Homebrew Freigeist Species Details
Most illithids belong to a colony of Mind Flayers that are devoted and enslaved by an elder brain. This brain telepathically forces members of the community to do its bidding. Illithids in your community have either been living without an elder brain or have risen up against the brain that once controlled you. Once free, your friends, family, and community members fled to the surface world and away from the oppressive gloom of the underdark. Since you have known the shackles of slavery and psionic control, you fight against anything that seems to be a representation of oppression or slavery of any kind. In spite of the fact that they have fled from a history of psionic domination, Freigeist are possessed of potent psychic abilities. Without the discipline enforced by an elder brain, these psionic talents are mostly untrained and considered wild talents. Due to the atrocities caused by your species across the planes (not to mention the extremely alien and distinctive appearance of your race) Freigeist will elicit an extreme reaction from those around them. Members of many races will simply avoid you on site, while the Drow, Duergar, and others of the underdark will be extremely hostile. Freigeist freed of the control of their elder brains are no longer sapped of their psionic energy, but still require the physical nutrients of brain matter.
Freigeist Traits
Your Freigeist character has an assortment of inborn abilities that are part of their illithid nature.Ability Score Adjustment
Your Intelligence score increases by 2 and your Charisma score increases by 2.
Age
Freigeist reach adulthood by 15 and live upwards of 200 years old.
Alignment
Freigeist can be of any alignment, but centuries of conditioning by elder brains have structured the illithid brain to favor order- as such, Freigeist tend toward lawful alignments.
Size
Freigeist are similar in size to humans, standing a couple of inches shy of 6 feet tall. Their bodies are more slender than the average human. Your size is medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Darkvision
Used to living in caves, your eyes are exceptionally sensitive in low light conditions. 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 grey.
Psionic Resistance
Your innate psionic abilities make you particularly resistant to psionic attacks. You have advantage on saving throws against psionic abilities. Additionally, when you are the target of a spell that allows a saving throw against a save that you are proficient in, you gain advantage in these saving throws.
Telepathic Prowess
Freigeist can telepathically communicate with others of their species, as well as any character gifted with psionic abilities, without the need for the Telepathy psionic power.
Echoes of the Hive
Due to centuries under the dominion of the elder brains, Freigeist are particularly vulnerable to the mind influencing effects of their deep dwelling cousins. When a Freigeist player character is targeted by a spell effect or psionic ability cast by a Mind Flayer, they are at disadvantage to resist these effects.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Deep Speech. Additionally, you can read and write Quall, a written language that consists of subtle raised sigils on special parchment that are read with the tentacles.
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