Homebrew Animated Doll Species Details

Art Mimics Life

An Animated Doll always starts as just that, a doll. Whether to be given a home with a child for make believe or to sit on a shelf and be admired. All dolls start as an expression of life, mimicking some other being. Some may be crafted from wood, an oak or a cedar. Others may be drafted from porcelain or marble. It's even said that sometimes the animated doll will exhibit traits of it's creator because they poured so much into the creation of the doll.

Animated Doll Personality

Because Animated Dolls are new to the world and awaken with the intellect of an adult they struggle both to find a place in the world and to relate to the creatures who created them. Though a Doll who stays with it's master may be given lessons on how to best emulate those around them. As a result of this, Dolls usually also have some nativity or still hold onto a child-like wonder of the world. 

Unlike a warforged who shows little emotion, Dolls relish in it and often try their best to imitate and understand it. Dolls delight in exploring their feelings, their freedom, and their relationships with others. Most Dolls want to know more about the world and all it's facets from history, to religion to everything ever written in a book.

Most dolls are made to represent some form of life, so the face they're based on can be anything; human, elf, dwarf, ect. But that doesn't mean the doll is comfortable with itself. Just like other sentient creatures, as it develops it's individuality it make realize the life within the shell is different from what it depicts. They could seek an artisan or artificer to help them modify their body in a way that more closely aligns with their self image.

Quirks

Like Warforged, Animated Dolls often display an odd personality trait or two, given how new they are to the world. Use the Warforged Quirks table contains for example quirks.

d8	Quirk
1	You analyze — out loud — the potential threat posed by every creature you meet.
2	You often misread emotional cues.
3	You are fiercely protective of your friends.
4	You try to apply wartime discipline to every situation.
5	You don’t know how to filter your feelings and are prone to dramatic emotional outbursts.
6	You don’t understand clothing beyond its utility and assume it denotes a person’s function.
7	You are obsessed with your appearance and constantly polish and buff yourself.
8	War is the only thing that makes sense to you, and you’re always looking for a fight.

Animated Doll Names

When most Animated Dolls awake they take names of objects in close proximity, something that they identify with or the material of which they are created from.

Animated Doll Names: Oak, Porcelain, Dolly, Steel, Mythril, Chisel, Stone.

Heritage & Halfbreeds

Selections from the Heritage & Halfbreeds document. Total point cost is 15.

Size: Small
4 Small Stealth

Bloodline: Construct
3 Poison Resistance
2 Vigilant Rest

Culture: Skirmisher
2 Skirmisher's Speed

Culture: Criminal
4 Merge with Shadows

 

 Version 1.03

Animated Doll Traits

Your animated doll character has the following traits.

Vigilant Rest

When you take a long rest, you can spend at least six hours 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.

Small Stealth

You can attempt to hide even when you are obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger than you

Poison Resistance

You are resistant to poison damage.

Merge with Shadows

You can cast the Pass without Trace spell once with this trait and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. You can also cast this spell using any spell slots you have. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell (choose the ability when you select this race).

Ability Score Increase

When determining your ability scores, you increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or you increase three different scores by 1.

Age

Animated Dolls can be anywhere from a few days old after their activation to whenever they are decommissioned or rendered inoperable. When activated they are bestowed with the intellectual level of a human adult.

Size

Animated Dolls are small in size.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

(Base 25 from small + 5 from skirmisher)

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.