Homebrew Lombax Species Details

Physical Description

Lombaxes are medium humanoids. They are around three and a half feet at the shortest and five feet at the tallest for adult males. Adult females range from 4 and half feet at the shortest to six and a half feet at the tallest. They feature large eyes, feline noses, large ears without visible openings, and a tail with a lion-like tuft at the end for males, while female tails are quite  different being big and fluffy along their entire length.They are fully covered in fur, sans their noses. This fur can comes in a variety of colors, with lighter stomachs, and darker stripes appearing on the ears, tails, and backs of all but the darkest individuals. They have large, flat bottomed feet with three toes per foot, and five fingers on each hand.

History

The lombaxes were a race of technologically advanced beings who engineered some of the most powerful devices in the universe, including a trans-dimensional portal device called the dimensionator to banish a tyrannical bug-like race (called Cragmites) to another dimension. They took pity on a baby survivor of that race, which soon proved to be their downfall. The Perceval Tachyon grew and seemingly surpassed all of their expectations, concocting technological advancements light years ahead of their own. Alister Azimuth, a lombax General, was enthusiastic to get his hands on such powerful technology to defend his race. The adopted creature instead used the machines as tools of destruction to lay waste to the lombax home planet Fastoon, thus the lombaxes decided to use the same device that exiled the Cragmites to evacuate to another dimension. Though Dimensions needed to be mapped first so their destination wouldn’t be random, it was Magnus the chief engineer of the Lombax Praetorian Guard (the Praetorian guard is their military) that was tasked with such and did so mapping every single dimension. He also modified the dimensionator from the form factor of a gun that needed to be set to specific dimensions to a ridiculous voice operated hat. The evacuation of their home dimension was only partially successful, an unknown number of Lombaxes were scattered throughout different dimensions. Kaden the Lombax who was charged with the duty of keeping the dimensonator safe sent his infant son off world to another galaxy, before successfully hiding the dimensionator and the dimensional map. He fought Tachyon to his last and perished, Tachyon went on to conquer the Polaris Galaxy declaring himself Emperor of Polaris and crown prince of the cragmites. Alister was exiled as punishment for being the one to approve the plans for the machines. Many years later Ratchet Son on of Kaden, (ratchet isn’t his birth given name but obviously someone on the planet he was sent to gave him the name) defeated tachyon and the Cragmites once and for all. The Cragmites were banished to the same dimension as before, while tachyon got sucked into a black hole and died. Ratchet turned down going to the Lombax dimension as he’s already got a life in his dimension/universe (A girlfriend, friends, an apartment, being a famous intergalactic hero). One year later Ratchet finally meets Alister Azimuth, (yes Kaden and Alister were childhood friends) and receives his Father’s old pocket watch and hover boots. Alister tells Ratchet how he and Kaden theorized the existence of massive device called The Great Clock ment to maintain the fabric of time itself within their universe. As some thing had to be done after long ago when Fongoids abused the Gift of time travel. An old foe of Ratchtet’s that was presumed dead resurfaces and is causing trouble in the Polaris galaxy, Dr.Nefarious. Ratchet is eventually able to rescue his long time best friend a diminutive robot named clank who turns out be the son of the Great Clock’s previous senior caretaker Orvus, as while Clank’s body was created in a robot factory his soul and personality was created at the Great Clock. This thus confirms the existence of the great clock to Alister but First they send Dr.Nefarious packing. (Incase your wondering the Dr’s plan was to use the clock to rewrite the history of the universe so that villains always win) Afterwards they go to the great clock an argument about whether or not using the clock to bring back the lombaxes breaks out between Ratchet and Alister, culminating in Alister blasting Ratchet in the back with his praetorian omniwrench, stopping Ratchet’s heart. Clank heads to the Orvus chamber and uses it to rewind time 6 minutes (yes that’s the Great clocks safe limit for rewinding time)  in order to save ratchet. Ratchet fights Alister in the Orvus Chamber while the clock begins failing from the stress of trying to rewind time way past the safe limit. After the fight. Ratchet goes to try and stop the clock from braking by returning the time shift lever to neutral position, but finds it won’t budge an inch. He tries harder but the whole lever handle and all snaps off causing the clock to really go crazy before Alister uses his praetorian omniwrench to substitute the lever and set the mechanism back to neutral but due the clock going all crazy a ton of energy struck him killing him instantly. Clank promotes Sigmund to Senior caretaker of the great clock then leaves with ratchet. One later twin criminals Vendra and Neftin Prog are responsible for the demise of two friends of ratchet and clank. Ratchet decides to look into the Prog twins origins, starting on an abandoned planet that had the orphanage the twins grew up in. Within he finds audio logs finding out origins as strange beings (that need adaptive suits to survive in foreign dimensions)from another dimension called the Netherverse. They keep talking about being from their dimension they called Mr.Eye. The extent of the planets state is the result of experiments to thin the wall between this dimension and the netherverse. As the deal they made is let him and much smaller Nether beings into this dimension and he’ll reunite them with their parents though clank suspects them go A terahcnoid upgrades clank so that he’s able to safely slip into the netherverse where cracks into it can be found. Later the twins almost manage to tear down the dimensional walls to let the netherverse in, but Ratchet beats Neftin and stops the machine. The twins split up temporarily Neftin  sulks about his failure on Sargasso, where ratchet finds him and they make a deal that Neftin and Vendra will turn themselves in after he resolves things. Neftin leaves. The twins go to alert city to steal the dimensonator and open a portal to the netherverse with Venda using her power to amplify the dimensionator. Mr.Eye however does not honor the deal with the twins he grabs Vendra and throws her into netherverse portal imprisoning her and leaving her too weak (due to adapting to a different dimension for to long the twins are weak in the netherverse) to move. Clank rescues her. After Ratchet has done considerable damage to Mr.Eye with his varied and impressive arsenal of weapons, the twins send the Nether beings back to the netherverse. The twins go back to prison and the dimensionator breaks. The ghosts of the two friends that died earlier that day are revealed to have been watching Ratchet’s adventure since they died. Clank takes the dimensionator and works to repair it. 2 years later he’s successful in repairing even somehow restoring it to it’s original form Factor (yes it has returned to being a gun) and he presents it at the end of a parade being thrown in Ratchet’s honor. Unfortunately Dr.Nefarious returns and steals it stating he’s found a dimension where he always wins and told them that he’ll be leaving. Ratchet shoots the dimensionator while it’s priming up for another shot, damaging the phase quartz releasing a shock wave of the dimensional energy that was being regulated by the phase quartz. causing numerous rifts to other dimensions to open and close at random. Eventually ratchet and clank end up in the aforementioned dimension where nefarious always wins. Unfortunately the dimensionator orverloaded and obviously the phase quartz shattered releasing an even more massive shockwave of dimensional energy.  Even more rifts of various size are opening and closing at random and spreading ever further out from the point of origin. The blast also separated Ratchet and clank ending up in different parts of the city. (sorry But I lost what I typed originally from this point forward and will skip to the climatic battle at the end of Rift Apart’s story. I don’t want to spend hours retyping that.) two Lombaxes and two diminutive robot companions prevent an evil robot emperor from firing an overclocked shot from the dimensionator and promptly use a regular shot from the dimensionator send him to a sea monster on another planet, thus the tyrant is presumed eaten. Then Clank with Dimensionator in hand repairs the dimensional walls which had been deteriorating over time since the phase quartz’s destruction at the parade.(if your curious they built a new dimensionator earlier in the adventure) Thus preventing what would have been the absoulte annihilation of the omniverse as countless celestial bodies collide with their dimensional counterparts and obliterate each other as the dimensional walls crumble away. Dimensions with different physics conflict and cause havoc. The great clock would be obliterated, and with it the the fabric of time would tear asunder. The Lombaxes were able  to witness the 4 heroes climatic battle with the evil Robot emperor through a massive rift in the sky above the center of their capital city. Unfortunately their were individuals of the species that had fallen into random rifts prior to the repair of the dimensional walls.(this is currently the most up to date and relevant history for the lombaxes. I wrote the bit about random rifts for the convenience of those who wish to use this homebrew race. I Will update the history as more games release for the series.)

 

Society

Their most elite military unit is called the Lombax Praetorian Guard. Their most popular close combat weapon of choice doubles as a tool for the assembly, disassembly, and repair of the Machinery. Some model of Omniwrench, the second most popular is the Omnihammer.(though the omnihammer has a recess in the front of the head that allows it have similar tool function to an omniwrench) Omniwrenches and omnihammers can be thrown and return to the hand. Their tallest urban buildings most commonly feature an omniwrench head motif at their tops. A common sport of theirs is Hoverboot racing. Little else is known about Lombax Society. (I will update this paragraph as future releases in the series give us more info.)

Lombax Traits

Ability Score bonus: +2 to intelligence +1 to another ability score of your choosing.

Racial Bonus

Lombax recieve +2 to intelligence and +1 to another ability score of their choosing.

Inventor

You are proficient with tinker's tools and one additional artisan's toolkit of your choice.

Tech Driver

You are proficient in one vehicle of your choice.

Versatile Weaponeer

3rd level

You are proficient in 3 weapons of your choice.

Inquisitive Mind

7th level
You have advantage on all Intelligence saving throws against magic.

Tinker Mind

10th level
Whenever you make an Intelligence (Investigation) check related to technological devices, you can add twice your proficiency bonus, instead of any proficiency bonus you normally apply.