Demon (5e Race)
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Demon
"Does my complexion look unhealthy to you? Is my face pale? Do I look sickly to you? Do I look like I'm not long for this world? Do I look like I'm about to die? Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. I'm a living being who's infinitely close to perfection." -Muzan Kibutsuji
Physical Description
History
Demons are ancient beings, some even older than our world. Since the dawn of time, some of them roam the mortal realm, luring poor souls into signing pacts and contracts with them. More "recent" demons are usually born from great amounts of negativity, and some might even be fallen Celestials.
Society
Demons often live in a hierarchy of strength. Demons tend to live in the outskirts of society, having to stick to the shadows.
Demon Names
Demon names are usually Abyssal, although some might use Common for semplicity.
Demon Traits
Ability Score Increase. your Strength score increases by 1 and your Constitution score increases by 1.
Age. Immortal
Alignment. As demons are created by creatures giving into their darkest desires, they often tend to be chaotic, leaning towards evil. Although there are some exceptions.
Size. Your size is Medium
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30ft.
Darkvision. Thanks to your body being made for living in darkness, you can see in it. You can see in darkness as if it were bright light up to 30 feet and an additional 30 feet as if it were dim light.
Demonic Constitution. Due to your demonic physique, you can regenerate your body to some extent. From level 1, you can regain 1d2+2 hit points every long rest. The healing factor increases at level 4 (1d4+2), level 8 (2d4+2), level 12 (2d6+2) and level 16 (2d10+2).
Ultimate Weakness. With all of the strength your demon body grants you, there are still some severe drawbacks. You are vulnerable to radiant damage.
Demonic Resistance. Due to the inherent darkness of your soul, you have resistance to necrotic damage.
Unarmed strike. Your hands and claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal bludgeoning or slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike (only applies if character has said claws).
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, Abyssal and one other language of your choice.
Random Height and Weight
Base Height |
Height Modifier* |
Base Weight |
Weight Modifier** |
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*Height = base height + height modifier |
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