Homebrew Cursed Spirit Species Details

Cursed spirits bodies are entirely made up of cursed energy. Their metaphysical existence makes it impossible for non-sorcerers to perceive or touch them. Living humans who have been cursed can only tell they have strange symptoms without realizing a cursed spirit behind it. Non-sorcerers whose lives are put in danger by a curse may gain the ability to see it in that life or death situation.

Curses come in all kinds of grotesque shapes and sizes. Special grade cursed spirits with high intelligence tend to be bipedal creatures with shapes comparable to humans. They are capable of holding a normal conversation and working together as an organized group.

Cursed Spirit Traits

Evil spirits created from human's negative emotions.

Undead Nature

You don’t need to eat, drink, or breathe. You don’t need to sleep. You have advantage on saving throws against disease and being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage. Your creature type is undead, specifically cursed spirit.

Hard to Kill

If you were reduced to 0 hit points, you can choose to drop to 1 hit point instead and are considered stable. This feature does not work if the damage that had reduced you to 0 hit points was radiant damage. You may use this feature once per long rest. You also have resistance to psychic damage as your body and mind are vastly different from the likes of humans, sorcerers or non-sorcerer included.

Cursed Nature

You are a Cursed Spirit, which means having a cursed body made out of humanity's impure thoughts. You become vulnerable against radiant damage.