A staggering variety of species populate the smoky cantinas, dingy spaceports and glittering cities of the Star Wars universe. Now, the secrets of these aliens are at your fingertips!
Alien Encounters features some of the most exotic, interesting and unusual aliens, culled from dozens of Star Wars novels, comic books, roleplaying adventures, sourcebooks, and the Official Star Wars Adventure Journal.
Each alien entry features a concise and descriptive background on a species, as well as game stats for use with the Star Wars Roleplaying Game. With over 100 aliens between these pages, you can find the answers to questions like:
Also included in this volume is an alien-generation system, allowing you to create your own bizarre denizens of the Star Wars universe. In addition, Alien Encounters contains several indices, cataloguing aliens from this book, Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races and Galaxy Guide 12: Aliens — Enemies and Allies.
- : Advice for generating new alien species for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.
- : The culture, biology, and game statistics of sentient species.
- : This section contains two indices of all alien species described in Alien Encounters, Galaxy Guide 4, and Galaxy Guide 12. The first is in alphabetical order, while the second indexes the species by biology (plants, amphibians, avians, crustaceans, insects and arachnids, mammals, reptiles, and "exotics".) A third index lists aliens by environment, and a fourth lists aliens likely to be spacefarers.