Creatures that are already shaken become frightened for 1d4 rounds instead. Halfling: Members of this diminutive race find strength in family, community, and their own innate and seemingly inexhaustible luck. Benefit: Members of this race regain 1 hit point each round. Benefit: Members of this race can hold their breath for a number of rounds equal to four times their Constitution score before risking drowning or suffocating. Prerequisites: Aberration, construct, dragon, fey, outsider (native), or plant type. Members of this race gain a +4 racial bonus on Stealth checks while within that terrain type. Special: This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by the lucky (greater or lesser) racial trait. Applying venom in this way is a swift action. Benefit: Once per day, when a member of this race is reduced to fewer than 0 hit points but is not killed, it can fight on for 1 more round as if disabled. Presented below are some examples of races designed with the race builder. For instance, you must have the ratfolk subtype to take the rodent empathy racial trait, and you must have ties to Abaddon, the Abyss, or Hell in order to take the fiendish sorcery racial trait. Benefit: Members of this race gain the following supernatural ability: Once per day as an immediate action, a member of this race can treat positive and negative energies as if it were an undead creature, taking damage from positive energy and healing damage from negative energy. This is important so that a race can take advantage of all the various magic item slots available to characters and can utilize the standard weapon and armor options. This lasts for a number of minutes equal to the users level, after which the ground returns to normal. This trait otherwise functions as alter self, save that the creature does not adjust its ability scores. Players interested in playing a half-undead race might also consider the dhampir, the progeny of a vampire and a human. Benefit: Members of this race land on their feet even when they take lethal damage from a fall. Benefit: Members of this race gain an additional skill rank at 1st level and one additional skill rank whenever they gain a level. | Starjammer SRD An, Undead are immune to any effect that requires a, Undead do not risk death from massive damage, but are immediately destroyed when reduced to 0, Undead do not breathe, eat, or sleep, unless they want to gain some beneficial effect from one of these activities. The changes are as follows, corresponding to the five standard methods. Benefit: Choose two subtypes of humanoids or outsiders or one creature type other than humanoid or outsider. Prerequisites: Advanced or monstrous power level. The type of DR can be changed to one of the alignments (chaos, evil, good, or law) if the race is of the outsider (native) type with ties to the appropriate plane (chaos for a race with ties to a lawful-aligned plane, evil for a race with ties to a good-aligned plane, etc.) Prerequisites: Outsider (native) with ties to the Plane of Earth, construct type, dragon type, or half-construct subtype. You also gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. Benefit: Members of this race reduce the penalty for using Stealth while moving by 5 and can make Stealth checks while running at a 20 penalty (this number includes the penalty reduction from this trait). The DC is equal to 10 + the spells level + the users Charisma modifier. This second save is made at the same DC as the first. Modifiers: : Members of this race gain a +2 bonus to two ability scores of the chosen type, and a 2 penalty to one ability score of the other type. The following racial traits augment a races fighting prowess. Members of this race can use this spell as a spell-like ability once per day. Each additional time you take this trait, increase its cost by 1 RP, and increase one other resistance to 10. Avy by Thormag. Players interested in playing a half-undead race might also consider the dhampir, the progeny of a vampire and a human. The wizards downfall came about when he granted them free will, which in addition to their cold, calculating intelligence heralded the birth of a strange new race. Benefit: Members of this race receive a +2 racial bonus to Charisma. Benefit: Members of this race gain a +1 natural armor bonus. Benefit: Members of this race gain a +2 racial bonus on Spellcraft checks made to identify a spell being cast and a +1 racial bonus on attack rolls against arcane spellcasters. Before you buy racial qualities and traits, you must determine the power level of your race. Benefit: Members of this race gain the following extraordinary ability: A number of times per day equal to its Constitution modifier (minimum 1/day), a member of this race can envenom a weapon that it wields with its toxic saliva or blood (using blood requires the creature to be injured when it uses this ability). Weakness: A raise dead spell cast on a member of this race can destroy it (Will negates). Benefit: Members of this race gain a +2 racial bonus on Craft (alchemy), Perception, and Stealth checks. For the purposes of weapon familiarity, all bows are considered one weapon. Then pick either a 15-foot cone or a 20-foot line. Benefit: Members of this race gain a +2 racial bonus on Strength checks to break objects and a +2 racial bonus on combat maneuver checks to sunder. This quality determines the starting languages and bonus languages for the race. Each member of this race picks two Knowledge skills. Benefit: Members of this race gain a +2 dodge bonus to Armor Class. Benefit: When a member of this race hits with its slapping tail, it can make a trip attack as a free action that does not provoke attacks of opportunity. In addition, these rules allow you to create powerful races meant to take on more challenging encounters than those typically faced by the core races. Benefit: Members of this race gain a burrow speed of 20 feet. If this is the case, the cost of that racial trait is already paid for when you buy the type quality, and this trait does not count toward the maximum when you buy racial traits from the corresponding racial trait category. They do not lose hit points when they gain a negative level, and they gain a +2 racial bonus on saving throws against death effects, energy drain, negative energy, and spells or spell-like abilities of the necromancy school. Members of this race are still denied their Dexterity bonus to AC against attacks from creatures they cannot see. When summoning a creature with the chosen subtype with a summon spell, increase the duration of that spell by 2 rounds. By exploring the cultures and traditions of a characters race, we can better understand where she comes from and what makes her tick, thus immersing ourselves that much deeper in the campaign world. Furthermore, a member of this race able to cast domain spells that correspond to the elemental plane the race has ties to casts its domain powers and spells at +1 caster level. They gain a +4 bonus on Diplomacy checks to gather information, and Knowledge (history) and Knowledge (local) become class skills for them. Each additional time you take this trait, increase its cost by 1 RP. Plants breathe and eat, but do not sleep, unless they want to gain some beneficial effect from this activity. The following format is used for all racial traits. | 5th Edition SRD Subscribe to the Open Gaming Network and get everything ad-free! Benefit: Members of this race gaining fast healing 2 for 1 round anytime they take acid damage (whether or not this acid damage overcomes their acid resistance, if any). A creature that members of this race cannot see still has total concealment against individuals with blindsense, and members of this race still have the normal miss chance when attacking creatures that have concealment. You can create new races, model a race after an existing monster, or even power up core races in order to play those races side-by-side with more powerful new races. Benefit: Members of this race gain DR 5/bludgeoning. Players interested in playing a half-undead race might also consider the dhampir, the progeny of a vampire and a human. Traits granted by the race type still count for meeting any other trait prerequisites. Show. Magically altered terrain affects them normally. 305. A member of a race with gliding wings cannot gain height with these wings alone; it merely coasts in other directions as it falls. (Creatures tied to Abaddon can take either Abyssal or Infernal as a racial language.) Special: If a Large creature has the reach trait, its tail also gains reach. A half-construct race has the following features: Half-undead races are strange or unholy fusions of the living and the undead. Special: This can be increased to DR 10/magic for an additional 2 RP. The damage is based on the creatures size. All living creatures (except those with the stench aura ability) within the aura must succeed at a Fortitude saving throw (DC 10 + 1/2 the users character level + the users Constitution modifier) or be sickened for 5 rounds. What classes does your race tend to favor? Half-undead have the darkvision 60 feet racial trait. Shop the Open Gaming Store! Prerequisites: Any type except humanoid, Large size, normal speed. Race is an important part of what makes characters who they are, yet it's often all too easy to gloss over the details. The creature may end the effects of its elemental assault early as a free action. Prerequisites: Outsider (native) with ties to the Shadow Plane. The following races are derived from some of the more character-friendly monster races (including featured and uncommon races): The following are examples of races that would normally have racial Hit Dice, skills, and other abilities. Benefit: Members of this race gain a +2 dodge bonus to AC when in a specific terrain type selected from the rangers list of favored terrains. At the end of its next turn, unless brought to above 0 hit points, it immediately falls unconscious and begins to die. Benefit: Choose a 3rd-level or 4th-level spell that does not attack a creature or deal damage. A humanoid race has the following features: Monstrous humanoids are similar to humanoids, but have monstrous or animalistic features. Prerequisites: Aberration, dragon, plant, or undead type, or grippli, half-undead, reptilian, or vishkanya subtype. A target that successfully saves cannot be affected by the users frightful gaze for 24 hours. Benefit: Choose up to two weapons, or one weapon and a racial weapon group. Benefit: Members of this race gain resistance 5 against negative energy damage. Benefit: Members of this race gain a +4 racial bonus on Stealth checks. When choosing a racial weapon group, you must choose a group that includes the same name as one of your subtypes. Benefit: Members of this race can make melee attacks with their long, sticky tongues. Other creatures can move through those squares without provoking attacks of opportunity. Prerequisites: The race has at least a +2 racial bonus to Charisma. Animals starting attitude toward members of this race is one step worse than normal. | FateCoreSRD Half-constructs do not breathe, eat, or sleep, unless they want to gain some beneficial effect from one of these activities. The best way to deal with this is to create variant magic item versions of the various boots, shoes, and slippers that can be worn by this race. Prerequisites: Outsider (native) with ties to the Plane of Water or fey type. Benefit: Members of this race have a swim speed of 30 feet and gain the +8 racial bonus on Swim checks that a swim speed normally grants. Benefit: Members of this race gain a +10 foot racial bonus to their speed when using the charge, run, or withdraw actions. Benefit: Members of this race gain a +2 bonus on Knowledge (planes) checks, and they cast spells with the good or light descriptor at +1 caster level. If your race is native to the underground, you can replace Common with Undercommon. Benefit: Members of this race gain a +4 bonus on Fortitude saves against disease and poison, including magical diseases. This is usually the case when a racial trait mentions a race in its name. | True20 SRD. Half-Undead (5 RP) Half-undead races are strange or unholy fusions of the living and the undead. These rules allow you to create a new race by buying racial qualities and racial traits with Race Points (RP). A native outsider race has the followings features. Members of this race gain a +2 dodge bonus to AC against monsters of that type and a +2 racial bonus on combat maneuver checks made to grapple creatures of that type. Some traits require a specific type or subtype, while others require that you take other racial traits or qualities before you take it. Benefit: Members of this race have a climb speed of 20 feet, and gain the +8 racial bonus on Climb checks that a climb speed normally grants. | Fudge SRD Special: This trait can be taken twice. Benefit: At 1st, 8th, and 16th level, members of this race gain Skill Focus in a skill of their choice as a bonus feat. Special: This trait can be taken up to two times. Prerequisites: Pick either mental or physical ability scores. They also gain the following spell-like abilities (the caster level is equal to the users character level): Constantnondetection;1/dayblindness/deafness, blur, disguise self. In addition, members of this race use weapons and armor as if they were Medium (instead of Large). Benefit: Using nonvisual senses such as acute smell or hearing, members of this race notice things they cannot see. Half Orc: Often fierce and savage, sometimes noble and resolute, half-orcs can manifest the best and worst qualities of their parent races. Sometimes the GM needs a new race to fill a story or ecological niche in her campaign world. If a race has vulnerability to fire and immunity to cold, it gains the cold subtype. Traveller SRD In fantasy roleplaying games, race is fundamental. This trait does not give members of this race early access to level-based powers; it only affects powers that they could already use without this trait. Neither your body nor your spirit can ever become undead. Members of this race start with Common plus their racial language (if any). Ability Score Modifiers Flexible (+2 Dex, +2 Wis) 2 RP, Ability Score Modifiers Paragon (+4 Str, 2 Int, 2 Cha, 2 Wis) 1 RP. 8 Race must be GM approved 9 Stat/HP Generation: Rolling for stats: Roll 4d6 and drop the worst roll 7 times, then assign the best 6 results to your stats. Some racial traits can increase speed or grant other movement types, but these traits usually require the normal speed quality as a prerequisite. Special: This trait costs as many RP as the level of the spell chosen. This means that a. Half-constructs cannot be raised or resurrected. If you are making a standard race and still want it to be a construct or undead race, consider the two special subtypes detailed below, the half-construct and half-undead. Benefit: Members of this race are immune to altitude sickness and do not lose their Dexterity bonus to AC when making Climb checks or Acrobatics checks to cross narrow or slippery surfaces. A member of this race can heal up to 2 hit points per level per day with this ability, after which it ceases to function. Does it have allies? You cannot pick a type with an RP cost equal to or higher than the maximum RP cost of the power level of the race you are building. Alternatively, pick two related skillseach member of this race gains a +1 racial bonus on these skills during character creation. Once per day, they can deflect a single ray attack targeted at them as if they were using the Deflect Arrows feat. Modifiers: : Members of this race take a 4 penalty to one of those ability scores, a 2 penalty to another of those ability scores, and a +2 bonus to the other ability score. As the GM, you can view these subtype prerequisites as suggestions and indicators as to what kinds of races or humanoid subtypes would usually take these traits. | d20 Anime SRD A. When you apply these subtypes to the humanoid type, choose another subtype as the creatures other half. Special: This trait can be taken more than once, but each time it is, the cost increases by 1 RP. | ACK-SRD. Standard races can only take standard racial traits, while advanced races can take both standard and advanced racial traits, and monstrous races can take standard, advanced, and monstrous racial traits. Benefit: Members of this race are always considered to have a running start when making Acrobatics checks to jump. A construct race is a group of animated objects or artificially created creatures. If a race has vulnerability to fire and immunity to cold, it gains the cold subtype. Benefit: Members of this race gain spell resistance equal to 6 + their character level. Benefit: Members of this race receive a +4 racial bonus on Constitution checks and Fortitude saves to avoid fatigue and exhaustion, as well as any other ill effects from running, forced marches, starvation, thirst, and hot or cold environments. Special: This trait can be taken up to three times. A Large creature takes up a space that is 10 feet by 10 feet and has a reach of 5 feet. A races creature type is similar to the corresponding creature type, with a few important differences. This book includes tools for fighting against the undead horde, but also options for the players themselves to control or even become undead creatures. Depending on how they are treated, wyvarans can become powerful allies or deadly enemies. Undead include walking corpses, such as vampires and zombies, as well as bodiless spirits, such as ghosts and specters. It can also use its hands for other purposes that require free hands. See Linguistics for a list of languages. Benefit: Members of this race gain spell resistance equal to 11 + their character level. A forsaken has a +4 racial bonus to saving throws against all effects that specifically affect undead. | Open Fantasy SRD After all, most people know the basics: dwarves are short, elves live a long time, and gnomes are dangerously curious. A half-undead race has the following features: Half-undead have the darkvision 60 feet racial trait. Living Skeleton is a full Race, and the Child would be a sub-race (Players must still pick an original race, and the Child sub-race replaces some of the base race's abilities). Members of this race also gain the following spell-like abilities (the caster level is equal to the users character level): Constantnondetection;1/dayfaerie fire, obscure object, sanctuary. Special: If the race is Small or smaller, this trait costs 1 RP. A monstrous humanoid race has the following features: A native outsider is at least partially composed of the essence (but not necessarily the matter) of some plane other than the Material Plane. Once per day, a member of this race can channel this wind into a single gust, making a bull rush or trip combat maneuver attempt against one creature within 30 feet. Since they have no natural reach, they do not threaten the squares around them. Shop the Open Gaming Store! Its effects stack. Each time fast healing is taken, its cost increases by 1 RP. Allow members of these races to find ankle bracelets of speed or horseshoes of spider climb that act just like their traditional magic item counterparts, but fit the new races form. Fast healing continues to function (even at negative hit points) until a member of this race dies, at which point the effects of fast healing immediately end. Your race must meet any prerequisites listed in this entry before you can take the trait. Benefit: Members of this race gain a +1 bonus on Knowledge (dungeoneering) and Survival checks made underground. Racial traits are split up into a number of different categories, such as defense, offense, and magical traits. Stagnant, poisoned, or trapped water (such as water within an artificial pit or a bag of holding) does not activate this ability. Benefit: Members of this race receive a +2 racial bonus to Strength. Modifiers: Tiny creatures gain a +2 size bonus to Dexterity and a 2 size penalty to Strength. This bonus only applies while both the member of this race and its opponent are standing on the ground. Benefit: Members of this race are so in tune with the air and sky they can sense the slightest change in atmospheric conditions. This trait does not give members of this race early access to level-based powers; it only affects powers that they could already use without this trait. If they choose a class that has either of these Knowledge skills as class skills, they gain a +2 racial bonus on those skills instead. Prerequisites: Native to the underground. Benefit: Members of this race take no penalty from energy-draining effects, though a member of this race can still be killed if it accrues more negative levels than it has Hit Dice. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous has a staggering number of playable races, each with its own unique abilities. For example, Lann is a Mongrelman, give him unique bonuses. Benefit: Members of this race gain the following supernatural ability (the caster level is equal to the users character level): 1/dayhypnotism; The effects last only 1 round. In addition, they gain a +2 racial bonus on Knowledge (arcana) checks to identify dragons and can make such checks untrained. 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