities
are placed in what the bugbears call subjecting
facilities. There, slaves perform labor until they die
or are used for experimentation. Most bugbear children
dissect humans as part of their education.
Many males study the anatomy of their foes, constantly
looking for weaknesses.
Experiments are usually cruel, and often
performed on living subjects. Bugbears calculate
subject pain tolerance and torture humans for information.
Currently, they are attempting to accumulate
enough population to be able to exterminate
light elves and humans, and dominate the surface
world.
Sub-Ability Modifiers: Strength + 50,
Bodily Attractiveness - 20, Facial - 15, Rhetorical -
10, Hand-Eye Coordination - 10, Agility - 10, Enunciation
- 10, Language - 10, Math + 10, Analytic -
10, Spatial + 5, and Drive + 10.
Base Current Armor: 12.
Base Life Points: 25.
Physical Description: A male bugbear averages
7’ in height, while a female averages 6’ 6”.
Bugbears have fur that is dark brown, though it is
thin. A male bugbear has a hairless manhood, except
for the glans or head, which has hair that is 1”
long and grows away from the spout-hole. A female
bugbear has a hairy vagina.
Disposition Modifiers: Ethicality + 25 and
Morality - 50.
Temperament Modifiers: Sanguine - 25,
Choleric + 25, and Melancholic + 25.
Sociality: Bugbears live in communities
ranging from a hamlet to a capital city of their kind.
Bugbears rarely live alone.
Language: Kobold. The bugbear dialect is
known as Buggeric, but is not a distinct language.
Occupation: Any. Bugbears begins work
at age 12.
Skills: Brawling + 3, Delousing + 5, Divination
(Anthropomancy) + 3, Divination
(Dririmancy) + 3, Law + 3, Sailing + 3, Search + 3,
Shipwright + 3, Surgery + 3, Tracking + 3, 1 Weapon
(Specific), and Wrestling + 3.
Religion: Bugbears worship their own immoral
gods.
Names: Common male first names include
Lljotbjaltr and Radketill. Common female first
names include Ismaer and Sigrheidr. Common last
names for a bugbear include Arnlidi and Botgeirr.
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