Homebrew Drider Species Details
Half drow abominations, these creatures are very reclusive warriors who try to avoid society due to their haunting appearance. They form small matriarchal clans with a very strict hierarchy where males are treated just above slaves. Their drow upper half’s are about 2-4ft tall with their arachnid lower half being anywhere from 3-5ft tall and 2-4ft wide. They weig about 250-600lbs
Drider Traits
Your Drider character has the following racial traits.Ability Score Increase
Your Strength score increases by 1, and your Constitution score increases by 2.
Age
Driders are magically created from fully matured drow and once they undergo this transformation only have about 60-80yrs to live.
Alignment
Driders are beings of chaos, as such they have a tendency to be closer to the evil alignment, although some have been known to be chaotic neutral
Arachnid build
Driders stand anywhere from 5-9ft tall with their arachnid lower half being 2-4ft wide. Your size is medium unless you’re determining carry capacity, push weight, or drag weight. In those cases your size counts as large
Spider body
Your base walking speed is 40 feet. And climbing speed is the same as your walking speed. You can also use your spider appendages to climb on vertical surfaces and ceiling while keeping your hands free and webs don’t cost extra movement speed. Also due to your spider lower half, you cannot swim or fly without magical aid. Also you cannot wear any gear on your lower half unless specifically designed for you.
Monstrous appearance
Your creature type is monstrosity rather than humanoid.
Charge
If you move at least 30 feet straight toward a target and then hit it with a melee weapon attack on the same turn, you can immediately follow that attack with a bonus action, making one attack against the target with your tarsus.
Tarsus
Your hooves are natural melee weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
Darkvision
You have darkvision out to 60ft.
Ambush Predator
You have proficiency in perception and stealth
Languages
You can speak, read, and write UnderCommon and Common.
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