Homebrew Phantomkin Species Details
These people are most often born as humans. Their limbs, missing upon birth, were first seen as a weakness. It was soon found out that spiritual limbs grow with the Phantomkin, and that these limbs are adept at possessing and maneuvering prostheses made out of any material. This has grown to create an important culture around the prostheses, their crafters, and the designs themselves. It is with these prostheses that Phantomkin often find their way on personal quests and adventures. The goals of which are often journeys of self-discovery or the uncovering of their origins.
Phantomkin Traits
Your Phantomkin has the following traits.Ability Score Increase
Your Wisdom score increases by 2 and your Intelligence score increases by 1.
Empowered Extremeties
Choose a limb(s) that you were born without. Your well crafted prosthesis can provide a bonus.
Leg: Movement speed increases by 10 feet
2 legs: Movement speed increases by 15 feet
Arm: Gain proficiency with one Dexterity skill
2 Arms: Gain proficiency with one Strength based skill and one Dexterity based skill
Should a prosthesis be lost or destroyed, you or someone with a set of tools and materials may create you a new prosthesis over a short or long rest. You can't regain the bonuses from your Empowered Extremities feature until you attach the new prosthesis. You may choose all limbs, but however, keep in mind the consequence of losing all limbs during the following Animate Limb trait or other means.
Age
Phantomkin's age are at the same rate as humans. Their lifespans are slightly expanded, averaging at 120 years.
Alignment
Their closeness to the spirits often leaves Phantomkin's fairly neutral in terms of alignment. It is common for a Phantomkin to want to understand their situation, which is usually accompanied by frequent introspection. Phantomkin's don't see their actions as good or evil, in a need to understand of what's around them without thought.
Size
Phantomkin share similar sizes with humans between 5 and 6 feet tall, at around 100lbs.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Limbcrafter
You gain tool proficiency with one set due to your ability to create new limbs: Leatherworkers Tools, Mason's Tools, Smith's Tools, Potter's Tools, or Woodcarvers Tools. (I highly recommend picking a tool mentioned above, those will be most likely the best for making spare limbs.)
Animate Limb
You know the Mage Hand Cantrip and you can cast the spell Unseen Servant equal to the number of limbs you are missing. You lose the ability to cast Mage Hand when you lose usage of your spiritual limb.
Languages
You can read, write, and speak Common and one language of your choice.
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Posted Sep 3, 2021Messed up when making this, so just change the walking speed manually.
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Posted Nov 2, 2023This is so cool! I'm going to try it out in a Candyland horror campaign :D
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Posted Feb 11, 2024Ummmm that's rather strange.