Yuan-ti
Note: The Yuan-ti race may only be selected by spending a Greater Award!
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Description
Yuan-ti purebloods appear human at first glance, with only very subtle snakelike features. A pureblood is about the same height and weight as a human.
The yuan-ti are descended from humans whose bloodlines have been mingled with those of snakes. Their evilness, cunning, and ruthlessness are legendary. Yuan-ti constantly scheme to advance their own dark agendas. They are calculating and suave enough to form alliances with other evil creatures when necessary, but they always put their own interests first. All yuan-ti possess some snakelike features, and many have snake body parts.
Yuan-ti that can pass for humans with suitable clothing, cosmetics, and magic are known as purebloods. These creatures are usually charged with infiltrating humanoid societies and managing covert operations that require direct contact with humanoids. Pureblood travel throughout Faerûn, infiltrating human societies everywhere. Most can easily disguise their snakelike features to pass for humans. Typically, purebloods serve as spies and agents, carrying out the plots of higher-ranking yuan-ti. Some, however, are ambitious enough to make their own plans, and a few even leave their fellow yuan-ti and embrace human society completely. Such purebloods can make enjoyable player characters.
Purebloods are the least intelligent of the yuan-ti, though they still pride themselves on being more intelligent than humans.
Yuan-ti are geniuses and fight as such. They plan elaborate traps and utilize their surroundings superbly in combat, preferring ambushes to direct confrontation. They also prefer ranged attacks and spells to melee. In a mixed group, the least valuable and powerful attack first. This means that the purebloods go before the halfbloods, which go before the abominations. The group leader may order particular members forward before others if that makes for better strategy.
Roleplay tips
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Playing a Hidden Monstrous Races
If playing a race that has the ability to hide it monstrous nature, you must understand that should they become well-known and outed then they should expect to be considered and treated as a Monstrous Race and all the rules that applies to playing a monster race will apply to your character.
If outed as one of these races, whilst entering settlements would not be a rule break, you should likely expect to be thrown out by PCs or NPCs, with little recourse.
Creating new character on Arelith
Prerequisites:
- Base Race: Human
- Alignment restriction: Any Evil
- Requires Greater Award
Abilities
- All base race abilities and feats
- +2 INT, +2 CHA, +2 DEX
- Bluff +6
- Bonus Feat: Snake Blooded
- Darkvision
- Immunity to Poison
- Use Poison
- Serpentine Polymorph - Via the -polymorph command, a yuan-ti may shift into their viper form, their human form, and their hybrid form. Male yuan-ti will turn use the lizardfolk model, female yuan-ti will use the yuan-ti model. More information can be found using the '-polymorph ?' command.
ECL +3
Aging
| Age | Bonus | |
|---|---|---|
| Adulthood | 18 Years | +2d20 |
| Middle Age | 35 Years | |
| Old | 53 Years | |
| Venerable | 70 Years | |
Notes
Bugs
Some older yuan-ti characters may experience a bug where their body appears a headless dwarf. Please contact the admins if this happens to your character.
| Human | Human - Deep Imaskari - Firbolg - Half-Giant - Shadovar |
| Dwarf | Shield Dwarf - Gold Dwarf - Duergar - Wild Dwarf |
| Elf | Moon Elf - Aquatic Elf - Avariel - Fey'ri - Sun Elf - Wild Elf - Wood Elf |
| Gnome | Rock Gnome - Svirfneblin - Forest Gnome |
| Halfling | Lightfoot Halfling - Ghostwise Halfling - Strongheart Halfling - Fey |
| Half-Elf | Half-Elf - Gloaming - Green Hag - Kenku |
| Half-Orc | Half-Orc |
| Monstrous | Drow - Goblin - Kobold - Gnoll - Orog - Hobgoblin - Ogre - Minotaur - Imp - Troglodyte - Yuan-ti Pureblood - Derro - Rakshasa - Vampire - Grodd Goblin - Snow Goblin - Bugbear |
| Planetouched | Aasimar - Air Genasi - Earth Genasi - Fire Genasi - Water Genasi - Tiefling |
