Homebrew Chitine Species Details

 

Some Chitine live their lives worshipping Lolth while others live in their rebellious separate colonies. Chitine are a social race that resemble spiders. Divided into worker and warrior castes, Choldrith maintain superiority over other Chitine. All Chitine are expected to safeguard the colony above all else even giving in to sacrifice themselves should the need arise. While all Chitine are born with spinnerets and produce webbing, some become workers, using their webbing to create floors, walls, structures, traps, and other such things to promote the safety of the colony, while others of the warrior caste are better suited to use their webbing to create armor with toughness equal to that of hide or leather. Chitine colonies ultimately become dangerous and covered in webs.

Creating Your Character

If you create a chitine character, follow these additional rules during character creation.

Ability Score Increases

When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy.

The “Quick Build” section for your character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to increase. You’re free to follow those suggestions or to ignore them. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be raised above 20.

Languages

Your character can speak, read, and write Undercommon and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character. The Player’s Handbook offers a list of widespread languages to choose from. The DM is free to add or remove languages from that list for a particular campaign.

Creature Type

Every creature in D&D, including every player character, has a special tag in the rules that identifies the type of creature they are. Most player characters are of the Humanoid type. Chitine are classified as Monstrosities. Creature types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the text of the cure wounds spell specifies that the spell doesn’t work on a creature that has the Construct type.

Life Span

The typical life span of a player character in D&D is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent end on an adventure.

Chitine are fully functional within 24 hours of creation and tend to live for a maximum of 20 years.

Height and Weight

Player characters, including chitine, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.

Chitine Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type

You are a Monstrosity

Size

You are Small

Speed

Your walking speed is 30 feet. Your climb speed is 30 feet.

Fey Ancestry

The chitine has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put the chitine to sleep.

Sunlight Sensitivity

While in sunlight, the chitine has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.

Web Sense

While in contact with a web, the chitine knows the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web.

Web Walker

The chitine ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.

Darkvision

Accustomed to life in the Underdark, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 90 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.

Web

When you reach 3rd level you can use a bonus action to eject webbing that fills a 25-foot cube centered on a point you can see within 60 feet. This webbing has the same effect as the Web spell. The DC to break free of the webs is 8 + your Constitution score + your proficiency bonus. The webs dissipate after 1 hour. You are not affected by your own webs. You must finish a long rest before you can use this feature again.

Arachnid Traits

You have four arms and can carry four objects. Your arachnid arms have longer reach, when you make a melee attack, your reach is 5 feet greater than normal. You cannot benefit from a shield if holding two weapons, a versatile weapon in two hands, or a two-handed weapon. You may not gain the benefit of more than one shield. You gain proficiency with Drums.

You have eight eyes. You have proficiency in Perception when in darkness.

You have a tough outer exoskeleton. You gain Resistance to Slashing attacks. You have Vulnerability to Bludgeoning attacks.

Chitine Caste

You gain proficiency in Martial Weapons. You may use Heavy weapons without the disadvantage of your Small size.

or

You gain proficiency in Simple Weapons. You gain proficiency with Poisoner's Kits, and one choice Artisan Tool.

Chitine Traits

You will have the following traits.

Creature Type

You are a Monstrosity.

Size

You are Small.

Speed

Your walking speed is 30 feet. Your climbing speed is 30 feet.

Fey Ancestry

The chitine has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put the chitine to sleep.

Sunlight Sensitivity

While in sunlight, the chitine has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.

Web Sense

While in contact with a web, the chitine knows the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web.

Web Walker

The chitine ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.

Darkvision

Accustomed to life in the Underdark, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 90 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.

Web

When you reach 3rd level you can use a bonus action to eject webbing that fills a 25-foot cube centered on a point you can see within 60 feet. This webbing has the same effect as the Web spell. The DC to break free of the webs is 8 + your Constitution score + your proficiency bonus. The webs dissipate after 1 hour. You are not affected by your own webs. You must finish a long rest before you can use this feature again.

Arachnid Traits

You have four arms and can carry four objects. Your arachnid arms have longer reach, when you make a melee attack, your reach is 5 feet greater than normal. You cannot benefit from a shield if holding two weapons, a versatile weapon in two hands, or a two-handed weapon. You may not gain the benefit of more than one shield.

You have eight eyes. You have proficiency in Perception when in darkness.

You have a tough outer exoskeleton. You gain Resistance to Slashing attacks. You have Vulnerability to Bludgeoning attacks.

Chitine Caste

You gain proficiency in Martial Weapons. You may use Heavy weapons without the disadvantage of your Small size.

or

You gain proficiency in Simple Weapons. You gain proficiency with Poisoner's Kits, and one choice Artisan Tool.