Homebrew Ironskin Species Details

Ironskin Traits

As an Ironskin you have the following racial traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength score increases by

2.

Age

Ironskin become mature within 5 years after

hatching and can live up to many thousand years.

Alignment

Ironskin have little exposure to the laws of the

humanoids, so they are drawn toward more chaotic

alignments.

Creature Type

Ironskin hail from the elemental planes.

You are Elemental.

Size

Ironskin vary in size depending on their age, though

they are larger than humans in most cases. Your size is

Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and your burrowing

speed is 20 feet.

Tunneler

You can burrow through solid rock at half of your

burrow speed and leaves a 4-foot-diameter tunnel in your

wake. You can' burrow trough stone bricks.

Tremorsense

You are sensitive to vibrations in the ground

and can automatically pinpoint the location of anything that is

in contact with the ground within 60 feet.

Elemental Nature

You don't require air or water, but

you do require metal for food. You can consume metal ores

while tunneling through rock.

Claws

Your claws are natural weapons, which you can use

to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal

slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier,

instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed

strike.

Iron Skin

You have a base AC of 17 (your Dexterity

modifier doesn't affect this number), but you have

disadvantage of stealth checks. You gain no benefit from

wearing armor, but if you are using a shield, you can apply the

shield's bonus as normal.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and

Terran.