Oni

Oni Race Details

Oni are large and powerful humanoids that are fueled by magic and feed off of negativity. Originally born from the souls of dead giants who’s vengeful spite was so powerful it spawned spectres of vengeance that hunt and kill the source of the hate. Eventually, so many oni were spawned from the giants that died helping the tiefling during the Great Infer-Lore War. Eventually, they used magic to rebel against their purpose and gave themselves physical form and lived with the tieflings and ironically, noow hating the giants themselves. They are small magic giants that are effective hunters and warriors.

Ability Score Increase Your Strength score increases by 2 and your Constitution score increases by 1. Alternatively, you can choose your stats lineage style (Choose one of: (a) Choose any +2; choose any other +1 (b) Choose three different +1)

Age Although Oni reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, Oni can typically live to be up to 400 years old. They don’t physically age past their physical peak.

Alignment Most oni are neutral and tend to lean towards evil. They are usually found in Infernollia.

Size Oni range from under 7 to over 8 feet tall and have sturdy, muscular builds. Your size is Medium.

Speed Your base walking speed is 30 feet thanks to your naturally athletic build. And thanks to your magical blood you gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed.

Sturdy Build You have proficiency in the Athletics skill and if someone attempts to grapple you they gain disadvantage. Additionally, You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Monstrous Claws Your unarmed strikes are your most reliable weapons they deal 1d6 slashing damage plus your Strength modifier, this die increases to 1d8 at 11th level, and 1d10 at 18th level.

Darkvision You gain 60ft of darkvision.

Spectral Blood You gain a resistance to necrotic damage.

Shapechange As an action, you change your appearance and your voice. You determine the specifics of the changes, including your coloration, hair length, and sex. You can also adjust your height between Medium and Small. You can make yourself appear as a member of another race, though none of your game statistics change. You can't duplicate the appearance of an individual you've never seen, and you must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs that you have. Your clothing and equipment aren't changed by this trait. You stay in the new form until you use an action to revert to your true form or until you die.

Vengeful Spite You know the minor illusion cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the invisibility spell and the darkness spell as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the gaseous form spell once with this trait. You must finish a long rest to cast these spells once again with this trait. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for them.

Languages You can speak, read, and write Common, and Giant.