You were once a mere object—a teapot, a sword, or perhaps a statue—but something has granted you sentience. Now, you can move, think, and even speak. Perhaps whatever woke you intended to use you as a servant, or adopt you in place of a living child. Either way, you have free will, and intend to use it on your own terms.
- Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Performance
- Tool Proficiencies: One artisan tool
- Languages: The language of your creator
- Equipment: A trinket reminding you of your creator, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp.
Feature: Perfect Disguise
You can blend into your surroundings by pretending to be a mundane object. So long as you behave as expected of such an object, you have advantage on any skill check to appear as an ordinary object of your origin. However, if such an object would be strange to see in your environment, a creature may still choose to investigate your presence.
Suggested Characteristics
Awakened objects have no memory of their time as an object. If you are newly awakened, you may be unfamiliar with concepts that come as common sense to others. Depending on your outlook on life, you may have mixed feelings about your creator.
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I am eager to learn more about this world I've woken to.
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2
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I'm happiest when I'm doing what I was created to do.
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3
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I play dumb so that others don't know what I'm truly capable of.
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4
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Nothing can shake my optimistic attitude.
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I'm very distractible, my attention wandering to whatever seems most interesting to me at the time.
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6
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What others might call ordinary, I think is fascinating!
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7
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I am a finely crafted piece of art, and deserve to be treated as such.
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8
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I pity my inanimate kin for not being able to experience life as I do.
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Ideal |
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Purpose. I was created for a reason, and I intend to fulfill that purpose. (Lawful)
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Gratitude. Life is a gift, and I intend to pay it forward with good deeds. (Good)
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Hedonism. I will partake in all life has to offer. (Neutral)
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Aspiration. Gaining free will is only the beginning of what I will achieve. (Any)
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Superiority. I will show these creatures of flesh that I am their master, not the other way around. (Evil)
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Freedom. Now free to think and act on my own, I wish to live my life as I please. (Chaotic)
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Bond |
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I owe my creator everything.
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I don't know who my creator is, but I hope to find them.
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3
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I want other objects to experience the gift of life.
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I am grateful to the adventurers who rescued me from a life of servitude.
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Inanimate objects deserve to be treated with respect, too.
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Once I have fulfilled my purpose, I would like to return to my previous "life".
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Flaw |
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When I get stressed, I revert to behaving as I did in my previous "life".
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I tend to be naive.
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I have no idea how to handle my newfound emotions.
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I am inflexible in my thinking.
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I can never make up my mind.
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6
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Sometimes I forget to speak up.
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Posted Jun 21, 2021I like to think that the awoken object could appear to have a humanoid form and change in and out of it at any time. Also, how funny would an ambush be? They think they found the right location, but then they just see a chair instead of, what they expected to be, a person.
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Posted Jun 23, 2021I do imagine the object would be able to take on a more humanoid shape, if only for mechanical ease, haha. Easier to do when you're playing as something like a former statue, or the like—that's actually what I created this background for! I created a gemstone dragonborn that used to be a fine sculpture.
Chairs... you just can't trust 'em!