Homebrew Displacer Beast (Hybrid) Species Details

DISPLACER BEAST

This monstrous predator takes its name from its ability to displace light so that it appears to be several feet away from its actual location. A displacer beast resembles a sleek great cat covered in blue-black fur. However, its otherworldly origins are clear in its six legs and the two tentacles sprouting from its shoulders, both ending in pads tipped with spiky protrusions. A displacer beast's eyes glow with an awful malevolence that persists even in death. 

Unseelie Origins. Displacer beasts roamed the twilight lands of the Feywild for ages, until they were captured and trained by the Unseelie Court. The warriors of the court selectively bred the beasts to reinforce their ferocious and predatory nature, using them to hunt unicorns, pegasi, and other wondrous prey. However, it didn't take long for the displacer beasts to use their malevolent intelligence to escape their masters. Running and breeding freely in the Feywild, the displacer beasts soon came to the attention of the Unseelie Court. With blink dog companions at their side. fey hunters drove these predators to the fringes of the Feywild, where many crossed over to the Material Plane. To this day, displacer beasts and blink dogs attack each other on sight.

Love of the Kill. Displacer beasts kill not just for food but also for sport. They target prey even when not hungry, often toying with their victims to entertain themselves until they are ready to eat. After killing its prey using its tentacles, a displacer beast drags the corpse to a quiet place where it can feed without distraction. Displacer beasts hunt alone or in small prides that demonstrate skill at setting ambushes. A single beast will strike and withdraw, luring prey into a densely wooded area where its packmates wait. Packs of displacer beasts hunting near trade roads recall the frequency and schedule of regular caravans, laying down ambushes to pick off those caravans.

Prized Guards and Pets. Intelligent evil creatures favor displacer beasts as pets, but a displacer beast enters such an alliance only if it appears beneficial. A displacer beast might guard a vault or act as a bodyguard for a prominent individual.

Displacer Beast (Hybrid) Traits

Displacer Beast traits and human ones

Size

You are roughly 10ft from head to tail, and your shoulder height is 4ft.

Alignment

Displacer Beasts are typically lawful evil, though it depends on your side.

Speed

You have a walking speed of 40ft

Age

Like many animals, felines age at a different pace than humans, growing to full size in a couple of years, and maturing not long after, if not at that time.

Natural Armor

You thick hide and skin makes for a great defense, your base armor class is 11

Darkvision

You have a keen sense of sight, giving you Darkvision of up to 60ft

Avoidance

If the displacer beast is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails.

Displacement

You project a magical illusion that makes a you appear to be standing near your actual location, causing attack rolls against you to have disadvantage. If you are hit by an attack, this trait is disrupted until the end of your next turn. This trait is also disrupted while you are incapacitated or have a speed of 0.

Hybrid Stats

A Displacer Beast has really good Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution, but it's Intelligence and Charisma, so as a hybrid you could have better stats, or worse, so you get to choose whether to use your rolled, manual, point buy, etc. or the Displacer Beast's stats.

Displacer Beast's stats:

Strength: 18 (+4)

Dexterity: 15 (+2)

Constitution: 16 (+3)

Intelligence: 6 (-2)

Wisdom: 12 (+1)

Charisma: 8 (-1)

Special Attacks

Using the multiattack action you can make two tentacle* attacks, two bite* attacks, four claw* attacks, four one-handed melee, two two-handed melee, or (the same for) ranged attacks.

*Tentacle, bite, and claw attack stats are added as weapons.

Multi armed

You have the grappler feat