Homebrew Warframe: Rhino Species Details

Rhino, an immovable force and highly resilient, is one of the many types of Warframes, long forgotten creations of a lost society, a merge of infested flesh and unknown metal armor. Rhino is strong and solid, created to be tanks of the old society and warriors of all kinds.

Red lights flashing on stark, white walls. Davis is running ahead of me, dropping his notes. We're running for our lives. The fear gives me a strange perspective - I'm out of my body. I've forgotten how I got here. I don't recognize this place.

Davis and I slam pinned against a cell door and he shouts at me. I give him a dumb look. I can't hear him, the sirens, anything, only the muffled throb of terror in my head. I turn away from Davis down the hall and I see it. The hulking mass, flickering red, glinting like steel and fresh blood. Its skin changes, flowing like mercury when I'm blinded by the sudden muzzle-flashes. They do no good. The beast surges forward and the security men become crimson mist and gore.

I'm a statue, a cornered animal. A gate opens inside me and recognition floods in. I have seen this monster before. I have cut its shell and eviscerated its brothers. I have given it pain and measured its response. I have crafted then rejected countless like it. But I've never seen this beast so close, without the shield, without restraints. I have never seen it... free.

I know I will die so I just watch with curious acceptance. The beast squats down, shovelling a heap of gore into its mouth. It is watching me with vague eyes, a sense of recognition, ancestral memory. It knows who I am and what I've done. It rears up like a bear and roars, shattering the lights and casting us into darkness. I can hear it lumbering toward me, its metal fingers rending the walls, but I know I am dead. I close my eyes and stand ready to pay.

I feel the pull on my arm and realize Davis got the cell open. He tugs me into the cell beyond and I fall on my back. I see Davis standing at the open door, waiting, as the monster tears towards us.

Suddenly I could live through this I shout, "Davis, close the goddamn door!" - But he shakes his head eyes wide as moons. He shouts, "Watch!" over the roaring and rending of metal.

Then silence. Davis is panting, laughing? The beast fills the doorway, inches from him, dripping in blood, but still without violence. It stands there, looking at its hands. Davis whispers, "No one would have believed me."

I crawl up the wall to stand, opposite the door. I've never seen this cell, a cold place with an array of shelves. A morgue? "Where are we, Davis?"

"This is where they keep them. The ones from Zariman." I'm thrown, what was the Zariman? The ship that never returned? "Davis, what's going on?"

Davis turns to me, a smile forming - "What's going on is..." he turns back to the beast now silent and calm.

"...big, fat promotions."

Warframe: Rhino Traits

Rhino has the following traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength score increases by 2, your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Charisma score decreases by 1.

Age

Warframes are built to last, and will not die unless destroyed. They do not show signs of deterioration due to age. A typical Warframe is between two to fifteen years old.

Alignment

Most Warframes are build for a purpose, and therefore tend toward law and neutrality. A Warframe has a tendency to adapt the morality of those they travel with and serve.

Size

Warframes are between 7 and 8 feet tall, but their weight varies quite differently depending on materials made. Regardless, your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Rhino's Strength

Rhino has a few cool abilities to make themselves tougher.

• Once per short rest, you can use Iron Skin, increasing AC by 2 for 10 minutes by toughening your skin with sharp shards of metal.
• Once per short rest, you can Roar, giving all chosen allies within 30 feet of you a +1 to attack rolls and damage rolls.
• Once per short rest, you can Stomp, throwing anyone within 10 feet of you into the air for one round on a failed Dexterity saving throw (DC 8 + Strength + Proficiency Bonus). On a failed save, they are paralyzed for one round, taking 1d8 of piercing damage. On a successful save, nothing happens.

Warframe Armor

Warframes all have a natural armor of 11 + your Dexterity Modifier + your proficiency bonus, a benefit to their metal skin and infested flesh. You gain no benefit from wearing armor, but you can still use a shield as normal.

Warframe's Physicality

All Warframes are built for battle, and therefore are outfitted with a slew of abilities.

• You have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage.
• You are immune to disease.
• You don’t need to eat, drink, or breathe.
• 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 jumping height is doubled.
• You have enhanced senses, and therefore have blindsight up to 10 feet and darkvision up to 60 feet.

• When you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you appear inert, but it doesn’t render you unconscious, and you can see and hear as normal.

• You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Languages

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