1. Lidless Eyes
Your eyes no longer fully close.
You gain advantage on Perception checks relying on sight, but disadvantage on saves against bright light, dust, or blinding effects.
2. Split Maw
Your jaw hangs wider than any human’s should.
You gain a bite attack dealing 1d6 piercing, but have disadvantage on Persuasion and clear speech is unsettling.
3. Bone Plating
Jagged plates of bone push through your skin.
You gain +1 AC, but your speed is reduced by 5 feet.
4. Hooked Hands
Your fingers have partly fused into claws.
Your unarmed strikes deal 1d4 slashing, but you have disadvantage on checks requiring delicate manual work.
5. Distended Spine
Your posture becomes wrong, hunched or sharply arched.
You gain advantage on checks to resist being shoved or knocked prone, but disadvantage on Stealth checks in civilized settings.
6. Predator Scent
Your body carries an obvious musk of blood and beast.
You gain advantage on Survival checks to track by scent, but creatures have advantage to track you the same way.
7. Blackened Veins
Dark vessels pulse visibly beneath your skin.
You gain advantage on saves against poison or disease, but common folk react to you with fear or disgust.
8. Chitin Growths
Hard insect-like ridges spread across part of your body.
You gain resistance to slashing or piercing damage from one hit per short rest, but vulnerability to bludgeoning damage.
9. Vestigial Limb
A half-formed arm, tendril, or claw protrudes from you.
You gain advantage on checks to grapple, but cannot fully conceal your mutations.
10. Leaking Wounds
Your flesh never quite seals right.
The first creature to hit you with a melee attack each combat takes 1d4 acid or necrotic damage, but magical healing on you is reduced by your proficiency bonus.
11. Hollow Voice
Your voice becomes layered, wet, or inhuman.
You gain advantage on Intimidation, but disadvantage on Deception and Persuasion.
12. Shifting Flesh
Your features subtly crawl and rearrange themselves at rest.
You gain advantage on checks to escape grapples or restraints