Vestige Unbound

July 2023
Hello everyone! In Vestige for the next few months we’ll be
splitting the party, and some new stuff is going to get
involved. I decided I’d take some time to use Vestige
Unbound this month to show you guys some of the
materials that will be used, as well as some that won’t be to
smokescreen things a bit! Please enjoy the following race
and subclasses.
Elf Subrace: Wood Elf
The most common elf to live, either in Retia or Cu Chullis,
and renowned as the friendliest to other races. Wood elves
have a natural desire to explore and seek new lands, and to
protect the environments they find themselves in. Their
dispositions are famously warm.
The appearance of a wood elf more often than not
features dark or yellowish skin, a more robust build than
other elves, earthy browns and reds for hair, and skin that
has a leafy texture not unlike their wild elf relatives. They
can be mistaken sometimes for dryads due to the overlap in
appearance.
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by
1.
Acid Resistance. You are resistant to acid damage.
Forest Movement. You have a climbing speed equal to
your base movement speed, and can climb rough surfaces
without requiring any sort of climbing gear without penalty.
When you fall further than 10 feet while adjacent to a wall
or surface, you can use your reaction to brace yourself
against it and take no falling damage ( landing on your feet).
Swift Footed. When you take the Dash action, the
movement speed you gain is doubled (unless taken as a
bonus action).
Kua Hono
Creature Types Humanoid
Life Expectancy Varies (Min 90 years, Max 500 years)
National Alignment Other
Planar Origins Elemental Plane of Water
Planetouched? No
Regions Scattershot Islands (High Wave), Greater Motian
Coast
Size Range Small / Medium (Large)
Kua hono are wildly varied, not just within their own
subraces, but also from one to another. Some resemble
humanoid reptilians in the way that you would expect of a
lizardfolk, while others look more like a reptile that stood
upright without much change - some, however, can strongly
resemble humans or elves who are covered in scales, hide
or shells. They are a species that is defined by a wide
gamut of mutations and adaptations, and their appearances
strongly represent this.
Vague Disambiguation
Kua hono is generally not considered a unified race in the
cultural sense. Its various members use the term as others
might use “mankind”, and refers vaguely to those under a
family best represented as “reptile-kind”. Their ability to live
underwater and regenerate damage through accelerated
healing tend to be what define their inclusion under this
umbrella term, but if asked what their race is they have
various answers they might give.
Kua Hono in Retia
The kua hono in Retia all tend to hail from the Scattershot
Islands of High Wave, where most seemed to emerge from
the near-tropical coastal environments there. They thrive in
hot damn terrains as well as beaches, and though they are
capable of living beneath the ocean they prefer to live on
the ground (though often near the water). Kua hono
generally prefer warm salt water to cold or freshwater,
purely as a matter of comfort.
Though they are highly populous in High Wave, the kua
hono mostly don’t care to approach or live in or around the
Rising Peak. The citadel of science and technology it
represents does not appeal to them, so they more often
remain outside - juxtaposed against it.
Traits
As a kua hono, you have the following traits, in addition to
those granted by your subrace and legacy traits.
Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases
by 2, and one other score increases by 1 based on your
subrace.
Alternatively, at your GM’s discretion, you can choose
one of the following options:
Increase one of your Ability scores by 2, and another by
1.
Increase three of your Ability scores by 1.
None of the Ability score increases gained through your
race can increase any Ability score above 20.
Age. Kua hono reach maturity in their late teens, and the
lifespan largely depends on their subrace -
Crocodiles and Turtles can live to be up to 500.
Frogs and snakes live to be up to 90.
Lizards and salamanders live to be up to 150.
Sharks live to be up to 300.
Alignment. There is no set alignment that kua hono fall
under, but many are neutral.
Amphibious. You can breathe air and water.
Languages. You can speak, read and write Common and
Draconic.
Reptilian Regeneration. As a bonus action you can
spend up to half of your total hit dice (rounded up) as if you
have completed a Short Rest, rolling each and adding your
Constitution modifier to each to regain hit points equal to
the total of all spent hit dice. When you do so, you can also
spend one or more of those hit dice without rolling it to
regain hit points, and if you do you benefit from the effects
of lesser restoration once for each. You can use this trait
once per Short Rest.
Size. You are Small or Medium (you choose when picking
this race).
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and you have
a swim speed equal to your walking speed.
Legacy Traits
Choose two of the following options when creating your
character:
Accelerated Regeneration. When you use hit dice to
regain hit points, you regain an additional amount of hit
points per hit die equal to half your proficiency bonus
(rounded down).
Darkvision. You have darkvision out to 60 feet, allowing
you to see in dim light as if it was bright light, and in
darkness as if it was dim light. You discern colors in
darkness as shades of gray.
Natural Armor. You have tough, scaly skin. When you
aren’t wearing armor, your base AC is 13 + your Dexterity
modifier. You can also use this base AC calculation if armor
you are wearing would result in a lower AC score. For the
purposes of features that require you to wear medium or
heavy armor, calculating your AC this way can be treated as
wearing armor of those types.
Nature’s Intuition. You have proficiency in two of the
following skills (you choose when gaining this trait): Animal
Handling, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Stealth or Survival.
Slippery. You have advantage on ability checks and
saving throws made to resist or stop being grappled or
restrained.
Temperate Blood. Choose fire or cold damage. You are
resistant to your choice, but vulnerable to the other.
Mixed Blood Traits
If you are of mixed blood and kua hono is not your dominant
race, you may consider the following traits when choosing
your Legacy Traits:
Amphibious. You can breathe air and water.
Bloodline. Choose one of the following traits, which you
gain from its corresponding subrace:
Sticky Climber (frog)
Scent Tracker (lizard)
Fire Resistance (salamander)
Sandpaper Scales (shark)
Shell (turtle)
Reptilian Regeneration. You have the kua hono’s
Reptilian Regeneration trait.
Size Options. You are Small.
Subraces
Kua hono subraces express what sort of reptile the kua
hono is. Some resemble lizards, frogs, turtles, snakes, etc.
When creating your character, please choose one of the
following:
Frog
The diminutive frog kua hono resemble frogs that walk
upright on two legs. Their bodies are stout and usually
adorable, coming in many shades of yellow, blue and green.
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by
1.
Leap. As a bonus action you can leap an amount of feet
equal to your proficiency bonus x 5, entering into an
unoccupied space within range. When you leap this way
you can arc into the air to reach a height half as high as
your maximum leap distance, and opportunity attacks
against you when moving this way have disadvantage.
You can use this trait a number of times per Long Rest
equal to your proficiency bonus.
Size Requirement. You are Small.
Sticky Climber. Once per Short or Long Rest, as a bonus
action, you can cause your skin to adhere securely to
surfaces as though you were under the effects of the spider
climb spell for 10 minutes (requiring no concentration).
Lizard
Similar to lizardfolk, the lizard kua hono resemble large,
well-built lizard people with bodies covered in sleek scales,
slitted predatory eyes and a skillset well suited for hunting.
They are well-meaning and welcoming by nature, and their
families and settlements are known to warmly welcome
newcomers. These reptile-folk are found more often than
not near beaches and in swamplands.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by
1.
Chameleon Phase. As a bonus action you can blend into
the environment, becoming invisible until the start of your
next turn. If you take no other actions on that next turn
however, you can use your bonus action to continue the
effect (but taking any action or movement after this will end
it). You can use this trait a number of times per Long Rest
equal to your proficiency bonus.
Scent Tracker. You can make Wisdom (Perception)
checks made to find hidden creatures as a bonus action,
and when you do you are able to tell where invisible
creatures are as if they were visible. If you find an invisible
creature this way you can treat them as if they were visible
until the start of your next turn.
Salamander
Salamander kua hono have vibrant orangish-red skin, large
curious eyes and long bodies with somewhat silly little arms
and legs. They like naturally hot environments where they
bask, and though they are curiously built they have intricate,
honor-based cultures in which many serve as kings,
queens, knights, squires, and so forth.
Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases
by 1.
Fire Pop. In place of one attack made as part of an Attack
action, you can spit a puff of fire at a creature within 30 feet
of you. Your target must make a Dexterity saving throw
(Con), taking fire damage equal to 1d10 x half your
proficiency bonus (rounded down) on a failed save, or half
as much on a successful one. You can use this trait once
per turn, and a number of times per Long Rest equal to your
proficiency bonus.
Fire Resistance. You are resistant to fire damage.
Shark
Resembling a shark taking humanoid form (including
dangerous jaws and an extended tail), shark hua kono are
large and fearsome. Retaining the predatory nature and
tactics of their submerged brethren, they are powerful
hunters with keen tracking abilities. Though they largely are
said to resemble sharks, their heads and faces have rigid
skeletal features that give them a nearly fiendish
appearance.
Due to their split nature leaving them civilized as often as
leaving them predatory, they are called the Ogres of the
Sea by many seafarers. One is as likely to find them trading
with a port town or living among merefolk as they are to see
their ship boarded from below by a shark-lead pirate crew.
Ampullae of Lothezari. You can see electromagnetic
waves and nerve signals in the bodies of other creatures.
You have blindsight out to 10 feet, which increases to 60
feet if your head is submerged in a body of liquid (in which
case, this vision only extends to the edge of that liquid).
Blood In the Water. If you damaged a creature on your
previous turn and that creature is within the range of a
movement speed you have and could take to get close to
them, you can use your bonus action to Dash and make
one weapon attack against them, but all movement you
take after Dashing this way must be spent moving toward
them with the intention of ending your movement adjacent
to them if possible. This effect does not apply when you
damage constructs or creatures without blood.
Sandpaper Scales. When a creature starts its turn
grappled by you or grappling you, they take slashing
damage equal to your Constitution modifier plus your
proficiency bonus.
Size Option. You can choose to be Large instead of
Small or Medium when creating your character.
Turtle
Turtle kua hono often resemble turtles that stood upright,
extended their arms and legs and started walking. They are
slow but peaceful people who live long lives, and take in
what they can during that time. Their primary feature is a
strong shell on their back that provides them with protection
in times of peril.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by
1.
Shell. You have a natural shell that grants you protection.
You have a based AC of 17 (unaffected by your Dexterity
modifier). You can’t wear light, medium or heavy armor but
can wield and benefit from a shield.
Withdraw. You can pull yourself back into your shell as an
action, and emerge as a bonus action. While inside your
shell your AC increases by 4, you have advantage on
Strength and Constitution saving throws, you are prone,
your speed is 0 and can’t be increased, you have
disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws and cannot take
reactions. You cannot take actions while withdrawn except
to emerge.
Fighter Subclass: Guardian
As an immovable defender, the Guardian relies on clever
use of their shield to prevent harm from coming to them and
those around them. They strike as freely with their shield as
they do with their sword, bludgeoning and crushing
opponents while forcing back their attacks. They are the
pinnacle of defensive combat mastery.
Guardian Features
Level Features
3rd Shield Strike
7th Guardian Fighting Styles, Imposing Sentinel
10th Exceptional Armor Master
15th Full Deflect
18th Ultimate Defense
Shield Strike
3rd-level Guardian feature
When you take the Attack action while wielding a shield,
you can make an attack with the shield as a bonus action.
For the purposes of these attacks your shield is treated as
being a weapon with the heavy property that you are
proficiency with, uses Strength for attacks and adds the
shield’s enhancement bonus to its attack roll. If it hits, you
can choose one of the following effects:
Your target, if they are no more than one size category
larger than you, is knocked prone or 5 feet back (your
choice).
Your target takes bludgeoning damage equal to (1d4 x
the shield’s total bonus to your armor class) + your
Strength modifier.
That creature has disadvantage on the next attack roll
they make before the start of your next turn.
Guardian Fighting Styles
7th-level Guardian feature
You gain the Defense and Protection fighting styles. If you
already have one or both of them, the existing fighting
style(s) advances instead.
Imposing Sentinel
7th-level Guardian feature
If you or a creature within 5 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit
points by damage from a source you can see, you spend a
use of Combat Mastery to reduce the damage by an
amount equal to 1d10 plus your Fighter level, and if this
damage would still reduce them to 0 hit points they are
reduced to 1 instead. You can only use this effect once per
turn per protected target.
Exceptional Armor Master
10th-level Guardian feature
As long as you’re wearing heavy armor, all piercing,
slashing and bludgeoning damage you take is reduced by
half your Fighter level (rounded down).
Full Deflect
15th-level Guardian feature
If you are hit with a weapon attack while wielding a shield
you can use your reaction to roll a d10 and add the result to
your armor class, possibly changing the outcome. If this
causes the triggering attack to miss and the creature was
within 5 feet, you can make a Shield Strike attack with your
shield as part of the same reaction.
You can use this feature twice per Short or Long Rest,
after which you can only use it by spending a point of
Combat Mastery.
Ultimate Defense
18th-level Guardian feature Once per turn, when you take
damage from an effect you can see while you are wearing
heavy armor or wielding a shield, you can use a point of
Combat Mastery to reduce all damage you take from that
source by three times your Fighter level. Following this, you
are resistant to all damage until the end of the current turn.
Monk Subclass: Beloved Tribute
Beloved Tributes are trained to entertain as often as fight.
They are an order of monks who associate with the Idol
Choir so closely that they answer to its name, and go as far
as to perform religious services for followers of T’quinn.
Their martial arts focus on grace, hypnotize movement, and
personal expression. Their order can be found in the Itonian
Capital, where they train on the same grounds as the divine
servants of the Idol Choir.
The monks who follow these traditions train to separate
the important aspects of their lives from each other, learning
to treat each experience as an isolated one. Joyous
occasions are pure and uplifting, while stress and conflict
are given their unclouded attention in the moment. This
practice is inspired by T’quinn’s split selves serving two very
different purposes.
Beloved Tribute Features
Level Features
3rd Charming Conduct, Monk Weapons
6th Soothing Diva
11th Beloved Guidance, Victorious Echo
17th Waltz of One
Charming Conduct
3rd-level Beloved Tribute feature
Whenever you hit a creature with an attack using your
unarmed strike or monk weapon, you can spend 1 ki point
to impose one of the following effects on your target; you
can do the same when you hit a creature with one of your
attacks through your Flurry of Blows, requiring no extra ki
be spent;
They must succeed a Charisma saving throw or be
charmed by you until the start of your next turn.
They must succeed a Dexterity saving throw or be
knocked prone.
They take thunder damage equal to two of your Martial
Arts damage dice.
Furthermore, you have proficiency in the Performance
skill, which you can choose to use Dexterity for when
entertaining through dance or physical conduct.
Monk Weapons
3rd-level Beloved Tribute feature
Twinblades count as monk weapons for you. When you
use the secondary attack of the twinblade you can add
thunder damage to the damage roll equal to your
proficiency bonus.
Soothing Diva
6th-level Beloved Tribute feature
You can perform a dance that invigorates and inspires
your allies, while protecting them from outside mental
interference. While you are not restrained or incapacitated,
as an action, you can choose a number of willing creatures
equal to your proficiency bonus, who must be within 60 feet.
Those creatures gain temporary hit points equal to two of
your Martial Arts dice plus your Monk level, and for 1 minute
they are charmed by you. While charmed this way they
cannot be charmed or frightened by other creatures or
effects. This charm ends early if you are knocked
unconscious.
You can use this feature once per Long rest, then cannot
use it again unless you spend 3 ki points to do so.
Beloved Guidance
11thh-level Beloved Tribute feature
When you have fewer than half of your total hit points
remaining, you receive guidance that heightens your
senses. While in this state, each time you make an attack
roll or saving throw you roll 1d4 and add it to the result. This
effect ends when you regain half or more of your total hit
points.
Victorious Echo
11thh-level Beloved Tribute feature
If you move more than 20 feet on your turn you can use
any amount of your remaining movement to teleport to an
unoccupied space you can see within that distance.
Waltz of One
17th-level Beloved Tribute feature
As an action, you can spend 3 or more ki points to project
invisible duplicates of yourself to attack creatures you can
see who are within your movement range (regardless of
how much movement you’ve taken). The number of
duplicates you send is equal to 2 half the number of ki
points you spend on this action (rounded up).
Each duplicate attacks the target it is sent after, making
those attacks as if invisible, and their attacks mirror yours
using an unarmed strike or monk weapon in your
possession. Each deals the damage that attack would
normally deal plus an extra Martial Arts die of thunder
damage.
Ranger Subclass: Technoscope
Some rangers lean into their knowledge of technology to
attempt to solve short-term problems, applying their
understanding of science and its principles. Though their
solutions often give out after only a moment, they provide a
brief relief. Technoscopes are inventors, tinkerers and
curious minds.
Technoscope Features
Level Features
3rd Mechanical Focus, Techmending
7th Tinkertech
11th Arcane Mine
15th Gizmo Solution
Mechanical Focus
3rd-level technoscope feature
You are proficient with tinker’s tools, and automatically
have one extra Favored Enemy: constructs. If you already
picked constructs you may select another Favored Enemy
from the original options.
Techmending
3rd-level technoscope feature
When you cast a spell that restores hit points and it states
it cannot target constructs, it restores hit points to them
anyways by magically rewiring them or reproducing the
magic that created them. This cannot restore a construct’s
destroyed body parts, however.
Tinkertech
7th-level technoscope feature
You are adept at using minor mechanical devices to aid in
momentary tasks. You have a number of Tinkertech points
equal to your Favor Bonus, and as long as you have tinker’s
tools or sufficient technological equipment to quickly create
them, you can invoke the effects below when described
(requiring the action listed), each costing 1 Tinkertech point
when used. You regain spent Tinkertech points when you
complete a Short or Long Rest.
Compression Burst
When you make a weapon attack, you can affix a
propulsion device to the weapon or ammunition to help it
strike its target: you gain a bonus to the attack and damage
roll for that attack, equal to your Favor Bonus and Favor Die
respectively.
Evasive Projector
When a creature makes an attack against you, you can use
your reaction to deploy a projection device that projects an
illusion of you briefly - until the end of this turn or until that
creature hits you (whichever comes first), that creature
subtracts your Favor Bonus from attack rolls made against
you.
Magnetic Target
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack you can use
your bonus action to affix a magnetic device to them, as
well as one to a melee weapon you are wielding - for 1
minute, that weapon is magnetized to that target in such a
way that you can treat them as your Favored Enemy. The
target may, in place of a weapon attack, attempt a Dexterity
check against your spell save DC, removing the device
early on a success.
Magnification Scope
When making a ranged weapon attack you can create a
temporary high-powered scope as a bonus action, which
allows you to fire up to that weapon’s long range without
causing you to have disadvantage. This scope remains in
effect for attacks with that weapon for 1 minute.
Thunder Grenade
As a bonus action, you can throw a sonic device at a point
you can see within 30 feet. Each creature in a 5-foot-radius
centered on that point must make a Constitution saving
throw. On a failure they are pushed 5 feet away from the
center of the radius and fall prone.
Wild Rocket
As a bonus action or in place of a weapon attack, you
construct a device with some method of propulsion and
throw or launch it at a target within a distance equal to your
Favor Bonus x 15 feet. Make a ranged attack against that
target, using your spell attack for the roll. On a hit, the target
takes piercing, slashing, bludgeoning or fire damage (your
choice) damage equal to your Favor Dice plus your Favor
Bonus, and if they are no larger than one size category
larger than you they are knocked prone.
Arcane Mine
11th-level technoscope feature
You can cast a spell as you usually would, requiring the
usual action, spell slot and components, but instead of
invoking its effects you may place them in a stationary
magical mine adhered to a surface you can touch. You may
choose a trigger that sets off the mine, which can be
anything you describe in the same way you describe a
readied action. You can set a number of mines per Long
Rest equal to your proficiency bonus, and no two mines can
store the same spell at the same time - setting the same
spell a second time renders the previous mine inert. No two
mines can be set within 10 feet of one another.
Preparation Limit. The spell placed within the mine
cannot have a casting time longer than 1 action and cannot
require concentration.
Trigger. The trigger must describe the situation that sets it
off, and what it will target. This trigger must be either within
10 feet of the mine, or within a distance equal to the stored
spell’s range (whichever is lower). If the spell has a range of
self, the trigger must be within 5 feet of it, and it can target
any creature within that range.
Fragility. This mine is unmovable once set. You can
disarm it as an action, but any attempt to move it more than
1 foot or damage it will set it off early, causing it to attempt
to follow its trigger conditions as closely as it can.
Detonation. When the mine goes off, the spell uses your
spell attack, spell save DC, is cast at the level you cast it at,
and otherwise acts the way it would have when you cast it
and set the mine. If no target is available as described when
it is set, it will target the nearest creature. If the spell’s effect
must be centered on a point, it must be centered on the
mine’s space or a point touching the space it’s in. If you are
within 60 feet of the mine when it goes off due to its trigger
you can use your reaction to prevent it from going off until
the start of your next turn, at which point its trigger
conditions reset.
Spoting. A creature attempting to find it must succeed an
Investigation check against your spell save DC.
Temporary. The mine becomes inert after 24 hours or
after you complete a Long Rest.
Gizmo Solution
15rd-level technoscope feature
When you would make an attack roll, ability check or
saving throw with disadvantage while you have tinker’s
tools or sufficient means to construct a suitable device to
solve the problem, you can use your reaction to attempt to
create a temporary device to help - when you do, roll 1d100
plus your Ranger level. On a result of 51 or higher, this
device prevents you from having disadvantage from that
particular effect or circumstance until the start of your next
turn (including on the triggering roll). On a result of 50 or
lower it has no effect.