Homebrew Dragon-Orc Species Details

Orcs are a very agressive race, always seaking for power. In battle against legendary creatures, wild things happen. Some times, an agressive relation between Dragons and Orcs might happen. 

This relations give birth to Dragon-Orcs, orcs with dragon lineage, sometimes a child of a father dragon and a mom orc, or the other way. But, this creatures, this...wild beasts, are the worst kind of enemy you may encounter in the woods. They, most of the time, embrace this strong and furious nature of the orc tribes, combined with the longevity and majesty of the dragons. 

The Dragon-Orcs are the lost-worlded beings, they, just like the half-orc, find difficulty of being accept in either of both groups which they came from. When being a Dragon-Orc, you are a strange, a beast in the middle of the civilization.

Dragon-Orc Traits

Your dragon-orc character has certain traits deriving from your orc and dragon ancestry.

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength score increases by 2, your Constitution score increases by 1, your Charisma score increases by 1 and your Intelligence score decreases by 1

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet. You have a flying speed of 40 feet.

Size

Dragon-orcs are larger and bulkier than humans, and they range from 6 to well over 7 feet tall. Your size is Medium.

Alignment

Dragon-orcs inherit a tendency toward chaos from their orc parents and are not strongly inclined toward good. Dragon-orcs raised among orcs and willing to live out their lives among them are usually evil. And Those raised with dragons are usually evil or good, it depends to the kind of dragon they lived with.

Darkvision

Accustomed to life in the dense jungles and the nights, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Draconic Ancestry

You have draconic ancestry. Choose one type of dragon from the Draconic Ancestry table. Your breath weapon and damage resistance are determined by the dragon type, as shown in the table.

Draconic Ancestry

Dragon Damage Type Breath Weapon
Black Acid 5 by 30 ft. line (Dex. save)
Blue Lightning 5 by 30 ft. line (Dex. save)
Brass Fire 5 by 30 ft. line (Dex. save)
Bronze Lightning 5 by 30 ft. line (Dex. save)
Copper Acid 5 by 30 ft. line (Dex. save)
Gold Fire 15 ft. cone (Dex. save)
Green Poison 15 ft. cone (Con. save)
Red Fire 15 ft. cone (Dex. save)
Silver Cold 15 ft. cone (Con. save)
White Cold 15 ft. cone (Con. save)

You can use your action to exhale destructive energy. Your draconic ancestry determines the size, shape, and damage type of the exhalation. When you use your breath weapon, each creature in the area of the exhalation must make a saving throw, the type of which is determined by your draconic ancestry. The DC for this saving throw equals 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. A creature takes 2d6 damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increases to 3d6 at 6th level, 4d6 at 11th level, and 5d6 at 16th level. After you use your breath weapon, you can’t use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Savage Attacks

When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon’s damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit.

Powerful Build

You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Orcish Combat Training

You have proficiency with the battleaxe, handaxe, greataxe, light hammer, maul and warhammer.

Menacing

You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Draconic and Orc. Orc is a harsh, grating language with hard consonants. It has no script of its own but is written in the Dwarvish script. Draconic is thought to be one of the oldest languages and is often used in the study of magic. The language sounds harsh to most other creatures and includes numerous hard consonants and sibilants.

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