Homebrew Android Species Details

Androids aren't born, they're created. Androids are different from automations, androids have acheived sentience.

Custom Builds

Androids are more physically diverse than any other race. There is no typical android. An android can stand from 4 feet to over 9 feet tall and weigh from 90 to 300 pounds. Android plating ranges from tin to adamantine, and hair colors from black to blond;  Androids don't age, although they can die.

Adaptable

Androids are the most adaptable and ambitious things among the realms. They have widely varying tastes, morals, and customs in the many different lands where they have settled. Although androids often never settle, they are most often run out of towns or cities when the people living there find out that they are not who they seem to be. Androids often find comfort in the wild living in isolation.

Vessels of Ambition

Androids who seek adventure are the most daring and ambitious members of a daring and ambitious race. They seek to earn respect in the eyes of all the other races.

Android Names

Having so much more variety than other cultures, androids as a whole have no typical names. Some creators give their creations names from other languages, such as Dwarvish or Elvish (pronounced more or less correctly), but most creators give names that are linked to their region’s culture or to the naming traditions of their ancestors.

 

Android Traits

It’s hard to make generalizations about androids, but your android character has these traits.

Ability Score Increase

 Your Strength, Dexterity, Intellegence, and Constitution ability scores each increase by 1.

Alignment

Androids tend toward no particular alignment.

Size

Androids vary widely in height and build, from barely 4 feet to well over 7 feet tall. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 35 feet.

Flight

At 5th level your circuitry develops giving you the ability to fly, your flying speed is equal to your walking speed.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and one extra language of your choice. Androids typically learn the languages of their creator or the peoples they were designed to deal with, including obscure dialects. You also take a quarter of the time required to learn a new language.

Artificial Body

You count as both a construct and a humanoid for the purpose of effects targeting such creatures. In addition, you are immune to disease, petrification, and poison.

Artificial Brain

You have difficulty processing your own emotions and understanding those of others. As a result, you suffer disadvantage when making Wisdom (Insight) checks. You also have advantage on saving throws against being charmed.

Fiber Optics

Your artificially-designed eyes grant you superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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 discern color in darkness.

Artificial Power

Androids don't require food, water, or sleep, instead they are solar powered. It takes about 50 hours for them to run out of power on a short rest you gain 8 more hours of run time, and on a long rest you completely recharge.