Homebrew Fae shifter Species Details

Fae Shifters can shift their forms with a thought. Many Fae Shifters  use this gift as a form of artistic and emotional expression. It’s also an invaluable tool for grifters, spies, and others who wish to deceive. This leads many people to treat Fae Shifters  with suspicion.

A Hidden People

Wherever humans live, Fae Shifters reside also; the question is whether their presence is known.

Fae Shifters are born to one of three paths. A few are raised in stable communities where Fae Shifters  are true to their nature and deal openly with the people around them. Some are orphans, raised by other races, who find their way in the world without ever knowing another like themselves. Others are part of nomadic Fae Shifter clans spread across the Five Nations, families who keep their true nature hidden from the single-skins. Some clans maintain safe havens in major cities and communities, but most prefer to wander the unpredictable path of the god known as Bummie.

In creating a Fae Shifter adventurer, consider the character’s relationships with people around them. Does the character conceal their true changeling nature? Do they embrace it? Do they have connections to other changelings or are they alone and in search of companions?

Masks and Personas

In their true form, Fae Shifters have human skin color with splotches of the color of your choice, with eyes of the color of your choice and hair of your choice It is rare to see a Fae Shifter in that form, for a typical Fae Shifters changes their shape the way others might change clothes. A casual shape — one created on the spur of the moment, with no depth or history — is called a mask. A mask can be used to express a mood or to serve a specific purpose and then might never be used again. However, many changelings develop identities that have more depth. They build an identity over time, crafting a persona with a history and beliefs. This focused identity helps a changeling pinpoint a particular skill or emotion. A changeling adventurer might have personas for many situations, including negotiation, investigation, and combat.

Personas can be shared by multiple Fae Shifters; there might be three healers in a community, but whoever is on duty will adopt the persona of their professional persona, it might be a kindly old medic. Personas can even be taught down through a family, allowing a younger changeling to take advantage of contacts established by the persona’s previous users.

 

Fae Shifters have a fluid relationship with gender, seeing it as one characteristic to change among many

Fae Shifter Traits

Your changeling character has the following traits.

Ability Score Increase

one of your ability scores increases by 2. In addition, one ability score of your choice increases by 1.

Age

Fae Shifters mature much faster than humans but share a similar lifespan to elves, their constant alteration and adapting bodies let them grow and mature faster then any human.

Alignment

Changelings tend to not go toward any alignment 

Size

Your size is tiny-gargantuan. If you want you can do your size randomly. To set your height and weight randomly, start with rolling a size modifier:

Size modifier = 2d4

Height = 5 feet + 1 inch + your size modifier in inches

Weight in pounds = 115+ (2d4 × your size modifier)

Speed

Your base walking/swimming speed is 35 feet. Fly is 45, Climbing is 40 but it may vary.

Shape-changer

You transform your appearance. You decide what you look like, including your height, weight, facial features, sound of your voice, hair length, coloration, gender and distinguishing characteristics, if any. You can make yourself appear as a member of another race, though none of your statistics change. You also don’t appear as a creature of a different size than you, and your basic shape stays the same; if you're bipedal, you can’t use this spell to become quadrupedal, for instance. At any time you can use your bonus action to change your appearance in this way again.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and two other languages of your choice.

Darkvision

Darkvision. 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 vibrant colors in darkness, only pale colors.

Fea WIld Wisdom

You gain proficiency with 2 skills that use Charisma, Intelligence or Wisdom

Fae shifter Traits

Can shift using bonus action VERY UN-BALENCED