Homebrew Demantis Species Details
Demons are ancient beings, some even older than our world. Since the dawn of time, some of them roam the mortal realm, luring poor souls into signing pacts and contracts with them. More "recent" demons are usually born from great amounts of negativity, and some might even be fallen Celestials. Meanwhile, The Mantis' history is mostly unknown as they never bothered to write any of it down. All that is known is that the males have gone extinct while the females are still around, leaving the females in search of humanoid males when their breeding season hits and the men they capture are never heard from again.
Both of these races being of Two different worlds means that these creatures are extraordinarily rare meaning that if you were to encounter one than you may be Lucky or Very Unfortunate. These Magnificent creatures are usually quite aggressive towards Avian like Races and any race that are related in some way of water.
Demantis Traits
Mantis are natural hunters that are emotionless and straightforward. At most they form small “villages” of roughly ten mantis at the most, and that is more for easier hunting parties. They are entirely fine with butchering someone as long as it’s towards living another day, as their entire ideology is very reminiscent of that of the Lizardmen: They aim to survive. They do not care who gets hurt in the process. Anything is or can be a valuable asset to make weapons or tools to aid in survival.Darkvision
Thanks to your body being made for living in darkness, you can see in it. You can see in darkness as if it were bright light up to 30 feet and an additional 30 feet as if it were dim light.
Demonic Constitution
Due to your demonic physique, you can regenerate your body to some extent. From level 1, you can regain 1d2+2 hit points every long rest. The healing factor increases at level 4 (1d4+2), level 8 (2d4+2), level 12 (2d6+2) and level 16 (2d10+2).
Ultimate Weakness
With all of the strength your demon body grants you, there are still some severe drawbacks. You are vulnerable to radiant damage.
Demonic Resistance
Due to the inherent darkness of your soul, you have resistance to necrotic damage.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common, Abyssal and one other language of your choice.
Bladed Arms
You have a pair of scythes that begin at your elbow and extend down, stopping just past your hand, these are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d6 + your Dexterity, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
Piercing Glare
You are proficient in the Intimidation skill
Tough Skinned
When you aren't wearing armor, your AC is 12 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use your natural armor to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield's benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.
Predatorial Nature
You have advantage on saving throw against the frightened condition.
Ability Score Increase
Your Strength score increases by 2, your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Constitution score increases by 1.
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