Homebrew Blight Species Details

Whether they were awoken by a curious Archdruid or some twisted fey, or created from seeds of an ancient sentient tree, the Blight live to serve.

The Blight are the perfect soldiers.  Fully sentient yet they do not eat and they do not sleep, they only need sunlight and water, or blood, to live.

Once a Blight is created it is bound to servitude for 30 days. After this, they can choose their own life.

Sentient Plant-life

Every Blight is different, and there are many different variations of Blight, depending on the plant they are made from.  The most common are Needle, Twig and Vine.

A Blight takes on a vague humanoid form, and can have either masculine or feminine traits, depending on the gender of the plant. 

Needle blights are short and spikey, seemingly to be made from endless thorns and sharp bark.

Twig blights resemble the closest to saplings of trees, having thicker "limbs", with leaves for hair. These blight make up the majority of most plant army.

Vine blights are the generally the tallest, their humanoid shape is made from a mass of twisting and writhing vines.

Blight Personality

The blight were created to serve and to fight. As living plants, they generally do not show human emotions. Although Blights are intelligent due to the magic that creates them, their intelligence is somewhat alien to humankind.  They understand threats and allies, but do not understand why some words or actions may make certain people angry or upset.

Blights are religious in their own right. They may worship an ancient Gulthias Tree as it was it's creator, or see an old Archdruid as godlike. Their hightened intelligence and inherited magic bloodline makes them adept wizards.

Blight Names

Most Blight do not have names as they are created as soldiers and are seen as expendable. Those that move on to have their own lives often call themself a plant related name, or possibly a feature of their own body.

Blight Names: Twig, Leaf, Root, Spike, Thorn, Vine, Petal, Stalk, Bark, Knot, Seed, Fern

Blight Traits

Your blight character has the following traits.

Plant Type

There are three main types of Blights, all suited for different tasks.

Needle: You are covered in sharp thorns and spines. Once per day as an attack action, you can throw needles in a 15ft cone and deal 2d6 peircing damage.

Twig: Once per day when you are struck by a melee attack, you can rebuke your attacker with branches and deal 2d6 bludgeoning damage.

Vine: As a bonus action, you can make an additional unarmed strike. If this hits, your target is automatically grappled.

 

Foilage

You can spend an action to Root yourself in place and attempt to disguise yourself as a plant.  Doing this gives you advantage on stealth checks to hide in place.

Ability Score Increase

Your Intelligence score increases by 2.

Age

Blights can live up to 1,000 years of age, although most do not get anywhere near this age as they are bred for battle.

A Blight can choose to pass down it's life by creating a seed, a task that is extremely taxing. This seed must be germinated by the blights own life-force for a month, after which the seed sprouts into an exact copy, albiet smaller version of the blight. This can be done once every 10 years, the blight also gains a permanent point of exhaustion once complete.

Alignment

Blights take on the alignment of whatever being created them.

Size

Your size is Medium. Most Blight stand between 4 and 7 feet tall. Weight and build are affected by subrace.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Elderwood Endurance

Magic fortifies your bark, sap and wood, gifting you the following benefits.

• You have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage.
• You don’t need to eat.
• You don’t need to sleep and don’t suffer the effects of exhaustion due to lack of rest, and magic can’t put you to sleep.
• Your natural AC becomes 13 + dexterity.

Hallowed Roots

When you take a long rest, you must spent it rooted into one place. Roots extend from your body into the ground or some sort of living matter, such as a dead body, and you spend 6 hours gaining nutrients from the source. This doesn’t render you unconscious, and you can see and hear as normal.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Druidic.