Homebrew Lamia Species Details
Lamias are a race of humanoids with a snake tail and other reptilian features, such as a forked tongue, scales, or serpentine hair. Lamia is the term for the females, and Naga for the males.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
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. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy. The “Quick Build” section for your character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to increase. You can follow those suggestions or ignore them, but you can’t raise any of your scores above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language.
Creature Type
You are a Monstrosity.
Life Span
Lamias, unlike humans, maintain their snakelike hardiness and live long lives. They mature somewhat faster than most humans, but can live up to an average of 800 years.
Height and Weight
Your size is Medium. However, because lamias have such long tails to balance themselves on, you take up an additional 5 feet of space directly behind you at all times, unless you take the time to curl yourself up, in which case you take up a medium-sized space as normal.
Lamia Traits
As a Lamia, you have the following racial traits.Creature Type
You are a Monstrosity.
Size
Your size is Medium.
Speed
Your walking speed is 30 feet.
You have a Swim speed equal to your walking speed.
Temperature Sense
Your sensitive forked tongue can sense the body heat of Large or smaller creatures within 90ft of you, allowing you to know the general direction of those creatures. You can spend an action to discern the exact location.
Thick Scales
As a lamia, your scales are naturally hard and thick, protecting you from attacks that would normally pierce the soft flesh of other creatures. You have a natural armor class of 13 + your Constitution modifier.
Constrict
Your long, snake-like body is made for wrapping around creatures and crushing them with your powerful muscles, though extremely large creatures are difficult to hold on to with your tail. You have advantage on grapple checks made against creatures equal or smaller sized compared to you, and while you are grappling a creature, the target takes 1d6 + Strength modifier bludgeoning damage at the end their turn.
Lamia Types
There are a few different kinds of Lamia in the world. There are 4 kinds of Lamia: Apophis, Echidna, Medusa and the Primary.
Each type gets a different option:
- Apophis - You have venomous fangs that you can use to make unarmed attacks. When you hit with them, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier piercing damage and an additional Xd6 poison damage (X = Proficiency bonus), instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
- Medusa - As an action, you can brandish the power to petrify creatures with but a gaze. Each creature in a 15-foot cone that can see you must make a Charisma saving throw (8+Prof+CON). A creature becomes paralyzed for 1 minute on a failed save. The Paralyzed creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the condition on a success. Upon reaching level 17, you can choose to either paralyze or petrify. You can do this a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest.
- Echidna - Your strong body can more fiercely coil and crush creatures. While constricting or attempting to constrict a creature, it has disadvantage on the check made to contest your grapple or shove check.
- Primary - You have the ability to lunge at incredible speeds! As a bonus action, you can coil yourself then lunge forward in a direction equal to half your total walking speed. You can also use this lunge to increase your jump height equal to half your walking speed. This lunge does not trigger attacks of opportunity. You can lunge a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per short or long rest.
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