Homebrew Dungeonborn Species Details

 

Life favors the rich. This is the sentiment that is taught to all Dungeonborn, instilled in them by the masters of their ancestors.

Our story starts with when Rinn Calavalin, a notorious dungeonkeeper and aristocrat decided to begin a peculiar experiment. If he were to lock a male and a female of every race known to him in a dungeon, and leave them for the forseeable future, how would life evolve?

The answer? Dungeonborn.

The melting pot of traits served the original prisoners well, at first. But by now, the dungeonborn hardly resemble their ancestors in any way. The dungeonborn are pale, skinny humanoid creatures. Due to their malnourishment, they hardly grow tall. They appear sickly, with sunken features. They have a small tail, slightly resembling that of a tiefling, downward sloping ears, and stringy hair with slight facial hair. 

After years of forced cannibalism and harsh conditions, the dungeonborn have finally broken containment from their original dungeon, and are seeing the outside world for the first time. They have little knowledge of the world around them, besides a book written by Calabvalin titled "Wisdom of Rinn". This book acts as their bible, and every dungeonborn carries a copy around. The book has nothing but outdated information and empty platitudes, all of which dungeonborn take to heart. They will often quote this book, the most common and famous quote being "Life favors the rich".

Dungeonborn Traits

Your longtime sheltered history of suffering makes you very suspicious of the outside world, but still excited to explore it.

Survival Proficiency

+2 to all survival checks.

Age

Dungeonborn are incredibly resilient, they grow at the rate of a typical human, some may say they shouldn't be alive, but they aren't the masters of your story. They live to be around 80.

Size

Dungeonborn are smaller and lighter than humans, standing at about 4 to 5 feet, and weighing very little.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Poison Cough

You can use your action to cough out a small, poisoned cough. Those who study you say this may originate from your dragonborn ancestry, others may argue its due to your extensive history with sickness. Who's correct? Hard to say. 

Damage Resistance

You have resistance to the damage type associated with poison, you've gotten every sickness in the book.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common. That's all you were able to decipher in the dungeon.