Living Jar

A strange creature resembling a jar with arms and legs. They come in various sizes, and are often found sitting still, until an enemy gets too close. The larger variants are more dangerous than the smaller ones.

Living Jar Traits

Your Living Jar character has certain traits deriving from your scupted anatomy.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution ability score increases by 2, and you may increase another abilility score of your choice by 1.

Age. Living Jars siphon the lingering lifeforce from the cadavers that they store within their vessels. As long as they have a consistent supply of energy, it theorized that they’ll exist until their vessel is shattered.

Alignment. Living Jars tend to take on social characteristics that the corpses in their vessel had in life. Most common are those with warrior spirits, leading to a more lawful oulook on things.

Size. Living Jars are between 3 and 8 feet tall and weigh between 50 and 300 pounds. Your size is either Small or Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 ft.

Stone Vessel. While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Strength modifier + your Constitution modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

Living Burial Urn. Your cylindrical form allows the following benefits:

• You have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage.
• You are immune to disease.
• You don’t need to eat, drink, or breathe. You do need to keep at least one humanoid cadaver or skeleton within your vessel at all times.Without one, your body is inert and lifeless.
• You don’t need to sleep and don’t suffer the effects of exhaustion due to lack of rest, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Decomposed Reimbursment. As an action, you can insert a partial or whole humanoid body into your vessel and gain knowledge from it based on how recent their death was:

Fresh: You know the identity of the body and their alignment if they had one, a clear recollection of the last day of their life, as well as a vaugue recollection of the last week of their life.

Rotten: You know the identity of the body and their alignment if they had one and a vaugue recollection of the last week of their life.

Skeletal: You know the identity of the body and their alignment if they had one.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, and one language of your choice.