Imprinted Oblex (Player Race)

In their experimentation with the slimes, jellies, oozes, and puddings that infest the Underdark, mind flayers created the Oblex. A special breed of ooze, oblexes sustain themselves by feeding upon the memories of their prey, stalking their prey using uncanny sulfurous simulacra of their previous victims. This torturous experimentation yielded a vast array of these monstrosities, and when a gelatinous cube brought along a partially-digested stowaway, something new came to life.

Memory Eaters. Oblexes feed on thoughts and memories, preferring those of vast intellect. Wizards and artificers, who flaunt their intelligence proudly, are likely targets. Engulfing its prey, an oblex absorbs the memories of the unlucky soul, leaving them disoriented and listless.

Favoured Form

The imprinted oblex holds on to the memories of a particular person: its first victim, a powerful catch, or a tag-along soul in the mind flayers' cruel experiments. Such an oblex will wear this face proudly, preferring it to other forms it has learned. This form will grow and learn as the oblex does, but not always in line with expectations. A form may grow years older in the span of days, or grow younger as time marches on.

Imprinted Oblex Traits

Your oblex character has been imbued with unnatural life by mind flayers, and will likely have these traits.

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

Age Juvenile oblexes grow quickly and have usually matured within a year from their creation. An oblex's lifespan has been recorded anywhere up to 20 years.

Alignment Most oblexes are chaotic, with little care for rules and codes. While a regular oblex cares only for consumption, an imprinted oblex will more often than not strive towards good to preserve the humanity they hold dear.

Size Oblexes will grow throughout their lives, with a juvenile being a small creature, and full grown elder being huge creatures. Most imprinted oblexes maintain a size of large, with their amorphous shape weighing up to 400 pounds.

Speed Your base shambling speed is 20 feet

Languages You understand common and undercommon, but are unable to write or speak using your main form. You can read, write, and speak through your simulacra, but only in languages that visage knows. Your favoured form read, write, and speak any languages specified in their race (except where specified as an extra language), and any additional languages granted by class or background.

Gelatinous Body Your form is a collection of ooze and viscera. You are able to move through a space as narrow as 1 foot wide without squeezing. You are unable to wear armor, and your armor class is 10 + your constitution modifier. Your main body is unable to attack, cast spells or use special abilities (aside from racial abilities), this has to be done through one of your simulacra.

Imprinted Oblex Abilities

Absorb Memories You can spend 10 minutes to absorb the memories of a living creature, and you may gain the creature as one of your visages. The target loses all their memories until it finishes a short or long rest or until it benefits from the greater restoration or heal spell.

Sulfurous Visage As an action, you may form a simulacrum of one visage, and use your entire movement to separate it from your main form. This simulacrum appears, feels, and sounds exactly like the creature it impersonates, though it smells faintly of sulfur. The simulacrum is tethered to oblex’s main body by a strand of slime that can extend up to 60 feet away. The slimy tether is immune to damage, but it is severed if there is no opening at least 1 inch wide between the Oblex's main body and the simulacrum. The simulacrum disappears if the tether is severed, if you use your bonus action to dismiss it, or when the main body falls unconscious or dies. You may have up to two simulacra active at any point.

Stolen Memories Your class proficiencies, abilities, and spellcasting manifest in your favoured form. In addition to this form, you may remember an additional number of forms equal to your intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) . When trying to recall a memory, make an intelligence (History) check, with the DC determined by the DM based on the age and secrecy of the memory.

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Creator Credit

Creature Based on the creature from Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes by Wizards of the Coast and Nolan Whale

Art from Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes by Wizards of the Coast

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