Mass Effect Vorcha

Name: Vorcha
Dice: 12D
Dexterity: 1D+2 / 4D+2
Knowledge: 1D / 3D
Mechanical: 1D / 3D+2
Perception: 1D / 3D+1
Strength: 1D+1 / 4D+1
Technical: 1D / 3D

Move: 10 / 12
Size: 1.62 - 1.93 m
Weight: 45 - 79 kg

Special Abilities:

• Nighvision: Vorcha characters possess nighvision up to 10 meters.
• Natural Immunities: Vorcha are immune to any disease.
• Resistant to Damage: Vorcha are naturally resistant to damage so they do not suffer from the penalty from wearing no armor. In addition, when wearing no armor, all damage they receive is reduced by 1 point before resistances are rolled.
• Enhanced Regeneration: A vorcha has a regeneration rate of 1 point per hour. This regeneration also allows them to regenerate organs in a rate of 1 organ per week and regenerate limbs and broken bones in a half of the normal time.
• Enrage: Once per encounter, a vorcha can enter in an enraged state with 1 action. When he does so, his base regeneration increases to a number equal to his Strength Score and gains Armor of STR+2D physical resistance and STR+1D energy resistance. This enraged state lasts until the end of the encounter but can only be used after the Vorcha has taken damage.
• Naturally Stealthy: Vorcha characters are specialists in hiding away from other characters, especially when those are more powerful than the vorcha. It was thanks to this affinity to hiding that vorcha manage to get just about anywhere undetected. They gain a +2D bonus on all Sneak and Hide checks.
• Physical Adaptability: Due to the vorcha’s special biology, they are able to adapt themselves to the environment they grew up in, effectively gaining different bonuses and penalties, becoming different individuals depending on the environments they live in. These bonuses can only be gained by a vorcha that has spent over 2 years living in the same place. Vorcha characters are not forced to take these bonuses and penalties, they are optional but can greatly change the character.

Environment	Bonuses gained
Slums of a station/city	+2D bonus on Search checks, -2 pip penalty on all other Perception-based skills
Low-gravity environment of 0.8 G or less (such as a space station)	+1D bonus to Dexterity, -1D penalty to Strength
High-gravity environment of 1.2 G or higher	+1D bonus to Strength, -1D penalty to Dexterity
Toxic environment	Immunity to poisons, -1D penalty to Search checks.
Hot environment (average temperatures higher than 50º C)	+1D bonus on saves against hot temperature environment effects and hazards and fire-based powers like Incinerate or Incendiary Ammo. Take 1 less point of damage from fire-based damage sources (like Incendiary Ammo). Opposite effect against cold-based effects
Cold environment (average temperatures below 5º C)	+1D bonus on saves against cold temperature environment effects and hazards and cold-based powers like Cryo Blast or Cryo Ammo. Take 1 less point of damage from fire-based damage sources (like Cryo Ammo). Opposite effect against fire-based effects, hazards
High-radiation environment	+2D bonus on saves vs. radiation effects. Reduce amount healed to the vorcha, by the use of First-Aid, by 2.
Well educated and/or culturally rich environment	+1D bonus to Technical, Knowledge and Perception; -2 pips penalty to Strength, -1D penalty to Dexterity
Violent clan or gang	Increase Resistant to Damage when using no armor by 1, can use Enrage one extra time per encounter, -1D penalty to Perception

• The Bonuses and Penalties will allow a Vorcha to exceed the racial attribute maximums and minimums.

Description: The vorcha are the shortest-lived sapient species currently known, with an average lifespan of only 20 years. The vorcha originate from Heshtok, a small, hostile, overcrowded planet which has been largely stripped of natural resources by successive generations of this fast-breeding, savage species. The lack of resources has resulted in a tight-knit, clan-based society in which rival clans wage constant war against one another for control of scarce resources. Even as their population grows, the vorcha constantly fight each other in fierce competition over basic necessities. This incessant warfare has made each generation of vorcha stronger and more aggressive than that which preceded it, but their continual lack of resources has kept vorcha society extremely primitive.Vorcha society is built around combat. In fact, the vorcha use combat, both individually and in groups, as their default form of communication resulting in their communications being primarily non-verbal. The vorcha are a clan based people who prefer living in communal environments with others of their species to living alone or in the company of alien races. When a clan population grows too large, younger members will depart to start a new clan elsewhere. The vorcha are extremely aggressive, both against rivals of their own species and against any alien who stands in their way. Vorcha who have managed to escape their homeworld have a tendency to occupy uninhabited areas of space stations or larger spaceships.

The vorcha are not themselves a space-faring race, although many have found their way off-world as stowaways on ships visiting their homeworld. The vorcha who escaped their hostile homeworld did so by hiding on the ships of space-faring races that had the misfortune of visiting their planet. Their adaptability and resilience allows them to flourish in the dark and dirty corners of the places they end up.

Seeing the potential of the vorcha's individual adaptability, krogan Blood Pack mercenaries often sweep pockets of vorcha, gathering them up and literally beating them into soldiers. Vorcha "trained" by this ordeal are stronger, faster, smarter, and more resilient than other members of the race. Gaining even a few vorcha gives a mercenary band a formidable advantage; each additional vorcha magnifies the gang’s combat ferocity exponentially.

Physical Description: Vorcha are a bipedal race of muscular creatures. Their loght brownish skin is thick and covered with veins. They have long triangular shaped heads with red eyes and sharp teeth.

Homeworld: Heshtok
Biotics: No
Example Names: Gryll, Kreete, Shisk

Source:

• Mass Effect Wiki: Vorcha
• Mass Effect d20 RPG (pages 38-39)
• thedemonapostle