Homebrew Cyborgs [SotSC] Species Details

In the cruel eyes of high society, cyborgs are heartless thugs following a petty trend. However, these are truly resilient people - outcasted from society but driven to prove themselves, cyborgs have been acknowledged by kinder folk as warm-hearted, compassionate and motivational pietists. Even so, there is still cyborgs that have bad intentions and some even choose to replace their body with robotics simply to be stronger and have enhanced abilities. Challenged yet still strong, cyborgs are inspirational and resilient.

A Thousand Stories

No two cyborgs are the same. Some are mechanized to the point they are more robot than human but some can have nothing more than a metal hand. Remember that the level of one's body converted clues to their life, choices and sufferings. Make sure you include how your character's cyborg parts make sense to their backstory when making them.

Machine! Monster! Man-mimic!

There are many reasons cyborgs are rejected and outcasted. Here are some examples:

"I have known many people who do silly, regrettable things for acknowledgement. These 'people' are just the same: hedonists seeking attention. Ignore them and they'll realise it is pointless!" -Judith Hallow

"Methinks they're just trying to take the easy route to makin' 'emselves strong. They make 'emselves livin' stoves so they can skip the hard work all us normal people do!" -Delg Baldek

Hard Decision

Becoming a cyborg is a difficult decision. From replacing an infected limb to keeping a dangerous and uncurable disease at bay, it is never usually a preferable or entirely voluntary scenario that leads one to accept the replacement of their own flesh with cold steel and suffer total outcasting. Keep this in mind as you design a cyborg's backstory and personality.

Seeking Acceptance

Although they grow more common, most cyborgs are outcast for their technological modifications and artificial features. This can leave cyborgs to be loners and outcasts in society unless they display a worthy reason for them to be accepted. Such as earning a vast amount of wealth or slaying a great evil. Take into consideration how this could link into your character's motive and could affect their flaws and/or ideals.

Cyborgs [SotSC] Traits

It’s hard to make generalizations about cyborgs, but your cyborg character has these traits.

Machine Benefits

Technology, being infused with magic, grants some arcane abilities.

Techknowledge

You have advantage on any history check about technology or machines.

Enhanced Human

You are given advantage on athletics checks.

Metal Skin

Your Strength and Constitution ability scores increase by 1.

Age

Cyborgs, like humans, reach adulthood in their late teens but they live a bit longer than a century and experience less effects of age.

Size

Cyborgs vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.