Cathar and d6: any house rules?

[Rasputiza]

Hiall,
i'm starting a new group, a new campaign and, well, it's my first campaign as gamemaster as well.
I have some kind of fascination with KOTOR, and i would like to include a Cathar player.
Does anybody knows if there is any house rule that covers this race? Such as special abilities attributes and skills dice, and so on?
Many thanks in advance to anyone who will help!


Ras

[Gry Sarth]

Here ya go:

Cathar
Home Planet: Cathar
Attribute Dice: 12D
DEXTERITY 2D/4D+2
KNOWLEDGE 1D/3D+2
MECHANICAL 1D/4D
PERCEPTION 1D/4D
STRENGTH 1D/4D
TECHNICAL 1D/3D+2
Special Abilities:
Claws: Cathar have claws that do STR+1D damage.
Move: 12/14
Size: Large
Source: Ultimate Alien Anthology (pages 28-29), Power of the Jedi Sourcebook (pages 65-66)
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[Rasputiza]

[Orgaloth]

They are WEG based. The pages are included in the quote

[Gry Sarth]

Yeah, I'm a regular knight in shining armor... 8)


And actually, those are Wizards' d20 books, which I converted to D6. Bear in mind that Juhanni (that was the name of the Cathar in KOTOR, right?) looks quite different to how Wizards depicted the Cathar.
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[Tejma_Muhog]

[Rasputiza]

[Gry Sarth]

Well, you can find a very good guideline for d20 conversions over at The Rebellion website.

However, if you simply download my Aliens Stats book (available at the first thread under Tools) you won't really need to, as it contains all the aliens.
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[Rasputiza]

[Gry Sarth]

Thanks.

GG 13 is supposed to have been a "Gamblers and Scoundrels" book that apparently fell off the face of the earth. Therefore, when I do an Ep1 book, I plan on naming it GG13.
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[DoubtBreak]

Not to criticize, but those stats for Cathar remind me of one sticking point I have with many West End Games alien stats. Using the Cathar ones above as an example, almost any set of human character attributes will fit, assuming they didn't max out Knowledge or Technical - and in my experience, few players do - and they get an extra +1D of brawling damage and 2m of movement speed as a Cathar. Of course, that's not enough to unbalance things, but there are worse examples among WEG aliens. The ubiquitous 1D/4D range allows for a bit more min-maxing with characters, though.

But this is not intended as criticism. I just finished re-writing all of my self-converted alien species to balance such issues, so it's on my mind.

On a more relevant note, the Wizards of the Coast site had this to say about Juhani-

(QUOTE)
Juhani is a member of a somewhat stealthier subspecies with the ability to alter the pigments in their fur very quickly, thus creating a sort of instant camouflage (50% concealment as per a stealth field generator, above, except that it grants no bonus to characters using sensors to detect the Cathar). Using this ability requires focus and concentration on the part of the Cathar, who must use an attack action to activate or maintain this ability. This subspecies has less prominent claws than its larger relatives, so they do not have natural weapons (as per the Cathar species traits).
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That's from http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars/article/sw20060126jc81, and I'd interpret the stealth as a +2D bonus to
Sneak that lasts as long as the character takes an additional -1D penalty on all other skill rolls. But that's just me.