Deepygmy Race

A subterranean branch of mankind, deepygmy are physically smaller and tougher than most other humans, with eyesight and pigmentation patterns befitting their underground ancestry. In events predating the terran bronze age by at least a few dozen millennia, prehistoric humans were periodically abducted into slavery and experimentation by extraterrestrials of several kinds and origins. During that time, the infant offspring of captive humans bred and engineered to dwell and work in the depths of many inhospitable, industrialized and metaphysically anomalous worlds, were often traded between those worlds to promote their hardiness and diminish their familial bonds. Under those conditions, that portion of humanity continued to evolve as one race individually and collectively referred to as deepygmy. Eventually, anonymous acts of sabotage and mysterious phenomena aligned to offer the deepygmy enough of an edge to escape and elude their oppressors until they gathered, organized and innovated enough as one people to hold their own and liberate others.
    Deepygmy settlements have since become legion, hidden beneath the surface of several thousand planets and moons scattered throughout the cosmological multiverse. Long in the habit of covertly scouting out and scrying upon new celestial bodies, deepygmy utilize various means of spreading to those they deem suitable. Such means scale up to devices each capable of originating a two-way metaphysical portal with almost any other observed or visited location that isn't properly warded or subjected to adverse metaphysical conditions. Following their arrival to a new and often untamed world, deepygmy are quick to establish a well-warded, concealed and sustainable subterranean settlement with the ability to originate its own portals, steadily expanding the network of their kind.
    Wherever possible, each deepygmy settlement is designed and sometimes altered to preserve and utilize the natural leylines of its host planet or moon. Typically permeated by powerful wards, those settlements include a multitude of secret doors and traps designed to help neutralize nosy intruders. Their underground chambers and corridors usually contain an array of persistent portals, many of which correspond to demiplanes created with environments ideal for laboratories, workshops and farms. Oftentimes, some of those demiplanes are cleared and secured to receive traffic that involves shifting or opening gates through planar veils.
    Depending on available resources, each deepygmy settlement typically sustains any technological demands with energy produced by means including geothermal generators, fusion reactors and even graviton reactors. Commonly enclosed within faraday cages, each settlement employs quantum ansible nodes to facilitate technological communication. To discreetly monitor and study regions within their astrological vicinity, settlements will build a variety of space-faring vessels and scouting probes well equipped for cloaking.
    A vast portion of deepygmy settlements share their host planet or moon with other sapient intelligent species on terms that are mostly respectful and mutually beneficial. Those settlements are less adverse than others of their kind to receiving unusual company.

Deepygmy Racial Traits (10 RP)

+2 Constitution, +2 to One Mental Ability Score: Deepygmy characters are sturdy and gain a +2 racial bonus to one mental ability score of their choice at creation to represent the varied nature of their kind. (2 RP)

Humanoid (Human): Deepygmy are humanoids with the human subtype.

Small: Deepygmy are Small creatures and gain a +1 size bonus to their AC, a +1 size bonus on attack rolls, a –1 penalty to their Combat Maneuver Bonus and Combat Maneuver Defense, and a +4 size bonus on Stealth checks.

Normal Speed: Deepygmy have a base speed of 30 feet.

Low-Light Vision: Deepygmy can see twice as far as a race with normal vision in conditions of dim light. (1 RP)

Darkvision: Deepygmy can see perfectly in the dark up to 60 feet. (2 RP)

Depth of Diversity: Upon creation, deepygmy characters gain two traits they select from the following list. (4 RP)

• Inherently Hidden: Those with this trait gain a +2 racial bonus on Stealth checks. As a free or immediate action, each of them can suspend or resume the supernatural equivalent of having cast nondetection on their own self with a permanent duration and an effective caster level equaling their character level.
• Naturally Psionic: Those with this trait gain Wild Talent as a bonus feat at 1st level. If they gain levels in a psionic class, they gain the Psionic Talent feat instead. When taking a level in a favored class, they can choose to gain an additional power point instead of a hit point or skill point.
• Oddly Resistant: Those with this trait gain a +1 racial bonus on all saving throws.
• Tech Intuitive: Those with this trait gain Technologist as a bonus feat at 1st level. They can gain other feats listing Technologist as a prerequisite, as if every skill rank prerequisite were reduced by 2, to no less than 1.

Languages: Deepygmy begin play speaking Common and Deepygmy. Deepygmy with high Intelligence scores can choose any languages they want (except secret languages, such as Druidic). (1 RP)

Random Deepygmy Height and Weight:

Male Height: 3 ft. 0 in. + 2d6 in.
Male Weight: 40 lbs. + 2d8 lbs.
Female Height: 2 ft. 10 in. + 2d6 in.
Female Weight: 35 lbs. + 2d8 lbs.

Character Traits

MUTABLE MANIFESTING (Race or Psionic Trait)
You can adapt one of your manifesting paradigms to match the landscape of your mind.
Prerequisite: Naturally Psionic.
Benefit: Upon acquiring this trait, choose one psionic manifesting class. You can keep any psionic manifesting ability you gain from the chosen class keyed to your highest mental ability score at all times.

TECH SAVVY (Race or Regional Trait)
You are well versed in the technological advancements of your culture.
Prerequisite (Race): Tech Intuitive.
Benefit: Disable Device and Knowledge (engineering) are always class skills for you, and you gain a +1 trait bonus on skill checks with each of those you gain as a class skill from any other source.

UNIQUELY RESISTANT (Race Trait)
Your kin defy the odds overall while you find more success in doing so selectively.
Prerequisite: Racial bonus on all saving throws.
Benefit: Upon acquiring this trait, choose one type of saving throw: Fort, Ref or Will. You gain a +3 trait bonus on saving throws of the chosen type while a –1 penalty applies to all others you attempt.