Homebrew Wendigo Species Details

As a Wendigo you look like you are rotting, you have a deer skull for a head, your'e eyes are glowing red. If you are a Wendigo you have an ever growing need for human/any other races flesh. If you don't eat flesh in a week you will get exhaustion.

Wendigo Traits

A wendigo's appearance reflects the bitter winters of the remote north and its presence is often signaled by sudden cold and wind. Though the appearance varies greatly per wendigo, depending on its personality, region, and age, they are all a terrifying sight to behold. Standing between 7 and 9 feet tall they easily tower over all creatures they encounter. They are gaunt to the point of emaciation, with dessicated skin pulled tightly over protruding bones. Their complexion is that of ashes with supperations littering their flesh. Long limbs end in sharp, crooked claws. Yellow eyes are pushed back deep into their sockets and what lips it once had are tattered and bloody. A strange and eerie odor of decomposition seems to emit from each and every part of them. No wendigo looks the same and yours too is a unique creature, shaped by the wilds it lives in, the hardships it has faced and the creatures it has encountered and consumed. A wendigo that lives in an extremely cold climate may have patches of matted, off

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength, Constitution and Intelligence scores each increase by 1.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 40 feet and your climbing speed is also 40 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.

Dark Trickster

Dark Trickster. The thrill of the hunt and the smell of their fear are almost as good as the taste of their flesh. You know the cause fear spell. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the blur spell once and need to finish a long rest before you can cast it again. When you reach 5th level, you can also cast the fear spell once and need to finish a long rest before you can cast it again. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Primal Hunter

Primal Hunter. Your claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Keen Smell

Keen Smell. You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.

Beast of the Wild

Beast of the Wild. You are proficient in the Stealth skill.

Everlasting Hunger

You must consume at least one humanoid corpse each week, if you fail to meet this requirement you suffer one level of exhaustion at the beginning of each day. This exhaustion cannot be removed through any other means than the consumption of a humanoid corpse, which can be done over a short or long rest.

Languages

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Abyssal.

Size

Size. Wendigo stand between 7 and 9 feet tall. Despite this size, they weigh as much as the average human at 140 to 160 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Alignment

Alignment. Wendigo generally lean towards a chaotic alignment. At a younger age, their morals may outweigh their hunger.

Age

Age. Age is not a physical concept for the wendigo but rather a mental one - the older they get, the larger and hungrier they become. You cannot die of old age.