Homebrew Yatsi Species Details
The serpent creatures known as Yatsi are the descendants of an elevated race of snakes that owes their status as intelligent beings to a forgotten snake god only remembered by them, Thanssiz. They were born as a response of Thanssiz to their evil brothers' crations, the Yuan Ti, in order to balance their wickedness. The Yatsi tend to hate the Yuan Ti for what they have done, and for all the bad prejudice they generate towards cold-blooded races. They have good relationships with pretty much every other race, and in the places where this races have contact with them, they have learnt to distiguish between Yatsi and Yuan Ti aberrations.
Yatsi Traits
These are the racial traits of this race:Ability Score Increase
Your Strength score increases by 1, as well as yor Constitution and your Charisma.
Age
Yatsis mature at the same age as humans, but live a little bit longer.
Alignment
Yatsis are mostly good in nature, they are no strangers of taking more neutral grounds in favour of the greater good. Having said that, there have been cases of Yatsis who think are superior to everyone else, and have joined forces with the Yuan Ti in order to achieve their evil plots.
Size
Although they are medium sized, they are larger than most when extended, but usually don't reach 7' when standing normally. They weight a little bit more than twice as humans.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet. If you go prone and relinquish making an attack, your speed increases to 40 feet. You can climb with ease using both your hands and tail at 15 feet.
Snakevision
As being partly snake, you have worse daytime sight, so you take disadvantadge on perception checks relying on sight during the day. In contrast, you have 30 feet Darkvision and 60 feet Blindsight in order to detect heat signatures.
Serpent's tongue
You can speak with snakes as if you shared a language. You can communicate simple thoughts and concepts with them, and they can share recent memories with you.
Poisonous Nature
You are inmune to poison damage and inmune to the poisoned condition.
Poison breath
You can spit a poisonous cloud in front of you as an attack action. It takes the form of a 15 feet cone. You can use this attack 1 + your Charisma modifier(minimum 0) times a day. It deals 1d12 of poison damage, an adds another 1d12 of damage at 5th, 10th and 15th level. It requires a Consitution saving throw, and the DC of this saving throw is 8 + your Charisma modifier + your proficiency bonus.
Prehensile Tail
You can use your tail to hold small objects, and grapple creatures. While grappling a creature with your arms and tail ,you have advantage on all Athletics checks made to grapple it. You can try to grapple a creature using only your tail, which leaves your arms free, but you have disadvantage on all Athletics checks made to grapple it. Additionally, you have advantage on Sleight of Hand checks using your tail.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common, Yatsik and Draconic.
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