Homebrew Shapeshifter Species Details
Aside from their strange appearance and shapeshifting abilities they are much like humans but they are rarer and live longer. They breed slower and produce two offspring at a time as both parents become pregnant. While pregnant their shapeshifting abilities will be limited to the Partial Shapeshifting until after birth. Gestation is about 6 weeks and a newborn Shapeshifter will have Partial Shapeshifting right away but will not gain Full Shapeshifting until they reach adulthood which takes about the same amount of time as a human. Shapeshifters can breed only with themselves and, curiously, humans. If they breed with a human gestation is standard 9 months and there is 50% chance the child will be a Shapeshifter and if so will typically be born in a Partial Shapeshifted state as a human. They breed slower because they control their own fertility and having less children makes it easier to hide plus each individual shapeshifter can produce only 2 offspring in their lifetime.
Shapeshifters are very rare and have no culture of their own. They wll typically be raised amongst humans and human societies more often than not but can live amongst others. They will usually pose as a member of a different race and take the names common to that race or culture. Some may often develop multiple identities and switch between multiple lives easily.
Shapeshifter Traits
Creatures able to alter their for and transform themselves.Ability Score Increase
Your Charisma score increases by 2 and your Dexterity score increases by 1
Age
Shapeshifters reach adulthood in their late teens, but can live up to a little over 600 years old.
Alignment
Shapeshifters tend toward no particular alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.
Size
Shapeshifter can alter their forms but for their natural form they vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Regardless of your position in the range your size is medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Languages
You can speak, read and write Common and know just enough to hold a conversation in all other languages.
Shapeshifter Immunity
You are considered a shapechamger and immune to spells that detail they do not work on such spells such like the Polymorph spell unless it is through the effect of a racial feature.
Partial Transformation
You can alter your form at will as if using the Alter Self spell at will. This takes a bonus action and the duration is "until dismissed" which is also a bonus action. This is a natural ability and not a spell. The altered form remains even if dead or unconcious. This feature can be used even when in a completely different form as from the Full Transformation feature and applies the benefits to that form where possible. This ability can be used to become the Race, Creature, Or monster of your choosing keeping your stats.
Full Transformation
As a shapeshifter you can, as an action, fully transform into a differnt for as though from a Polymorph spell with the following differences.
-This is a natural ability and not a spell
-The duration is "until dismissed" or you hit 0 HP
-You keep your mental stat unless the new form's are greater. You may use either the new form's proficiencies and skills or your own, whichever are greater.
-Any damage is transferred between forms as a percentage, rounded up. If you had 25HP and took a form that has 50 then too 10 damage, you would take 20% damage in both forms leave the fifter at 40 and the 25 at 20.
Formless
The mastery of your form extends beyond ordinary transforming and does to contain a hint of the arcane. You may cast the Gaseous Form spell once without needing and components. You man use this even if you are in a different for from your Full Transformation feature and return to that form when the Gaseous Form end.vYou recover the Ability to use this spell without compnents after a long rest. Charisma is the spell casting ability for this spell.
Shifting Minds
The thoughts of a shpashifter are hard to read as they possess natural telepathic abilities. As a shapeshifter you gain the following benefits:
-Telepathy, 120 feet. You can speak through your mind to any creautre you are aware of within range. You may select a single creature, a specific few, or all creatures. This communication is one-wayand is words only as they would hear your voice. They need to speak the same language as you to understand you and must know at least one language.
-You have resistance to psychic damage.
-You have advantage on saving throws against enchantment magic and effects to control your mind.
-Your thought cannot be read unless you want them to be and may chooose what thoughts can or cannot be read by others, You can choose to render yourself immune to other chreature's telepathy.
Natural Actor
Shapeshifters are naturally adept at reading into people and deceiving them. You have proficiency in the Insight and Deception skills. You have advantage on Deception skill checks when impersonating a person that you have previously spent at least 1 minute study their voice, form, mannerisms and physichal traits. You have advantage on Performance skill checks as an actor in a performance such as a play. This ability can be used for all natural sounds, not just voices.
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