Homebrew Fey Shifter 2024 Species Details

Fey Shifter

History:

In the heart of the Faewild, in a secluded enclave known as the Moonlit Glade is where the Fey Shifters reside. This hidden society thrived under the canopy of ancient trees, where the light of the moon danced with the magic of the forest. Nobody has learned which deity created these beings but at some point many millennia ago some fey started giving birth to children, some with magic and some with no magic at all. Although all of them had the ability to transform into an individual beast. 

These children could turn into beasts of the land, sea, and sky. Even though the birth of these Fey Shifters were rare enough, they were still treated as lesser beings when the innate magic wasn't born into their blood. Eventually they found that if land shifters were bred with land shifters it would have a higher likelihood of producing more land shifters. Although they still had the chance of giving birth to an average fey being. Then of course cross breeding didn't change anything for it was still based on whichever fey form was gifted to the child.

Relationships:

The hierarchy of the fey is as follows. The elven fey stand on top of the political food chain followed by fey shifters with magic or intelligent fey creatures with innate magic. Then fey shifters who do not possess the innate magic are used and trained as guards, messengers, and servants for the elven fey and the higher ranked leaders of the feywild. Then they defend against the beasts that roam the wilds of the feywild.

You may think that fey shifters and lycanthropes are similar but in reality they aren't. Fey shifters do not see these darkened creatures as equals but they pity them for the fey shifters know that these cursed beings could have been something more, something greater. 

Land:

1. Humanoid

• Advantage on perception checks using sound or smell
• Able to communicate with genus of the species
• Gain the benefit of pack tactics while in humanoid form

 

1. Fully Shifted

• Use AC of beast form 
• Use number of attacks based on normal character sheet
• Use the attacks based on beasts stat block
• Gain temp HP added on top of
•  your characters based on beasts stat block
• Use beasts movement speed
• Unable to speak common but can understand it

 

Air:

1. Humanoid

• Gain an extra 10ft of movement speed
• Advantage on perception checks that require sight
• Able to communicate with genus of the species

 

1. Fully Shifted

• Use AC of beast form
• Use number of attacks based on normal character sheet
• Use attacks based on animals stat block
• Gain temp HP added on top of your characters based on beasts stat block
• Use beasts movement speed
• Unable to speak common but can understand it

 

Sea:

1. Humanoid

• Gain the ability to breath and speak underwater
• movement speed stays the same as your walking speed while swimming
• Advantage on perception checks while underwater
• Able to communicate with genus of the species

 

1. Fully Shifted

• Use AC of beast form
• Use number of attacks based on normal character sheet
• Use the attacks based on beasts stat block
• Gain temp HP added on top of your character based on beasts stat block
• Use beasts movement speed
• Unable to speak common but can understand it

 

 

Fey Shifter 2024 Traits

As an Elf, you have these special traits.

Darkvision

You have Darkvision with a range of 60 feet.

Fey Ancestry

You have Advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the Charmed condition.

Keen Senses

You have proficiency in the Insight, Perception, or Survival skill.

Trance

You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep. You can finish a Long Rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in a trancelike meditation, during which you retain consciousness.