Homebrew Blight Species Details
Blights are towering figures of desolation and haunting grace, stands as a spectral sentinel in a form forged by corrupted wood and ancient sorrow. Its massive frame, hewn from twisted bark and gnarled roots, bears scars etched like sorrowful tales across its weathered surface. Luminescent veins trace a haunting network beneath the bark, emitting an eerie, spectral glow that dances across the rugged terrain of its form. Eyes, once wise and vibrant, now glow with a haunting light, shimmering amidst features contorted by a deep-seated anguish. In its mournful presence lingers an echo of forgotten whispers, a mournful symphony yearning for the vibrant world it once cherished.
Blight Traits
Your Blight character has the following racial traits.Ability Score Increase
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different score by 1.
Creature Type
You are a Plant
Age
Once transformed into a Blight, their existence endures indefinitely, bound by the curse that reshaped them. Their original lifespan is obscured by the eternal state of desolation they embody.
Size
Blight forms vary in height but generally stand between 3 feet tall to up to 7 feet tall, their weight fluctuating with the density of their wooden structure. Your size is Medium or small.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet
False Appearance
If the blight is motionless at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. In a natural setting, If a creature hasn’t observed the blight move or act, that creature must succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check to discern that the blight is animate.
Entwining Vines
Your body is adorned with sinewy vines dripping with acidic sap that extend from alongside your arms, serving both as a defensive mechanism and a means of engagement. As an action, you can use these vines to make an attack against a creature within 10 feet, dealing 2d4 + your Wisdom modifier acid damage upon a successful hit.
Furthermore, when you successfully strike a creature using these entwining vines, you can immediately attempt to grapple the target as a bonus action. This unique feature emphasizes your innate connection to the desolation that shapes you, allowing you to unleash corrosive energy through these vine-like appendages. However, due to their organic nature, they lack the precision for fine manipulation, limiting their functionality to combat-related actions.
Corrupted Nature
You have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage.
You don’t need to eat, drink, or breathe.
You are immune to disease.
You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep.
When you take a long rest, you must spend at least 4 hours in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you appear inert, but it doesn’t render you unconscious, and you can see and hear as normal.
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