Homebrew Gemborn Species Details
Reborn Souls
The gemborn are humanoid creatures which have bodies comprised almost entirely of light energy. This energy is a manifestation of their will to live, projected into the world.
This form can take many shapes, often mimicing the form of one or multiple creatures that comprise it's soul energy. In all cases, gemborn are humanoid in form, but sometimes retain characteristics from other creatures, such as horns or other minor vestigial body parts.
Their soul gem can be any variety of precious stone, cut in any way imaginable, and their body usually reflects the color of their stone.
Regardless of the gemstone's type, each one is near-indestructable by conventional means, making a gemborn exceptionally hard to kill. When a gemborn's physical form is destroyed, only it's soul gem remains until it is able to reconstitute its body.
A Cut Above
reflect this quality. A gemborn that turns away from the path of good often finds themselves in conflict with their altruistic nature, making the rare occurance of a gemborn that turns to evil, a highly volatile individual.
At the time of their awakening, a gemborn is usually naive to the darkness that hides in the word around them, and often learn the natural order of the material plane the hard way.
Gemborn Traits
+1 Constitution, +1 to two other Ability Scores, Soulbound WeaponAbility Score Increase
Constitution increases by one and two other ability scores increase by one as well.
Living Construct
Even though your body is constructed from light, you are a living creature. You are immune to disease. You do not need to eat or breathe, but you can ingest food and drink if you wish.
When you die, your body vanishes, leaving only your soul gem and equipment behind. Your soul gem counts as your body for the purposes of ressurection.
Trance
You don’t need to sleep. Instead, you meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After Resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.
Soulbound Weapon
As a bonus action, you can summon your soulbound weapon which appears in your hand. You choose a type of melee weapon and its appearance at the time of your awakening. You are proficient with this weapon, and as long as you are holding it, it is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistances. You can dismiss this weapon at any time.
Multi-Faceted
You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice.
Languages
You can speak, read and write Common and one language of your choice
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