Homebrew Wight of Orcus Species Details
Your undead nature and connection to Orcus leave a chilling aura in your wake. Ordinary mortals, animals, and commoners can instinctively sense the cold rot surrounding you. While this makes subtlety difficult, you can easily unnerve or intimidate those who recognize the mark of the grave upon you, gaining leverage when demanding information or striking fear into lesser foes. You have Advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks against targets who can sense or recognize the mark of the grave upon you.
Wight of Orcus Traits
As a Wight, you gain undead traits, necrotic absorption, and special rest mechanics.Creature Type
Your character type is Undead instead of Humanoid, making you immune to certain healing spells that specify humanoids, but altering how specific targeting effects work.
Darkvision
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.
Undead Resilience
You have resistance to Necrotic damage and immunity to Poison damage. You cannot contract diseases or be affected by the Poisoned condition.
Restless Dead
You do not need to sleep, eat, drink, or breathe. Instead, you enter a motionless state for a long rest to gain the benefits of sleep.
Life Drain
You can channel a weak version of the wight's life drain once per short rest, dealing extra necrotic damage on a melee hit and granting you temporary hit points.
Necrotic Absorption
When targeted by a spell or effect dealing Necrotic damage, use your Reaction to absorb the energy. Take no damage and regain HP equal to half the necrotic damage (ignores necrotic resistance).
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