Homebrew Faerie Race Details
Originating in the Feywild, a group of Faeries was abducted and brought to the material plane by a mysterious drow thief. After spending a few years in captivity, the group of surviving Faeries were set free by a group of heroes. Unable to return to their home plane of the Feywild, the faeries thrived in the untamed wilds of the material plane. Thanks to powerful magic and incredible intelligence, the faeries have been able to construct a modest living. Unfortunately, most faeries are unable to speak Common, and therefore are often captured and sold in marketplaces as exotic pets.
Faerie Traits
Intelligent and powerful, but small and often overlooked.Misgievious Intuition
You have keen senses and an innate ability to think through problems. Gain +3 to Wisdom scores and +5 to Intelligence scores.
Faerie Fire
You have innate access to the spell Faerie Fire.
Faerie Dust
You have innate access to several types of magical dust to disrupt your targets. This spell can be used once every 30 minutes and lasts 30 minutes.
Sleep Dust - Causes any creature that inhales this substance to fall asleep for the duration of the spell. Does not work on Undead.
Bewitching Dust - Confuses and confounds targets, causing blindness and granting disadvantage. Does not work on Undead.
Poison Dust - Poisons you target for 1d4 damage for the duration of the spell. Does not work on Undead.
Healing Dust - Provides passive regeneration of 1d6 HP per turn. Does not work on Undead.
Dark Faerie
Faeries who failed to find their way out of the Underdark and have grown a taste for blood. With darker skin and paler hair, these Faeries have taken after their fellow Underdark occupants, the Drow. They are often used as scouts and assassins by said Drow, able to sneak into a room, poison their target, and disappear without a trace.
Poison Bite
You painlessly sink your fangs into your target, injecting a powerful neurotoxin that renders them immobile for up to an hour.
Darkvision
You need no light sources to navigate dark areas.
Faerie Fire
You gain innate access to the Faerie Fire spell.
Life Drain
You drain the life of your victim, healing 1d4 HP (or if full, gaining 1d4 temporary HP), and subtracting the amount from our targetś maximum HP. This ability can be used 5 times per encounter and does not affect Undead.
Leaf Folk
Tiny people who live among the trees. Faeries who have lost their wings, and enjoy thinking of themselves as miniature elves. Great at pickpocketing and picking locks, they enjoy decorating their nests with trinkets in a distinctly magpie-like fashion.
Skilled Theif
Gain a passive +5 bonus to any thieving difficulty checks.
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Posted Aug 17, 2022Cool concept, but very overpowered. I'd recommend dropping the Ability Score Improvement values to an average +1 and +2.
On top of that, the Faerie Dust ability is far too strong, but I like the idea. My feedback on that is going to be to give those abilities a limited amount of uses per long rest. Something along the lines of "This ability can be used up to a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus."
I would also rethink the duration of the abilities. Being able to render a creature unconscious for 30 whole minutes as an innate ability is incredibly OP. Especially since there are actual spells that do similar effects for far less time. I'd say a modest 1 minute duration, with the addition of a saving throw roll to see if the target can resist the effect and a 5ft range to use this ability. For example, the Faerie player can use the Sleep Dust ability on a creature 5ft away from them, forcing the target creature to roll a DC 12 Constitution saving throw. If they succeed, nothing happens. If they fail, they fall asleep for 1 minute. This may seem like a massive debuff to the original idea, but its important to note that this is still a very useful ability to have as an innate feature.
I would also drop the healing dust ability all together, because even as a 1 minute duration that is still extremely powerful. It would render most low-level healing spells completely useless if you have the ability to do that instead.