Homebrew Body Hoppers Species Details

They are alone, they tend to have a difficult time opening up to others past their second body as they find it difficult to trust anyone after two people who knew everything they were left them behind to wander the mortal plane. They hop from body to body sharing and inhabiting it with the owner of the body trading control over that body. When they swap they retain their magical knowledge and prowess however they cannot physically attack without a body, they typically like to take a backseat and allow the original owner's  to pilot the body (if said original soul has a strong enough willpower to withstand the new soul), as they typically haven't piloted this body type before. Occasionally swapping out to speak or make decisions or cast magic. They were born when an evil cult attempted to swap the soul from a humanoid into an empty warforged, however when that warforged died a blue light seeped from its eyes and entered a new vessel. They were sometimes born when a person died, had enough will power to hang on the material plane but was uninfluenced by malicous forces and manage to take control over a body.

Body Hoppers Traits

Body Hoppers are wonderful beings that are typically wise and charming beings who like to play with others but never destroy them. They control others from behind the scenes either by their words or more forcefully by taking control of their bodies.

Ability Score Increase

These beings are typically charismatic as they have a vast amount of knowledge of people, they do spend their time inside another's mind after all. They are also likely wise as they have passed through many bodies and situations and are likely very old beings, only being killable through specific magical means. Your Charisma score increases by 2 and your Wisdom score increases by 1

Age

Body hoppers are immune to the effects of aging, although the bodies they inhabit age as their race typically would. These creatures live by hopping from one body to the next without any regard for things such as ages, if asked they typically just give the age of the body they are currently inhabiting. As these beings are mostly artificially created they don't usually know anything from before humans were intelligent enough to worship gods or anything about pre humanity or whatever race you believe yours originated as. However there is nothing to say that they don't occur naturally for example if a being has enough will power dies and is not affected by any malevolent forces that would twist or bend their minds into becoming a wraith or another spirit/ghost they can become a body hopper or sometimes they are body hoppers from birth it depends on the world they're in how it was formed and whatever the player wants.

Alignment

The body hoppers as a species are immortal and tend to be either very self-serving, arrogant, rude, and overly confident, leaning towards alignments like Neutral evil or chaotic neutral. Or they were grandstanding heroes whose good deeds changed communities and lives for the better and help those in need as they had incredible willpower they managed to become body hoppers who leaned towards lawful good. It depends on who they were before becoming a body hopper and their experiences with people and those who they shared a body with after becoming body hoppers. 

Size

The body hoppers are small clouds of mist when not inside of a body, they look like a small moving cloud of blue mist and when leaving the body they seep out of the hosts eyes and they pass through objects to search for a suitable body. They are small size and weigh nothing

Speed

Typically the body hoppers can only use whatever modes of transport the body they are inhabiting has, however once the body swapper has either left the body for the one hour they can or the original body is dead and the body hopper is now searching for a new host they have a flight speed of 150ft 

Body swap

They leave the host body for one hour and take control of another body, while in this state they cannot think until in the other body, they can only think when within 20ft of the host body after that they lose any semblance of rational thought and go straight after the body they designated they wanted to enter without hesitation. When swapping bodies it leaves a massive strain on the link connecting the body that was swapped from this manifests in the body by weakening the creature and making the creature suffer through an exhausting and tiring experience. If the original body is shared while the body hopper is in the other body the original body is conscious however the original body cannot do anything but speak, smell, see and hear, . If the body hopper does not return to the original body in time it is snapped back with a large amount of force and the body hopper is rendered unresponsive but awake unable to take control of the original body for 3 hours, if the original body is shared the owner is in full control without repercussions save for the exhaustion, otherwise the body is rendered unconscious.

Spiritual bodies

The Body hoppers as a species are beings made of souls they do not have a physical body they are comprised completely and entirely of a spirit, as such physical attacks have no effect on them when outside of a physical body, for example when searching for a new host these beings are seen as a blue mist and whenever attacked by anything that is not psionic magic or cannot harm a victim's soul they are totally impervious. However whether or not they have a physical body when magic that has the psychic damage type is used against either the body they're in or they themselves they take double damage, however their mind cannot be read. Only the original host's mind can be read by magic capable of doing so, as their thoughts tend to be mixed together with the original soul's thoughts from an outside perspective so the person reading minds either can't understand anything or they can only understand the original host and it sounds like they are just thinking to themselves.

Language

Body hoppers by themselves only know the language their first body knew, however upon entering a new body the body hopper retains the information of that body that includes the languages that body spoke, however after the eighth language the body hopper begins to forget the languages the new languages it learns. You can speak, read, write common and up to eight languages your other hosts spoke.

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