[5e] Damphir/Half-Vampire

[AmbientRaven]

Hi Folks,

I have been working on a homebrew setting. I have removed drow from the game as a player race, but wanted something to replace them that seems similar. My setting the vampires are a race, more than creatures. Seeing the Zendiakr release for D&D I decided to take inspiration from the Vampire race there to create my Damphir/Half-Vampire playable race. Some C&C would be great, also, some feedback on how to slit it maybe into core and subrace would be good.


For subrace I am thinking
'Shadow' Clan: Gain the bite, Stealth Prof and +1dex
'Magic' Clan: Gain the magic, gain Arcana prof, +1 Int
'Feral' Clan: Wings, Talk to small creatures(bats), +1 Str

Anyhow, here is the work so far!

http://www.naturalcrit.com/homebrew/share/Sk3jJ7k-

Thank you for any feedback!

[Final Hyena]

The baseline is;
+2 stat
60 dark
THE LIGHT BURNS
Necro ~ resistance
Blood
Doctor Dolittle

Pecus
+1 stat
30 fly no heavy
d4 claws

Umbra
+1 stat
+1 skill
hide

Disce
+1 stat
mental saves ~ adv
spells

I feel a natural urge to cry over sunlight sensitivity even if it does fit the race so appropriately anyway my sensibilities over with lets get on track.

The Blood feature is weird, if the target is grappled/incapacitated you probably shouldn't need to succeed on an attack roll. The next thing is that it's necrotic damage, It really should be bleed, which isn't a type of damage anymore. Maybe piercing with an addition that those without blood/undead are immune.

The sub races are uneven. Pecus/Disce are much better.
I get the feeling you will want to stick with flight to fit the theme so Umbra will need a bit of buffing. Some options include a skill (athletics/acrobatics/stealth) or bonus movement speed.

Edit; Umbra flavour text

Your clan holds to the ideals of honesty, secrecy and trust.

They get deception.

[AmbientRaven]

Thanks for the feedback!

- The blood feature is copy and pasted from the Zendikar vampire playable race. I may re-word it though to 1 piercing, 1d6 from max (no damage type) and undead and constructs are unaffected. The attack role is to show a creature struggling I think.

- I realised Umbra was incorrectly calculated. They have had movement speed increase and advantage vs charm and illusion magic.

- Umbra flavour. That was a copy and paste fail, I forgot to change that to perception

Thanks for the feedback!