The Half Oni Race

# ***The Half Oni***

> ***"Half Oni 1: Hey have you seen the jailor recently?***
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>  ***Half Oni 2: Yeah, bastard tried to jail me so I smashed his head in***
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> ***Half Oni 1: Right on brother."***
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## **Physical description:**

Half Oni takes traits from both of their parents, usually for most Half Oni, they take the skin color and physical build of humans, while inheriting the hair color and horns of an Oni, they also sometimes may inherit the teeth or other such traits of an Oni but the human part of them takes a strong priority.

## **History:**

Half Oni and humans, at least body shape wise, are pretty similar, so it's not surprising that sometimes once in a blue moon, they may become partners or just mate once or twice. Out of all the half races Half Oni's are the most rare as biologically, Oni and humans don't have good compatibility genetically, as such Half Oni's are sometimes captured, sold, or killed and used like trophies. This foul practice has mostly gone away over time, however Half Oni's seem to hold this grudge against other races despite hundreds of years passing since that era.

## **Society:**

Half Oni are extremely rare, as such, they usually live amongst other races, perhaps orcs or trolls, or humans, Half Oni's grow up feeling alone in the world as they know they're are very few of their species in the world, and even fewer people Amongst the people of the world who could ever accept them. As such they fundamentally are inclined to grow up and develop personalities that are twisted and extreme.

## **Half Oni names:**

Male: Fukushu, Ky, Arashi.

Female: Ikari, Kureiji, Yoshanai.

## **Half Oni Traits:**

**Ability score improvement:** Increase your strength by 2 and your Charisma by 1.

**Age:** Half Oni usually live up to around 200 years old and mature at 25.

**Alignment:** Because of their upbringing Half Oni tends towards the neutral spectrum and has a strong tendency for evil.

**Size:** Half Oni are medium size and tend to be 6 to 7 feet tall.

**Speed:** Half Oni have a movement speed of 30 feet.

**Darkvision:** As a half Oni you can see well in the dark You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

**Oni recovery:** As someone with Oni blood, your body recovers much faster than other races from wounds. Whenever ,making a short rest, roll twice the amount of hit dice to recover, and whenever you make a long rest, you get temporary hit points equal to your level\* Your Constitution modifier.

**Oni rage:** You can, as a bonus action, go into a mind numbing rage, while in this rage your intelligence score is reduced to 3, and your eyes glow red, as your entire body seems to seep and expel red mist made out of your very spirit.

While in this form you have advantage on intimidation checks, and have your strength stat and saving throw is doubled.

Along with your body, your weapons seem to be absorbing this power as well, whenever you make a melee attack in this form, you can add your Charisma and your proficiency mod to your accuracy roll, this can only be done once per turn each time.

When you land a critical hit you can add your Strength, Charisma, and Proficiency mod to your damage.

This form lasts 30 seconds, then dissipates, you can force this form to stay active longer than this, but for each additional 5 seconds of transformation you add you gain a level of exhaustion.

This feature can only be used once per long rest.

**Language:** Half Oni’s know Common and Giant.