Homebrew Living Doll Species Details

Most dolls were created as toys, workers, messengers or even guards -- some of them even posses a soul. A spirit can be placed inside an empty soul-less doll as part of a curse, divine intervention, or magical experiment. Sometimes spirits would be granted bodies by deities. Other times a soul may be bound to a doll by a curse. A doll can even be given an artificial soul. Tailored for a particular purpose the variety of dolls is endless, from creepy, small marionettes, to medium sized scare-crows or mannequins, and even large sized golems. Whether a reincarnated soul or lifeless construct a doll's existence will prove tough. While an artificial body does have its benefit, finding one's place in the world is the ultimate struggle for a doll.  

Living Doll Traits

Their bodies may vary due to their origin but, are always shaped to be like a certain living beings, in most cases humans. Every Living Doll has a core, whether it being a magical crystal, beating hearth and even something completely different, destroying it does not mean the end of your life it could be healed, repaired and even re-made.

Living Construct

Racial Traits

Living Construct, Body Type, Intelligent Design

Your living doll has an unnatural body composed of inorganic materials and a fractured soul - with it comes a unique physique.

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increases by 2.

Age

A Living Doll can live for an indefinite amount of time. As long as its doll body is maintained and its soul remains in tact, a Living Doll will continue to carry on.

Alignment

A Living Doll is always created for a reason. Whatever that reason may be a Living Doll is not necessarily bound to a master, and can forge it's own path. Whether to follow a master's bidding, or revolt and live a life of adventure, a Living Doll's alignment is typically neutral or mimics that of it's creator. 

Size

A Living Doll can be made to look like any race and therefore it's size mimics that of the race it was designed after. However, a Living Doll does not benefit from the racial traits of the race it is designed after, and is only used for determining Small or Medium sizes.  

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet, or equivalent to the size of your doll, i.e. 25 feet for Small sizes or 30 feet for Medium sizes. (A Doll's speed can mimic the walking speed of whatever race it was built after.)

Living Construct

You are a construct and therefore do not need to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep unless specified. You can instead release control of your body for 4 hours a day. While releasing control you are fully aware of anything in a 10ft radius around you. While transformed your body will become limp and will take an action to revert back. Due to your artificial body you are immune to any disease. 

The nature of your creation is determined by choosing a Body Type and Intelligent Design. 

 

Body Type

Their bodies may vary due to their origin, but are always shaped to be like a certain living being, in most cases humans. Every Living Doll has a core, whether it being a magical crystal, beating heart or something completely unique. Destroying it does not mean the end of your life; it could be healed, repaired and even re-made. 

Body Type - Beating Heart

Heartbeat. Thanks to the heartbeat from inside your chest you understand how heartbeats work and can easily hear that of other people. This allows you to tell when a person is frightened or charmed -- you have Proficiency with the Insight skill.  
Blood Bound Heart.  Even though your body is that of a construct it is still run by a heart and thus you are required to eat and drink. This does not affect the other benefits of your Living Construct trait. 

 Body Type - Breath of God

Circulation of Life. A god, deity, demon, or any higher power has breathed life into you through their power. Your core runs on this breath circulating throughout your body. Your doll must breathe though normal means in order to maintain this circulation. This does not affect the other benefits from Living Construct. 
Soulsight. You are able to see the souls of living things within 20ft. Thanks to this you know a creatures Alignment and Racial type(Beast, Apparition, Humanoid, Construct, etc).

Body Type - Crystal Heart

Magical crystal. Your magical core is run through gathering magic in the air around you. Each day you need to charge your core for 6 hours; this is the equivalent to sleep. This does not affect the other benefits from Living Construct.
Magical conduct. Thanks to your magical core you have an innate advantage as spellcaster. You can cast the spell: False life an amount of time equal to your Intelligence modifier per short rest; it can only be cast as a first level spell.

Intelligent Design

The nature or reason for a living doll to be created are up to the creator, although the living doll can determine its own future. Some are created with lingering souls, cursed into a vessel. Others are created through divine intervention, with life breathed into their bodies. Or perhaps a doll is created by a powerful wizard with an artificial soul.

Intelligent Design - Accursed

A lingering spirit now resides within this doll, whether by choice or threw a curse and now haunts it as its own.

Ability Score Increase. Charisma +1
Eerie Aura. You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill thanks to the nasty aura you give off.

Intelligent Design - Artificial

Body made by a great wizard. Perhaps you were originally made to be a student of magic by said wizard. Having an artificially created soul means you are not spiritually bound to any plane upon "death" but simply remain in your body.

Ability Score Increase. Intelligence +1
Crafty. Having been taught in magical arts you have proficiency in the Arcana skill.

Intelligent Design - Divine Messenger

Your soul is implanted in this body by a deity of your universe making you one of their followers.

Ability Score Increase. Intelligence+1
Praise. You have proficiency in the Religion skill.

Intelligent Design - Playdoll

You where created by humans for their entertainment and are made to allure people.

Ability Score Increase. Charisma +1
Alluring grace. You gain proficiency in the Performance skill.

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