Jawas

By WelbyBy Welby

Jawas hail from Tatooine, a small desert world in the Outer Rim. Jawas scour the desert looking for lost or abandoned droids and other technology. What little they find is loaded into Sandcrawlers, massive steamdriven transport vehicles which serve as moving workshops for the Jawas. Jawas earn their keep by selling the repaired (or at least jury rigged) droids. Jawas rarely leave Tatooine, but some occassionally leave their clans behind in favor of Mos Eisley and other human settlements. Jawas are fiercely loyal to their friends, but Jawas rarely form friendships with humans because of the humans' condesending manner.

If a group of humans did befriend a Jawa, he would likely be willing to accompany them offworld, provided that they asked him to. Jawas who have severed the ties with their clan might be particularly willing to take on his human friends as a sort of replacement family.

Personality: Excitable, easily frightened or intimidated.

Physical Description: Jawas stand an average of 1 meter tall. Females being slightly shorter. They wear hooded brown cloaks to protect themselves from the heat of Tatooine's binary suns. Shining out from beneath the hood glow a pair of bright yellow eyes. Very few people have seen a Jawa without its hood, but the common consensus is that they are extrordinarily ugly.

Jawa Homeworld: Tatooine

Language: Jawas speak Jawan, as well as the Jawa Trade Language used to communicate with Tatooine's human settlers. Some (very few) Jawas also learn to speak Basic.

Example Names: Het Nkik, Jet Nkik, Datcha

Adventurers: Jawas rarely leave their clans. They are typically cowardly, but adventurers often break the mold. Jawa adventurers who have left Tatooine often seek to understand their place in the galaxy. Not content to be scavengers on a desert world, they Try to prove that a Jawa can be much more.

• -2 Strength, +2 Intelligence, -2 Wisdom: Jawa lack strength, due to their size. They are very intelligent and skilled, but lack slightly for common sense.
• Small-size: As small creatures, Jawas gain a +1 size bonus to defense, a +1 size bonus on attack rolls, and a +4 size bonus on Hide checks, but they must use smaller weapons than medium sized races use, and their lifting and carrying limits are three-quarters those of Medium-size characters.
• Jawa base speed is 6 meters.
• Jawas begin with a +2 Jury-rig bonus to their repair checks.
• Jawas have a +2 bonus to survival checks to resist hot, dry environments.
• +2 racial bonus to Craft, Droidbuilding.
• Low-light vision.
• Automatic Languages: Jawan, Jawa Trade Language, Basic (understanding only).

Init +0; Defense 12 (+1 Dex, +1 size); Spd 6m; VP/WP -/11; Att +0 melee (1d2, punch), +1 ranged; SV Fort +0, Ref +0, Will -1; SZ S; FP 0; Rep 0; Str 9, Dex 10, Con 11, Int 12, Wis 9, Cha 11.

Equipment: Variety of personal belongings.

Skills: Craft (droid construction) +7 (4 ranks, +1 Int, +2 racial); Hide +4 (size bonus); Knowledge (electronics) +3 (2 ranks, +1 INT); Profession (droid programmer) +1 (2 ranks, -1 WIS)