Metamorphasis Alpha

eing taller
having a total carapace
Note: shipboard creature mutations encountered (in other words, nonplayer characters) may
actually have these combinations of mutations. In such cases they are considered as defects by
the referee which may hinder or harm the mutant in certain situations.
Physical Mutations Explained:
1. Taller: With 6 feet being the normal size, this mutation may range up to an effective limit of
25 feet. This height increase calls for a greater metabolic rate, and increases in the strength
potential of the being making double, triple, or quadruple the possible damage done by the being
(judges option).
2. Shorter: With 6 feet being the norm, this-mutation may range down to an effective limit of 1
inch. This change decreases the metabolic rate and the strength potential of the being, and makes
it harder for him to be struck in physical combat (referee’s option),
3. Out-Sized Body Parts: This is an increase in certain areas of the body, with a subsequent
increase in power. Example: larger eyes for greater vision, a larger heart for greater endurance.
Only one item of a being’s body may be increased when choosing this mutation.
4. New Body Parts: These are things not usually found on the human body. Example: a heat
sensing organ, tentacles, or a gas generating gland.
5. Poison Claws or Fangs: The secretions of a new gland in the body that makes a toxic fluid
injected by a piercing agent. The intensity of the poison is up to the referee.
6. Multiple Body Parts: These are appendages not usually found on the body in excess
numbers. These include things like the complete use of 1-10 extra arms, or a greater number of
eyes, or a greater number of legs.
7. Regeneration: This allows the being to use his body weight to heal himself of lost hit points,
(figure 10 pounds of body weight regenerates 1 hit point per day).
8. Gas Generation: Much like the skunk, this could be an odor expelled from the lungs or other
areas of the body, causing things like unconsciousness or death in other beings that inhale it (as
determined by the referee).
9. Quills: These are usually along the arms or legs and serve mainly to prevent contact with the
skin by other beings (treat the touch of each quill as doing dagger damage) or they may be
thrown for Short ranges, (1-10 feet).
10. Gills: These give a mutant the power to live under the water, but require a much more
extensive respiratory system (meaning the body shape will change to make room for the larger
lungs).