Homebrew Elf Variant Species Details
Your appearance is unlike any other. Your skin is sickly and pallid with no hue in sight. Your hair is dark and slicked with grease that never seems to wash out, and ruffled with a mess that can never be brushed. Your eyes, dark and piercing, are encircled with dark rings that suggest years without sleep, and your body is gaunt like that of a corpse.
Nobody knows what you are; not the wisest scholars or the most devout religious leaders. You are isolated in this sense, but your abilities bring you freedom more great than any human could imagine.
Elf Variant Traits
Per long rest, you can shapeshift into your raven form as often as your CONST modifier, allowing you to be free in the skies.Darkvision
A child of the night, 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 colors in darkness, only shades of gray.
Ability Score Increase
Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Perception score increases by 1.
Size
Your size is Medium. Bird Bones: Your body is incredibly thin and lightweight, and you weigh 100 pounds. You are 5'5, or 165 cm.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Languages
You can speak, read and write Common, Ravenfolk, and communicate with birds when the DM deems it appropriate.
Ravenblood
Per long rest, you can shift into your Raven Form as an action. In doing so, you take Psychic Damage equal to your character’s level. In Raven Form, you weigh 5 lbs, and may perform a basic Swoop/Peck attack. This attack is equal to 1 + Strength. You may fly, and your flying speed is 50 feet. While flying, only ranged attacks can hit you and have Disadvantage as well as only being able to deal 1d4 per successful hit due to your wings. In Raven Form, you gain +2 Stealth at night and +1 DEX at all times. You cannot perform some actions requiring the use of hands, but many actions you can still perform with your beak and talons, such as lockpicking, solving puzzles, reading a book, and whatever else is appropriate to the DM. You only require half as many rations as you do in humanoid form. In Raven Form, you can only communicate through gestures or croak a few words. Once you shift, you can’t change into a humanoid until you finish a long rest. This form lasts until you change into Humanoid Form or you enter a Death Save. When you are forced back into humanoid form by a Death Save, you stay at 1hp.
- Humanoid Form: As an action, you can shift into your Humanoid Form. Changing to Humanoid Form from Raven Form exhausts you, and you will require twice as many rations that day. Once you shift, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.
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