D&D 5E Fey'ri for 5E

Horwath

Legend
I'm trying to homebrew Fey'ri(fiendish sun elf) for 5th edition.

They were quite powerfull in 3.5(level adj 2-3) so they need some cutting down to "regular" size.


Fey'ri;

medium size,
humanoid,

They can appear as any humanoid form, but they usualy appear as elves.
Their natural form is elvish with few demonic figures, pick one or more of them, or roll 1d6 for how many then roll 1d6 to determine random.

Claw-like fingernails,
Small horns,
catlike eyes or pupilless eyes,
Dark red skin,
3-5 ft tail,
Glowing eyes,

ability scores: +1 dex, +1 any ability.

speed: 30ft

Darkvison: 60ft

Langages: Elven, Abyssal, Common,

Alternate form: As an action at 1st level. Fey'ri can asume form of any medium size humanoid, generic appereance or specific if it has seen that person up close. He can appear about one foot shorter or taller than his true form and about 50% lighter or 100% heavier than base form.

He can grow claws as natural weapons. They deal 1d6 damage and give +1 to attack and damage. They use str or dex to attack. They are considered magical. He must have one hand free to make an attack.

Aquatic form: at 3rd level Fey'ri can grow gills and have swim speed equall to his land speed. They cannot swim in any armor that give penalty to stealth. They must be proficient in armor.

Wings: at 5th level Fey'ri can grow bat like wings. They can fly at speed equal to their land speed. They cannot fly in any armor that gives penalty to stealth. They must be proficient in armor.
Armor must be made or remade to allow wings to grow(usually +50% base cost to armor). They need 15ft space to fly effectively.

Multiattack: at 5th level as an action Fey'ri can attack with two claws attack. He must have both hands free to make those attacks.
 

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5E races are a bit more powerful than 3.0 ones. Tieflings for example. Make a Elven Tiefling.

Fey'ri is an Elven Tiefling, but their main ability was alternate form. in adition to dimmension door, enervation, damage reduction, restistances, etc...(but that is little over the top)

I had to cut the tiefling down a little to make room for alternate form.
 

Fey'ri is an Elven Tiefling, but their main ability was alternate form. in adition to dimmension door, enervation, damage reduction, restistances, etc...(but that is little over the top)

I had to cut the tiefling down a little to make room for alternate form.

Well you can cut some of those abilities down or spread them out like the Tiefling.

THe claws thing should be able to use strength or dex in a 5E context, the +1 to hit doesn't really fit in 5E.

Flying is also really iffy 1 race(that is banned in OP) has it with an optional rule for tieflings. I would make it optional here as well.

Multiattack is also not a racial thing in 5E, it will either be OP as hell depending on the class especially if it stacks with all the other classes that get multiattacks such as the warrior classes.

One thing you could try to do if you want it to be powerful is design it as a race as a class. Is it just the half fiend template from 3.0 it has been a while since I reads Lords of Darkness. What are the key elements of the race you want? If it has flying for example all it gets is its racial mods and Darkvision that would be about it.

There is also the Cambion in the MM you can look at which is the 5E half fiend.
 
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Well you can cut some of those abilities down or spread them out like the Tiefling.

THe claws thing should be able to use strength or dex in a 5E context, the +1 to hit doesn't really fit in 5E.

Flying is also really iffy 1 race(that is banned in OP) has it with an optional rule for tieflings. I would make it optional here as well.

Multiattack is also not a racial thing in 5E, it will either be OP as hell depending on the class especially if it stacks with all the other classes that get multiattacks such as the warrior classes.

One thing you could try to do if you want it to be powerful is design it as a race as a class. Is it just the half fiend template from 3.0 it has been a while since I reads Lords of Darkness. What are the key elements of the race you want? If it has flying for example all it gets is its racial mods and Darkvision that would be about it.

There is also the Cambion in the MM you can look at which is the 5E half fiend.

The alternate form is all from alter self spell.

I just spread the options through 5 levels instead of giving it all at once.

+1 bonus is in the spell.

multiattack cannot stack with extra attack as they are different actions.

Also I have limit the flight as much as possible to still keep it in race mechanics.
 

I would make it an elf subrace (of course, ever since the revenant in the UA I have thought tieflings and assimar should be subraces). That takes care of the +2 dex, and then +1 in something else (been a mental stat so far, but nothing wrong with con or str). Then, like the eladrin get a 2nd level spell (misty step) once a long rest (or is it long or short rest? I haven't looked at them in a while), the fey-ri can get a 2nd level spell (alter self) once a long rest (or parallel to the eladrin).
 


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