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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jediking" data-source="post: 6849366" data-attributes="member: 6803126">[h=1]Yuan-Ti Traits[/h]Your Yuan-Ti character has the following traits, due to their nature.Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 2 and your Intelligence score increases by 1.Age. Yuan-Ti mature a little slower than humans, reaching adulthood around age 20. They age noticeably slower and can live up to 120 years.Alignment. Most Yuan-Ti work together in a society towards a greater goal. However, they each vie for power over others and are very ambitious. They tend to be chaotic and often try to get into politics (therefore usually evil).Size.Yuan-Ti range from 5 to 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.Forked Tongue. You have proficiency in the Deception skill.Bite. You are never unarmed. You are proficient with your fangs, which are a melee weapon that deals 1d4 piercing damage. Venomous Blood. You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance against poison damage.Mesmerizing Stare: You can cast the Charm Person spell once with this trait, requiring no material components, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell.Parseltongue. You can communicate simple concepts to snakes when you speak Yuan-Ti.Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Yuan-Ti.-I'm only doing humanoids to keep things simple. So snake head, two arms, two legs. I thought of a Slither trait where crawling doesn't costs extra movespeed even in difficult terrain, but then it's just a 4 limbed dude awkwardly worming around instead of being a cool snake. And who would ever want to play Snakes on a (Earth) Plane?-This is probably the most straightforward race. There is lots of room to change up a couple things for your own personal preference of what a snake-person should have: I thought about giving poisoner's kit, adding poison damage to the bite, able to detect heat, able to shed skin, can smell the air, etc. Snakes are awesome and there is tonnes to add. But there's already poison, heat detection could get wonky with rules, advantage on Perception checks that rely on smell was too easy; but then I remembered snake charmers and here we are.-Charm Person is the issue. Any other race with the ability to cast only a single spell casts it on self (see: Earth Walk, Levitate, Misty Step). And if you mesmerizing sexy snake-guy-or-gal tries to fool the wrong person, then you aren't so sexy for the rest of the entire day. Yuan-Ti would be good Warlocks/Sorcs, so giving them Acid Splash or Poison Spray isn't the right fix. -I think simply swapping it with the Friends cantrip would be a good fix. The trait should equal either a 1st-level spell able to cast 1/LR, skill proficiency, or an at-will cantrip, so it works out.</blockquote>

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