Homebrew Awakened Armor Species Details

A conscious suit of armor inhabited by a soul. A simple suit of animated armor that has been awakened for one reason or another. For the first years of your life you had no memories of what you did in your past life, only fragments of your personality. Over time as you are destined to relearn and live what you experienced as a living being. You have the abilities of animated armor and have vague memories of an otherworldly astral plane of existence. Deep within your hollow body you feel the presence of an absence within yourself that drives you towards your interests of what you once did.

Awakened Armor Traits

Antimagic Susceptibility, False Appearance

Antimagic Susceptibility

The armor is knocked prone and cannot take any actions other than crawling while in the area of an anti magic field. If targeted by dispel magic, the armor must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against the caster's spell save DC or fall unconscious for 1 minute. While the armor is incompacitated due to antimagic it must crawl or be carried by party members as a normal set of armor. When conscious, the armor weighs 170 pounds

False Appearance

While the armor remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a normal suit of armor.

Cold Steel Fists

The armors fists and hands are not affected by objects that would ordinarily be uncomfortable to hold.

(eg. hot steel bars, cactus, broken glass, rope burn, a freezing block of ice, ect.)

The armor also has higher damage unarmed strike.