Homebrew Embodiment of Questionable Faith Species Details

Race

As an Embodiment of Questionable Faith, you are a living contradiction between devotion and damnation. You are small, fragile-looking, and carried forward by a faith that should probably be inspected by a cleric, a paladin, and at least three separate legal authorities.

You are not necessarily evil. That would be too simple. Your faith is sincere, your heart is strange, and your relationship with Hell is something you would rather keep under a very specific hat.

Embodiment of Questionable Faith Traits

Your Embodiment of Questionable Faith character has the following racial traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Creature Type

Your creature type is Humanoid.

Size

Your size is Small or Medium. You choose the size when you select this race.

Speed

Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.

Mama’s Boy

Your alignment tends toward chaotic good.

Although something about you is clearly not normal, your basic instincts are still shaped by attachment, guilt, questionable faith, and the unbearable need to survive whatever your mother, your god, or your demons decide to do next.

Tears of Faith

Your eyes produce strange tears that can be launched by rapidly opening and closing your eyelids.

As an action, make a ranged attack against one creature within 10 feet of you, using your Dexterity modifier for the attack roll.

Ranged Attack: your proficiency bonus + your Dexterity modifier to hit, range 10 ft., one target.
Hit: 1d8 + your Dexterity modifier bludgeoning damage.

The Book of Belial

You possess the Book of Belial, a grim little book tied to infernal rituals, violent conviction, and the kind of faith that makes every reasonable person take three steps back.

While the Book of Belial is on your person, you gain a +1 bonus to initiative rolls.

In addition, while the Book of Belial is on your person, you gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged attacks.

If the Book of Belial is lost or destroyed, the DM determines how it can be recovered, restored, replaced, or made your problem again.

Fez Trick

Prerequisite: You must be wearing your fez.

Once in your lifetime, you can rip the inner lining of your fez to reveal an ancient demonic scroll hidden within it. You can then recite the scroll with utmost admiration, confessing your abominable passion for the lords of Hell.

As an action, you reveal the scroll and make your pledge. Whether the pledge is accepted is determined by the DM.

If your pledge is accepted, you transform into an extremely potent being called Black Judas for a number of rounds equal to your highest ability modifier, to a minimum of 1 round.

While transformed into Black Judas, you gain the following benefits:

• You can cast power word kill once on each of your turns without expending a spell slot or material components.
• When you kill a Medium or larger sentient creature with power word kill while in this form, your size increases by one category, to a maximum of Gargantuan.
• If you are reduced to 0 hit points while in this form, the transformation ends immediately.

When the transformation ends, you are dragged into Hell and permanently banished there, where you have secretly belonged all this time. This banishment can be reversed only by wish, direct divine intervention, or another comparable effect approved by the DM.

If your pledge is rejected, the scroll folds itself back into the fez, and you may attempt to UNREVEAL your very secret affiliation with darkness again after you finish a long rest.

Embodiment of Questionable Faith Traits

Embodiment of Questionable Faith gives you tear-based ranged attacks, the infernal power of the Book of Belial, and a once-in-a-lifetime Fez Trick that turns you into Black Judas before Hell collects its favorite debtor.