Duality of the Half-Dragons V-2

***Intended for the Half-Dragon race***

In the world of half dragons their identity falls under two different worlds. Some say the humanoid form is the alter ego and the half dragon form is the True self. One day they must choose which is which. Although if the chosen one is strong enough to make peace and learn to love and coexist a power can be born striking forth a new path. You take on the ritual of the half-dragon over the course of a 8-hour meditation. There you confront your desires, fear, angers, regrets and finally moments of peace and happiness. After you evolve into your new form unable to return where you were.  

You must choose between the different  options highlighting the choices made in life:

• Humanoid path: You fully combine both your humanoid half and your draconic half into a more powerful form. With yourself seeing through the eyes of your humanoid ancestry you absorb the half-dragon abilities and adapt them into something else.Your appearance reflects the change by eliminating all traces of your draconic origin on your body expect for small quirks.You height, weight, size and appearance becomes the normal race feature . As such you no longer benefit from certain racial traits and Feats. such as Half-Dragon polymorph, Draconic Wings, Natural weapons,  and Ascended Dragonhood no longer give you benefit and cannot be used or selected. Instead You gain the main racial feature of the race or subrace of your characters ancestry. Such as Dwarven Resilience, Halfling Nimbleness, Silent Speech, Relentless Endurance ETC. You also gain the benefit to select Racial Feat's restricted to those races.

Sample Draconic Quirks

• Draconic path: You fully combine both your humanoid half and your draconic half into a more powerful form. With yourself seeing through the eyes of your half-dragon ancestry you absorb the humanoid abilities and adapt them into something else. You are and will always be a dragon. Your humanoid self is nothing but a crutch hindering you in your path. You shed the form like shedding scales.Your appearance reflects the change by eliminating all traces of your Humanoid origin on your body expect for small quirks. As such you no longer benefit from certain racial traits,Feats and benefits. such as Half-Dragon polymorph,  Draconic wit, and you become unable to equip any medium or heavy armor. Instead certain racial features are replaced with improved version.If you do not have already you gain both sub racial features of both natural-born and ritual born features.  Your natural armor becomes 14 + constitution, your natural weapons become a finesse weapon and use a 1d8 instead of 1d4; using your claws, tail, or other body part as unarmed strikes, your Draconic Wings becomes flying speed of half your walking speed instead of glide,  and you gain superior dark vision of 120 ft. Your creature type is considered to be dragon now.

  Sample Humanoid Quirks

  D6	QUIRKS
  1	Your eyes retain the shape, color and appearance of the humanoid counterpart
  2	You retain some sort of body hair reflective of your humanoid ancestry. Such as a long beard or sideburns
  3	You maintain the strange urges or Behaviors of your Humanoid ancestor. such as appetite or fear of heights
  4	Your skin sometimes reacts to skin conditions normally affect only those with the skin of your humanoid counterpart . Such as sunburn or rashes.
  5	Your voice outside of draconic speech now become random and have unusual patterns comparative to kenku speech. You telepathic thoughts do not have this effect.
  6	You become obsessed with collecting something of the humanoid counterpart culture.

• Wyrmthborn path: Forging ahead a new path you fully combine both your humanoid half and your draconic half into a more powerful form. To you there is no humanoid form or half-dragon form only the appearance you show to others.Your appearance begins to reflect the harmous features with traits of both your humanoid form and half-dragon form blending into each other, although with your polymorph skill you can hide them if needed .You can now use your racial feature of polymorph at will with no limit.Your creature type is considered to be both dragon and humanoid now. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift. You may cast Tongues with this trait. Once you cast the spell with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You maintain benefits from your racials features as well as Feats gained.

Sample Form changes