Maggotborn (5e Race)
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Maggotborn[edit]
A Vile humanoid with sagging skin and there hideous appearances makes them unsettling even to some maggotborn hide there faces with helmets and masks ,they wonder the mortal plane ether causing destruction and chaos or observing the world from the shadows with the world behind them They tend to their demonic overlords and guard them their cults and lairs from threats and thieves while others rely on their kin for comfort and companionship, while ascending to their new form they begin to metaphorizes into their hulking or even monstrous forms with Large wings burst from their back, and their skin tearing showing new flesh , causing tremors to quake around them , fellow Demons make way from there newly ascended form.
Physical Description[edit]
The maggotborn are mutated or demonically corrupted humanoids with insect like features , they come is all matter of carapaces , spikes and limbs how ever mostly they are covered in skinfolds and insectoid human like faces which is why they are often more hunched and poorly postured due to having heavy or bulking bodies , although that does not mean that they cannot hide their appearance with illusions and disguises they still have a hard time blending in due their appearances, when they ascend to their true forms they are towering, hulking demonic insects with organic knight like armor covering their bodies in thick spikes and edge, with them possessing large functional wings that can lift there weight while also being a horror to witness from above, maggotborn have mandibles in there larva and beetle/fly forms with some maggot born communities having them being decorated with carvings or ingraining.
History[edit]
The maggotborn are said to be spawned from Demon baroness called "Yagarift" who is said to be the creator or progenitor to the maggotborn race, the maggotborn societies call them self's "gifted" by the great fly "Beelzebub" ,The lord of flies however there're have been no recordings of the Beelzebub, due to the cults of Beelzebub actually worshipping The Demogorgon ,there minds are warped by the idea of Beelzebub and now believe that she is there god, while in the commonfolk say that the maggotborn are cursed by dark and cruel fey with no knowledge on it being more of a rumor more than a theory ,they started being noticed after witch hunters discovered a colony of diseased peasants showed signs of demonic influence ,they were all purged for from their impurity ,however the survivors hid and bred for generations until they be came a race of metaphoric insectoids. .
Society[edit]
Maggotborn names[edit]
maggotborn names: Soxrica,Bethlica,Drixs,Brothtoungue,Jikilithic.
Maggotborn Traits[edit]
Among the most vile of hellspawn, the maggotborn infest the world with there influence.
Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution increases by 3, and your Strength score decreased by -1.
Age. maggotborn fully mature once they reach abstention, which can be around 30 to 100 depending on how long they take to fully ascend, the longest living up to 800 years old.
Alignment. maggtborn are on the evil side of the alignment however there have been rare cases of neutral.
Size. Your size is Medium while at larva form and large when in ascended form.
Type. Fiend, Humanoid.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet and your burrowing speed, when ascended 40ft walking, 30ft flying, 40ft burrowing.
Demonic Carapace. When you aren’t wearing armor, your base AC is 12 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use your natural armor to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield’s benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor. You are immune to disease poisoned and diseases.
Blight. While touching a weapon or holding a item, whenever you deal damage while being in contact with the item you deal 1d10 necrotic damage in addition to your weapons damage, this effect persists until your down to half your hit points or until you negate touch contact with the weapon your wielding, the necrotic damage doubles if the maggot born is ascended.
Demon's Skin. Because of your dark nature you have resistance to necrotic damage.
Maggot Nature. You can burrow 30ft.
Demonic Necro-gen. During a short rest you may regain 3d6 lost hit points, when ascended you gain acid blood and deal 2d6 acid damage whenever you bleed on a creature, 5ft range.
Metaphasis. When you reach 12th to 18th level you begin the metaphasis, you begin to swell up into an enlarge cocoon, losing all abilities and your deafened and silent while in this state you are completely immobilized and your unconscious in addition you gain 110 hit points until you metaphasis is over, it lasts for up to 20 mins or 5 turns if you are in combat, when the transformation is complete, any armor you where wearing during the transformations is converted into natural armor permanently with no debuffs or disadvantages and any magic items that you had during the metamorphosis have been absorbed into your carapace and you gain one of the abilities of the magic item permanently into your traits as a buff this can be resolved by a Constitution save of 18 DC, in addition you gain +10 walking speed, +30 flying speed, +10 burrowing speed, + Maggotborn larval cast trait, +30% increase in hit points, size increase to medium to large,(+5 in con ,+3 in wisdom), Ability increase on Larval cast trait.
Languages. You can read, write, and speak Common and Abyssal.
Random Height and Weight[edit]
| Base Height |
Height Modifier* |
Base Weight |
Weight Modifier** |
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| 5′ 6'' | +2d12 | 110. lb. | × (4d6) lb. |
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*Height = base height + height modifier | |||
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