Homebrew Face Stealer Species Details
Face Stealers appear in many children's stories and folklore compilations across the world. They are rumored to be foul beasts that take advantage of women, killing their husbands, then stealing their faces in order to sire more face stealers. All aside from the fact that they can perfectly imitate a person's body, face and voice are borne out of fear and fancy, describing little of how and why a Face Stealer lives the way they do.
A Random Mutation
It is unknown what the exact circumstances must align to produce a Face Stealer, but one may be born to any unsuspecting mother. At first a newborn Face Stealer looks like any other infant, except for the strange lack of any sexual organs, and a pair of bright yellow eyes. After a few weeks, scales appear upon their skin, with coloring varying per individual. After a month, their body and face is covered completely in the scales which change color, reacting with sensory stimuli.
In most cases, such a child would be hidden, or even killed, by their parents due to their seemingly unnatural features. Those that do survive into early childhood, instinctively learn to take a sample of facial skin from another person and use it to transform into them.
Recent discoveries by the mysterious members of the Reformed Church of the Divine Masochist have proven that Face Stealers may be more consistently be borne from a union between a male cornups (tiefling) and a female verdine (orc).
Their True Selves
When not wearing a face, a Face Stealer is mostly featureless, aside from their eye color and pearlescent scales, and the distinct lack of genitalia. It isn't quite often that a Face Stealer shows their true face, or disclose their true identity. Most of them see it as a sign of vulnerability,and prefer to hide their shame to most.
A Face Stealer can't just assume the identity, nor copy the face of just anyone at any time. They must first steal a piece of a target's facial skin and consume it. Even then, each Face Stealer may only remember a handful of faces, the number of which depends upon their experience in manipulating their features. Learning a person's personality quirks is the more difficult task, as stealing a person's face does not impart memories, instincts and personalities.
It is not unheard of that face stealers immerse themselves very deeply into their chosen face's role, that they forget themselves and believe themselves to be the actual person. Those that use multiple faces are also prone to dissociative identity disorders.
Face Stealer Names
Face Stealer Traits
Your face stealer character has the following traits.Ability Score Increase
Your Charisma score increases by 2. In addition, one other ability score of your choice increases by 1
Age
Face steakers mature slightly faster than humans but share a similar, but slightly shorter lifespan—typically a century or less. The average lifespan shortens, the more often they use their shapechanging abilities, but not quite significantly. While a face stealer can transform to conceal their age, the effects of aging affect them similarly to humans.
Alignment
Face stealers tend toward pragmatic neutrality, and few face stealers embrace evil.
Size
Your size is medium. To set your height and weight randomly, start with rolling a size modifier:
Size modifier = 3d4
Height = 4 feet + 11 inch + your size modifier in inches
Weight in pounds = 120 + (2d4 × your size modifier)
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and two other languages of your choice. You can also an easier time picking up new languages than most races, you can learn a new language ny immersing yourself in it for 6 months
Face Steal
As an action you can roll a melee weapon attack to take a piece of a target humanoid creature's facial tissue. You may choose to add the face into your transformation pool for use by the Shapechanger feature.
The number of faces you may store in your transformation pool depends on your character level as described below:
1st level, 1 face
2rd level, 2 faces
4th level, 3 faces
6th level, 4 faces
10th level, 5 faces
20th level, 6 faces
Shapechanger
Within the span of one minute, you can change your appearance and your voice to the form of a humanoid in your transformation pool. The chosen form must be within 1 ft of your owh height, and within 50 lbs of your own weight. Your clothing and equipment aren’t changed by this trait. You do not gain knowledge of the form's experiences, skills or memories.
You stay in the new form until you use an action to revert to your true form or until you die.
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