Sorcerous Origin: Aberrant Bloodline

by Lord Rumfish

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 Sorcerous Origin:
Aberrant Bloodline
Your ancestors were subjected to terrible
experiments, either by rogue wizards or by
intelligent aberrations. After enough grafting and
manipulation, something aberrant took hold in your
bloodline and has carried on ever since. The gift of
magic manifested in you from this dark background,
and physical signs show something is abnormal.
Aberration Ancestor
At 1st level, you choose one type of aberration as
your ancestor. The characteristics of that aberration
will be used by features you gain.
Aberration Ancestry
Aberration Characteristics
Aboleth Aquatic, mind control, racial memory
Beholder Eyestalks, magic manipulation, flight
Gibbering Extra mouths, aberrant ground,
Mouther gibbering
Illithid (Mind Brain eating, mind blast, face
Flayer) tentacles
Neogi (VGtM) Spider climbing, mind control, natural
attacks
Slaad Claws, damage resistances,
regeneration
Star Spawn Immune to psychic, immune to
(MToF) charmed and frightened, madness
Aberrant Manifestation
At 1st level, it is already clear that you possess an
abnormal heritage through some physical trait of
your body. You also share a common strength of
many aberrations: resistance to magic. You can use
this trait when you must make a saving throw
against a magical effect, gaining advantage on the
saving throw. You cannot use this trait again until
you finish a short or long rest.
You also gain a minor physical deformation based on
your ancestry. This abnormality is useful in some
way, although it may cause you social problems with
the close-minded or superstitious.
Aberration
Aberrant Manifestation
Traits Gained
Aboleth You gain gills and webbed feet and
hands. You can breathe water as well
as air, and your swim speed is 30 ft.
Beholder You have an extra eye growing out of
your head on an eyestalk. You can
see in any direction without turning
your head, and you gain a +2 bonus
on visual Perception checks.
Gibbering You have an extra mouth in a strange
Mouther location on your body, such as the
palm of your hand or behind your
knee. Whenever you are grappling or
grappled by a creature, as a bonus
action you can make a melee bite
attack against it using Strength or
Dexterity (you are considered
proficient). If the bite hits, it deals
2d6 + Strength or Dexterity modifier
piercing damage.
Illithid (Mind You have two face tentacles arranged
Flayer) near your mouth. While you cannot
eat a creature’s brain yet, you can
attack in melee with a tentacle using
the higher of Intelligence or Charisma
(you are considered proficient). If you
hit, the tentacle deals 1d6 +
Intelligence or Charisma modifier
psychic damage.
Neogi (VGtM) Bristly hair covers your back, and a
pair of spider legs grow from your
torso in addition to your other limbs.
You have a climb speed of 30 feet.
Slaad You have a vaguely hunched, slaad-
like appearance, and claws to match.
You can attack with a claw in melee
using Strength (you are considered
proficient). If you hit, the claw attack
deals 1d10 + Strength modifier
slashing damage.
Star Spawn There is something terrible or
(MToF) hideous to behold somewhere on
your body, though it may not be
immediately obvious. There might be
a glove you never take off or a hat
you refuse to part with, and what lies
beneath is revolting enough to give
you disadvantage on social checks
with non-aberration creatures who
witness it. You have resistance to
psychic damage.
 Aberrant Power
At 6th level, spells are added to your repertoire
based on your aberrant ancestry. You do not have to
choose these spells, they are automatically learned
and available when you have spell slots of the
appropriate level (cantrips are learned instantly).
Aberrant Power
Aberration Spells Learned
Aboleth Suggestion, Modify Memory,
Dominate Monster
Beholder Slow, Arcane Eye, Eyebite
Gibbering Magic Mouth, Confusion, Feeblemind
Mouther
Illithid (Mind Command, Detect Thoughts, Hold
Flayer) Person, Hold Monster
Neogi (VGtM) Friends, Charm Person, Dominate
Person, Power Word Stun
Slaad Detect Magic, Invisibility, Fear,
Cloudkill
Star Spawn Misty Step, Contact Other Plane,
(MToF) Circle of Death
Aberration’s Form
At 14th level, a major physical change comes over
your form. The change might be subtle and affect
how magic interacts with you, or the change might
be obvious. It depends upon your ancestry.
Aberration’s Form
Aberration Characteristics
Aboleth Your aquatic traits become more
pronounced and disturbing, but your
mind changes the most. You recall
everything you have witnessed with
perfect clarity, automatically
succeeding on Intelligence checks to
remember details.
You can also tap into the racial
memory of aboleths in your ancestry.
To do so, make a Wisdom saving
throw, DC 17. On a success, you gain
advantage on any one Intelligence
check. On a failure, you take 5d10
psychic damage as horrific memories
of past atrocities flood your mind.
Beholder You grow a second eyestalk from your
head. You gain a fly speed of 20 feet
with the ability to hover in place.
You can shoot two random eye rays of
a beholder on your turn as an action,
using your spell save DC for the DC to
resist the rays. After using your eye
rays, you must finish a long rest before
you can use them again.
Gibbering You grow at least three more mouths
Mouther in different locations on your body.
Your bite attack damage from
Aberrant Manifestation increases to
5d6 + Strength or Dexterity modifier
piercing damage.
The ground in a 10-foot radius around
you is doughlike difficult terrain. Each
creature that starts its turn in that
area must succeed on a Strength
saving throw (DC equal to your spell
save DC) or have its speed reduced to
0 until the start of its next turn.
Illithid (Mind You grow two more face tentacles,
Flayer) which hide your mouth much like a
true illithid. Your tentacle attack from
Aberration Manifestation is upgraded
to the attacks of an illithid.
Tentacles. Melee Weapon Attack: Int
or Cha mod + proficiency to hit, reach
5 ft., one creature. Hit: 2d10 + Int or
Cha mod psychic damage. If the target
is Medium or smaller, it is grappled
(escape DC equal to your spell save
DC) and must succeed on an
Intelligence saving throw (DC equal to
spell save DC) or be stunned until this
grapple ends.
Extract Brain. Melee Weapon Attack:
Int or Cha mod + proficiency to hit,
reach 5 ft., one incapacitated
humanoid grappled by you. Hit: The
target takes 55 (10d10) piercing
damage. If this damage reduces the
target to 0 hit points, you kill the
target by extracting and devouring its
brain. Once you have used Extract
Brain, you cannot do so again until you
have finished a short or long rest.
Neogi (VGtM) Your neck elongates until your head
can move like an eel, you grow fangs,
and you gain another pair of spider
legs protruding from your torso.

You gain the Spider Climb special

ability, which allows you to climb
difficult surfaces, including upside
down on ceilings, without needing to
make an ability check.

You gain a bite attack that you are

proficient with. It is a melee bite
attack using Strength or Dexterity, and
on a hit you deal 1d6 + Strength or
Dexterity modifier piercing damage
plus 4d6 poison damage. The target
must succeed on a Constitution saving
throw (DC equal to your spell save DC)
or become poisoned for 1 minute. A
target can repeat the saving throw at
the end of each of its turns, ending the
effect on itself on a success.
Slaad Even as your appearance becomes
more slaad-like, you gain a measure of
control over the chaos inside you, with Telepathy
the Shapechanger special trait.
Starting at 18th level, you gain telepathy out to a
range of 120 feet. Telepathy is a magical ability that
Shapechanger. You can use your
action to polymorph into a Small or allows you to communicate mentally with another
Medium humanoid, or back into your creature within a specified range. The contacted
true form. Your statistics, other than creature doesn’t need to share a language with you
size, are the same in each form. Any to communicate in this way, but it must be able to
equipment you are wearing or understand at least one language. A creature
carrying isn’t transformed. You revert without telepathy can receive and respond to
to your true form if you die. telepathic messages but can’t initiate or terminate a
Star Spawn Additional horrific changes take place telepathic conversation.
(MToF) in your body, but your mind becomes
the most alien. You are immune to You don’t need to see a contacted creature and can
psychic damage, and you are immune end the telepathic contact at any time. The contact
to the charmed and frightened
is broken as soon as the two creatures are no longer
conditions.
within range of each other or if you contact a
different creature within range. You can initiate or
terminate a telepathic conversation without using an
action, but while you are incapacitated, you can’t
initiate telepathic contact, and any current contact is
terminated.

A creature within the area of an Antimagic Field or in

any other location where magic doesn’t function
can’t send or receive telepathic messages.
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