Homebrew Enchanted Marionette Species Details
Marionettes are puppets suspended on strings or wires controlled by a puppeteer. Marionettes are usually not alive, but you are an interesting exception. You are made of wood, a once living material with years of history embedded in its fibers. The puppeteer, a mediocre sorcerer, has been using magic to carve, decorate, and control you during shows, and his magic has infused with your body and brought you to life.
Enchanted Marionette Traits
Mending, Wooden, StringsWooden
You don't eat, drink, or breathe.
You are vulnerable to fire damage.
While you aren’t wearing armor, your base Armor Class is 13 + your Dexterity modifier.
You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than you.
You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep. You can still take a short or long rest to recover your health and magic, but you spend those hours in an inactive, motionless state, during which you retain consciousness.
Strings
Use can use your puppet strings to increase your reach by 5ft for melee attacks and touch spells.
Mending
If the mending spell is cast on you, you can spend a Hit Die, roll it, and regain a number of hit points equal to the roll plus your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 hit point).
In addition, your creator designed you to benefit from several spells that preserve life but that normally don’t affect Constructs: cure wounds, healing word, mass cure wounds, mass healing word, and spare the dying.
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Posted Oct 30, 2025This is really cool, but may I ask? How much control does the marionette have along with the puppeteer? Is it equal or one has more control?
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Posted Oct 30, 2025In the story we wrote the marionettes had come to life, but we're keeping that fact hidden. So full control of themselves, but they did play dead when the sorcerer was performing with them.