I wanna try homebrewing a race and I wanna try doing Thri-keen from the monster manual , we don’t have many races from deserts and I wanna try to make the race balanced but they have four arms, any ideas?
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.
Age. Thri-kreen live much shorter lives than their human and demi-human counterparts. A thri-kreen matures quickly, reaching adulthood within 3-4 years of hatching. Most thri-kreen only live to be 25 years old, although some live marginally longer.
Alignment. Thri-kreen tend towards a chaotic nature, uncomfortable living by the rigorous societal standards the other races of Athas subject themselves to. It is rare that thri-kreen are evil, often seen as friendly and good by the other races of Athas.
Size. A full-grown thri-kreen stands seven feet tall but can be as long as 7 to 9 feet, and can weigh between 450 to 470 pounds. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 40 feet.
Natural Armor. You have a hard, chitinous exoskeleton. When you aren’t wearing armor, your AC is 13 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use your natural armor to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield’s benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.
Chameleon Carapace. As a bonus action, you can change the color of your carapace to match the color and texture of your surroundings. When you do, you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide until the start of your next turn.
Secondary Arms. You have a shorter pair of arms in the center of your chest. Your smaller arms have a reach of 5 feet, and you can use them to lift a number of pounds equal to five times your Strength score. You can use these arms to do the following simple tasks: open or close a door or a container; grapple someone; or make an unarmed strike with your claws. Your claws as act as natural melee weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. Your secondary arms can’t wield weapons or shields or do anything that requires manual precision, such as using tools or magic items or performing the somatic components of a spell. Your GM might allow other simple tasks to be added to that list of options.
Sleepless. Thri-kreen do not require sleep and do not suffer exhaustion from lack of rest. When you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours of it in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you appear inert, but it doesn’t render you unconscious, and you can see and hear as normal.
Standing Leap. You can make a running long jump or a running high jump after moving only 5 feet on foot, rather than 10 feet.
Survivalist. You have proficiency in the Perception and Survival skills.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Thri-kreen.
Thri-kreen are interesting. Read up on their lore to make the webpage nice, and make sure that you have everything physically working before you press submit. If you need help with the coding, just ask me for help!
Thri-kreen should have Subraces (or at least a variant) to account for some of them being Psionic. (Personally I would make the chameleon carapace for one of the subraces, and the leaping for anothe, and yet another subrace for a more heavily armored version, and the psionic version as the 4th subrace.)
As for “sleepless,” I would just make it work the same as Elves “Trance” to make things simpler for the players.
I wanna try homebrewing a race and I wanna try doing Thri-keen from the monster manual , we don’t have many races from deserts and I wanna try to make the race balanced but they have four arms, any ideas?
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.
Age. Thri-kreen live much shorter lives than their human and demi-human counterparts. A thri-kreen matures quickly, reaching adulthood within 3-4 years of hatching. Most thri-kreen only live to be 25 years old, although some live marginally longer.
Alignment. Thri-kreen tend towards a chaotic nature, uncomfortable living by the rigorous societal standards the other races of Athas subject themselves to. It is rare that thri-kreen are evil, often seen as friendly and good by the other races of Athas.
Size. A full-grown thri-kreen stands seven feet tall but can be as long as 7 to 9 feet, and can weigh between 450 to 470 pounds. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 40 feet.
Natural Armor. You have a hard, chitinous exoskeleton. When you aren’t wearing armor, your AC is 13 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use your natural armor to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield’s benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.
Chameleon Carapace. As a bonus action, you can change the color of your carapace to match the color and texture of your surroundings. When you do, you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide until the start of your next turn.
Secondary Arms. You have a shorter pair of arms in the center of your chest. Your smaller arms have a reach of 5 feet, and you can use them to lift a number of pounds equal to five times your Strength score. You can use these arms to do the following simple tasks: open or close a door or a container; grapple someone; or make an unarmed strike with your claws. Your claws as act as natural melee weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. Your secondary arms can’t wield weapons or shields or do anything that requires manual precision, such as using tools or magic items or performing the somatic components of a spell. Your GM might allow other simple tasks to be added to that list of options.
Sleepless. Thri-kreen do not require sleep and do not suffer exhaustion from lack of rest. When you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours of it in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you appear inert, but it doesn’t render you unconscious, and you can see and hear as normal.
Standing Leap. You can make a running long jump or a running high jump after moving only 5 feet on foot, rather than 10 feet.
Survivalist. You have proficiency in the Perception and Survival skills.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Thri-kreen.
Thri-kreen are interesting. Read up on their lore to make the webpage nice, and make sure that you have everything physically working before you press submit. If you need help with the coding, just ask me for help!
My only good homebrews: Races, Subclasses.
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Thri-kreen should have Subraces (or at least a variant) to account for some of them being Psionic. (Personally I would make the chameleon carapace for one of the subraces, and the leaping for anothe, and yet another subrace for a more heavily armored version, and the psionic version as the 4th subrace.)
As for “sleepless,” I would just make it work the same as Elves “Trance” to make things simpler for the players.
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What if the PC is biologically human but is raised by Thri-kreen?
HAHA! I'm kidding. I know, not really contributing to the discussion. However, somebody who loves Tasha's might ask that question.
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Thri-kreen don’t raise humans, they eat them.
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Shhhh! Don't let the food know they are food.
Haven't you read The Lost Regiment?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Regiment
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Never heard of it before.
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