Beetlemen (Also called: Rauthorik)

(Encounter Level: 1 - 3)

Attacks/Defenses: Claw: 1d4 / Claw: 1d4. Are often armed with simple melee weapons. Some Beetlemen will use crude ranged weapons, but this is uncommon. Can gain Class Levels up to: Barbarian (Level 3) or Warrior (Level 3).

Acid Spit: A Beetlemen can spit up a glob of acid once every 1d4 rounds. Treat this as a ranged attack with a 20-foot range. The acid does 1d6 points of damage.

Description: Beetlemen, also called Rauthoriks in their own language, are the grotesque and nasty results of humans who were mutated in the Cataclysm. They appear as hulking, beetle-like creatures that stand taller than a man and walk on their hind legs. Most of their body appears almost identical to that of a beetle except their faces often bear a trace of their lost humanity. Beetlemen live in woods and hilly regions around Gaianar, viciously attacking anyone who enters their territory. Their goal is to eventually eliminate all other intelligent life on the planet, for they see themselves as being a superior lifeform. Fortunately for everyone else, most Beetlemen are too nasty and ill tempered to try to achieve this goal by any method aside from brute force and simplistic tactics. However, these beetle-creatures do breed at a fast rate, and they quickly replace their losses on the battlefield.