Homebrew Ghoul Species Details

A ghoul is a fiend, however they are not from the 9hells, or the abyss. Ghouls survive by eating humanoids and are widely hunted as a result. You cannot stomach any food outside of Humanoids, doing so would damage you from the inside out.

Ghoul Traits

Ghoul

Resistance

Your flesh is harder than the humans. giving resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from non magical attacks.

Proficiencys

You are Proficient in Athletics.

Hunted

A ghouls worst enemy is simultaneously their Prey. Ghouls are rather unknown throughout humanity, but the ones who know go to the ends of the earth to hunt them. Forcing ghouls to live in the shadows, and hide their ghoulish natures.

A Ghouls Appetite

Ghouls are unable to eat human food, and instead. Eat the bodies of humanoids. Ghouls cannot eat anything besides humanoids, and cannot drink anything besides coffee. There does exist ghoul restaurants for making potions taste like coffee, however very few.

Regeneration

Ghouls have an uncanny ability to regenerate their body, however to do so, they must feed.

After eating a corpse, a ghoul regenerates 2d8 health per body part.

To eat a corpse, you must take 10 minutes per part, with no interuptions.

Ghoulish Agility

Ghouls can jump twice the height a normal human can, up to 60 feet in the air without taking fall damage.

Ghoulish Sense

Ghouls have a much stronger sense of smell, they can smell up to 120 ft away, and they can sense other ghouls from 200 ft away. Giving advantage on perception checks that use smell.

RC Count

As a ghoul you have an RC Count, this count is used to determine whether you are a ghoul or a human. Since you are a ghoul, your RC Count begins at 5000, for every 5000 RC you gain, your Kagune does 1d8 more damage.

Kagune

Ghouls begin with their own unique weapon, a Kagune. A kagune is a part of your body that you can summon at will, if you have not eaten the proper diet, your kagune will grow weaker and do less damage. However a healthy ghoul can do 3d8 damage with their kagune, for every month you have gone without eating a human, your damage decreases by 1d8. When you are at 0d8 you become unable to summon your kagune until the proper diet has been eaten.

Kakuja

Once your RC count has raised to 20000, you are no longer able to summon your Kagune. Instead, you summon a kakuja. Kakujas have many different variations and effects, some Grant you +15 AC by providing you with armor harder than even the hardest metals. Some do 10d8 Piercing on a hit, and some grant you +10 AC and can do 5d10 Piercing on a hit. However, great strength comes with great consequences. If you are in your kakuja form for to long, you begin to become less of your usual self, Overuse leads to a massive killing spree, killing everything in sight, friend, foe, family, it doesnt matter.

Your RC Count increased by 5000 every 5 levels.

10000 at 5

15000 at 10

20000 at 15.

Ask your dm for other increases.

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