Man-Eating Plant (3.5e Race)

Author: Foxwarrior (talk) Date Created: 11/2/24 Status: Growing and eating. Editing: Clarity edits only please

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Man-Eating Plant

You may not be very mobile, but surely your party members will feed you, right?

Personality

Man-eating plants are highly social creatures, they tend to develop strategies to get other people to help bring them to their food, or bring their food to them.

Physical Description

Man-eating plants resemble venus flytraps, but their mouths have expressive lips and can talk. They have a bendy stem, and four flexible vines. However, they're not capable of pulling their own weight, and need to be embedded in dirt most of the time or they will wither and die over the course of 2d6 hours.

Relations

Man-eating plants need to form relationships with other races to survive, as they can only barely survive by hiding and waiting to ambush prey on their own.

Alignment

Somewhat more often Evil than Good.

Lands

Man-eating plants prefer to live in places where there are men to eat.

Religion

They usually worship deities of growth or plants or weather or blood, delicious blood.

Language

Common, and they tend to pick up the local languages.

Names

Man-eating plants are usually given normal person names appropriate to the local culture, like Audrey or Mialee.

Racial Traits

• +4 Strength, +2 Constitution, -2 Dexterity: Being immobile and made of strong plant matter, the Man-Eating Plant has good leverage and grip strength.
• Plant: Man-Eating plants are plants and thus have plant immunities. 
• Small: As a Small creature, a man-eating plant gains a +1 size bonus to Armor Class, a +1 size bonus on attack rolls, a –4 size penalty on special attack (bull rushes, grapples, overruns, and trips) checks, and a +4 size bonus on Hide checks, but it uses smaller weapons than humans use, and its lifting and carrying limits are three-quarters of those of a Medium character.
• Man-Eating Plant base land speed is 0 feet. Man-Eating Plants can't move on their own. 
• Vines: Man-Eating Plants have four slender vines, which they can use clumsily as arms. Attacks made with weapons wielded in the vines get a -6 penalty to hit, and skill and ability checks made using the vines get a -3 penalty. 
• Movement Awkwardness: Even if they do somehow gain a movement speed, Man-Eating Plants struggle to get used to moving on their own, so all their movement speeds are halved. 
• Chomping Mouth: Man-Eating Plants have a primary bite attack that deals 1d10 damage. 
• Blind: Man-Eating Plants cannot see, but they do have Scent and Blindsight, with a blindsight range equal to that of their scent (30 feet normally, 60 feet upwind, and 15 feet downwind).
• Automatic Languages: Common
• Bonus Languages: Any, except secret languages other than Druidic.
• Favored Class: Barbarian or Battle Chef
• Level Adjustment: +0
• Effective Character Level: 1

Vital Statistics

Table: Man-Eating Plant Random Starting Ages

Adulthood	Simple	Moderate	Complex
1 years	+1d4 months	+2d4 months	+3d4 months

Table: Man-Eating Plant Aging Effects

Middle Age1	Old2	Venerable3	Maximum Age
100 years	300 years	600 years	+4d100 years
At middle age, −1 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha. At old age, −2 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha. At venerable age, −3 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha.

(Man-Eating Plants increase in size one category per age category, but they still get the ability score adjustments of normal aging.)

Table: Man-Eating Plant Random Height and Weight

Gender	Base Height	Height Modifier	Base Weight	Weight Modifier
Male	2' 6"	+2d6"	30 lb.	× (1d6) lb.
Female	2' 6"	+2d6"	30 lb.	× (1d6) lb.

(Weight includes the weight of sufficient dirt to keep them healthy. Reduce by 30% if uprooted.)

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