Homebrew Abstraction Species Details
A human woman cries, tearing her hair out, in a lonely, barren field. All around are the remains of what may have been a town. Wood and stone torn asunder by some freak tornado. As she mourns her son, crushed by debris, she glimpses something from the corner of her eye. A cloud? No ... it is here on the ground. It reflects her dirty, tear-streaked face. It looks like a cloud, maybe. Or ... it looks like that damned tornado that ruined everything. Whatever it is, it has the vague semblance of a humanoid. Its eyes are dark and show no compassion for the tragedy before it.
"Curse you, you-you monster!"
The woman shrieks curses in common at the thing obscenely. It just drifts in response, silent, not a hint of remorse. She flings a random stone at it, which misses. But it seems to get that thing to leave; that thing which called the storm upon them.
Abstraction Traits
A strange creature of mirroring existence Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma or Wisdom score increases by 2. Age. Abstractions can not die of old age, nor do they suffer the effects of aging. Alignment. Some believe abstractions to be evil, due to their presence at major disasters, though their indifference suggests that they are more neutrally inclined. Size. Your size is Medium. Speed. Abstractions have a flying speed of 30 feet. However, they cannot fly higher than 5 feet off the ground. Blindsight. You can perceive your surroundings without relying on sight within a specific radius, and may focus this sense to gain blindsight for a period of time. As an action, you can give yourself a blindsight range of 10 feet for 1 minute, but are blind beyond this radius. Once you use this trait, you can not use this trait again until you finish a long rest. Amorphous. Abstractions can alter their own body shape to fit through a gap. While unarmored, you take no penalties while squeezing. In addition, you can spendBlindsight.
You can perceive your surroundings without relying on sight within a specific radius, and may focus this sense to gain blindsight for a period of time. As an action, you can give yourself a blindsight range of 10 feet for 1 minute, but are blind beyond this radius. Once you use this trait, you can not use this trait again until you finish a long rest.
Speed.
Abstractions have a flying speed of 30 feet. However, they cannot fly higher than 5 feet off the ground.
Ability Score Increase.
Amorphous
Abstractions can alter their own body shape to fit through a gap. While unarmored, you take no penalties while squeezing. In addition, you can spend 1 minute to move 5 feet through spaces as small as 1-inch wide. Any items that cannot fit through a space you pass through are left behind.
Telepathy
You can communicate telepathically with other creatures you can see within 60 feet of you. You don’t need to share a language with the creature for it to understand your telepathic messages, but the creature must be able to understand at least one language or be telepathic itself. If the creature does not have telepathy then they can receive and answer telepathic messages, but they can't start a conversation.
Languages
. You can speak, read and write in Common and Undercommon.
Size
Your size is Medium.
Confusing Illusion.
You can reflect light in unusual ways, making it seem as if you're in 4 places at once. You can cast the mirror image spell, without any components with this trait. This trait can only be used once. You must finish a long rest before using it again.
Jagged Shards.
You send your shards of glass at an enemy in a dazzling and deadly attack. As an action, you may direct your shards in a swarm at a creature within 60 feet of you. They must succeed a Dexterity saving throw of a DC equal to 8 + your Wisdom modifier + your proficiency bonus. On a failed save, the creature is blasted with your shards and takes slashing damage equal to 2d6, and half as much damage on a successful save. The damage increases to 3d6 at 6th level, 4d6 at 11th level, and 5d6 at 16th level. You must finish a short or long rest before you can use this trait again.
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