Anisopteran (5e Race)

Anisopteran

Physical Description

Anisopterans look like humanoid dragonflies that come in many different colors, yellow, red, brown, black, and any combination of any of those, making them able to be many different colors, color usually defines their subtype, either offence and magic (red, pink, and yellow), or defence and martial arts (blue, green, and purple), they have four arms and four wings, their arms and legs are very long, and they have a segmented tail and the offensive ones have horns.

History

Anisopterans have been around for a very long time, since the first few races of the multiverse, they were created when a god saw dragonflies and thought that they were one of the coolest insects ever, he awarded them with sentience and size, making them a new race, they quickly flew into the forest, but the god was still pleased.

Society

They live in forests and like to build homes in trees, the defencive ones... well... defending... and yeah the magic ones like to cook food with their sparkly awesome cooly cool pretty magic fire, so uh yeah they liv- (gasp) "THEY'RE IN THE TREES, THEY'RE IN THE TREEEEEEEEES".

Anisopteran Names

Anisopterans are named after gemstones, they do have gender, however, names do not change with gender.

Names Lapis, Malachite, Tiger eye, Bloodstone, Carnelian, Citrine, Zircon, Amber, Amythyst, Moss Agate, Chrysoprase, Black Sapphire (people named that like cookies for some reason), Opal, Fire Opal, Black Opal, and many more.

Anisopteran Traits

Dragonfly people Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Charisma score increases by 1. Age. Anisopterans mature at 10 yrs old and can live up to 70 yrs old. Alignment. Neutral Size. Anisopterans are very tall, they can range from 6 to 8 ft, your size is medium. Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. You also have a climbing speed of 30 feet.

Keen vision. You have darkvision, and can see with a 360 degree field of vision, so you have advantage on perception, investigation, and cannot be surprised or anything like that, sneak attacks and stuff.

Flight. You have a flying speed of 40 feet, and can fly in all directions and hover, so yeah you can fly.

Strange tail. You breathe through your tail, and digest through it, weird.

Four arms. You have four arms, the lower ones are weaker, and such can only hold one handed things, meaning you cannot duel wield two-handed weapons, if using all arms, you can either wield one two handed weapon in the upper arms and two one handed in the lower, or four one handed in all, if a weapon can be used in one OR two hands, it must be used in two.

Cannibal. Your diet contains a wide variety of insects, including dragonflies, you sometimes also eat Anisopterans.

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Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, Draconic, and one language that you and your DM agree that makes sense to have existed for a long time. Subrace. Offence and Defence.

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Defence

Ability Score Increase. Your wis increases by 1
Martial arts. Punching does 1d6 + your str mod
Defence. You can block as a reaction, increasing your AC by 2 for the turn.
Peaceful. You have advantage on cha checks involving peace.

Offence

Ability Score Increase. Your str increases by 1.
Magic. You know the spells Sword Burst, Green Flame Blade, and Mage Armor, These work as normal spells in the way of you needing to long rest and stuff (except for Sword Burst and Green Flame Blade because cantrips), but they don't take up spell slots if you are a spellcaster.
Weapon Fighting. You are good with weapons, you have a +1 to attack rolls and damage rolls with non-natural weapons, non-improvized weapons, and just all weapons that are meant to be weapons.
No Mercy. If you intend to kill an enemy, then you do an extra 1d4 damage.

Random Height and Weight

Base Height	Height Modifier*	Base Weight	Weight Modifier**
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*Height = base height + height modifier **Weight = base weight + (height modifier × weight modifier)

Suggested Characteristics

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