Homebrew Clod Species Details

Living Rock

Clods are elementals consisting of rock and earth. they are very unaware of their surroundings and often wander into dangerous places. Luckily their hardy outer shell protects them from a lot.

Clods are genderless and don't reproduce. Instead, they are formed in Clod pits which form naturally.

Clod Personality

Clods show little understanding of the world around them, often misinterpreting very obvious things. They have the emotional capabilities of a small child and don't often show high intelligence.

They are very imaginative and can be great artists.

They are indifferent to most races, even when openly discriminated against.

Quirks

Clods often display an odd personality trait or two, given how different they are from most races. The Clod Quirks table contains example quirks.

Clod Quirks

d8	Quirk
1	You eat stones used for buildings, resulting in structural damage.
2	You often misread emotional cues.
3	You tend to walk into dangerous situations without you realizing it.
4	You wander a lot which results in you getting lost most of the time.
5	You don’t know how to filter your feelings and are prone to dramatic emotional outbursts.
6	You don’t understand clothing beyond its utility and assume it denotes a person’s function.
7	You overestimate the strength of non-earth-based life.
8	You leave valuable stuff behind, if it's not useful now, you don't need it.

Clod Names

Clods don't name each other. Instead, most named Clods are named by other races. This results in a lot of pet names being given to these elementals

Clod Name examples: Pebble, Rock, Crunch, Tumb, Bouldy, Bonk Bonk.

Clod Traits

Your Clod character has the following traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increases by 2, and one other ability score of your choice increases by 1.

Age

Clods don't age, physically or emotionally. The difference between a Clod of a few days old and one that has lived thousands of years is minimal. Their habit of walking into danger results in them often not living past a few years though.

Alignment

Most Clods are neutral. Clods that fall out of this alignment often don't dip deep into an alignment. A chaotic evil Clod for example would hide your backpack behind a rock and consider himself very evil.

Size

Your size is Medium.

Clods are between 4 and 5 ft tall.

they weigh between 500 and 1000 lbs.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Made from stone

You were created to have remarkable fortitude, represented by the following benefits:

You are immune to being poisoned, and you have immunity to poison damage.
You don’t need to drink or breathe.
You are immune to disease.
You can only eat rocks.

Natural Armor

Your body is as hard as rock, resulting in you having better protection when not wearing armor:

Your AC is 14+DEX.

Extension of the earth

You are an extension of the earth, resulting in you being able to manipulate the ground around you.

Clod