Homebrew Friend of the Slime, Reborn Variant Species Details

Reborn created with or from slime. They have heavy elements of slime and often do not remember their old life.

Friend of the Slime, Reborn Variant Traits

Death isn’t always the end. The reborn exemplify this, being individuals who have died yet, somehow, still live. Friend of the Slime are reborns that are created by or from slime. It could be created when a powerful slime consumes a soul of a dead creature. The soul overpower the slime's weaker soul and takes control. It could be an unusual evolution of slime. It is theoretical possible for a group of slime to work together as a hive mind to "puppet" a dead body. Friend of the Slime could be created when resurrection is poorly attempted when there is living slime near by. Whatever their origins, reborn know a new life and seek experiences and answers all their own.

Faded Memories

Reborn suffer from some manner of discontinuity, an interruption of their lives or physical state that their minds are ill equipped to deal with. Their memories of events before this interruption are often vague or absent. Occasionally, the most unexpected experiences might cause sensations or visions of the past to come rushing back.

Rather than sleeping, reborn regularly sit and dwell on the past, hoping for some revelation of what came before. Most of the time, these are dark, silent stretches. Occasionally, though, in a moment of peace, stress, or excitement, a reborn gains a glimpse of what came before. When you desire to have such a dreamlike vision, roll on the Lost Memories table to inspire its details.

Lost Memories
d8 Memory
1 You recall a physically painful moment. What mark or scar on your body does it relate to?
2 A memory brings tears to your eyes. Is it a bitter or cheerful memory? Does recalling it make you feel the same way?
3 You recall a childhood memory. What about that event or who you were still influences you?
4 A memory brings with it the voice of someone once close to you. How do they advise you?
5 You recall enjoying something that you can’t stand doing now. What is it? Why don’t you like it now?
6 A memory carries a vivid smell or sensation. What are you going to do to recreate that experience?

Reborn Origins

The Reborn Origins table provides suggestions for how your character became reborn.

Reborn Origins
d8 Origins
1 You were magically resurrected but there were living slime to near to your body.
2 You are a ex-dead body that is puppet by a group of hive mind slime.
3 Power slime died above your grave. Its ooze soak into your body and granting you life.
4 You were a necromancer’s experment with slime. One day, you managed to excape.
5 You awoke in an abandoned laboratory alongside complex designs of using slime to resurrect the dead.
6 You were buried with slime or in a location infested with slime. Your memories have faded, though, and your body was modified by the slime.
7 Your body hosts a possessing slime that shares its memories and replaces your missing appendages with slimy limbs.
8 In public, you pass as an unremarkable individual, but you can feel a strange ooze flowing through your viens.

Ability Score Increasement

Increase one ability score by 2 and increase a different one by 1, or increase three different ability scores by 1. If you are replacing your race with this lineage, replace any Ability Score Increase you previously had with this.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character. If you are replacing your race with this lineage, you retain any languages you had and gain no new languages.

Creature Type

You are a Humanoid.

Size

You are Medium or Small. You choose the size when you gain this lineage.

Deathless Nature

You have escaped death, a fact represented by the following benefits:

  • You have advantage on saving throws against disease and being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage.
  • You have advantage on death saving throws.
  • You don’t need to eat, drink, or breathe.
  • You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep. You can finish a long rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in an inactive, motionless state, during which you retain consciousness.

Subraces

This variant of Reborn is heavy impacted by which slime influence them the most during resurrection. The following subclasses are based on a certain slime or other resurrection factors:
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