Homebrew Carrion Species Details

While having no permanent size or shape, the Carrion is generally composed almost entirely of pulsating, blood-red biomass resembling raw meat, sometimes with vivid blue veins snaking across its body. Other body parts will grow from or vanish into its central mass at random regardless of its size: round, bulging eyeballs of varying colors, gaping mouths lined with misshapen teeth, and numerous whip-like tentacles. These tentacles can stretch and shrink at will, and are used for locomotion, manipulating objects, removing obstacles, and snatching humanoid prey to be pulled into one of its many maws.

During the Carrions time with the party, it will assume the form of any humanoid race, with a single one of their abilities. It will only shed this appearance at night in order to mask its true identity to the party. At night, it will feed upon the flesh of any creature it can get its hands on.

Carrion Traits

Natural Competence

Natural Competence

Eventually level, devouring a creature will give a small chance to inherit one of their traits, feats, or racial abiltites. With can range from their class and race.

At level one, the Carrion has a 1% chance to inherit an ability from its victim. This chance will multiply itself every other level. (i.e, 1=1%, 3=2%, 6=4%, and so on.) Rolled with d100.

 

Amorphous

You can squeeze through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide, provided you are wearing and carrying nothing. You have advantage on ability checks you make to initiate or escape a grapple.

Prehensile Tentacle

The Carrion extends a somewhat long tentacle that can be used to interact with objects outside of its disguises natural range. The number of tentacles increases at 5th level, (two tentacles) and at 14th level, (three tentacles). This gives access to extra actions of this type during combat.

Chronic Wounds.

Lost HP cannot be regenerated by a long rest. It can only be regenerated by devouring a creature or a biological mass equal to medium size, or unnatural ways of healing. Devouring will recover Ld4 the CON. (L being equal to level divided by two.)

Ability Score Increase

Ability Score Increase.