Homebrew Dragon-Orc Species Details

Then the monstrosity was born, a scaled orc! A monster of monsters, and our fate was sealed.

— Leo Virtus, Council Member

Strange Birth

Dragon-Orcs are born of an egg if the mother is dragon born, but born naturally if the mother is orc. This can cause complications for orcs that have one of these children and may be unable to have another child or even die. The strange birth doesn't make them desired children to have, often born of r***, but in the rare occasions of love.  From birth some mothers may even abandoned their young if they are born with this disfigurement. Those children that do survive to adulthood often are scrapy and good at combat, often with careful yet short tempers.

Hunted

Due to having scales and skin combined onto their body, this creates a strange and unique skin. The combination results in a muddled gray-green color, and it makes it difficult to tell what dragon ancestry is in your blood. There may be small shimmers of your color or metal in between scales or on the underside of them. This leads to hunting and skinning of those of this race that are in adulthood. The skin acts like leather and can be tanned and made into very well quality if done correctly. Do to the rarity of the race it makes the leather very expensive and often a symbol of wealth on the battlefield.

Dragon-Orc Names

Dragon-Orcs usually have names appropriate to the culture in which they were raised. Selecting a dragon based name in high dragonborn based society, and orc names in high orc based societies.

Dragon-Orc Traits

Your Dragon-Orc character has certain traits deriving from your orc ancestry and other traits deriving from you dragon blooded ancestry.

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength increases by 1, your Constitution increases by 1, increase one other stat of your choice by 1.

Age

Both races of your bloodline mature quickly, a Dragon-Orc will reach adulthood at age 9 and live to about the age of 70.

Alignment

Dragon-Orc inherit a tendency toward chaos from their orc parents and the tendencies passed from the dragon side are dependent on the type of dragon with chromatic being more evil and metallic being good.

Size

Dragon-Orc are bulky but stunted height wise when compared to full Orc's anyway, standing at a little over 6 feet, your size is Medium

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Inferior Darkvision

Your Orc blood gives you the ability see in the dark, but due to your muddled blood it has become inferior. You can see in dim light within 30 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern colors in darkness only shades of gray.

Flare of Blood

Your unique bloodline allows you to bring forth a hidden ability within you. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can make an opportunity attack on a creature within 5 feet of you before falling unconscious. You must finish a long rest before using this feature again.

Dragon Mind

You have advantage on saving throws against charm and frightened.

Languages

You can speak and read Common and Draconic.