Homebrew Faceless Species Details

Faceless are unfortunate humanoids who had their identity stolen from them, along with their faces, by a malevolent deity known as The Lurker. They are few and far between, but those who are unfortunate enough to become Faceless typically will stick together.

Faceless don't have a certain life span, like other races. Rather, they exist in a sort of limbo, normally living until they lose themselves fully or live long enough to become whole again, at which point they will take on the traits of the race that they once belonged to. 

Once becoming a Faceless, the person loses their sense of self. Their skin becomes featureless and blank, and they lose any hair that they once had immediately. If they are of a race that has a differing body shape to other humanoids (like a lizardfolk or dragonborn), it slowly, over time, shifts to that of a normal humanoid, indistinguishable from an elf or human. 

In addition, if they are taller than 6 feet tall or shorter than 4 feet tall, they slowly grow or shrink to between 4 and 6 feet.

Given that they no longer have personalities or names of their own, they often end up volatile, becoming personifications of their most powerful emotion.

As such, they take on names relating to this, such as:

Envy, Anger, Happy, Lonely, Lust

 

Faceless Traits

As a faceless, you have the following racial traits.

Creature Type

You are a Humanoid but are also considered an undead, and are effected by spells and effects as such. Despite this, you receive healing as normal.

Size

You are Medium.

Speed

Your walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Heightened Mind

You have blindsight out to a distance of 15 feet, darkvision out to 60 feet, and you can see normally out to a distance of 120 feet. Beyond this distance you are entirely blind.

In addition, you have resistance to psychic damage.

Limited Telepathy

You can project thoughts and images to the mind of any creature within 60 feet of you. This can be used to speak or project images, whilst not making any noise.

This does not, however, grant them the ability to reply telepathically.

Eidetic Memory

You have advantage on any history checks to recall details of things you've seen or experienced since becoming a faceless.

Poker Face

Due to your lack of facial features to read, you have advantage on any Charisma (Deception) checks, and anyone making a Wisdom (Insight) check against you has disadvantage.