Origin Feat
A Mind Flayer tried to make a meal out of you but was thankfully interrupted; now you're trying to piece it all back together. You hope it didn't take anything useful, but it seems to have left bits of some previous meals behind.
Open Minded. When you take the Study action to recall lore and make a d20 test, you can use your Reaction to roll a d6. If the roll of the d6 is even, you add it to the d20 test. If the roll of the d6 is odd, you subtract it from the d20 test, learning an unrelated and unimportant piece of knowledge instead.
Psychic Resistance. You are resistant to Psychic damage.
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Posted Nov 12, 2025Resistance to Psychic damage is good, but as it's more situational, not as good as Tough - so it needs a little something extra.
Rolling the d6 for Open Minded is a good bet, because even numbers are higher than odd numbers on a die (2>1, 6>5, etc.), but because it's a 50/50 if it'll be helpful or detrimental, it needs to be held in a couple of special ways: First, it uses a reaction so that it is always a choice - your DM can't say "well, you always do it" when that roll you can make matters. Second, it's softened when it's detrimental. Learning an "unrelated and unimportant fact" gives no mechanical benefit, but by being vaguely helpful, very flavourful, and a great mechanism to foreshadow to your players or build out the world, it should feel like a table-easing consolation prize that keeps that -5 on a d6 playful.
Of course, this is all speculation. The competition has been open barely any time, and this hit me like a flash of lightning. Anyway, enjoy!