Homebrew Yaujta Species Details

The Yautja (pronounced Ya-OOT-ja) known colloquially as the Predators or Hunters, are an extraterrestrial species characterized by their hunting of other dangerous species for sport and honor.

Creating Your Character

At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.

Ability Score Increases

When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy. The “Quick Build” section for your character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to increase. You can follow those suggestions or ignore them, but you can’t raise any of your scores above 20.

Languages

Your character can speak, read, and write Common and two other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character. The Player’s Handbook offers a list of languages to choose from. The DM is free to modify that list for a campaign.

Creature Type

Every creature in D&D, including each player character, has a special tag in the rules that identifies the type of creature they are. Most player characters are of the Humanoid type. A race tells you what your character’s creature type is.

You are a monstrosity.

Life Span

The Yautja can live to be well over 1000 years old. They are considered matured at 400 years old.

Height and Weight

You range from 5-8 feet tall and 200-450 lbs, you are a small or medium sized creature. Choose when selecting this race.

Yaujta Traits

As an Yaujta, you have the following racial traits.

Creature Type

You are a Monstrosity.

Size

You are Medium or Small. You choose the size when you select this race.

Speed

Your walking speed is 35 feet.

Advanced Detection

Yaujta see on the infrared spectrum this allows them to see their prey and adversaries in non-standard ways. You have Advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight. Additionally, you can see any creature that is Invisible within 15 feet of you; this distance increases to 30 feet at 12th level.

Hunting Speciality

The Yaujta are known throughout the multiverse as incredible hunters rarely failing to capture their quarry. To achieve this, a Yaujta tends to specialize in one of two areas. That specialty grants them one of the following traits. Choose when you select this race:

Cloak. Yaujta have the ability refract light around themselves to conceal their presence from their prey. You gain the ability to cast the 2nd level spell Invisibility, with the caveat that you can only target yourself; Intelligence is the spellcasting modifier for this spell. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier per long rest. Once you cast the spell in this way, you must roll initiative before you can use it again.

Kill Gland. The Yaujta evolved in a violent fashion that had them develop a special ruby red gland located beneath their clavicle, that produces a dangerous hormone that causes the Yaujta to launch into a homicidal rage. As a bonus action, you can absorb the hormone into your system activating this homicidal rage. For 1 minute or until you miss an attack roll (whichever comes first), you deal an additional 1d12 damage on a successful weapon attack. For every 3 successful attacks, you gain one level of exhaustion. Once you have absorbed the hormone into your system, you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.