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Native to the dead seas of Mars, green martians are

towering, four-armed humanoids who eke out a triballifestyle in the forsaken landscape of the dying planet.Tese aliens are green-skinned and resemble extremelytall men with second torsos atop their normal ones,complete with a second pair of arms. Tey have wide-set, acute eyes with white sclera and red irises that canmove independently from each other. Tey also havesmall antennae-like ears located on their foreheadsand upwardly-turned tusks that jut out from theirlower jaws. Females are known to have lighter skin,stand shorter, and have curved tusks that rise higherproportionally to their size. Tey lay eggs on a yearlycycle rather than give birth to live young. Tese eggs arestored in temperature-controlled enclosures and kept instasis until the tribe is ready to welcome them into the world. Te children grow quickly, reaching full maturityand becoming a contributing member of society in just a few years. Te upper limits of the average greenmartian’s age is unknown, as many die in battle, butsome have reached a thousand years of age.

Green martians are known to be aggressive and formvery few attachments (familial, emotional, or societal)outside of the warbands they roam in. A strict hierarchyand communal lifestyle augment their marauding ways,and all other races fear their advances due to theirsavagery. Tey laugh at cruelty and brutality, findinghumor in pain and death, and lack any real sense ofhumor. A green martian always keeps a weapon on him.If he attacks another martian, it is customary for themto fight with the same weapons.

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• Ability Score Racial raits (2): Green martiansare strong, nimble, and savage. Green martiancharacters get +2 Dexterity, +2 Strength, and -2Charisma.Note: Green martians are strong by comparison toother native martian species who grew up on Mars’lower gravity. Earthborn creatures are consideredstronger due to their heavier gravity upbringing.

• Size (7): Green martians are Large (tall) creaturesand gain a -1 size penalty to their AC, a -1 sizepenalty on attack rolls, a +1 bonus to their CombatManeuver Bonus and Combat Maneuver Defense,and a -4 size penalty on Stealth checks.

• ype (0): Green martians count as humanoids withthe green martian subtype.

• Speed (0): Green martians have a base speed of 30feet.

• Languages (1): Green martians begin play speakingMartian. Green martians with high Intelligencescores can choose any languages they want (exceptsecret languages, such as Druidic). See the Martian

language section below for more details.• Four-Arms (8): Green martians possess four arms.

Green martians can wield multiple weapons;however, only one hand is the primary hand, andall others are off-hands. Green martians can alsouse their hands for other purposes that require freehands. Green martians can shift themselves to moveon their legs and bottom set of arms. Tis causesthem to gain the quadruped racial trait below.Tey can shift their stance as a swift action. Greenmartians use this stance frequently and only use

their quadruped forms when necessary.

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• Quadruped (2): When using their bottom set ofarms to aid in moving, green martians possess fourlegs and two arms. Tis grants them a +4 racialbonus to CMD against trip attempts and a +10foot bonus to their base speed. Green martians may

resume their normal four armed stance as a swiftaction. Unlike other quadrupeds, green martiansremain as large creatures and use armor and weapons suited for large creatures.

• Keen Senses (2): Green martians receive a +2 racialbonus on Perception checks.

• Intimidating Riders (2): Green martians preferto beat their mounts into submission rather thanbefriend them. Tey may use Intimidate in place ofRide and receive a +2 morale bonus on such checks.

• Martian elepathy (1): Green martians begin with

Martian elepathy.Racial Points: 25

F AVORED C LASS OPTIONS Te following favored class options are available to allgreen martian characters who have the listed favoredclass, and unless otherwise stated, the bonus applieseach time the favored class reward is selected.

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Class Bonus Source

Barbarian Add +1 to the number of rage rounds per day. Pathfinder Core Rulebook

Cavalier +1/2 on Intimidate checks to ride a thoat. Pathfinder Advanced Player’sGuide

Fencer +1/4th dodge bonus to AC against ranged attacks. En Garde

Fighter +1/5th insight bonus on grapple and trip attempts. Pathfinder Core Rulebook

Gunslinger +1/5th bonus on damage rolls with firearms. Pathfinder Ultimate Combat

Noble +1/3 on Intimidate checks to demoralize a creature. ome of Ingenuity and Noble &Skirmisher

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Adulthood Intuitive1 Self-aught2 rained3

5 years +1d4 years

(6 - 9 years)

+1d6 years

(6 - 11 years)

+2d6 years

(7 - 17 years)

1 Tis category includes barbarians, oracles, rogues, and sorcerers.

2 Tis category includes bards, cavaliers, fighters, gunslingers, paladins, rangesummoners, and witches.

3 Tis category includes alchemists, clerics, druids, inquisitors, magi, monks, wizards.

R H W

Gender BaseHeight

HeightModifier

Base Weight

WeightModifier

Male 10 ft. +1d6 ft.

(11 - 16 ft.)

395lbs.

+(2d10x2)

(399 - 435lbs.)

Female 8 ft. +1d6 ft

(9 - 14 ft.)

340lbs.

+(2d10x2)

(344 - 380lbs.)


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“A D REAM OF M ARS " VS P ATHFINDER Tis work holds to the assumption that a campaign isplaying on Mars rather than integrating martian racesinto a traditional Pathfinder setting. Campaigns thatintegrate can still use the information presented in this work but with a few minor changes.• Any races that have the martian telepathy racial trait

no longer have access to said trait.• Te Martian language is no longer available, and

the Martian language is replaced with Common.

Te GM must select suitable replacements for anyother racial languages presented in the races’ entries.

T HE M ARTIAN L ANGUAGE Martian is the common language spoken on Mars. It isnoted to be simple to speak and easy to learn. Martianseems to be the only spoken language. However, theterm “languages” as a whole also applies to writtenlanguages, which differ greatly.

A S AVAGE D YING W ORLD Mars is a dying world. It was once flourishing and thick with life. All Survival checks have their DCs increasedby +5. Survival checks should be more common becausethe daily struggle for survival is more prevalent in thissetting.

“A Dream of Mars” is a turbulent setting where lifeis hard and existence is fleeting. While there maybe heroes, death constantly stalks everyone, and theadvantage always lies with the enemy. Te mechanicsof this setting are geared towards challenging players.Te difficulty of combat is harder than a traditionalPathfinder setting, and GMs should be aware that acharacter from this setting will be less powerful thana character from a “normal” game. Tere is no magic,very little healing, danger lurking in every shadow, and

the threat of death hangs over every action.

M ARS AND C HARACTER C LASSES Due to the removal of magic from the setting, a numberof classes no longer exist and are thus not available toplay. Generally, classes with supernatural or spell-likeabilities are not suitable for this setting.

Te following Paizo base classes are considered

playable within this setting: barbarian, cavalier, fighter,gunslinger, monk*, ranger*, and rogue.

Classes marked with an asterisk * can be played with some modification. reating a monk’s abilitiesas extraordinary rather than supernatural could besufficient, with GM approval, to be played in thissetting. A ranger can take a variant that does nothave spellcasting (such as the skirmisher rangerarchetype). An alchemist may be acceptable, but special

consideration should be given to the manner in whichit is treated within the campaign setting.

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Te following Little Red Goblin Games base classes areconsidered playable within this setting: brave*, fencer,martialist, medic, noble, skirmisher, and wrestler*.

*A brave may correspond with the green martian racebetter than other races because green martians arepartially inspired by Native Americans but portrayed asmore cruel and savage. A martialist or wrestler has issuessimilar to the monk.

Te following Dreamscarred Press classes are consideredplayable within this setting: psion and psychic warrior.Please see the “Mars and Psychics” section below formore information on these rare classes.

M ARS AND M ONEY Green martians do not use money. Tey communallyown everything, and a warrior only “owns” his own weapons and sleeping silks. If he has more than heneeds, he serves as the custodian of this surplus until itis allocated. A warrior gains another’s goods and metal ifhe defeats him in fair single combat. Tese trinkets andadornments are a symbol of status and pride amongst

the green martians. As a result of this communallifestyle, green martians do not have a system ofcurrency.

Other cultures use a system similar to the standardPathfinder system, so the traditional copper, silver, andgold system may be used. However, this currency is ovalshaped and has different names. A copper is called a pi;a silver is called a teepi; and a gold is called a tanpi.

M ARS AND F IREARMS A Dream of Mars uses advanced firearms and all racestreat them as martial weapons.

M ARTIAN T ELEPATHY All creatures, sapient or animal, native to Mars havesome level of telepathy. Tis telepathy has a range of 30feet and follows all the rules described in the UniversalMonster Rules section of the Pathfinder Bestiary. Evencreatures with low Intelligence (such as riding animalsand watch dogs) are capable of this, but they maynot fully understand more complex thoughts. Mostcreatures are capable of understanding only what theythemselves are able to project.

Native creatures with an Intelligence score of 10 orhigher can use detect thoughts as an extraordinaryability with the same range as their telepathy for anumber of times per day equal to 3 + their Intelligence

modifier. Tey use their character level as their casterlevel for the purposes of this ability. A creature musthave telepathy and be native to Mars in order to besubject to this ability.

Earthlings are not native to Mars and, as such, are notable to use telepathy. However, they also do not register with the detect thoughts extraordinary ability. Teymake take the ability to use telepathy in place of a feat,but they still retain their inability to be detected by themental scans.


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M ARS AND P SYCHICS As described above in the Martian elepathy section,all creatures native to Mars are slightly psychic. Terare, odd, wayward creature can, through trainingor natural gift, elevate this to a practical and evenlethal level. In game terms, only 1d4 psychics of anyreal skill may be present on Mars at a given time (ornone). Tis means that there is no economy for psychicequipment, crystals, or places of formal training. It istypical that any psychic is either a player character, aprominent figure in the story, or even the antagonist.Te rules presented in Psionics Unleashed publishedby Dreamscarred Press are highly recommended asan addition to this concept. Te psion and psychic warriors classes are the most appropriate for this setting.

However, the concept of psychics is optional; the GMis the final arbiter of whether a given game has psionics.Races with racial Intelligence bonuses tend to be thebest suited to becoming psychics, and races with racialIntelligence penalties are unheard of as psychics.

T HOATS Toats are immense eight-legged horse-beasts that arecommon on Mars. While there are many varieties (some

are bred for food, others for riding, and some remaindangerously feral), they can be domesticated. Tey eatthe great fields of yellow mossy vegetation that covervast swaths of the surface. Physically, thoats possess wide, flat heads with gaping maws that split their headsentirely in two horizontally when they open theirmouths. Tey have thick skin, similar to young rhinos,and long fleshy tails tipped with wide leaf-shapedclusters. In many other ways, they resemble muscular,grayish horses all the way down to their hooves.

Te domesticated riding variety are perfect miniaturesof the 10-foot tall feral thoats that stalk the wastes andbasons of Mars.

Toats use the following statistics:

, R (CR ) XP 600N Large animalInit +4; Senses scent; Perception +8

DEFENSE AC 15, touch 13, flat-footed 11 (+4 Dex, -1 size, +2natural)hp 19 (2d8+10)Fort +8, Ref +7, Will +3

OFFENSESpeed 50 ft.Melee bite +5 (1d6+5), 2 hooves* +0 (1d6+2)Space 10 ft.; Reach 5 ft.

*While thoats possess 8 limbs, only the first two aresuitable for attacking.

SAISICSStr 20, Dex 18, Con 21, Int 2, Wis 17, Cha 11Base Atk +1; CMB +7; CMD 21 (25 vs. trip)Feats Endurance, RunSkills Perception +8SQ Combat trained, martian telepathy

CStarting StatisticsSize Large; Speed 50 ft.; AC +4 natural armor; Attackbite (1d6), 2 hooves (1d6); Ability Scores Str 16, Dex13, Con 15, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 6; Special Qualitiesscent, martian telepathy

-L A Ability Scores Str +2, Con +2; Special Qualities combattrained.


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C AMPAIGN F EATS

M R“Our own fire never diminished, and I doubt if twenty-

five per cent of our shots went wild. It had never been given me to see such deadly accuracy of aim, and itseemed as though a little figure on one of the craftdropped at the explosion of each bullet, while thebanners and upper works dissolved in spurts of flameas the irresistible projectiles of our warriors mowedthrough them.” Prerequisites: Green martian, BAB +1, proficient withfirearms.Benefit: You ignore the penalty for the first 3 rangeincrements with firearms.

E “I did not apprise him of my ability to sense his mentaloperations, and thus I learned a great deal which provedof immense value to me later and which I would neverhave known had he suspected my strange power, forthe Martians have such perfect control of their mentalmachinery that they are able to direct their thoughtswith absolute precision.”

Prerequisites: Earthling, Int 12.Benefit: You gain the ability to use martian telepathybut remain unable to be detected by the detect thoughtsfunction of that ability.

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