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Homebrew Race: Eldritch

Who doesn’t want to sprinkle a little tendrils into their game and have a dramatic reveal to the party that their companion is not human at all, but a monster spawned in the depths of void? Just me? No?

The short lore only suggests what their origin might be in my setting, if You wanna make them spwan vof kraken, space shapeshifter, escaped experiment or mutated warlock’s child it up to You and Your DM

Eldritch

Eldritch are mysterious creatures that fall into the world from the void between stars. It is not known how they survive the impact or where they originate from, but their elusive nature and ability to hide between people makes them hard to find and most don’t even know of their existence.

Eldritch Traits

Ability Score Increase: +2 and +1 to two different ability scores Creature Type: Your type is Aberration Size: Your size is medium Speed: Your walking speed is 30 feet Darkvision: You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray. Languages: You can speak, read and write Deep Speech and one more language of Your choice. Cosmic Horror: When a humanoid sees Your true form for the first time, they must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + twice your Proficiency Bonus) or panic for a minute. When panicking they can either attack you or run away. Panicking creature can repeat their saving throw once every minute, or if you or another creature spends their action to make a Charisma (Persuasion) check (DC = 8 + twice your Proficiency Bonus) to allow another save, ending the condition on a success. Transformative: You can use your action to reshape your form and change appearance into a humanoid of the same size. Transforming back into your true form doesn’t require an action. You have only one shape into which you can turn. You can change what it looks like, when you finish a long rest, but afterwards can not do it for a week. If you try to pass as a different creature, an Intelligence (Investigation) check contested by your Charisma (Deception) check, can be made to reveal your mimicry. Extra Appendages: In your true form you have up to 8 additional limbs, however they are not as effective as the main set of ‘arms’. The extra limbs can hold and interact with items and provide spell components, but may not be used to make weapon attacks, use shields, nor grapple. Adaptive From: While in your true form you have one of the following benefits of your choice. When you finish a long rest you can swap the chosen benefit for a new one. Once you reach level 5, you can have two adaptations at the same time.

Amphibious: You gain swimming speed equal to your walking speed and can breathe underwater.

Wall Crawler: You gain climbing speed equal to your walking speed and resistance to falling damage.

Sight of Void: You gain blindsight with a range of 30 feet.

Pliable Body: You can squeeze into openings as narrow as 3 inches wide and can escape non magical restraints as 5 feet of your movement.

Void Shifter: As a bonus action once per long rest, you can teleport to an unoccupied space within 20 feet that you can see. Once You reach 3rd level, you can use this feature once per short or long rest.

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Random thought with One D&D making ardlings the celestial counterpart to tieflings, what if there are tieflings descendant of corrupted ardlings with animal skull as their face

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Ok, here's the Question everyone!

Why are merfolk presented with horizontally ending tail and wave it up and down, if they are part fish?

That's how dolphins are build. Merfolk should have vertical fins and wave tails to the sides.

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Broke: Making Your Ravenloft campaign based on Bram Stoker's Dracula novel

Woke: Making Ravenloft based on historical figure Vlad III Dracula the Impaler

Super Woke: Ravenloft based on Castelvania's Dracula

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Homebrew Cantrip: Binding Tangle

Its been a while since I’ve posted my homebrew content, but there is a lack of combat cantrips that don’t do damage and also grappling options for non-melee characters so I felt inspired to make this here little spell. What do You think? Is it too much for a cantrip? Or not enouth? The Binding Tanlgle also called Arturabis’ Spinneret Blast after the signature silkweb shots conjured by this spell original creator, a Drow mage, Arturabis Glemoretta. The for this spell takes varies from user to user. While often spell materializes glue or nets, some casters create growth of crystals or boundles of mage hands that hold their targets.

Binding Tangle

Bard, Druid, Sorcerer and Warlock Conjuration cantrip Casting Time: 1 action Duration: 1 minute Range: 20 feet Components: V, S, M (a silk ribbon)

You conjure a sicky projectile that constricts movements. Mass of cobweb, glue, slime, vines or similar substance snares whoever it hits where they stand. Make a ranged spell attack against a creature. On a hit, target becomes attached to surface within 5 feet of it and it's speed becomes 0. On the end of each of it's turns, the target can make a Strength saving throw, ending the spell on successful save. When you hit a target that is already under effect of this spell, the target also becomes restrained for the duration. This spell has no effect on creatures that are huge or larger. The spell can target more creatures when You reach higher levels - up to two at 5th level, three at 11th level, and four at 17th level. Make a separate attack roll for each target.

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I have to say it, Gnolls are portrayed wrongly.

Hyenas have very strict order within their packs. And females always have higher position than males and also are physically bigger.

Hence gnolls should not live in savage war packs, but build military nations, where women train as soldiers and rule, while gnoll men work and defend homes.

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Four-armed racial trait for D&D 5e

@probablycopyrightedrpgideas asked for my interpretation on this topic.

Shorter post HERE

I won’t try homebrewing a hole four-armed race, since its not specified, if its supposed to be humanoid insects, eldritch aliens, or just humans with extra hands, like Nartaki - human metatype from Shadowrun. Instead I’ll make a Trait that can be used as racial trait or feat (maybe artificer infusion for robotic arms?). Something like Equine Build racial trait that Centaurs have. My aim is to make it not stronger than “main meat” traits of other races. Something about Skill Versitality that Half-Elves have.

First: D&D 5e doesn’t really have rules for PCs whose number of hands is other than two. Also everyone is ambidextrous in this game. There’s Action and a Bonus Action, but that doesn’t mean main-hand & off-hand, so no worries for them making TOO MANY attacks, since even, if they can hold more weapons they would need more actions to use them. However many things are balanced with thought that number of hands is limited leaving adventurers to make a choice, if they want to use weapon & shield, two handed weapon, or two weapons. Or magic foci for spellcasters.

Secondly: the question is how much do we want to allow to our little Hekatonkheires to be able to do with their extra hands?

Provide Verbal and Somatic components for spells: Yes Reload weapons that need ammunition: Yes Grapple: probably? Hold more weapons: Yes Make more attacks with weapons: No (maybe) Use a shield while dual-wielding or using two-handed weapons: NO! Attack with two-handed weapon, while also using other weapons: No, but maaaybe for versatile weapons when used with two hands.

Step three: back to the drawing board! We have two options here: Either we add arms and say what four-armed characters CAN’T do with them, or we add “special” set of limbs and say what they CAN be used for. From rules-designing perspective I’m leaning towards the second approach, although it suits better when additional limbs are smaller/less agile than normal ones or character has some sort of grapping tail... but I wanted to

Step four: Write it down! (remember the less text, the clear the rules are)

Four-Armed You have an extra limbs that can be used to work or fighting. While extra hands are definitely helpful they are not as effective as first pair. They are mostly useful for holding more items at once, but dividing Your attention between four limbs at once can be overwhelming. While You are wearing shield, some styles of fighting are limited in precision and power, despite Your extra limbs. You have disadvantage on attacks with two-handed weapons and all weapon attacks on Your turn made while using two-weapon fighting. Additionally damage dice of those attacks are reduced by one size. On weapon damage roll d12s are replaced by d10s, d10s by d8s, d8s by d6s and d6s by d4s.

Step five: Afterthoughts There is some room for more left! But I wouldn’t give it all at once, I was trying to make it balanced. Maybe some bonuses to it would be added as racial feats only for four-handed characters? For example ability to use two-handed weapon and shield at once without disadvantage(still reduced damage, but hey! now You can use weapons with Reach)

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Controversial opinion: +3 ability modifier is just fine for characters on levels 1-3

...problem with that is in most situations character wouldn't see feats until level 12 unless they are variant human

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