The Mindarv (pronounced Min Darv, not Mind Arv) are Dwarves who have connected with their Eternal Soul after intense amounts of mental training and study. The Eternal Soul is the part of the soul that stores memories and experiences from former lives. As such, Mindarvs occasionally have flashes of memory from their past lives, which can lead to fun role-playing. 

Mindarvs are oftentimes spiritual leaders in their clans, as they have the wisdom and knowledge of multiple lifetimes. Their connection to the Souls of others, as well, makes them useful. Some become guards and watchmen, capitalizing on their innate ability to detect the purity of one’s soul.

Note: I...don’t really do Homebrew very often? So...it might be bad. Or it could be good. Idk. Help. Language might be messy, I’m not a professional :p

Mindarv Dwarf
Ability Score Improvement. Your Wisdom Score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.

Soul Gaze. You can, as an Action, widen your gaze to see into Souls. For the next minute, you know the Alignment of any Humanoid you can see within 30ft of you. You can use this feature once, then must finish a Short Rest before you can do so again.

Mental Discipline. You have resistance to Psychic damage.

Innate Psionics. You know the Message cantrip. At 3rd Level, you can cast Detect Evil and Good once without expending a Spell Slot, and regain the ability to do so when you finish a Long Rest. At 5th Level, you can cast Detect Thoughts once without expending a Spell Slot, and regain the ability to do so when you finish a Long Rest. Additionally, you can cast these spells using any Spell Slots you have. Wisdom is your Spellcasting Ability for these Spells when you cast them in this way. Additionally, when you cast them in this way, you do not need to provide Material Components, nor perform Verbal Components.

And...that’s it! I don’t know if it’s very good...or if it’s overpowered, or what. I literally made it in, like, 20 minutes. Not the most polished thing. Also, I don’t think I did the Psionics correctly...

Mind if I copy/paste it into another post for formatting?

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 Not at all. Formatting is not my strong suit; I’m on mobile.

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Mindarv Dwarf
Ability Score Improvement. Your Wisdom Score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.

Soul Gaze. You can, as an Action, widen your gaze to see into Souls. For the next minute, you know the Alignment of any Humanoid you can see within 30ft of you. You can use this feature once, then must finish a Short Rest before you can do so again.

Mental Discipline. You have resistance to Psychic damage.

Innate Psionics. You know the Message cantrip. At 3rd Level, you can cast Detect Thoughts once without expending a Spell Slot, and regain the ability to do so when you finish a Long Rest. At 5th Level, you can cast Clairvoyance once without expending a Spell Slot, and regain the ability to do so when you finish a Long Rest. Additionally, you can cast these spells using any Spell Slots you have. Wisdom is your Spellcasting Ability for these Spells when you cast them in this way. Additionally, when cast them in this way, you do not need to provide Material Components, nor perform Verbal Components.

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Mindarv Dwarf
Ability Score Improvement. Your Wisdom Score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.

Soul Gaze. You can, as an Action, widen your gaze to see into Souls. For the next minute, you know the Alignment of any Humanoid you can see within 30ft of you. You can use this feature once, then must finish a Short Rest before you can do so again.

Mental Discipline. You have resistance to Psychic damage.

Innate Psionics. You know the Message cantrip. At 3rd Level, you can cast Detect Thoughts once without expending a Spell Slot, and regain the ability to do so when you finish a Long Rest. At 5th Level, you can cast Clairvoyance once without expending a Spell Slot, and regain the ability to do so when you finish a Long Rest. Additionally, you can cast these spells using any Spell Slots you have. Wisdom is your Spellcasting Ability for these Spells when you cast them in this way. Additionally, when cast them in this way, you do not need to provide Material Components, nor perform Verbal Components.

 

 Thank you! That looks a lot better than what I was doing.

this is super cool!

Innate Psionics is a little over powered. usually when races have something like that, it's a cantrip at level 1, a first level spell at level 3, and a second level spell at level 5. my advise would be to make detect thoughts at level 5, get rid of clairvoyance, and add a first level spell at level 3. (maybe detect magic?)

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this is super cool!

Innate Psionics is a little over powered. usually when races have something like that, it's a cantrip at level 1, a first level spell at level 3, and a second level spell at level 5. my advise would be to make detect thoughts at level 5, get rid of clairvoyance, and add a first level spell at level 3. (maybe detect magic?)

 That’s how it works! Thanks, I (for some reason) though it was lvl 2 and lvl 3. Foolish me :p.

its fine, everyone makes mistakes, and your new to homebrewing.

this is really good. may I use it? I want to make an aberrant mind sorcerer mind dwarf, or a great old one warlock mind dwarf.

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its fine, everyone makes mistakes, and your new to homebrewing.

this is really good. may I use it? I want to make an aberrant mind sorcerer mind dwarf, or a great old one warlock mind dwarf.

 Indeed. I went Detect Evil and Good, I think it makes more sense (detecting the souls- or lack thereof. None of the Detect Evil and Good creatures have ‘Souls,’ per se).

Thanks! And sure! Feel free. It’s a part of my homebrew world, so some of the Souls stuff comes from that, but it could probably be transferred pretty easily.

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its fine, everyone makes mistakes, and your new to homebrewing.

this is really good. may I use it? I want to make an aberrant mind sorcerer mind dwarf, or a great old one warlock mind dwarf.

 Indeed. I went Detect Evil and Good, I think it makes more sense (detecting the souls- or lack thereof. None of the Detect Evil and Good creatures have ‘Souls,’ per se).

Thanks! And sure! Feel free. It’s a part of my homebrew world, so some of the Souls stuff comes from that, but it could probably be transferred pretty easily.

 good call with the detect good or evil, it makes more sense than detect magic now that I think of it.

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The Mindarv (pronounced Min Darv, not Mind Arv) are Dwarves who have connected with their Eternal Soul after intense amounts of mental training and study. The Eternal Soul is the part of the soul that stores memories and experiences from former lives. As such, Mindarvs occasionally have flashes of memory from their past lives, which can lead to fun role-playing. 

Mindarvs are oftentimes spiritual leaders in their clans, as they have the wisdom and knowledge of multiple lifetimes. Their connection to the Souls of others, as well, makes them useful. Some become guards and watchmen, capitalizing on their innate ability to detect the purity of one’s soul.

Note: I...don’t really do Homebrew very often? So...it might be bad. Or it could be good. Idk. Help. Language might be messy, I’m not a professional :p

Mindarv Dwarf
Ability Score Improvement. Your Wisdom Score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.

Soul Gaze. You can, as an Action, widen your gaze to see into Souls. For the next minute, you know the Alignment of any Humanoid you can see within 30ft of you. You can use this feature once, then must finish a Short Rest before you can do so again.

Mental Discipline. You have resistance to Psychic damage.

Innate Psionics. You know the Message cantrip. At 3rd Level, you can cast Detect Evil and Good once without expending a Spell Slot, and regain the ability to do so when you finish a Long Rest. At 5th Level, you can cast Detect Thoughts once without expending a Spell Slot, and regain the ability to do so when you finish a Long Rest. Additionally, you can cast these spells using any Spell Slots you have. Wisdom is your Spellcasting Ability for these Spells when you cast them in this way. Additionally, when you cast them in this way, you do not need to provide Material Components, nor perform Verbal Components.

And...that’s it! I don’t know if it’s very good...or if it’s overpowered, or what. I literally made it in, like, 20 minutes. Not the most polished thing. Also, I don’t think I did the Psionics correctly...

1. You probably mangled the rules text on Innate Pisonics - I think you intended to mandate Wisdom as the modifier for the spells when cast without using a slot.  Instead, you did the opposite, mandating Wisdom when consuming a slot, and not specifying a modifier when not doing so. 
2. Innate Psionics is relatively overpowered; disregarding components is extremely rare, and generally speaking PCs have to spend a feat on it (see Svirfneblin) or the racial is only one spell and simply doesn't function as one (Eladrin can Misty Step 1/short rest, but this doesn't give it to them as a castable spell). 
3. For both items 1 and 2, you should examine the wording of the Telepathic feat, and then consider that you're making a dwarf subrace with innate spellcasting, so the low-hanging fruit for a balance comparison is Duergar.
4. Soul Gaze is grossly, absurdly overpowered, so much so it will warp your entire game world.  You're introducing mechanics that were last seen and heavily abused in 3.5E, and they were abandoned after that with good reason; there's a reason Paladins can't detect evil any more.  It would be one thing if all they could do was detect humanoids, but letting them also determine alignments means your MD cities have no valid reason not to subject everyone entering them to scrutiny, and anyone registering as Evil is summarily executed, and non-Humanoids and Neutrals are simply not allowed in the city.  You could maybe play around with the plot elements of how Neutral Humanoids are handled - the Good denizens may object to refusing Neutral people entry - but overall it's very, very plot-breaking.  I strongly recommend against letting anyone in your world have this.  Even as a 9th level spell it's hugely problematic.  The only similar mechanic I know of in 5E is the Candle of Invocation, and that item is also plot-breaking if you let it be produced and used in bulk.

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1. You probably mangled the rules text on Innate Pisonics - I think you intended to mandate Wisdom as the modifier for the spells when cast without using a slot.  Instead, you did the opposite, mandating Wisdom when consuming a slot, and not specifying a modifier when not doing so. 
2. Innate Psionics is relatively overpowered; disregarding components is extremely rare, and generally speaking PCs have to spend a feat on it (see Svirfneblin) or the racial is only one spell and simply doesn't function as one (Eladrin can Misty Step 1/short rest, but this doesn't give it to them as a castable spell). 
3. For both items 1 and 2, you should examine the wording of the Telepathic feat, and then consider that you're making a dwarf subrace with innate spellcasting, so the low-hanging fruit for a balance comparison is Duergar.
4. Soul Gaze is grossly, absurdly overpowered, so much so it will warp your entire game world.  You're introducing mechanics that were last seen and heavily abused in 3.5E, and they were abandoned after that with good reason; there's a reason Paladins can't detect evil any more.  It would be one thing if all they could do was detect humanoids, but letting them also determine alignments means your MD cities have no valid reason not to subject everyone entering them to scrutiny, and anyone registering as Evil is summarily executed, and non-Humanoids and Neutrals are simply not allowed in the city.  You could maybe play around with the plot elements of how Neutral Humanoids are handled - the Good denizens may object to refusing Neutral people entry - but overall it's very, very plot-breaking.  I strongly recommend against letting anyone in your world have this.  Even as a 9th level spell it's hugely problematic.  The only similar mechanic I know of in 5E is the Candle of Invocation, and that item is also plot-breaking if you let it be produced and used in bulk.

1.  Probably, yes. Any suggestions on how to fix it?
2. Again, yeah. But, it makes sense for them to have some form of Innate Spellcasting, and Psionics was the plan for this Subrace, so...idk how I would change it. Maybe just have the Components be removed when you’re casting it without a Spell Slot?
3. Yeah, Telepathic (and the other TCoE Spell Feats) will work well as a basis for a second draft. 
4. I...disagree. I don’t think it’s that OP. And it is certainly not game-breaking. For one thing, Mindarvs are super rare, so there aren’t any Mindarv Cities. Additionally, the whole ‘scrutinize every single person’ is extremely unrealistic for an ability that you can only do a few times per day, for a short period of time. It is not plot-breaking in any way, in fact it just means that you have to play around with the legal system and how alignments are viewed in that area. It’d lead to fun worldbuilding, and to some good RP if the Mindarv finds out that, say, the nice shopkeeper is actually LE, and they have to deal with the ramifications of that. It just requires a bit of thinking to make sure that the Mindarv doesn’t spoil any plot points (betrayals, big reveals, etc). But it’s not nearly as bad as you were describing it, IMO.

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1. You probably mangled the rules text on Innate Pisonics - I think you intended to mandate Wisdom as the modifier for the spells when cast without using a slot.  Instead, you did the opposite, mandating Wisdom when consuming a slot, and not specifying a modifier when not doing so. 
2. Innate Psionics is relatively overpowered; disregarding components is extremely rare, and generally speaking PCs have to spend a feat on it (see Svirfneblin) or the racial is only one spell and simply doesn't function as one (Eladrin can Misty Step 1/short rest, but this doesn't give it to them as a castable spell). 
3. For both items 1 and 2, you should examine the wording of the Telepathic feat, and then consider that you're making a dwarf subrace with innate spellcasting, so the low-hanging fruit for a balance comparison is Duergar.
4. Soul Gaze is grossly, absurdly overpowered, so much so it will warp your entire game world.  You're introducing mechanics that were last seen and heavily abused in 3.5E, and they were abandoned after that with good reason; there's a reason Paladins can't detect evil any more.  It would be one thing if all they could do was detect humanoids, but letting them also determine alignments means your MD cities have no valid reason not to subject everyone entering them to scrutiny, and anyone registering as Evil is summarily executed, and non-Humanoids and Neutrals are simply not allowed in the city.  You could maybe play around with the plot elements of how Neutral Humanoids are handled - the Good denizens may object to refusing Neutral people entry - but overall it's very, very plot-breaking.  I strongly recommend against letting anyone in your world have this.  Even as a 9th level spell it's hugely problematic.  The only similar mechanic I know of in 5E is the Candle of Invocation, and that item is also plot-breaking if you let it be produced and used in bulk.

1.  Probably, yes. Any suggestions on how to fix it?
2. Again, yeah. But, it makes sense for them to have some form of Innate Spellcasting, and Psionics was the plan for this Subrace, so...idk how I would change it. Maybe just have the Components be removed when you’re casting it without a Spell Slot?
3. Yeah, Telepathic (and the other TCoE Spell Feats) will work well as a basis for a second draft. 
4. I...disagree. I don’t think it’s that OP. And it is certainly not game-breaking. For one thing, Mindarvs are super rare, so there aren’t any Mindarv Cities. Additionally, the whole ‘scrutinize every single person’ is extremely unrealistic for an ability that you can only do a few times per day, for a short period of time. It is not plot-breaking in any way, in fact it just means that you have to play around with the legal system and how alignments are viewed in that area. It’d lead to fun worldbuilding, and to some good RP if the Mindarv finds out that, say, the nice shopkeeper is actually LE, and they have to deal with the ramifications of that. It just requires a bit of thinking to make sure that the Mindarv doesn’t spoil any plot points (betrayals, big reveals, etc). But it’s not nearly as bad as you were describing it, IMO.

1. I'll try to make a fix.
2. That should work.
4. I tend to agree about this if your players are super suspicious of everyone.

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Mindarv Dwarf
Ability Score Improvement. Your Wisdom score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.

Soul Gaze. As an action, you widen your gaze to peer into souls of others. For the next minute, you can use an action on each of your turns to discern the alignment of humanoid with 30 feet of you. If the target is unwilling, they can make a Charisma saving throw to be unaffected. The DC of this saving throw is equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier.

Once you use this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a short rest.

Mental Discipline. You have resistance to psychic damage.

Innate Psionics. You know the message cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the detect thoughts spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the clairvoyance spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

When you cast these spells using this trait, they do not require verbal or somatic components.

 

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Mindarv Dwarf
Ability Score Improvement. Your Wisdom score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.

Soul Gaze. As an action, you widen your gaze to peer into souls of others. For the next minute, you can use an action on each of your turns to discern the alignment of humanoid with 30 feet of you. If the target is unwilling, they can make a Charisma saving throw to be unaffected. The DC of this saving throw is equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier.

Once you use this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a short rest.

Mental Discipline. You have resistance to psychic damage.

Innate Psionics. You know the message cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the detect thoughts spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the clairvoyance spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

When you cast these spells using this trait, they do not require verbal or somatic components.

 

 

 oh good job at transcribing this to ttb to address the creator this looks great and i may use it 

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Mindarv Dwarf
Ability Score Improvement. Your Wisdom score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.

Soul Gaze. As an action, you widen your gaze to peer into souls of others. For the next minute, you can use an action on each of your turns to discern the alignment of humanoid with 30 feet of you. If the target is unwilling, they can make a Charisma saving throw to be unaffected. The DC of this saving throw is equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier.

Once you use this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a short rest.

Mental Discipline. You have resistance to psychic damage.

Innate Psionics. You know the message cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the detect evil and good spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the detect thoughts spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

When you cast these spells using this trait, they do not require verbal or somatic components.