PLAYER ANCESTRY: PLANEYFOLK

I’ve been wanting to make the Planeyfolk a playable ancestry for a while, I just hadn’t sat down and worked out how their special rules would function. I finally decided to have a stab at it today. Here are the results.

The study of hypergeometry claimed many casualties, for those who seek to unpick the stitches of creation do so at great risk. The slightest mistake in hypergeometric calculations could cause strange and ghastly distortions of matter, birthing monstrosities of perspective and volume, the sight of which turned even the most courageous man into a coward.

Planeyfolk are the descendants of such unfortunates, a race fathered by those who slipped through the cracks of Euclidean space into something new and strange. Some have normal proportions, and can be mistaken for a true person when viewed head-on. Others are possessed of more exotic geometry, their forms warped by impossible vanishing points and blasphemous angles.

Special Rules

Flat – You were born without a third dimension, and resemble a living painting or paper doll. You can slip through cracks and under doors, and cannot be seen from the side. You take halved damage from bludgeoning attacks, and doubled damage from slashing or piercing attacks. You must make a STR save to move across open ground against the wind. 

Attune– You struggle to hold 3D objects, and must make a DEX save to do so. However, with certain techniques you can draw 3D objects into your flattened reality. Given a few hours’ of quiet concentration, you may attune yourself with an item and add it to your inventory. Once altered in this way the item cannot be made whole again.

Spark Tables

	BODY	HEAD	HAIR	ATTIRE
1	Fractured	Impressionistic	Flickering	Dark
2	Cloven	Broken	Insubstantial	Unruly
3	Flimsy	Lantern-like	Curved	Scholarly
4	Waifish	Crescent shaped	Voluminous	Masked
5	Curved	Blurred	Opalescent	Wild
6	Elongated	Luminous	Shaven	Polychromic
7	Staccato	Angular	Iridescent	Fractal
8	Blurred	Fractal	Lurid	Glitching
9	Ghostlike	Hollow	Fractal	Gauzy
10	Draping	Shimmering	Polygonal	Fragmented
11	Compressed	Lurid	Shard-like	Mosaic-like
12	Cubic	Lustrous	Triangular	Boxy
13	Smeared	Rhomboid	Splintering	Flamboyant
14	Sharp	Figment	Dark	Dour
15	Angular	Wide	Imposing	Striped
16	Prismatic	Elongated	Pale	Spotted
17	Hollow	Helix	Cubic	Glass-like
18	Delicate	Triangular	Polychromic	Concealing
19	Isometric	Quadrilateral	Drifting	Barbaric
20	Imposing	Fragmentary	Fragmentary	Outrageous

	NAME	DEMEANOUR	YOUR STRANGE GEOMETRY
1	Clotho	Anxious	You Cast Two Shadows
2	Atropos	Arrogant	You Never Cast Shadows
3	Osteria	Assertive	Move Like Stop-Motion Animation
4	Vanise	Charismatic	Your Face Appears Concave
5	Whervil	Concieted	Your Face Appears Convex
6	Laomer	Decadent	You Always Appear In Profile
7	Jarnaq	Eloquent	You Always Face Away From Observers
8	Thelik	Extravagant	One Limb Is Enormously Long
9	Umbrie	Hedonistic	If Viewed From Behind You Have No Skin
10	Salter	Impulsive	Your Interiors Are Visible, But Cannot be Touched
11	Atlassia	Irritable	Your Hands Are Fractal; Tiny Hands on Ends of Fingers
12	Eukelaris	Meticulous	You Bleed Gory Cubes
13	Galas	Persistent	Your Body is Clearly Hollow
14	Tarvi	Quiet	Eyes Appear to be Holes of Infinite Depth
15	Untermance	Religious	Voice Sounds As If You Are Far Away
16	Rassias	Pugnacious	You Have No Back, Just Two Identical Fronts
17	Menomeo	Scholarly	Your Head Is Ten Times Larger Than Your Body
18	Ithari	Stern	You Never Seem to Touch Anything
19	Canetonus	Unruly	You Have Multiple Identical Faces
20	Trout	Volatile	You Never Match the Ambient Light

As I often do, I’ll end by using the tables to generate a character. We end up with Menomeo, a pugnacious planeywoman with a rhomboid head. Her body is waifish, he attire polychromatic, and her hair is voluminous. Her strange geometric quirk is that she bleeds gory red cubes. Interesting. I imagine her as some kind of entertainer, perhaps living on the walls of a Gnomonian tavern. The fact that her blood turns 3D when it leaves her body is fascinating. I imagine some of Gnomon’s Philosopher’s Guilds would pay quite handsomely to investigate that effect further, a fate Menomeo would do well to avoid…