While all dwarves have an innate connection to the stone and rock of the earth, there are some varieties that are more than just connected to it -- they are made of it. The stone dwarves are made of living stone instead of flesh. They still eat, drink, and breathe the way a dwarf of flesh does, and they grow and age the same as other dwarves, but their organs are stone, and they have no blood at all to poison. A stone dwarf's brain is made of electrified copper, and this enables some of them to think more quickly than a brain of flesh.

In some of the worlds they inhabit, stone dwarves are the most ancient and purest form of dwarf to have ever existed -- the first dwarves, crafted by the gods of yore, from whom the other subraces of dwarf have all descended. In other worlds, the stone dwarves are descended from ancient clan that was cursed by powerful magic to live as earth elementals. Yet in others, these dwarves are not a hereditary lineage, but they are instead born to dwarven parents at random, considered by some dwarves to be a blessing from the gods, and thought by others to be a terrible curse from the elemental planes.

As a stone dwarf, you exist between the realm of dwarf and elemental. Despite their hardened biology and immunity to poisons, stone dwarves are made of brittle and crumbly rock, and aren't much physically tougher than a regular dwarf. They also weigh considerably more than the average dwarf, since their stony flesh is much heavier than regular flesh. They often have moss, vines, or lichen growing where a normal dwarf would grow hair, but otherwise look like living, moving statues carved to resemble normal dwarves.

Stone Dwarf Traits

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength score or your Intelligence score increases by 1 (your choice).

Elemental Nature

You have two creature types: humanoid (dwarf) and elemental (earth). You can be affected by a game effect if it works on either of your creature types.

Stone Body

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. In addition, your earthen metabolism grants you the following benefits:

• You are immune to poison and the poisoned condition.
• You have no blood and you cannot be petrified.
• You have advantage on saving throws made against disease.