Homebrew Druid Blight Species Details
Creations of Nature and Magic
While most blights are created from the blood of the Vampire Gulthias, and have no free will, a more powerful, but rarer kind of blight is created when an arch druid dies. The blood seeping from the body of a powerful druid can fertilize new life and rebirth; when the blood comes in contact with a seed, it magically sprouts creating a Druid Blight. Depending on the kind of seed fertilized by the blood of the arch druid, druid blights can take several forms; for example if a cactus fruit is fertilized, the Blight will be thorny, and produce fruit, whereas if it is a sakura, it will grow flowers and deep roots.
Personalities
Druid Blights gain their consciousness through magic, and as such behave similarly to a normal new born baby as they sprout, learning about the world from their new plant based bodies. While most spend their time in groves tending to the wilds, some can be called to adventure as times and climate changes. These blights take on the goals, alignment and intentions of the arch druid they are created from but develop their own personality over time.
Names
Druid blight often go without names, but can begin responding to one when named by a traveler. Druid Blights fortunate enough to be spawned in groups by the lucky placement of an arch druid's death on several seeds can form small bands, and name each other in druidic.
Druid Blight Traits
Your druid blight abilities are your own to grow and nourish.Ability Score Increase
Your Wisdom score increases by 1, and Constitution score increases by 2.
Age
No one knows how long they can live, Druid Blights grow quickly when properly given sunlight and water, and some ancient ones have been seen tending to groves from before memory.
Alignment
Druid Blight take on the alignment of the arch druid that sprung them.
Size
Druid blights grow slow and steady through out their life increasing in size from small to medium at level 5.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 25ft. This increases to 30ft when you grow at level 5.
Plant
Your creature type is plant, rather than humanoid.
Plant Body
When you take a long rest, you root into the ground, and don't become unconscious, but enter an inactive motionless state similar to an elf's meditation. You don't need to eat, and don't need water if there is water in the earth when you root during a long rest. You are photosynthetic and take 1 level of exhaustion for each day spent without light which is removed when the need is met. This need can be met by 4 hours of the light spell, one hour of the daylight spell or one hour of sunlight. When traveling underground, most druid blight learn the light cantrip or make friends with someone who has it available so that this need can be met during short rests.
From the Seed
Your body is the result of powerful druidic magic, and a common simple seed. Choose two plant traits, one at 1st level, and one at 5th.
Choose from the following options of plant traits:
- Sweet Flowers - While normally you smell lovely, once per long rest, you can open up your flower buds releasing pollen; creatures within 10ft must succeed on a DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your constitution modifier or be forced to use their reactions to sneeze.
- Fruiting - You can cast the Good-berry spell once per long rest. The berries resemble the natural produce of your plant type.
- Thorny Rebuke - Once per long rest, when you are hit by a melee attack, you can use your reaction make a melee attack against the creature, lashing out with thorns dealing 3 D10 piercing damage on hit.
- Stubborn Roots - As you walk, your roots grab the earth, your character has advantage against being moved by spells and attacks such as gust and lightning lure.
- Thick Bark - Add 1 to your AC regardless of your current armor.
- Bitter Toxins - When the druid blight is hit by the bite attack or swallowed whole, the creature making the attack must succeed on a DC 10 + your proficiency bonus Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the start of its next turn.
Languages
You know druidic, and one other language known by the arch druid you are created from.
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Posted Mar 14, 2022Imagine being the one to make this, literally what a goon.