Homebrew Cyclopean (Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting) Species Details

When researchers delved too deep into lore, some of them got turned into the Cyclopean race.

Cyclopean (Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting) Traits

Ability score improvements, Creature type, Size, Darkvision, Knowledge seeker, Savant of secrets, Thought for food, Top shelf

Size

 With their crouched and hulking posture, Cyclopians typically appear smaller than they are. At full stretch, a cyclopian stands between 5 and 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium.

 

Ability score increase

 Your Intelligence score increases by 2

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Undercommon, and one other language of your choice.

Creature Type

 You are a humanoid. You are also considered an aberration for any prerequisite or effect that requires you to be an aberration. 

Darkvision

 Accustomed to life in dimly-lit libraries, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of grey.

Knowledge seeker

Learning is an almost irresistible compulsion amongst cyclopians and often leads them to dangerous locations. You have proficiency in your choice of two of the following skills: Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Perception, Religion, and Stealth.

Savant of Secrets

you can tap into your ancestral ability to spot the telltale signs of hidden traps, passages, and secrets. As an action, you can enter a cyclotrance for 1 minute. For the duration, you have advantage on Perception, Investigation, and Insight checks. Once you activate this trait, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Thought for Food.

Information is nourishing for cyclopians, in the truest sense of the word. Each day that you discover significant new information (GM’s discretion), you need only half as much food and water as normal and you have advantage on Constitution saving throws. These benefits last until you finish a long rest.

Speed

30 ft.

Top Shelf

Generations spent climbing to the top shelves of tall libraries have led to a selective pressure on the ability to climb within cyclopians. You have a climbing speed of 20 feet.
 

Age.

Cyclopians reach maturity in their early teens and typically live as long as humans.

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