Homebrew Dragonforged Species Details
The war-forged were built to fight in the Great War. While the first war-forged were mindless automatons, there were countless improvements made to their design that ultimately culminated in sentience. The dragon forged are a new kind of war-forged borne out of a need for stronger soldiers. Regular war-forged are already created with a blend of organic and inorganic materials, Dragon Forged simply have dragon scales added to their recipe. In addition Dragon forged sees a larger focus on the inclusion of metal plating.
Dragonforged Traits
Dragon forged gain the following Racial TraitsAbility Score Increase
Your Constitution Score Increases by +2, and your Strength increases by +2
Ability Score Decrease
Due to the numerous heavy plates that make up a Dragon forged, you take a -2 to your Dexterity
Age
Because Dragon forged are not born but rather created at the hands of an Artificer they are action ready from the second they awaken.
Thanks to the magic both arcane and innate that flows through every fibre of the Dragon forged's body their natural lifespan has yet to be clearly determined. The oldest living Dragon forged is 450 years old and stands guard over a clutch of dragon eggs that is said to be the last hope should the draconic race ever fall.
Constructed Resilience
You were created to have remarkable fortitude, represented by the following benefits:
- You have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned
- You don't need to eat, drink or sleep
- You are immune to disease
- You don't need to sleep and magic can't be put you to sleep
Sentry's Rest
When you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state you appear inert, but it doesn't render you unconscious, and you can still see and hear as normal.
Darkvision
You can see upto 60ft but you can't discern colours only shades of grey
Languages
You can speak, read and write in common and draconic.
Breath Weapon
Unlike the breath weapons of true dragons and dragonborn who's breath weapons are a result of the innate draconic nature Dragon Forged have a slightly different style of breath weapon. since they don't require food or drink they have no need of stomach, however the designers of the dragon forged saw this extra space and took advantage turning the stomach into a repository for oil.
As an action a Dragon forged can swallow the contents of a flask of oil granting the Dragon Forged 1 use of its breath weapon by regurgitating the oil and igniting it by use of a cleverly placed spark cantrip.
The Dragonforged can swallow 5 flasks of oil but can only expel one flasks worth at a time.
The Breath weapon sprays in a 10ft line and 5ft wide, dealing 1d6 fire damage and setting fire to any flammable object caught in the breath weapons path. Dexterity Save for half Damage.
Natural Armour
Thanks to the Infusion of draconic scales in the Dragonforged's creation and the fact that they are covered in heavy metal plates they gain a +4 Natural Armour to their AC
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