Homebrew Boneless Species Details
The man who I had thought was my best friend began to melt before my eyes, his dark skin turning into a strange translucent goo. I could see my best friend's bones floating inside it. One by one, the bones plopped out until I was standing in front of a large, shapeless, blob. "I think we got off on the wrong foot," said the blob.
The boneless are an ooze race designed and created by a cabal of wizards intent on trying to control the world from behind the scenes. They were created to be the perfect spies, to infiltrate and guide, or sabotage if need be, any organization. As such, they have the ability to ingest the bodies of the dead and take on their shape and identity while disposing of the body. Some boneless will even take the shape of a dog or a bird to remain undetected. A boneless will go to great lengths to maintain its new identity, as being found out normally means death. There are some boneless who have broken free of their masters' control, and now only seek to live their own life.
Boneless Traits
Creature Type: Ooze
Size: In your shapeless form, you are medium sized.
Speed: 10 feet in your shapeless form.
Natural spy
You have proficiency in the Deception and Stealth skills.
Gelatinous nature
In your shapeless form you can squeeze through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide.
Shapeless form
In your natural state, you are an amorphous ooze. In this shape you cannot use objects, carry weapons or wear armour. However, in this shape you can ingest a medium or small creature's body.
Ingest and dissect
In your shapeless form you can spend 1 hour ingesting a medium or small creature's body. When you do so you absorb their bones, you also learn their anatomy, natural characteristics and resistances or vulnerabilities.
Shapeshifter
As long as you have a set of bones inside you, you can use those bones to construct a body for yourself as an action. You can only contain one set of bones at a time. Expelling or absorbing a set of bones takes 1 minute.
When you construct yourself a body, you gain the following characteristics:
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you have the same size and speed of the creature whose bones you have absorbed;
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you can use any objects, carry any weapons and wear any armour the creature the bones belonged to was able to (this doesn't mean you gain proficiency in them).
If you ingested and disected the body of the set of bones, you also gain the following additional characteristics:
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you gain any natural weapons, natural armour or special senses the creature had;
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you gain any burrowing, climbing or flying speeds the creature had;
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you have advantage on Charisma (deception) checks to pretend to be the ingested creature.
If, on the other hand you didn't ingest and dissect the body of the set of bones, you have disadvantage on all Charisma (deception) checks to pretend to be the creature who the bones belonged to.
When you create a boneless character, you have already ingested and dissected the body of one medium or small humanoid creature, and have built yourself a body using their bones. You can choose their race from among the playable races, and can make up their backstory and appearance.
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