Homebrew Homebrew Yuan-ti Abomination Species Details
Yuan-ti were originally humans who transformed themselves into a serpent like folk through ancient rituals. Yuan-ti abominations take this vile process one step further, shedding more of their humanity to be gifted with more serpentine features gaining greater power and being on step closer to a true monstrosity.
Gifted with resistance to magical and poisonous effects by the dark rituals that created them, each yuan-ti manifests their twisted serpentine heritage in a variety of ways: a forked tongue, snake eyes, a snake like nose, snake tails or heads, frilled hoods around their head; or some other ophidian characteristic.
Life Span
The typical life span of a player character in the D&D multiverse is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent end on an adventure. Members of some races, such as dwarves and elves, can live for centuries. If typical members of a race can live longer than a century, that fact is mentioned in the race’s description.
Height and Weight
Player characters, regardless of race, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Homebrew Yuan-ti Abomination Traits
As a yuan-ti, you have the following racial traits.Size
Yuan-ti abominations stand about 5 feet tall when upright, but the total length of their bodies, head to tail, ranges from 10 to as much as 20 feet. Your size is Medium.
Speed
Your walking speed is 30 feet.
Creature Type
You are a Humanoid or Monstrosity
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.
Magic Resistance
You have advantage on saving throws against spells.
Poison Resilience
You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the poisoned condition on yourself. You also have resistance to poison damage.
Serpentine Spellcasting
You know the poison spray cantrip. You can cast animal friendship an unlimited number of times with this trait, but you can target only snakes with it. Starting at 3rd level, you can also cast suggestion with this trait. Once you cast it, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast it using any spell slots you have of 2nd level or higher.
Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).
Glowing Eyes
The foul heritage of the yuan-ti grants power but can also act as a curse. Yuan-ti Abomination appear as grotesque abominations created to strike fear into the enemies of the Yuan-ti, to that end stealth holds little use. The eyes of a Yuan-ti Abomination glow slightly, during the day or in bright light this glow is undetectable, however in darkness the foul glow is easily spotted by perceptive eyes.
While in Darkness your eyes produce a dim light up to 5 feet, the color of this light is same as the color of your eyes. You also have disadvantage on stealth ability checks while in darkness.
Natural Weapons.
- Your fanged maw and constricting serpentine body are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with your bite, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, and your target must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier). On a failed save, the target takes 1d4 poison damage.
- If you hit with your constrict attack, you deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, and the target is grappled (escape DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and you can’t constrict another target.
Feat
You gain one feat of your choice.
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