Homebrew Argonian Species Details

Argonians are rarely seen by other races, preferring to stay in small collectives around the world. From these collectives, their exceptionally long lifespans allows them to watch as history creates itself before their eyes. Argonians act as scribes of history, erecting great libraries of text throughout the world. Here they keep records of valuable lessons taught in the past, so as not to make mistakes in the future. 

Argonians resemble humans, aside from a few defining features. Foremost, they have two additional arms. They have two branching shoulders on each side of their body, to which their arms are attached. These arms have full range of motion and act as a normal arm would. Next, Argonians are devoid of eyes on their face, instead growing eyes in the palms of their hands. Where they typically would have eyes on their face, their body grows extra skin. Argonians typically designate two of their fours hands to be “seeing hands.” They tend to place these hands over their face where a normal human’s eyes would be, allowing them to see the world around them. If necessary, they can gain extra sight by using their other hands, or transfer their seeing hands into “working hands.” Lastly, Argonians have skin that is dark green, almost resembling a gray color.

Argonian Traits

As an Argonian, you have the following racial traits:

Hand Eyes

Argonians have eyes in the palms of each of their hands. Using all of their hands to see, Argonians have advantage on perception checks while they are not holding anything in any hand.

Additional Arms

Argonians have 4 arms, two of which are typically held over the face to act as eyes. They may forgo their sight by using their extra arms to perform actions. During your turn, you may gain an additional action. However, attack rolls and skill checks are made with disadvantage during this additional action, as you are using your seeing hands for other purposes.

Keepers of the Ancient Library

As lorekeepers, Argonians gain proficiency on history checks.

Ability Score Increase

Two abilities scores of your choice each increase by 1.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Age

Argonians reach maturity around age 140 and live for up to 500 years.

Size

Argonians tend to be slightly bulkier than humans due to their additional arms. Your size is medium.

Alignment

Most Argonians are neutral. They rarely participate in the plight of other races, preferring to stay secluded and record the events of history as they transpire.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and can speak Deep Speech.