Homebrew Awakened skeleton (Using 2014 dmg rules) Species Details

An ancient warrior long forgotten in history, a once honourable soldier abandonned to a fate to be revived by an evil lich or even a simple peasant slaughtered in their home to be awoken by a mysterious wizard. This corpse lost from history and with no memory of what they once was after being brought to the life of undeath.
A body of hollowed bones where marrow once filled but time and decay have rendered such a frame frail and fragile to blunt force trauma.

Though heartless, what does it take for an undead to find it's consciousness? in that case, do they have a soul? Explore these questions with the skeleton race for your own whimsical or edgy character.

Awakened skeleton (Using 2014 dmg rules) Traits

Humanoid, undead, Awakened skeleton

Undeath as a skeleton

Just bone, no flesh or muscle for padding, leaving the frame vulnerable to Bludgeoning damage, but immunity to poison damage, the poisoned condition, Exhaustion and you don't need to eat, breathe or sleep. As well as a base darvision of 60ft

Undead Fortitude

+2 DEX, -4 INT, -4 CHA

Languages

You know common and one additional language from the life you previously had.