 January 25, 2009 - 8:04am | Only TSR could get away with an alien designed from a toilet paper roll. and you know who I'm talking about. SF1 the roller It was always my least favorite volturunus animal. How could an animal grow or evolve with a moving part like that? It just strikes me as silly. Anyway the point of this post is I was wondering is anyone redesigned the roller into a saner more plausible animal? My new favorite volturnus animal is the cactus wompur listed in the ul-mor alien update file. it has no picture or stats! From the name I imagined an anklyasaur type dinosaur with an armored back and a club tail that it uses to smash cactus to get at the juices within. (the name also implies cactus plants in the setting and I created cactus patches that sand sharks like to stake out waiting for prey). In fact I may have dropped a plastic dinosaur on the table during the SF-0 module. So I was thinking something along the lines of a close branch on the evolutionary tree for the roller and the cactus wumper. Possibly the roller has a similar tail it smashes the glass shard grass with before eating it. or just change the roll to a armored nose of some type or I can just ignore rollers altogether from the module. anyone have idea or even better a bit of art work that might work for a redesigned roller? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 January 25, 2009 - 3:51pm | All I know is that Rollerburgers are mega-popular with adults and younglings alike throughout the entire Frontier and most of the Rim. Moreso considering the new franchise "McRollers" and their mascot, a dralasite wearing a yellow skeinsuit named "Rollind McRoller". |
January 25, 2009 - 3:51pm | All I know is that Rollerburgers are mega-popular with adults and younglings alike throughout the entire Frontier and most of the Rim. Moreso considering the new franchise "McRollers" and their mascot, a dralasite wearing a yellow skeinsuit named "Rollind McRoller". |
 January 25, 2009 - 5:20pm | "Do you believe in elastic/And I hope you do?You'll always have a friend with red-tinted psuedopods...." "You're everything that's base in humanity," Cochrane continued. "Drawing up strict, senseless rules for the sole reason of putting you at the top and excluding anyone you say doesn't belong or fit in, for no other reason than just because you say so." —Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stephens, Federation |
January 26, 2009 - 4:23am | I was thinking more of a rendition of "Rubber Band Man"... In all seriousness, I do like the tail smashing idea. But I think an armored nose or face would work better considering the way it all plays out (roller trails in the shard grass plains). Perhaps something like a triceretops head sans horns (sp?). And while I'm being serious (please don't call me Shirley), I have no idea why my last post came up twice. |
 January 26, 2009 - 6:22pm | I find rollers interesting and alien. Of course they didn't evolve, the were created. :-P I would agree they need something like an armoured tail to defend itself. Unless they gather in a circle for defense then go on the offensive rolling over anything in their path. |
 January 26, 2009 - 8:51pm | I find rollers interesting and alien. Of course they didn't evolve, the were created. :-P I like that idea. Im going to "borrow" it.  I would agree they need something like an armoured tail to defend itself. Unless they gather in a circle for defense then go on the offensive rolling over anything in their path. Oh come on, they shoot crystal shards out thier butts!! Who needs a big tough tail when these things give new meaning to the term 'silent, butt deadly'?  Time flies when your having rum. Im a government employee, I dont goof-off. I constructively abuse my time. |
 January 27, 2009 - 11:09pm | you could always replace the roller with a shovel mouth or duckbill type appendage |
January 27, 2009 - 11:09pm | you could always replace the roller with a shovel mouth or duckbill type appendage |
January 28, 2009 - 3:13pm | Whew, now I know I'm not alone in the double post quandry. |
 January 28, 2009 - 5:57pm | Double posting is the new SF alien life form. It inhabits several websites, the rest of it's life cycle is a mystery. Maybe the roller is just something that the life form just picks up when young and holds it so long a tusk grows to become the axis, then it grows there as well. But this would assume that the animal is intellegent enough to want to make such a fashion statement. And suggest the Darwin Award is not just a human doing. In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same. |
