Homebrew Face Dancer Species Details
A Culture of Deceit
The face dancers are widely viewed as untrustworthy and liars due to their nature. In towns and cities near face dancer populations, people tend to be careful about face dancer imposters. However, royalty tends to prefer them for covert operations due to their nature.
The Most Precious Coin
Face dancer's tend to change appearance around each other so often that names alone aren't really enough to hold their identity. Each carries around an ornately engraved coin unique to them. Stealing this coin reduces their Charisma score and threatens their very identity.
Villages of Copies
Face dancer villages and towns are known to tend to lean towards copying particularly attractive features of those that pass through. In some cases, This can lead to entire towns of people that look essentially the same.
Face Dancer Traits
The Face Dancer has many strange abilities.Ability Score Increase
Your Charisma score increases by 2.
Face Changing
Over the course of a minute, the face dancer can change their appearance (but not clothing) to anything they choose. This has the limitation of not being able to adjust height, but they can make themselves look a little slimmer (similar to disguise self). They can also choose to copy a face they've seen recently, or depending on your character's memory, they may need to able to see a face they've copied.
Age
Face dancers tend to live shorter than most humanoids. The average village elder might be around 60 years old. Adulthood tends to start at the same time as other humans however.
Size
Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Darkvision
Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 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.
If you are replicating someone without darkvision, you can choose to acquire it, but those close to whom you copy may suspect you.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common, and any other two languages of your choosing.
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