Homebrew Half-Drow Species Details

A half-drow was the offspring of one human parent and one drow parent. A half-drow generally had dusky skin, and silver or white hair. Common eye colors include pale blue, orange, crimson, onyx, violet, and jade; though many other colors are known to occur. They could see in dim light and darkness. They possess natural magical abilities that enable them to summon globes of darkness, outline targets in faerie fire which causes no harm but makes the target brightly visible to everyone who sees them, and creates magical balls of light. 

Half-Drow Traits

Your half-drow character has some qualities in common with drow and some that are unique to half-elves.

Ability Score Increase

Your Charisma score increases by 2, and two other ability scores of your choice increase by 1.

Age

From birth half-drow progress through early development stages quite rapidly. Motor skills and language skills follow the ability to walk, and by their second year, they could easily be mistaken — drow-like features notwithstanding — for a human eight-year old. Sexual maturity, however, will not occur in half-drow until they reach their mid-twenties. As they approach middle years many begin to experience hair loss, but do not wrinkle, as humans do. Instead, they experience bone-loss as their other elven races do. This often leaves them frail in their elder years, and prone to debilitating bone breaks. Though violent deaths often come much sooner for half-drow, death in the form of advanced age usually comes between 150 and 180 years.

Alignment

Half-drow share the chaotic bent of their drow heritage. Not inherently evil by nature, half-drow are often subjected by their drow masters to cruelty as Lolth demands. Their lot is perhaps worse than that of those the drow initially conquer, for they are not only subject to such torments by the drow, but also often reviled by the subjugates from which they sprang. 

Size

Half-drow are about the same size as humans, ranging from 5 to 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision

Thanks to your drow blood, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. 

Light Sensitivity

Half-Drow are dazzled in bright sunlight or within the radius of a daylight spell.

Fey Ancestry

You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Skill Versatility

You gain proficiency in two skills of your choice.

Languages

You can speak, read, write, and understand common, Elven, Undercommon. Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages, such as Druidic).

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