Homebrew Cursed Species Details

 

You have eaten the fruits of the corrupted land, but you were lucky, and instead of killing you, it forever changing your anatomy. Your skin gains patterns of sickly green, your insides rapidly change to be more efficient, you get sick less, you are immune to exhaustion by normal means except hunger but you now able to only eat corrupted foods... or... people. Failure to do so makes you go berserk, forever unable to escape being trapped in your body, while it eats whatever it can find, returning control when it is satisfied. There are tales among the cursed though, that if your body remains in control for too long, it morphs into something even more terrible.

You lose the benefits from your past race, unless you had wings, or a climbing ability. 

You are almost immune to aging effects, as you age 0.001% of what you did before.

Physical change

Every Cursed changes in a way that tells suites their personality, or physique. If you have a stats below 8, they get raised to 8. Each change does help with your expertise.

New flaw

Cursed always come out with some kind of obvious flaw, unfortunate, as it makes them easier to single out from crowds, as most of their changes can be covered with makeup.

Cursed family

Your changed stat determines how you are in the hierarchy within the cursed.

Strength. You are seen as a brute. Most brutes take up the role of haulers, protectors, or soldiers within the small cursed communities that are out there.

Dexterity. You are seen as slippery. Slippery, as in, you are hard to place in the community. You could either be a nuisance like a rogue thief, or an asset like a monk.

Constitution. You are seen as one of the reliable. The reliable ones are usually too stubborn to give up, or actually enjoy toiling for things. Most of the time reliables accompany the brutes for defensive purposes.

Intelligence. You are seen as one of the bright ones. Bright ones are intelligent, and they are often put in the role of leaders, or managers of certain groups, like construction, defensive strategy, or supervising general labor. 

Wisdom. You are seen as experienced. When bright ones' intelligence can't help, you are who people turn to. They fill the role of advisors, gurus and such.

Charisma. You are seen as silver tongued. The silver tongued are those who speak the best, they make up the entertainers and traders of the community. 

Creating Your Character

At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of one of the game’s fantastical races. When you become on, look at your highest stat. That determines the family of cursed you are put in, you might have once been a member of another race, but you aren’t any longer. You now possess only your family's racial traits.

When you create a character using a Cursed family option, follow these additional rules during character creation.

Ability Score Increases

When determining your ability scores, you increase your highest score by 2 and increase a different score by 1. You follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy.

Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be raised above 20. With the exception of your highest, which can be brought to 22.

If you are replacing your race with a Cursed family, replace any Ability Score Increase you previously had with these.

Languages

Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character. The Player's handbook offers a list of widespread languages to choose from. The DM is free to add or remove languages from that list for a particular campaign.

If you are replacing your race with a Cursed family, you retain any languages you had and gain no new languages.

Creature Type

Every creature in D&D, including every player character, has a special tag in the rules that identifies the type of creature they are. Most player characters are of the Humanoid type. A race option presented here tells you what your character’s creature type is.

Here’s a list of the game’s creature types in alphabetical order: Aberration, Beast, Celestial, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze, Plant, Undead. These types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the text of the cure wounds spell specifies that the spell doesn’t work on a creature of the Construct type.

Cursed Traits

You have the following traits.

Creature Type

You are a Humanoid.

Size

You are Medium or Small. You choose the size when you gain this Cursed family.

Speed

Your walking speed is 35 feet.

Cursed family

If you replace a species with this affliction, you can keep the following elements of that race: any skill proficiencies you gained from it and any climbing, flying, or swimming speed you gained from it.

If you don’t keep any of those elements or you choose this affliction at character creation, you gain proficiency in two skills of your choice.

Cursed blindsight

You can see with your eyes closed for 30 feet of you as if it were Practically a moving Rorschach. You see your surroundings as vague shapes.