Homebrew Sentient Cheese Species Details

You don't know how. You don't know why. But you're alive! The day before you were just a slice of cheese, sitting in the fridge or grocery aisle, waiting till you mold. But now you have awoken. You can walk, talk, think, and breathe! This is all so new so you may be in shock, but fear not! Everyone finds their place in the world. will you be an adventurer, take quests and be a hero? will you buy a shop and settle down, helping the common folk knowing the hardships one can face? Or will you be a magic scholar and ponder the question...Why am I alive? Who or what made me the way I am?

 

Cheese Features

Ability score increase: +1 in CON and +1 in DEX

age: usually cheese only lasts for a week before molding. However you are magic cheese! You can last up to 5 years before molding

size: small; becuase of the magic you are now 2-3  feet tall

speed: your base walking speed is 20

lesser darkvision: Your new eyes have adapted to seeing in the dark fridge or closed grocery store, you can see 30 feet in dim light as if it was bright light and darkness as if it were dim light.

Cheese Touch: Once every long rest you can use the "Cheese Touch". Roll a DEX check to see if the attack lands. If succeed you give the creature the Cheese Touch and they take 1d8 necrotic damage. At the start of every turn, if they fail a constitution save they take 1d8 necrotic damage. Also during their turn, if they land a melee attack and say "Cheese Touch" in common, the Cheese touch passes to the attacked creature. If the creature with the Cheese Touch is not a slice of cheese it will only deal 1d4 necrotic damage. However, at the beginning of their turn, they will still take 1d8 damage.

Sentient Cheese Traits

Cheese touch; explained in description

Ability Score Increase

Your Intelligence score increases by 2.

Age

Gnomes mature at the same rate humans do, and most are expected to settle down into an adult life by around age 40. They can live 350 to almost 500 years.

Size

Gnomes are between 3 and 4 feet tall and average about 40 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Darkvision

Accustomed to life underground, 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.

Gnome Cunning

You have advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws against magic.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Gnomish. The Gnomish language, which uses the Dwarvish script, is renowned for its technical treatises and its catalogs of knowledge about the natural world.