Homebrew Animated Doll Species Details
While others around you have characteristics common among living things- skin, blood, bones, and a mind- you don't have any of it. Instead, your skin is fabric. Your muscles and bones are ceramic and ropes. No blood flows through you, only an incredibly powerful arcane energy that gives you life and lets you think on your own, almost like a real person. Almost.
Dolls can vary in size from small enough to sit in your hand to large enough to stand eye to eye with goliaths. Their construction can vary greatly, depending on the materials used. They may have outer layers of fabric over their ceramic body pieces, or they may be completely smooth. They may also be made of wood, or have no rigid parts at all. You are, after all, made in the image of your creator.
Your existence is the culmination of a powerful wizards life work. For there is nothing more delicate and divine than a soul, and no task greater than to draw one from the arcane and give it a body. Animated Dolls are extremely rare, almost always existing as servants to their creators. But maybe you don't anymore, or perhaps never did. And nobody really needs to know the circumstances of your freedom if you don't want them to.
Animated Doll Traits
Animated Doll TraitsAbility Score Increase
Animated Dolls are designed to be efficient servants, and as such are made with agility in mind. Your Dexterity score is increased by 2.
Darkvision
You were made to work, even into the hours of the night when your creator would be asleep. Your vision enables you to do as such in conditions where candles would be snuffed out and only moonlight would shine through the windows. You have Darkvision up to 60 feet, and can discern colors in darkness in shades of gray.
Doll's Sleep
As an Animated Doll, you don't need sleep the way others do. However, your joints are not impervious to the effects of exertion and a long days work. When you take a long rest, you sit or lie in a limp, motionless state for 4 hours. You appear inert, but remain conscious and can hear and see normally.
Manufactured Proficiency
Your existence is, or at least was, one of servitude, so you've received the skills necessary to use certain tools. Choose a tool to receive proficiency with.
Animated Resistance
As a construct, you lack flesh and blood, but a soul still resides within you. You are resistant to Poison damage and have Advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the Poisoned condition.
Artificial Vulnerability
You're made of sensitive materials, and even if your outside is made of solid stuff, your insides are still soft. When taking fire damage, you are required to roll a DEX saving throw with a DC of 11. On a failure, you are lit aflame, immediately taking an extra 1d4+1 Fire damage, and the damage taken determines how many turns you will remain on fire unless it is put out. You take this damage at the beginning of every turn until either the flames go out on their own, you take an Action to put the flames out, or another person helps you put them out.
No Strings On Me
You've broken free from your creator's control and vowed not to be under anyone else's again. Gain advantage on saving throws to resist Paralysis and being Charmed.
Creature Type
You are considered a Humanoid Construct.
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