Welcome to the Cosmozoan Shuffler! Ever need giant space creatures to threaten your crew on the spur of the moment, but don’t have time to plan out their stats? Fear no more. The Cosmozoan Shuffler will allow you to mix-and-match and create a spacefaring entity quickly. (Instructions here.)
- Hunger-Driven
- Curious
- Extratemporal
- Malicious
- Conspiratorial
- Empathic
- Unstable
- Parasitic
- Hyperintelligent
- Biomimetic
- Childlike
- Programmed
- Patient
- Gestalt
- Rational
- Unfathomable
- Telepathic
- Adaptive
- Vengeful
- Symbiotic
- Polaron
- Antiproton
- Dekyon
- Omicron Radiation
- Baryon Particle
- Graviton
- Radiogenic Particle
- Negative Energy
- Verteron
- Tetryon
- Sporocystian Energy
- Plasma
- Nadion
- Chroniton
- Electromagnetism
- Metreon
- Tachyon
- Alpha Particle
- Cometary Ion
- Thoron
- Two-Dimensional
- Gaseous
- Silicon-Based
- Organic
- Metallic
- Planetoidal
- Protoplasmic
- Photonic
- Non-Corporeal
- Solanogen-Based
- Energy-Based
- Vessel
- Multidimensional
- Cybernetic
- Crystalline
- Swarmlike
- Spatial Distortion
- Psychic
- Dark Matter
- Transtemporal
There are three kinds of Cosmozoan Cards:
- Awareness (type of thought)
- includes Communications, Computers, Command, Conn, Crew, Values, and a special rule;illustrated with an icon.
- Energy (energy used in metabolism; often what it eats and also what it emits)
- includes Traits, Engines, Sensors, Security, Engineering, Power, Scale, Resistance, Shields, and two attacks;Shields is dependent on the Morphology Card, so the final value is not calculated – but it should be easy to obtain the value with the formula on the card;illustrated with a particle.
- Morphology (cosmozoan physical type)
- includes NPC category, Structure, Weapons, Science, Medicine, Immunities, Focuses, and another special rule;Cosmozoans are (almost) always immune to Vacuum and Cold;illustrated with an image resembling the morphology.
Pick one of each kind, and you have your cosmozoan! Some combinations may take creative license from the GM, but that’s a feature, not a bug – and might even inspire you to come up with interesting ecologies. Use the sliders to select the cards you want, with the lists below to help you locate them.
Roll 3d20 if you would like to select them randomly.
For the PDF version, see here.