Homebrew Simulacrum Species Details

A simulacrum is a digital backup of a select individual's memories, knowledge, and personality. It is unknown precisely how Simulacra are made, but their most common application was used to preserve scholars, powerful magic users or people in positions of power. A enchanted copy of their consciousness is mimicked and bound to a human-sized robotic frame, allowing those individual to live on and continue living. Generally speaking, and presumably to avoid confusion, there is presumed to only ever be one simulacrum of a given person walking around at a time.

Due to their sentient personalities and to maintain looks of their past humanity, Simulacra will often decorate or customize themselves with trinkets or clothing, despite not having a practical need for them. A Simulacrum will still typically identify themselves as masculine or feminine.

Not everyone takes well to the reality of their situation when they find themselves to be a simulacrum. Some suffer delusions that they are still living their past, living life, occasionally snapping back to reality violently and not reverting back. They may keep their old habits or routines they once had in life. Sometimes, enchantments are put in place such that the simulacrum never realizes they are a simulacrum at all, that they are still a normal person with a normal body. Regardless, some make the transition better than others.

Becoming a simulacrum is a process that is not an exact science or magic. Powerful mages are known to create simulacra of themselves to keep themselves alive once their mortal body is failing. That said,  Some have taken to working as soldiers of fortune or even assassins.

Simulacrum Traits

Once flesh and blood you withhold the knowledge you knew in your old form.

Retained Knowledge

Skills and Tools: You gain one skill proficiency and one tool proficiency of your choice.

Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common and two  other languages of your choice.

Ability Score Increase

Your intelligence score increases by 2, and constitution by 1.

Feat

You gain one feat of your choice.

Alignment

Simulacrum tend toward no particular alignment. They usually learn towards the alignment that they lived as prior to their transition.

Built To Withstand

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.

Simulacrum may still choose to power down and "sleep" if they choose to.

Metal Skin

Your body has  a built-in defensive layer, which can be enhanced with armor.
- You gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class.

Tireless

When you take a long rest, you must spend at least 4 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. Some simulacrum cannot do this as it goes against the built in enchantment, and if that is the case they rest like normal creatures.