Dungeons & Dragons 5e Playable Races: Gearforged
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Gearforged
ability score increase:
+1 Con, (+2 Int, Wis, or Chr)
age:
The soul inhabiting a gearforged can be any age. As long as its new body is kept in good repair, there is no known limit to how long it can function.
alignment:
No single alignment typifies gearforged.
Size:
Medium
speed:
You have a base walking speed of 30 feet.
parent race:
Machine Men
race features:
Gearforged Anatomy
The range of gearforged anatomy in all its variants is remarkable, but all gearforged share some common parts.
Specialized Design
Solid Construction
If you are killed but your soul gem
and memory gears are still intact, you can be restored
to life if your body is repaired and soulforging is cast
on it again. Because the body already exists, the cost of
the ritual is just 500 gp, plus the cost of repairing the
body (DM’s discretion, typically 1d4 x 50 gp). If your
body was destroyed but your soul gem and memory
tapes are intact, they can be implanted into a new body
at the standard cost (10,000 gp). The only other magic
capable of bringing you back from the dead is a wish
spell, which restores you fully.
Springear Engine
Your power source is a series of gears and springs made of Tourmaline linked and winding back to the master spring.
Utility frame
Your frame is made from Masterwork steel.
Mechanical Sounds
The subtle sound of moving gears, springs and other mechanical components surround you, causing you to have disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.
Gearforged Anatomy
GearForged Anatomy
- Soul Gem. The mind of a gearforged creature is as sharp as that of any flesh-and-blood soul, but it is more portable. The animating, vital principle of a gearforged—its will, its personality, its mind—are retained in a soul gem. Its destruction means the death of that gearforged.
- Memory Gears. These delicate constructions are scroll-like ribbons pierced with thousands of pin holes and wound about with tiny enchantments of great complexity. The memory of a gearforged for all the
days after its creation lives in the memory gears. Older gearforged have many such gears, and the material component for the magic to create them requires one new gear for every 10 years of life. Installing one requires one day’s work and 2,000 gp.
Recorder. You possess a photographic memory and are able to recall any memory in perfect detail without the need for a check.
Note. Other gearforged can read memory gears salvaged from a dead gearforged, but it’s a complex, time-consuming process. It’s also viewed with some alarm by most gearforged, since it is akin to peering into the most private details of a creature’s life. Installing a used memory gear into a new or existing gearforged requires a new soulforging and at least one week before the recipient can interpret and understand the memories.
Solid Construction
Springear Engine
- Winding Down. Once a week you must wind your master spring coil. Generally done during a rest.
- Electric personality. As the day goes on the springs build up an electrical charge. You can use this electricity to make a jolting attack. Lightning springs from your hand or through a metal weapon to deliver a shock to a creature you try to touch. Make a melee attack against the target. You have advantage on the attack roll if the target is wearing armor made of metal. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 lightning damage, and it can't take reactions until the start of its next turn. The damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level 2d8, 11th level 3d8, and 17th level 4d8.
- Wound for action. Up to three times per long rest, you may reroll your initiative if you would like. You regain all charges after a long rest.
Utility Frame
- Integrated Tools. Choose two tools you’re proficient with. These tools are integrated into your body, and you double your proficiency bonus for any ability checks you make with it. You must have your hands free to use this integrated tool. These tools cannot be removed without doing permant harm to the construct.
- Well Built. Reduce all damage taken from nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing and slashing weapons by 1.
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