Homebrew drider wraith Species Details

Driders are centaur-like creatures, resembling drow from the waist up while their lower half is that of a giant spider. Drow who fail a test devised by Lolth or her high priestesses are cursed to become driders, but a few creatures become driders by other means. A number of cursed driders take their cursed form and exile to heart and do not interact with each other or other people. Other driders find comfort in community and band together. And in even rarer cases, some become members of non-drow communities. Driders who form communities, whether they were born driders or were cursed to become so, set up societies that drow who follow Lolth wouldn’t recognize. There’s an aspect of bonding, love, and affection that is completely missing from any Lolthbased society. These communities keep to themselves as much as possible and hide out in the darkest places of the Underdark to avoid detection. Oftentimes, driders make their home among giant spiders—with whom they have a kinship—regardless of how they came to have their form.

Wraiths are incorporeal beings made of dark wispy smoke. The only defining parts of their body are their arms and head. They are regarded as malice incarnate, concentrated into an incorporeal form that seeks to quench all life. Oftentimes they are exactly that, but wraiths who are able to remember who they were in their previous life can control their urge to annihilate every living thing and even manage to rekindle relationships from their past life. Besides the relationships from their previous life a wraith might rekindle, they otherwise live solitary lives, haunting tombs. Sometimes wraiths rule the legions of the dead, plotting the doom of living creatures.

Mixed driders often have the lower body of their drider parent. This can make it hard to acclimate to non-drider society since most places aren’t built to accommodate those with more than two legs. Mixed driders with spider bodies often find themselves among groups of people who have more than two feet if they don’t stay in close proximity to their drider parent.

Mixed wraiths typically inherit the appearance of their non-wraith parent, though there is some wispiness to their body, even if they are very much corporeal. Some mixed wraiths live among the communities of their non-wraith parent, living lives typical of their station and skill. Others choose the solitary lives their wraith parents endure. Unwilling to embrace the living fully, these individuals sometimes seek out their wraith parent, but even the wraiths that have the most of their memories from a previous life find it hard to be around living beings for long stretches of time. A number of solitary mixed wraiths throw themselves into arcane studies, taking advantage of the longevity their undead heritage gives them. Often those who do attempt to bring back the memories of their wraith parent fully.

drider wraith Traits

mixed traits of wraith and drider

Bite

Your teeth are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

 

fey ancestry

You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

 

climb

You have a climbing speed of 30 feet.

 

Superior Darkvision

You have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray

Superior Natural Armor

When you aren’t wearing armor, your AC is 14 + your Dexterity modifier (to a maximum of +2). 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

Bereft of Body

You are unable to wear armor, but can still use shields.

Poison resistence

You have resistance to poison damage and have advantage on saving throws against poison.

Undead Resistance

You have resistance to necrotic damage.