Homebrew Blood Goblin (Hemogoblin) Species Details

Goblins which have gained an unnatural ability to drain their victims of blood are spoken of but never really seen. They are shrouded in mystery. Some say they are goblins converted to vampirism, or driven to subsist off blood like vampires. Others say they were a horrid experiment where the bloodsucking tendencies of stirges were implanted into the goblinoids. Regardless of how they came to be, hemogoblins are strange little buggers. They can be differentiated from normal goblins due to their skin being a grotesque mix of green and dark red veins, as well as a pair of fiery eyes and a notable proboscis for bloodletting victims.

Blood Drinker. You do not need to eat, but you can ingest food and drink if you wish, though this food is always bland and stale to you. If you go for longer then seven days without drinking blood, you suffer one level of exhaustion on the midnight of that day, which can only be removed by drinking blood. After consuming blood, you recover all levels of exhaustion. If you reach six levels of exhaustion due to this trait, you die. To drink blood, when you grapple a creature, as a bonus action, you may bite them, dealing 1d8 piercing damage and drinking their blood to fulfill your blood requirement for the day. 

• Ability Score Increase. When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. You can't raise any of your scores above 20.

• Creature Type. You are a Humanoid. You are also considered a goblinoid for any prerequisite or effect that requires you to be a goblinoid.

• Size. You are Small.

• Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

• Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

• Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed condition on yourself.

• Fury of the Small. When you damage a creature with an attack or a spell and the creature’s size is larger than yours, you can cause the attack or spell to deal extra damage to the creature. The extra damage equals your proficiency bonus.
  • You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all expended uses when you finish a long rest, and you can use it no more than once per turn.

• Nimble Escape. You can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on each of your turns.

• Languages. Your character can speak, read, and write Common and Goblin and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character. The Player’s Handbook offers a list of languages to choose from. The DM is free to modify that list for a campaign.

• Age. Goblins reach adulthood at age 8 and live up to 60 years.

Blood Goblin (Hemogoblin) Traits

You gain the ability Blood Drinker

Blood Drinker

Blood Drinker. You do not need to eat, but you can ingest food and drink if you wish, though this food is always bland and stale to you. If you go for longer then seven days without drinking blood, you suffer one level of exhaustion on the midnight of that day, which can only be removed by drinking blood. After consuming blood, you recover all levels of exhaustion. If you reach six levels of exhaustion due to this trait, you die. To drink blood, when you grapple a creature, as a bonus action, you may bite them, dealing 1d8 piercing damage and drinking their blood to fulfill your blood requirement for the day. 

 

Proficiencies

You become proficeint in wielding Daggers and Scimitars