The birrin are the creation of Alex Ries and have been adapted here for the Pulsars and Polymaths campaign. This article uses material from the Cronicles of Chiirah wiki at Fandom and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.
The Birrin are a sapient hexapod (six limbed) species from Chriirah.
They are approximately 2 meters tall. The Birrin are an egg laying species, and clutches typically contain 3 or 4 eggs which hatch within days of each other to reveal small, hungry and fuzzy chicks.
Most modern Birrin, having long since industrialized, rarely brood traditionally but often use communal incubators or hired nannies to warm eggs during gestation.
Many Birrin, being pleasurably susceptible to many of the psychoactive defence compounds found in their planets’ plants, have developed complex rituals around recreational drug use.
The Birrin are at home in water, and many engage in swimming recreationally with or without the aid of SCUBA systems.
Birrin do not share the social taboo of external cyberware that many human clades have.
Many birrin fleeing the ecological hardship on their homeworld have relocated to other systems, most notably, Circus, where they have found solace in the archipelagos dotting some of the small shallow seas of the wilds.
Stat Requirements
Minimum dexterity of 12 . Birrin are exceedingly nimble.
Classes
Warrior and Expert Only
Additional Limbs
A Birrins mouth in addition to its two "hands" are able to manipulate objects with average dexterity, but they gain no additional attacks. Specialized tools/mods are available for birrin mouth control.
Bite
1d4 damage.Like a fish
Birrin are extremely adept as swimming through the water. They move at a speed of 10 while swimming, and can stay submerged for half a kilosecond (aprox 8 minutes) before the need for additional oxygen begins to cause physiological problems.
Supurb locomotion
A Birrin has a base move speed of 15, instead of the standard 10. Underwater, they can move at the standard speed of 10 with no additional penalty.
Gear developed for Birrin can be limited in scope, and most things that are designed around a particular body style would cost a birrin between 150% to 200% more. Other things such as cockpits and certain vehicles may also need to be adapted, costing somwhere between 1% to 10% of the cost of the vehicle.
