Marine Racial Traits
- Ability Modifiers: +4 Strength, +2 Dexterity, +4 Constitution. The Imperium's finest are stronger, faster, and tougher than normal humans.
- Medium-Sized: As Medium creatures, Marines have no special bonuses or penalties due to size.
- Speed: A Marine's base land speed is 30 feet.
- Type: Monstrous Humanoid. Unlike other monstrous humanoids, Marines do not gain any proficiencies or darkvision.
- Racial Hit Dice: 2 HD. A Marine's monstrous humanoid levels give him a BAB of +2, +3 Reflex and Will saves, +0 Fortitude save, one feat, and (2 + Int modifier) x 5 skill points. A Marine's class skills (and the key ability for each) are Bluff (Cha), Climb (Str), Drive (Dex), Jump (Str), Pilot (Dex), Swim (Str). He may gain additional class skills based on his Chapter.
- Gene-Seed: A Marine gains a bonus Gene-Seed feat at 1st level, reflecting which Chapter he belongs to.
- Secondary Heart (Ex): The Marine gains a +10 increase to his massive damage threshold. Losing his secondary heart will reduce the Marine's Constitution score by 4 points.
- Ossmodula (Ex): Due to the modifications of the Marine's skeleton, he receives +3 wound points. Losing the ossmodula will reduce the Marine's Strength and Constitution both by 2 points.
- Biscopea (Ex): The increase in muscle mass grants the Marine the Powerful Build trait.
- Haemastamen (Ex): This supports the secondary heart, ossmodula, and biscopea. Losing the hameastamen will reduce the Marine's Constitution score by 2 and will remove the benefits of the above listed organs.
- Larraman's Organ (Ex): The Marine's increased healing factor means he heals damage at twice the normal rate and automatically stabilizes if reduced to negative wound points.
- Catalepsean Node (Ex): While this is active, the Marine only takes a -2 penalty to Spot and Listen checks and may carry out light duties while asleep. Losing the catalepsean node will reduce the Marine's Wisdom score by 2.
- Preomnor (Ex): This pre-stomach gives the Marine a +4 racial bonus on Fortitude saves against poison and allows him to survive on any organic material with little ill effect.
- Omophagea (Ex): With this, a Marine is able to consume a pound of a creature's flesh to absorb some of its memories. With a successful DC 15 Wisdom check, the Marine learns some of the creature's memory about on par with having watched a movie or read a book about it.
- Multi-lung (Ex): This enables the Marine to breathe thin and toxic atmospheres with no ill effect, granting him a +4 bonus on Fortitude saves against inhaled poisons. He can also hold his breath ten times as long as normal with the multi-lung.
- Occulobe (Ex): This grants the Marine a +4 racial bonus on Spot and vision-based Search checks. He also has low-light vision, able to see twice as far as a human in conditions of poor illumination.
- Lyman's Ear (Ex): This grants the Marine a +4 racial bonus on Balance and Listen checks.
- Sus-an Membrane (Ex): This enables the marine to enter a period of suspended animation as a full-round action or as a reaction to taking damage in excess of his massive damage threshold. Once in suspended animation, he ages at one-hundredth the normal rate but cannot be woken except by a specific chemical trigger from a Marine apothecary. He cannot die while in suspended animation, even if reduced to less than -10 wound points, but if restored without first being healed the Marine will succumb to his wounds. Losing this reduces the Marine's Intelligence score by 2 points.
- Melanochromic Organ (Ex): Thanks to this, the Marine treats all radiation exposure as being one degree lower.
- Oolitic Kidney (Ex): This organ grants the Marine a +4 racial bonus on all Fortitude saves made against disease and poison. If he succumbs to a disease or poison, the Marine can choose to go unconscious for 1d4+1 minutes and gain another Fortitude save at the same DC to cleanse himself of his ailment. Losing the Oolitic kidney reduces the Marine's Constitution score by 2 points.
- Neuroglottis (Ex): In addition to enabling the Marine to detect poisons, diseases, and other chemicals simply by tasting an item, the neuroglottis also gives him the Scent extraordinary ability.
- Mucranoid (Ex): This allows a Marine, with the appropriate chemotherapy (a process taking eight hours that counts as light duty), to render himself immune to extremes of weather between -40 degrees and 160 degrees. He can also survive up to 10 minutes of constant exposure to vacuum at a time with no ill effect, though suffocation is still a threat. This protection lasts for 30 days.
- Betcher's Gland (Ex): The two implants in his mouth enables the Marine to spit contact poison at any target within 5 feet as a ranged touch attack. If his target has exposed eyes, it must make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + Marine's HD + Marine's Con modifier) or be blinded for 2d4 + Marine's Con bonus (if any) hours. Regardless of whether or not the target is blinded, it also takes 1d6 points of acid damage (reducing an object's hardness by that much if unliving).
- Progenoids (Ex): Though absolutely vital for continuing the Chapter thanks to the gene-seeds they contain, the progenoid glands do not have any affect on the Marine himself. Most Marines have theirs removed as soon as they have matured.
- Black Carapace (Ex): The interface between a Marine and his armor, the black carapace enables him to use his armor proficiently. Without it, a Marine can never progress beyond Scout as his armor is only so much ceramite.
- Automatic Languages: Low Gothic. Bonus Languages: High Gothic.
- Favored Class: Soldier. +10% experience point bonus for having more than half the levels in this class.
- Level Adjustment: +2. A Marine has an ECL of 4 before class levels.