Homebrew Ablaxi Species Details
An old grandma igniting a fireplace with a mere touch, a warrior grappling his adversary and bursting into flames, a girl who just lost their finger watching it grow back in mere seconds. They are all ablaxis, with different levels of control over their abilities.
Once regular humans, ablaxis were cursed by the pyromaniac god Conflare to fuel its sadistic obsession of burning people alive. Conflare tricked the ablaxis into accepting this curse by offering rapid regeneration to all who swore to serve him. Little did they know the rapid regeneration was just a way to survive what serving Conflare actually meant. Whenever it felt like it, their bodies started melting to the bones, only for tissues to reconstruct themselves rapidly, to be ready for the next inferno.
Ablaxi Traits
Ablaxis that are used to their curse can use their abilities to manipulate their fiery composition, healing their wounds or burning their adversaries.Ability score improvement
Your constitution score increases by 2
Age
Ablaxis mature at the same rate as humans, but often live close to eighty years.
Size
As are regular humans, ablaxis tend to be between five and six feet tall. Your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30ft.
Language
You can speak and write Common and one other language of your choice.
Curse die
Some of your racial traits cause searing pain to course your body, as Conflare's will flows over you. This fire damage is determined by your curse die. At level 1, it is a D4, and it becomes a D6 at level 5, a D8 at level 11 and a D10 at level 17.
Curse of Conflare
Whenever you take a short or long rest, you gain a curse charge. As an action, you can spend a curse charge to burst in flame, causing fire damage to anything inside your reach, including you. Each creature affected must make a dexterity saving or take damage equal to a roll of your curse die + your constitution modifier. You automatically fail this saving throw. Whenever you start a short or long rest and already have three or more curse charges, you suffer a level of exhaustion and cannot gain the benefits of that rest, as you are fighting Conflare's will.
Rapid regeneration
Whenever you suffer any physical or fire damage that doesn't kill you, you recover hit points equal to your level. The amount of hit points recovered cannot exceed the amount of damage received from the source that triggered this feature. If you suffer from multiple damage types from a single attack, you can only recover hit points once. For example, if you are hit by a long sword infused with fire, you could only heal once and not twice, even if you took fire and slashing damage from that attack.
You can add your curse die to the amount of hit points recovered once per long rest.
Additionally, starting at level 5, you add you constitution modifier to the amount of hit points recovered from this feature.
The Cult of Embers
Certain ablaxis embrace Conflare as a benevolent God and wish to share his gift with others. They have learned to inflict others with a small part of their curse.
Ability Score Improvement
Your charisma score increases by 1
Burning revenge
Whenever you miss an attack against a creature, you can use your reaction and a curse charge to inflict them with your curse. The afflicted creature must make a constitution saving throw against 10+your proficiency bonus+your constitution modifier or take damage equal to your curse die. This effect is repeated every turn until the afflicted creature succeeds on their constitution saving throw.
Additionally, every time an afflicted creature takes damage from your curse die, you are granted temporary hit points by Conflare equal to your constitution modifier until the end of combat or until you gain temporary hit points from another source.
The Gleamkin Clan
Members of the Gleamkin Clan view their curse as a weapon and seek to use the destructive force of fire to turn the tides of battle.
Ability score Improvement
Your dexterity score increases by 1
Purging inner flames
You gain advantage on saving throws against being poisoned.
Human torch
Whenever you use your curse of Conflare feature to burst into flames, you can choose to become kindle to the fire and keep it lit. At the end of each turn your are kindling for the fire, you roll your curse die and either burst into flames once more, without using a curse die, or take half as much damage from the roll.
While you are kindling the fire, any creature within 5 feet of you that can see you suffers from the blinded condition.
Additionally, any melee attack you make while kindling the fire deals an additional amount of fire damage equal to your curse die.
The Sithew Clan
The Sithew Clan views their curse as a way to augment their physical abilities. They teach their children to master the heat produced from their curse in order to expand their muscles and achieve feats beyond human capabilities.
Ability score Improvement
Your strength score increases by 1.
Muscle expansion
As a bonus action, you can channel the flames twisting your body to heat up your muscles, causing them to expand. Choose any amount of the benefits listed below. You can only take a specific benefit once whenever you use this feature, unless the specific benefit says otherwise. For example, you could only have one stack of Thigh expansion at once, but you could take multiple stacks of gluteal expansion.
At the end of each this feature is active, you roll an amount of your curse die equal to the amount of stacks active and take fire damage equal to the number rolled. This damage cannot be reduced in any way.
You can end this feature as a bonus action.
1. Gluteal expansion : Your walking speed increases by 5ft. You may take this benefit multiple times.
2. Forearm expansion : you gain a swimming speed of 30ft. You may take this benefit multiples times. If you take this benefit and already have a swimming speed, you instead increase your swimming speed by 5ft.
3. Latissimus expansion : you gain a climbing speed of 30ft. You may take this benefit multiples times. If you take this benefit and already have a climbing speed, you instead increase your climbing speed by 5ft.
4. Thigh expansion : You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.
5. Calf expansion : You add five times your proficiency modifier to your maximum jumping distance. (base modifier if using meters instead of feet)
6. Quadricep expansion : You gain a +1 to strength saving throws, ability checks using strength and weapon attack rolls using strength.
7. Core expansion : You gain a +1 to dexterity saving throws, ability checks using dexterity and weapon attack rolls using dexterity.
8. Lymphatic expansion : You gain a +2 to constitution saving throws
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