Homebrew Mechanical Kobold Species Details

Mechanical Kobolds born from arcane magic to serve a master, even capable of acting independently if doing so will fulfill the wishes of it's master. while magical servants could take a number of forms from mechanical birds to walking beds, a Mechanical Kobold was deemed a versatile body fit for a ideal servant by those that infuse them with life.

A Mechanical Kobold is given orders verbally by it's master and will act upon them without question, for requests that make it act independently it will act on it's own until the objective is complete even if that takes longer the life span of it's master, the naive construct blissfully ignorant to matters of mortality, It has been known for Mechanical Kobolds to join up with adventurers if it believes that may somehow allow it to fulfill it's secretive goals.

At the core of each Mechanical Kobold is a glowing gem or dragonshard infused by magic acting as the creatures heart and soul even if the creature dies the heart often remains ready to be infused with life once more.

It's tiny mechanical body looking almost like a elaborate toy to others, the shape of it's body resembling a winged kobold with a single arm replaced with a cannon.

Mechanical Kobold Traits

Your mechanical kobold character has the following racial traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity and Constitution score increases by 2, also your Strength score is reduced by 4,.

Age

A Mechanic Kobold is created and continues to operate as long as it's parts are maintained found from ages 0 and up. Immune to magical aging effects.

Alignment

A Mechanical Kobold, aims to serve and protect it's comrades, but has a neutral view when it comes to things of a emotional or ethical nature.

Size

Mechanical Kobolds are 1.6 feet tall exactly and weigh 25 pounds. Your size is Tiny.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 20 feet.

Mechanical Flight

You have a flying speed of 30 feet.

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. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Pack Tactics

You have advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of your allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn’t incapacitated.

Constructed Resilience

You were created to have remarkable fortitude, represented by 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, drink, or breathe.
  • You are immune to disease.
  • You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Sentry’s Rest

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.

Integrated Protection

Your body has built-in defensive layers, which can be enhanced with armor:

  • You gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class.
  • You can don only armor with which you have proficiency. To don armor, you must incorporate it into your body over the course of 1 hour, during which you remain in contact with the armor. To doff armor, you must spend 1 hour removing it. You can rest while donning or doffing armor in this way.
  • While you live, your armor can’t be removed from your body against your will.

Arm Cannon

One of your arms is replaced with a cannon from which to fire various magical attacks from, you only have a single hand to hold or use objects. add Eldritch Blast to your cantrips as the arms default attack.

Mechanical Speak.

Mechanical Kobolds lack a method of normal speech and must communicate with a variety of beeps and boops, as a mechanical being born through magic a voice upgrade maybe possible.

Mechanical Heart

If your Mechanical Kobold dies, it's body breaks apart leaving just the Gem or Dragonshard that formed it's heart where it fell.

If the heart is successfully retrieved it maybe possible for someone skilled in the arcane to infuse it with new life. the body reforming magically around a reactivated heart.

Languages

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

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