This chapter provides physical descriptions of the new insect-themed races, information about their culture and way of live, as well as the traits and abilities members of a specific race share.

Born of the Shyfell

When the scion empire crumbled into the gate, for but a moment, the aberrant energies of the void beyond seeped into the Material Plane. Some unfortunate souls were pulled beyond the threshold, never to be seen again. This event birthed the Shyfell, a web of dark aberrant terror that binds and corrupts the Material Plane. The insectoids that were pulled across were reborn in the Shyfell as the Shadewoven, monstrous predators with only the desire to feast and destroy. Those fortunate enough to avoid the singularity were not pulled into the Shyfell entirely, only forever bound to it, creating the first arachs.

Arachs have the upper body of an insectoid, but instead of two legs, their torso is carried on the lower body of an immense spider. Their six spindly legs allow an arach to move with terrifying speed across sheer surfaces and even upside down. Some arachs even grow colorful fur across their body. However, their face is probably the most alien feature of all their attributes. It is dotted by multiple pairs of compound eyes that gleam in the dark and their mouth framed by giant fangs.

From the first arach to the few that wander

Colorful Chitin

Blue, red, green, and yellow, shining or mat, dotted or striped. The chitinous platings of beetles come in all forms and colors. For some, their strong chitin is a sturdy and protective shield. Others use their vibrant appearance to charm their way through life. Some may have a pair of wings. Other's heads are adorned by an imposing horn. Some Beetlefolks are bulky and stout, while others are lean and frail. Their sizes vary greatly; Some barely standing taller than 3 feet, while others grow above 6 feet. No two beetles are quite alike.

Bugs of the World

The vast variation in subraces makes the beetlefolk into a very diverse race, not only in appearance but also in demeanor. The subrace of the beetle brings about a predisposition for a particular way of life. As such, you will find many rhinoceros beetles taking up the life of a soldier. On the other hand, a ladybug will most likely care for the sick or the young, and a firefly will seek the thrill of adventure. However, beetles are adaptable and, as such, fit into any society and work any kind of profession.

As varied as their professions are their morals.

historians. Their ability to generate light and

Ladybug

Most insectoids will tell you that Ladybugs are the least threatening race of Insectopia. And when you look upon their small and round stature, that statement is confirmed. Ladybugs chitin comes in striking red, black, yellows, and oranges, spotted with black, white, or red dots.

Their inviting and cute appearance is further

Hundreds of Legs

Chilopodians are genuinely one of the most imposing insectoids when it comes to their appearance. Their muscular torso is about 4 ft. to 6ft. in height and it sits on a snake-like lower body, up to 8 ft. in length. A rounded head with elongated mandibles rests on their broad shoulders and a pair of long sensitive antennae below two beady black compound eyes.

Chilopodians can move their mighty bodies astonishingly quickly, even climbing sheer walls with ease, thanks to the many pairs of legs along their lower body. Many Insectoids fear the chilopodians. A chilopodian that rears up on their hind legs reaching up to twice their normal

Lean Bodies with Immense Strength

Formicoids are ant-like Insectoids that stand from 5 to over 7 feet in size. Most of the formicoids are tall and lean, deceivingly so, as formicoids are one of the physically strongest races found on Insectopia, and some of them can carry loads up to 10 times their body weight. Their chitin generally varies in color only slightly, from dark browns or greens to greys and blacks.

There are exceptions, however, as some subraces of formicoids display more vibrant chitinous plating. The formicoids are among the most mundane insectoid races, though beauty is not a quality a formicoid prioritizes.

Seriously at Work

Hard-working, serious, and humorless, these are the prejudices many Insectoids hold against the formicoids. And even though these statements do not hold true for every individual, they come pretty close as a race.

Most formicoids live their lives as devoted workers or soldiers for their queen and hive. Formicoids strictly follow the laws of their nation. Each individual proudly fulfils their role in society, as they believe that only united they stand firm and strong. As such, a formicoid would always value the integrity and survival of their hive above their own life.

This way of thinking comes mainly from their social structure. At birth, every individual is assigned a specific role: some are trained as soldiers, others are taught to build. No matter how minuscule it would seem, each position is respected since everyone provides for the hive.

increases by 2.

Age. Formicoids reach maturity quickly, reaching adulthood by the age of 10. They can live to be about

Frost Ant Traits

As a frost ant you are born into the ant hill of the Northern Star. You are resilient, one of the only Insectoids able to live in the arctic regions of Insectopia.

Frail and Fuzzy

The moth-folk known as luni are about 5 feet tall, though their often stooped posture makes them look even smaller. Their frail frame is hidden between thick, fluffy hair that covers their whole body and wings. Especially the luni who have reached their seventh century have large manes of fuzz surrounding their neck.

While luni are slow fliers, their elegance while airborne is unmatched by other insectoids. Their broad and long wings let them glide through the air with ease, often leaving a trail of glittering scales behind them.

The chitin of most luni comes in dull colors. However, some outliers flaunt with aggressive reds, deep blues, or radiant yellow tones. Some even have particularly intricate patterns across their wings.

Living a Millennium

Luni are one of the most long-living races from among their Insectoid brethren. The oldest luni are within their 10th century, their minds holding the knowledge of an entire millennium. In young years, luni tend to have an innate curiosity for the world around them, and many stray out into the world to meet people, go on adventures, and learn about everything they can.

However, more often than not, there comes a time where every luni realizes that they will outlive most of the friends they have made. Old luni tend to seclude themselves from the world when the generation they grew up with fades into the past. To cope with the losses a long life brings with it, they withdraw themselves from the world. Some luni form communities when growing older, living among folks that live as long as they do.

Wisdom comes with Time

Luni keep their curiosity even in their last centuries, never losing the spark to collect knowledge or research the secrets of their world. Most luni find interest in astronomy, ancient literature, or the arcane arts. And they have time for everything they wish to accomplish. Luni know no urgency. Nothing needs to be rushed. For why should an uninteresting problem be fixed right now if you can do it tomorrow, next month, or in a decade?

Lunian Traits

Through your studious nature you share certain traits with other Luni.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 2 and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age. Luni get very old. They mature at the age of 16, but live until the age of 900 years.

Alignment. Luni tend to be loners, away from all of society. They tend to be neutral and depending on their interests, can be good or evil.

Size. Luni are on the smaller side, being about 5 feet tall. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Flight. You have a flying speed of 10 feet, but you must land at the end of every minute or begin to fall. When you reach 5th level, your flying speed increases to 20 feet and the time restriction is lifted. To use this speed, you can’t be wearing medium or heavy armor.

Innate Spellcasting. You know the dancing lights cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the faerie fire spell once and need to finish a long rest before you can cast it again. When you reach 5th level you can cast the moonbeam spell once and need to finish a long rest before you can cast it again. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Lunar Studies. You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice: Arcana or Nature.

Languages. You can speak, read and write Common, Insect-Common, Lunian and an extra language of your choice. Lunian is spoken without sounds, only through elegant pheromonal notes.

Dimorphic Sexes

A mantis can be identified by their triangular head, with bulging eyes and beak-like mandibles on a broad upper body. Most mantises are incredibly flexible and can use their natural weapons with deadly precision. These are spikey protrusions growing from their forearms that are sharp like daggers and can be used. While all mantises share these traits, there are significant differences between the males and females of the race.

Male mantises are known as Warrior Mantis, the smaller of the two subraces, standing about 4 to 5 feet tall. Their chitin ranges in colors from green to brown, making it easy for them to hide in greenery. Males are called Warriors and are often innately skilled hunters and warriors. They have lightning-quick reflexes and can stand perfectly still for hours.

The female mantises are called Orchids. They are slightly taller than their male counterparts, reaching around 5 to 6 feet. Their chitin hues range from dark violets to pastel pinks. Unlike the warriors, orchids aren't so adept at fighting. Instead, they are much more intelligent and have innate psionic abilities.

Honor of the Family

Mantises live in large families led by a single matriarch. She is the eldest orchid in the family and enforces her rules with absolute authority. These laws are based on longstanding traditions of how the family functioned for hundreds of years. As such, each family focuses on a specific line of work, and all members are expected to put their family's honor before themselves. Unfortunately, this makes mantis adventurers especially rare, as they often went against their family's traditions.

The warriors rarely take up higher positions within their families, acting as laborers and servants to the orchids. On the other hand, the Orchid mantises represent the family in public, managing their affairs with other clans and dealings with foreign forces. The Orchids with the most potent psionic abilities in the family are trained to confer with the family's patron spirit.

Spiritual Guidance

Orchid mantises are blessed with innate psionic abilities that allowed their ancestors to reach outside of time and space and pull at the chaos outside of the known universe. They drew the attention of malevolent aberrant spirits that tried to invade the Material Plane through the connection the orchids forged. However, the orchids managed to bind these spirits to the Material Plane, harnessing their abilities and slowly transforming them into benevolent forces.

Most mantis families have an ancient family heirloom or a shrine where the family spirit resides. Each generation within the family trains an orchid with powerful psionic abilities to become a sage. This prestigious position comes with an important task: to converse with the spirit and transform the aberrant being into a benevolent force for the family. In return, an appeased spirit grants the family heightened psionics or functions as an invisible protector of their grounds.

Mantis Traits

In spite of the strong differences between the genders, your Mantis character shares certain traits with the opposite sex.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score

Small Scavengers

Muscans are small creatures, only about 3 to 4 feet tall. Their hideous round bodies are held up by four spindly and hairy legs. Their grabby claw-like hands are attached at the ends of two equally thin arms. A pair of membranous wings on their back is just big enough to get their plump frames in the air. A muscans chitin is often black or grey, with the most exotic coloration being metallic sheens of green or gold. Their relatively huge compound eyes allow no threat or prey to escape their vision.

For most other insectoids, muscans are little more than hideous pests. Their ghastly appearance makes them the monsters in many a larvae's bedtime stories. As such, muscans are shunned by most people and met with disgust because of appearance alone. Of course, it rarely helps that many muscans enjoy rotten food as a lavish meal.

Lives too Short

Muscans are actually not the hideous beasts many expect them to be. In reality, they are pretty clever and are painfully aware of the impression they make on others.

A muscans life is short, their lifespans rarely

Muscan Traits

Through the dark connection to their abominable deity, Muscans have a variety of inherent abilities.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2 and your Charisma score increases by 1.

Age. Muscans mature very quickly, reaching adulthood at the age of 7. They have however very short lifespans, the oldest of them being only 40 years old.

Alignment. Muscans live secluded from other Insectoids in communities surrounding the worship of the Wurm God. As such most muscans tend to be evil creatures. They either sceem to prolong their short lives with any means necessary or follow the dogma of the Wurm, to consume everything and create chaos. Muscans tend to be neutral or chaotic.

Size. Muscans are frail creatures and are between 3 and 4 feet tall. Your size is Small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Flight. You have a flying speed of 15 feet, but you must land at the end of every minute or begin to fall. When you reach 5th level, your flying speed increases to 30 feet and the time restriction is lifted. To use this speed, you can’t be wearing medium or heavy armor.

Tiny and Ravenous

Most would describe a necrite as a tiny ball of fury. Necrites resemble humanoid termites that average only slightly over 3 feet tall, their relatively large head making up about a third of their height. These proportions would look silly on most creatures, but the enormous mandibles of necrites make them more terrifying than comical. Necrites use these mighty pincers as weapons and as tools for burrowing through solid rock and dirt.

Their exoskeleton's coloration is usually a milky white or light brown, though their head ranges from darker shades of

Practicality over Beauty

For most insectoids, a roach might look off-putting. The appearance of these 3 to 4 feet tall creatures is

Respirator. This augment grants you the effects of the water breathing spell once per long rest for 1 hour.

At 5th level: You can breathe normally in any environment. You have advantage on Saving Throws made against harmful gases and vapors (effects like cloudkill and stinking cloud, inhaled Poisons, and the breath Weapons of some dragons)

Intimidating Appearance

Scions are muscular scorpion-folk who stand at a tall 7 to 8 feet. Scions have two sets of arms. While their lower pair is regular, their muscular upper arms have giant pincers instead of hands that can deliver crushing force to anything or anyone unlucky enough to end up between them. However, the scariest part is the long tail with the venomous stinger at the end that can inject a potent poison into their foes.

Spiritual Guidance

Although they look pretty deadly, Scions rarely use lethal force against other creatures. They aspire to live in perfect balance, hunt, and produce only enough to sustain themselves and their clan. They believe that everything must have an equal cost and gain. Scions are wise and thoughtful individuals, however, they don't pray to a higher power. Instead, they commune with the spirits of times long passed to learn how to proceed in the future. Scion clans are led by a spiritual figure, often the elder of the tribe.

Ancient Legends

Scions are said to be one of the oldest races of Insectopia. Their history spans thousands of years, to a time where the Scions ruled over a vast empire. They are said to have guarded a gateway to a plane of death and drew power out of its magic. Their downfall came at the hands of an unnamed pharaoh, who let a horrible creature from beyond pass the gate. The ruins of this once enormous empire can still be found, scattered across the vast sands.

Nomads of Nowhere

Most Scions live as nomads of the endless sands. They live in big clans, often of only a few families, and don't ever stay at a place for too long. They know their desert environment very well and make excellent guides for anyone who wants to travel across the seas of sand. Only very few scions leave their clans, and even then, they rarely settle down. Most of the ones breaking away from the tribe tend to a life of adventure, abandon the balanced life their ancestors set for them and seek out their destinies.

Scion Traits

For Scions balance is everything in life, and as such there are many traits you share with others of your kind:

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2 and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Age. Scions reach adulthood around 15 and live up to 120 years.

Alignment. Most Scions live the tranquil lives of nomads, without being particularly concerned with society outside of their clan. They see a need of balance in all things in the world, especially with life and death. Your alignment tends towards true neutral.

Size. Scions are tall creatures standing around 7 to 8 ft. tall. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 35 feet.

Deadly Pincers. Your pincers are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Guardian of the Threshold. You gain advantage on death saving throws.

Poisonous Stinger. Your stinger is a natural weapon with a reach of 10 ft., which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

When you hit a creature with your stinger, you can choose to inflict 1d6 poison damage to the creature, and it has to make a Constitution saving throw with a DC equal to 8 + Proficiency + your Constitution modifier. On a failure, the creature is poisoned for 1 minute. It can repeat the save at the end of each of its turns. You must take a short or long rest before you can use this feature again.

Language. You speak Common, Insect-Common, and Scion. The Scion language is a strange and alien one, even to other insectoids. Their hissing almost sounds like a haunting melody of countless disembodied voices.

A race divided

The thoptras hail from the Cullpines, a plane that resembles a dark and gloomy pine forest. Survival in the Cullpines is brutal, it is either kill or be killed, and only the keenest hunters have a chance to survive. These thoptras that mastered the ways of the pines became the Locusts. They sought to empower their kin and rise above the plane's dangers. However, not all thoptras shared the locust's views and sought to leave the dangers of the Cullpines behind for good. They managed to transport themselves onto the Material Plane, which strengthened their innate magic. Drunk with power, the crickets betrayed their own kin, enslaving the locusts with their magics as they sought to rise as the new leaders of their people. With their loyal and brutal locust enforces and vile spells, the crickets build a tyranny on the back of thousands of insectoid slaves. Their tyranny was stopped only through an uprising led by their locust cousins. Ever since, the two factions have been divided, driven apart by the betrayal of their own kin.

Born Hunters

Locusts have an almost innate sense of hunting. Since their past in the Cullpines, they have always maintained close ties with the wilderness they dwell in. Their natural connection with beasts allows them to gain their assistance, and their own knowledge of the terrain makes their mobility almost mystical in the eyes of outsiders. Locust hunting swarms seem to work with an unearthly sense of unity and efficiency. Despite their claim of neutrality, locusts are simply distrustful of other races due to their previous enslavement under the crickets. However, most locusts are very loyal and to earn one's trust is to gain their friendship.

Life of the Party

While locusts still bear grudges of the past, most crickets have long since forgotten their previous position as tyrants. Having become nomads or settling in the courts of other bugs, crickets live in the present. Seeing the positives and avoiding the negatives, their laidback behavior can spark conflict with more strict figures, but many find their attitude relieving or calming during more trying times. Although a cricket's sudden mood swings often left too trusting individuals with a knife in their back and empty pockets.

Thoptra Traits

While crickets and locusts couldn't be more different from each other, there are still some traits all thoptra share.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity increases by 1.

Age. Thoptra reach maturity at 16 years of age and usually live up to 80 years.

Alignment. While locusts usually lean towards neutrality, focusing on their hunt and avoiding the affairs of the world, Crickets are jovial and carefree, and as such lean towards chaotic alignments.

Size. The two subraces of thoptra vary significantly in size: The locusts' lean bodies are between 4 to 6 feet tall, while the crickets' stocky build reaches only about 3 to 4 feet in height. Your size is Medium or Small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Language. You can speak, read and write Common, Insect-Common, and Thoptran. Thoptran is a curious language spoken through musical and rhythmic tones. The crickets' dialect is more melodic, leaning into chirping sounds, while the locusts' dialect consists more of sharp clicks.

Subraces. The thoptras are divided into two subraces, the charismatic yet whimsical Crickets, and the stoic and suspicious Locusts.

increases by 2.

Charming Musician. You know the friends cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the charm person spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the suggestion spell once and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Mystical Stridulation. You can replace verbal components for your spells with sounds you create from your wings and legs.

Performer's Intuition. You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice: Deception, Performance, or Persuasion.

Standing Leap. You can jump a distance equal to your walking speed and high jump equal to half of that distance, with or without a running start.

Regal Stripes

The common vespoid resembles a humanoid bee. They stand from 5 ft. up to 7 ft. in height, and most Insectoids think of vespoids as the epiphany of beauty. On top of their segmented abdomen rests, on a slim waist, a broader upper body. Their chitinous exoskeleton ranges in color from browns to yellows and oranges. Some may even be born in red or blue. Almost like to accentuate their beauty, their chitin is adorned by brown or black stripes.

Most vespoids sprout two or four translucent wings, allowing them to soar through the skies faster than most other Insectoid races, and their heads are crowned by two delicate antennae. However, their most prized feature is the soft white fur, pushed up around their neck like the mane of a lion.

Vespoids are very proud of their appearance, and as such, most wouldn't cover their bodies with clothing, except for some accessories to accentuate their radiant looks.

United in Purpose

Most vespoid nations are swarm-nations and as such, allegiance to their nation comes before friends and family for most vespoids. However, in vespoid society, the individual is valued a lot more than in other swarm-nations.

When a female vespoid gives birth to an egg, she doesn't raise it herself but gives it into the care of a comb-school. These nurseries care for the egg until it hatches and raise, educate, and train the child. So depending on the comb-school you are born into, you are put into a different role in society.

The worker caste is the lowest in vespoid society. Most bumbles and some bees that stem from poor parents are born into this caste. Individuals accepted into this caste work on the vast pollen fields of their empire or as master wax-craftsmen, creating the building materials for all manner of buildings.

A step above the worker caste is the soldier caste. Most vespoid nations value martial prowess highly, and as such, soldiers enjoy quite a bit of renown in their society. Moreover, vespoid nations often expand into vast empires and, as such, employ masterfully trained soldiers. These soldiers, in return, swear an oath to protect and grow their nation and are fiercely loyal to their queen.

The royal caste forms the highest and most influential caste. The few individuals in this caste form the vespidian aristocracy. These are the rulers, intellectuals, and scholars that shape their nation. At the center of this caste stands the queen, the absolute monarch in most vespidian empires. A queen chooses her successor from one of the comb-schools and raises her as a wise and noble ruler.

Although it can prove quite tricky, one individual can rise in society. For example, a worker bee might prove themselves as a worthy fighter and, as such, enter the ranks of the soldiers.

Vespoids are raised with a purpose to fulfill and value loyalty above all else. A vespoid would lay down their life for an ally or friend, but betray their trust, and you will have made a powerful enemy.

Nations in the Sky

As all common vespoids can fly, much of their everyday life is spent in the air. And their golden hive-cities reflect that. These massive metropolises are built high above in the canopies of giant trees. Some might even be held aloft through arcane means. They construct most of their buildings from very resilient wax that can withstand even high temperatures. Vespidian architects favor hexagonal structures and tall buildings with multiple entrances on all levels, giving their cities a very unique look.

Vespoid Traits

Vespoid show significant differences within their own race, but these traits are common for all of them.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score

intellectual matters. However, that doesn't mean that they

Chapter 2: Subclasses

This chapter presents new subclasses to supplement those in the fith edition core rules. These subclasses are closely connected to the different factions in Insectopia and as such can make your character feel more immersed in the setting.

Floating Weapon

Prerequisite: 10th-level

Path of the Symbiont

The symbionts are strange, mimic-like entities. Many scholars believe they came from the Far Realm to Insectopia, but they do not know why. Alone they are mere specks, barely noticeable for most creatures. However, when they find a worthy host, the symbionts unleash their true and terrifying potential.

Barbarians of the Path of the Symbiont draw their power from connecting with exactly those alien creatures. When entering a rage, the symbiont takes over and turns the host into a violent, bloodthirsty monster, wielding the symbiont as a tangible weapon with deadly precision. The symbiont hungers, and its primal fury affects its host. A symbiont may not always be evil, but with a need to feed and an appetite for conflict, a benign host is rare to find, much less a symbiont.

College of Pheromones

Bards of the College of Pheromones aren't mere performers like those of the same profession. They are masterful alchemists who express themselves not through story or music alone but also alluring lights and enthralling pheromones. Their grand displays incite heroic actions in their allies.

Divine Domains

Circle of Mutation

All Druids have the ability to shapeshift, transforming into wild beasts. Druids of the Circle of Mutation, however, use their primal magic to improve and manipulate the very structure of their bodies. They assimilate the aspects of terrible monstrosities to go against the natural order, to become more than their mortal forms allow them to.

As such, other druids often look upon the unnatural rituals performed by these individuals with disgust and terror. However, even they can't deny that circle of mutation druids achieve results far beyond a common druids capabilities.

Martial Archetype

Way of the Mantis

The Way of the Mantis is a path not many monks choose to tread. To master this tradition, one has to master absolute patience first. Only monks that achieve complete serenity within themselves can focus their strikes precisely enough to disable the flow of ki in living creatures. Monks of the Way of the Mantis stay in perfect stillness, not moving a single muscle, waiting for just the right time to strike.

Oath of the Swarm

The Oath of the Swarm is seldom sworn to a single deity. Instead, paladins of this oath vow themselves to their nation and people. They believe that to achieve greatness as a community, its people have to come together as one. However, these Paladins go even further than that. They do not only unite their people but unite them to strike down that which threatens their nation. They are masters in weaponizing their people. As it is always said: Offense is the best defense.

Hive Lord Conclave

While most rangers feel a deep connection to the environment around them, others use their magical connection to reach beyond the barriers of our multiverse. Those weak-minded will find only madness when experiencing the Far Realm's abstract world, but those who don't go insane in the process can become a Hive Lord. These rangers gain an even deeper understanding of their surroundings through telepathy and can call upon aberrant spirits that take the shape of giant Insects to lend them a helping hand in combat.

Evolved Drones

The Mimic

Those Rogues who take it upon themselves to embody the Mimic archetype take after the monstrosities they are named for. With a suite of abilities involving mimicry of both form and skill, Mimic Rogues are not only powerful friends, but dangerous foes. They use an innate magically ability, that allows their shadow to shape and form into copies of what they can perceive.

The Rupture

While other sorcerous bloodlines have an overabundance of arcane energy, Ruptures are the exact opposite. They are irregularities in the Weave, points where no arcane energy exists.

Many military organizations gladly take these ruptures into their ranks, training them to be used as efficient weapons against any spellcaster that would otherwise prove difficult to subdue.

Metamagic

The following section presents new metamagic options for the sorcerer. These metamagic options follow the same rules as metamagic options found in the 5th edition core rules.

The Great Wurm

Millennia have passed since the terrifying being, known as The Great Wurm, was banished by the Radiant Cocoon. However, the Wurm has left a festering scar on the Material Plane, from which its tendrils still stretch out to touch the souls of unlucky mortals. Outcasts, driven away from their hives. Those who have been mistreated their whole lives for being different. Folk that can't find a place to fit in. When these kinds of beings cry out their pain into the void, the void calls back with a promise to fix all their problems.

Warlocks of the Wurm become harbingers of the maw. These beings become insatiable creatures that want to see the world plunged into the eternal nothingness of chaos. For in chaos, nobody is different.

Pact Boons

If the Game Master allows it, at 3rd level, the warlock gains the following additional choice of pact boon.

Gift of the All Consumer

Prerequisite: 7th level, Pact of the Maw feature

You can eat an endless amount without suffering ill effects, including generally inedible materials (like wood, metal, or earth), though only food will sustain you.

Additionally, during a short rest, you can consume food to regain vitality. You regain a hit die for every day's worth of food you consume. If you are at your maximum amount of hit dice, you immediately regain hit points as if you'd expended a hit die. You can benefit from a number of rations equal to half your warlock level (rounded up) for each short rest.

Glutton's Delight

Prerequisite: 18th level, Pact of the Maw feature

You can cast heroes' feast once without expending a spell slot and without providing material components. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Slavering Gorge

Prerequisite: Pact of the Maw feature

Your tongue grows in size and lashes out to grapple a creature within 30 feet of you. You can use an action to make a ranged spell attack against a creature within range. On a hit, the creature is grappled (escape DC is equal to your spell save DC) by your tongue and pulled to an unoccupied space adjacent to you.

While grappling a creature in this way, you have disadvantage on any attack roll against creatures other than the grappled creature.

When you use the swallow action from your pact boon against the grappled creature, you have advantage on the melee spell attack.

Arcane Traditions

Racial Feats

The feats are presented below in alphabetical order.

Adamantine Chitin

Prerequisite: Beetlefolk (stag)

You further master the destructive fire magic of your people. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength, Dexterity, or Charisma score by 1, up to a maximum of 20.
• You learn the flame blade spell, and can cast it once without expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to cast the spell in this way when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for the spell.
• When making a melee spell attack with the flame blade you can use Strength or Dexterity modifiers for the attack roll.
• When you roll fire damage for a spell you cast, you can reroll any roll of 1 on the fire damage dice, but you must use the new roll, even if it is another 1.

Wandering the sands of your ancestors and viewing the deaths of many, your Scion blood sings the songs of those beyond. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength, Dexterity, or Wisdom score by 1, up to a maximum of 20.
• Your unarmed strikes made with your natural weapons count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
• When you roll piercing damage for an attack made with your natural weapons, you can add halve your proficiency bonus (rounded up) to the damage dealt.
• You gain resistance to necrotic damage.

The glimmering veil of the Flittermarsh quickens your flight and misdirects attackers. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Dexterity score by 1, up to a maximum of 20.
• You gain advantage on saving throws against falling prone while flying.
• When a creature you can see hits you with a ranged attack while flying, you can use your reaction to gain a bonus to AC against that attack, potentially causing it to miss you. The bonus is equal to your Proficiency bonus. You can't use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.

Your intuition always leads you safely back home. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Wisdom score by 1, up to a maximum of 20.
• Traveling at a fast pace doesn't impose the normal -5 penalty on your passive Wisdom (Perception) score.
• You can create a guiding light that leads you to your destination. If you concentrate on a location you have been to on the same plane of existence, you can create a floating globe of light that leads you along the most direct physical path to the specified location. The light can't lead you to a destination on another plane of existence, a destination that moves, or a destination you haven't personally been at. You have to concentrate on the light as if it were a spell and it vanishes after 1 day or if you lose concentration. You can't use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.

System Reference Document 5.1 Copyright 2016, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford, Chris Perkins, Rodney Thompson, Peter Lee, James Wyatt, Robert J. Schwalb, Bruce R. Cordell, Chris Sims, and Steve Townshend, based on original material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. END OF LICENSE