Homebrew Gelida Species Details
The decedents of humans who ventured into the arctic wastes thousands of years ago, the Gelida are now just as frigid as the frozen landscape they call home. They live in towns and cities made of stone and ice. Their personality is usually fairly stern and neutral, though they do usually have a good sense of humor, even if they rarely display it.
Appearance
Their appearance is similar to humans, but with bluish-white skin. Their hair can be the same colours as humans, except it is extremely rare for a Gelida to have black hair. Their eyes normally have white irises, but it is possible to have pale colours instead.
Gelida Traits
All Gelida have a few common traits:Ability Score Increase
Your Constitution increases by 2, and your Wisdom increases by 1.
Age
Gelida mature slowly, topically entering adulthood at 200 and living up to 1000 years. As Gelida age their features soften until their face looks almost completely featureless by the end of their lifespan.
Alignment
Gelida have a tendency to be neutral in alignment, with very few being god or evil. However, almost all Gelida are lawful, due to their highly organised society.
Size
Gelida stand between 4 and 5 foot 6 inches tall and average about 200 pounds. Your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 25 feet. You aren't effected by snow or ice.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common, Giant and Geldian. Geldian is a combination & corruption of Common and Giant.
Skills
You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice.
Tools
You gain proficiency in one tool of your choice.
Frozen Body
Your body is somewhere between flesh & blood and solid ice. You are immune to cold and weapons have a tendency to slide off of you. However, due to the fact that your body is more solid your flesh can shatter and melt, giving you a weakness to fire & bludgeoning. You can be healed by healing and fixing magic, but every roll to do so will be disadvantaged.
Acclimatized to Cold
Due to the fact that they live in extremely cold landscapes, Gelida don't get a disadvantage in cold or extremely cold environments.
Cold Skin
Gelidas skin is cold enough to freeze things on contact. Any living creature who comes in contact with a Gelida's skin have their skin instantly frozen and must roll a d4 to see if the part of them that touched the Gelida gets frozen or gets frozen & frostbite.
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