Polypus Sapiens (5e Race)

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Creators Note: I am a DM and I was looking to create a campaign set in the underwater city of Vitra, in the homebrew world of Ericulo. I realised that dragonborn breath weapons would be too powerful, and especially lightning, poison and acid spells would spread through the water and cause too much destruction, so I created these as a replacement. If you are using the DnD Beyond app, I recommend creating a human character, and adding a custom item with your Octopode of choice copy-pasted in. Sorry for any typos, and Happy Dungeon Crawling!

Siryn (talk) 08:47, 21 February 2023 (MST)Siryn

Octopode

+1 to all checks and stats, can breathe underwater.

Nuetral Good

Physical Description

Polypus Sapiens is a medium sized, eight-limbed invertebrate, native to the seas of Ericulo. It is visually very similar to human interpretations of an anthropomorphised octopus, although they differentiate themselves from the O. Vulgaris species by referring to themselves as Octopode (Singular) or Octopi (Plural). They vary in color, but are usually somewhere between blue, red, yellow or green. They are sentient. They are genderless and reproduce asexually (they clone themselves).

On Breathing:

The problem with this race is that you might like to create one for a different campaign, set on land, so I thought I would make some recommendations on that. So here are a few “ground” (hehehe) rules.

  1. Gains extra exhaustion
  2. lower move speed
  3. advantage on grappling
  4. dies fast in deserts
  5. needs extra water

History

Originally migrating into the Vitra trench thousands of years ago, they hunted the native squid and pyjama sharks for food, and gathered plant life from the corals and reefs, before settling down and creating an advanced underwater city called Vitra City, which became a bustling economic metropolis. There is a common saying in the area “you can buy it for half the price and twice the quality at Vitra”. There is no lower or middle class in Vitra, as almost 90% of its population owns a buisness.

Society

They value hard work and honesty above all else, and for them it has worked. The only laws they have are to rein in the behaviour of visitors, especially elves, who they find very patronising.


Octopode Names

Octopi are often named after their professions, hobbies, achievements or aspirations, and take great importance in their impact on others.

Red Octopode

The Red Octopus can fire an enchanted dart (which grows next to their beak as a natural defence) into a target, with a DC modifier of +5, dealing 1+leveld6 fire damage. It can do this 1d4+current level times every short rest, stacking to 4xlevel. It has natural fire resistance.

Gold Octopode

The Gold Octopode can fire an enchanted dart (which grows next to their beak as a natural defence) into a target, with a DC modifier of +5, and deal 1+leveld6 radiant damage. It can do this 1d4+current level times every short rest, stacking to 4xlevel. It has natural radiant damage resistance.

Green Octopode

The Green Octopodecan fire an enchanted dart (which grows next to their beak as a natural defence) into a target, with a DC modifier of +5, and deal 1+leveld6 Poison damage. It can do this 1d4+current level times every short rest, stacking to 4xlevel. It has natural Poison damage resistance.

Blue Octopode

The Blue Octopode can fire an enchanted dart (which grows next to their beak as a natural defence) into a target, with a DC modifier of +infinity, and deal 1+leveld6/2 pure (ignores resistance and armour) damage. It can do this 1d4+current level times every short rest, stacking to 4xlevel. It has natural lightning damage resistance.

Purple Octopode

The Purple Octopode can fire an enchanted dart (which grows next to their beak as a natural defence) into a target, with a DC modifier of +5, and deal 1+leveld6 lightning/electrical damage. It can do this 1d4+current level times every short rest, stacking to 5xlevel. It has natural lightning damage resistance.

White Octopode

The White Octopode can fire an enchanted dart (which grows next to their beak as a natural defence) into a target, with a DC modifier of +5, and deal 1+leveld6 cold damage. It can do this 1d4+current level times every short rest, stacking to 5xlevel. It has natural cold damage resistance.

Grey Octopode

The Grey Octopode can fire an enchanted dart (which grows next to their beak as a natural defence) into a target, with a DC modifier of +5, and deal 1+leveld6 Necrotic damage. It can do this 1d4+current level times every short rest, stacking to 5xlevel. It has natural necrotic damage resistance.

Black Octopode

The Black Octopode can fire an enchanted dart (which grows next to their beak as a natural defence) into a target, with a DC modifier of +5, and deal 1+leveld6 acid damage. It can do this 1d4+current level times every short rest, stacking to 5xlevel. It has natural acid damage resistance.

Orange Octopode

The Orange Octopode can fire an enchanted dart (which grows next to their beak as a natural defence) into a target, with a DC modifier of +5, and deal 1+leveld6 Psychic damage. It can do this 1d4+current level times every short rest, stacking to 5xlevel. It has natural psychic damage resistance.

Brown Octopode

The Brown Octopode can fire an enchanted dart (which grows next to their beak as a natural defence) into a target, with a DC modifier of +5, and deal 1+leveld6 force damage. It can do this 1d4+current level times every short rest, stacking to 5xlevel. It has natural force damage resistance.

Pink Octopode (Not to be underestimated)

The Pink Octopode can fire an enchanted dart (which grows next to their beak as a natural defence) into a target, with a DC modifier of +5, and deal 1+leveld6 thunder damage. It can do this 1d4+current level times every short rest, stacking to 5xlevel. It has natural thunder damage resistance.

Yellow Octopode

The Yellow Octopode can fire an enchanted dart (which grows next to their beak as a natural defence) into a target, with a DC modifier of +5, and deal 1+leveld6 bludgeoning damage. It can do this 1d4+current level times every short rest, stacking to 5xlevel. It has natural bludgeoning damage resistance.

Silver Octopode

The Silver Octopode can fire an enchanted dart (which grows next to their beak as a natural defence) into a target, with a DC modifier of +5, and deal 1+leveld6 piercing damage. It can do this 1d4+current level times every short rest, stacking to 5xlevel. It has natural piercing damage resistance.

Translucent Octopode

The Translucent Octopode can become invisible for 1+lvl/2 rounds (rounding up). It has +5 on stealth checks. All attacks do slashing damage instead of their normal damage type. It has natural slashing damage resistance.



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