Large Humanoid (Ubue)

Hit Dice: 3d8+6 (19 hp)

Initiative: –1 (Dex)

Speed: 20 ft

AC: 17 (–1 size, –1 Dex, +6 natural, +3 hide)

Attacks: 3 clubs +5 melee or 3 slams +5 melee

Damage: Club 1d6+3 or slam 1d4+3

Face/Reach: 5 ft by 5 ft./10 ft

Special Attacks: Superior three–weapon fighting

Special Qualities: Low–light vision

Saves: Fort +2, Ref –1, Will –1

Abilities: Str 16, Dex 9, Con 15, Int 8, Wis 9, Cha 12

Skills: Climb +4, Hide +0, Listen +4, Search +4, Spot +5

Climate/Terrain: Any land and underground

Organization: Solitary or clan (3–30)
Challenge Rating: 2

Treasure: Standard

Alignment: Any chaotic

Advancement: By character class

These beings vaguely resemble humans, but have three heads, three arms, and three legs. One of the three heads will always be of a different sex from the other two and it will always be in the middle. The sex of the ubue is determined by how many heads it has of one sex. Two male heads indicates it will be male and vice versa. Due to this division of heads, there is a great deal of argument between the heads from time to time. Sometimes these arguments are untimely, as in the middle of a battle (15% chance).

   Ubues have pale flesh, and in all features appear as a human.  They wear animal skins, and use bones as hair decorations and jewelry.

Combat

Ubues attack wildly with their weapons, or with their bare hands if they are unarmed. There is no real skill or method in their combat––they attack with primal rage and savage brutality.

   Superior Three–Weapon Fighting (Ex): Because each of its three heads controls an arm, the ubue does not suffer an attack penalty for attacking with three weapons.

   Skills: An ubue’s three heads grants it a +4 to Listen, Spot and Search checks. An ubue cannot be flanked.

Ubue Characters

The favored class of a ubue is barbarian, and all ubue chieftains are barbarians. Female ubues have been know to become adepts, but this is rare; nearly all classed members of both sexes of this unusual race are barbarians.

Ubue Society

The social system of the ubues is simple. The strongest male ubue is the tribal chief. A male ubue can at any time challenge the chief for the right to be the new ruler. If the challenger loses, he is forced to leave the tribe for a period of 4 seasons. His family, if he has one, is often exiled with him. If the chief loses, he simply becomes one of the village elders and will always have voice in the council.

   Female ubues generally give birth to only one child at a time. If more than one babe is born, the tribe’s shaman will kill one of the babies. If one of the babes is female and the other male, it will be the female that dies, otherwise the shaman cast sticks onto the floor searching for signs from the gods as to which child to slay.

The Ubue first appeared in module B3(Jean Wells, 1981).