Homebrew Astomoi Species Details
Astomoi appear to be made of pure darkness. They require no food—indeed, they have no mouths—and they have no eyes with which to survey their environment. Instead, they rely on their powerful minds to sense the world around them, and subsist on nutrients absorbed from the air. This can turn against them, however, as powerful smells and inhaled poisons can render an astomoi helpless. Predisposed to asceticism, astomoi rarely wear more than rags, if they wear anything at all.
Astomoi Traits
Your astomoi character has the following traits.Appearance
Appearance: Astomoi are humanoid shaped chunks of pure blackness without identifiable facial features. They have elongated, seemingly delicate limbs and their extremities nearly come to points.
Age: Astomoi are mature at 30 years and can live up to 900 years.
Height: 4ft to 8ft. Astomoi vary considerably in height.
Weight: 40lbs to 80lbs. Whatever Astomoi are made of seems to be lighter than the flesh of ordinary humanoids.
Ability Score Increase
They gain +2 Intelligence and +2 to Wisdom but suffer -2 Constitution
These ability scores can be modified using the Tasha's origin ruleset.
Scent
Astomoi have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on scent.
Telepathic Senses
Astomoi can’t speak or see, but can mentally sense the area within 60 feet akin to Blindsight, and can speak telepathically. An astomoi can’t see anything beyond 60 feet. An astomoi must provide thought components for spells that normally require verbal components. It can use language-dependent abilities with its telepathy, but not abilities that depend on audible components.
Any ability that modifies vision, instead modifies their Blindsight. (I.E. Devil's Sight Invocation would Double the range of their Blindsight to 120)
Sensitive Breath
Astomoi have disadvantage on saving throws against airborne disease and inhaled poisons.
Mouthless
Astomoi don't need to eat or drink to survive. Instead they can absorb the essence of food and drink; this consumes the nutrients of the meal as though it had been eaten, rendering the food useless to others. Astomoi consume potions and other ingested materials in the same fashion. Since they never actually ingest anything, they can't normally be exposed to ingested poisons.
Languages
Astomoi begin play knowing Common, but as they have no mouths, they cannot speak. They have telepathy with a range of 100 feet. Astomoi can also choose one exotic language
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