Homebrew Cambion Species Details

They crawl from their mothers' wombs to spread corruption throughout the multiverse. What's not to love?

— Baba Yaga

Occassionally a cambion will be spawned without the evil influence of its fiendish parent, with a personality free of devilish or demonic manipulation. Even these rare creatures face a lifetime of subterfuge, for fear of being discovered by those around them and being exiled or exterminated by the mob such a revelation would bring forth. Living with this ever present dread leads many of these free cambions to become indistinguishable in deed as well as creation from their more common, evil kin.

— Mordenkainen

The result of a union between a succubus and a humanoid, it's unknown why a select few cambions don't succumb to their fiendish heritage. Despite this tendency for their personality to align with their humanoid parent, they retain many of the abyssal abilities of their infernal ancestry.

 

Dual Nature

Cambions that are neither in the service of an abyssal or infernal master nor harvesting souls for their own purpose, often find themselves hiding their nature from the world around them. They fear being discovered by a fiend to then be enlisted into their service, in addition to the more likely fear to come to pass of being discovered by the people around them. These fears help to refine their ability to hide their nature.

Like their progenitors - and their more commonly encountered cousins - cambions posses shapechanging abilities, but with a more limited capability. They are able to obfuscate their fiendish nature, predominantly appearing to be a regular member of their humanoid parent's race, often times (though in no way exclusively) human. However, if they are sufficiently provoked, most commonly as a result of fear or anger, their features shift to more closely align with their evil kin. Though there are differences, there a number of elements that cause some confusion between cambions and teiflings; horns protrude from their forehead, a tail extends from the end of their spine, their skin gains a reddish hue, and their hair and eyes shift to become either significantly darker or lighter than their regular colors.

Cambion Traits

Your cambion character has the following traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your Charisma score increases by 2, and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

 

Age

Cambions mature at the same rate as humans. It is unknown how long a cambion is likely to live if allowed to die naturally.

 

Alignment

As a group, cambions have no specific leaning toward being lawful or chaotic. Though the majority that have been encountered have been evil, a small number are naturally good, believed to be the result of their humanoid parent being good themselves, allowing them to better fight their fiendish ancestry if not fully nullify its influence.

 

Size

Your size is Medium. To set your height and weight randomly, start with rolling a size modifier:

Height = 4'9", plus 2d8 inches

Weight = 110 lb., plus 1d6 × your size modifier pounds

 

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

 

Fiendish Personality

Whether through exposure to the methods used to warp the minds of others, or through an innate mental discipline borne of your fiendish ancestry, your better equipped to resist mental manipulation. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

 

Fiendish Fortitude

You have resistance to either cold, fire, lightning or poison damage.

 

Telepathic Link

You can speak telepathically to any creature you can see, provided the creature is within 60 feet of you. You don’t need to share a language with the creature for it to understand your telepathic utterances, but the creature must be able to understand at least one language.

When you’re using this trait to speak telepathically to a creature, you can use your action to give that creature the ability to speak telepathically with you for 1 hour or until you end this effect as an action. You ignore the range restriction when communicating with this linked creature. You can give this ability to only one creature at a time; giving it to another creature takes it away from any previous creature who has it.

 

Shapechanger Bloodline

As an action you can alter your appearance into a fiendish form, causing horns to grow from your forehead, and your skin and hair to change in color, adopting a more reddish hue than usual. While in this form, you also grow claws that you can use to make attacks with, replacing your unarmed strikes. You are proficient with these strikes and use your dexterity. On a hit, 1d6 plus dexterity modifier slashing damage.

You can revert to your regular form as an action.

 

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Infernal, and Abyssal.