Homebrew Flesh Vessel Species Details

There was once a beautiful man, unnaturally so. He traveled to and from places with no purpose but his own curiosity. Everyone he met was charmed, but in his path he left dead and dying. Accounts of his flesh and twisting and shaping in unnatural ways drifted from town to town. He was monster, a demon in human flesh.

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The Beginning 

These beings began from a singular being known as The Traveler, a multiversal being born from the soul of a human being and the connection the energy of the multiverse. Longing for some comfort in this cruel world, he implanted a machine of magical energy to take souls and turn them into beings like himself. However, what they lacked was the ability to travel through universes and he was soon disappointed abandoning the still running machine.  

Born From Flesh

These beings are born from souls of the recently departed, that wandered far from the afterlife into the planes. Who or what creates these beings is a mystery, but what is known is that after their creation they are thrown back into the mortal world without purpose or direction. They are often beautiful and have flawless skin and hair, almost to unnatural point. They have the appearance of the race that their soul formerly resided, you can determine this with your dungeon master.   

 

Flesh Vessel Traits

These are the traits

Cold Killer

Every Flesh Vessel is born without a conscious, allowing them to kill without remorse or guilt. They also have advantage on Constitution checks when seeing a gruesome death or a scene of gore.

 

Immortal

Flesh Vessels are immortal and regenerate hit points over time, a hit point is gained every minute.

Horrifying Flashbacks

Whenever a life threatening injury is dealt, you must make a Wisdom check and score 10 or higher or you will go into mental breakdown and remain prone. However during this, you let out psychotic laughter that if heard by the enemy they need to make a Constitution check and if they fail, they will become frightened.

Finger Gun

Starting at 1st level, you can build up gas in your fingers and shoot your finger bones out at high speeds at the cost of a hit point. They do d6 piercing damage and cause Bleed.

Bone Weapon

At 2nd level, you can create simple weapons by growing and shaping bone from your body, which costs 1 hit point. 5th level, you can create marital weapons for 2 hit points. These break after 10 strikes.

 

Flesh Appendages

At 7th level, you can grow up to 5 flesh tentacles that hold objects up to 20 pounds. You can also use them to make a d8 whipping attack for each tentacle you grow.

Bone Pistol

At the 9th level, you can use a reaction to inflate one arm with muscle, increasing your unarmed strike +10.

Bone Armour

At 11th level, you can form bone armor on your body that adds 5 to your AC at the cost of 5 hit-points.

Ability Score Increase

Your ability scores each increase by 1. Your Charisma increases by 2.

Age

Flesh Vessels can live for many centuries.

Size

Flesh Vessels vary wildly due to them having the appearance of the soul's former race. 

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and one extra language of your choice which is the original language of the soul that inhabits