Playable Lineage Rules For Darkling, Meazle and Meenlock characters
17 thematic Feats and Flaws in a structured feat selection tree
3 Creature Statblocks:Darkling Elder Paladin, Meazel Warlock and Meenlock Barbarian
Sure, you’re a nice DM. You want to give your players what they want. But when what they want is to play “Something from the Monster Manual”, then that’s just not practical. Or is it?
Here we offer our take on the Darkling, an interesting and, in our view, underdeveloped fey species that deserves its place in the sun (ouch). You can also use this ruleset to create playable meazels and meenlocks or to transform unwitting Player Characters into meenlocks who may possibly retain their earlier memories and personality. DM’s may also wish to make the full Darkling feat/flaw tree available to Shadar-Kai characters.
Our approach to playable monsters begins with the use of Tasha’s custom lineages, or the selection of the closest available official race or lineage choice, but we don’t stop there. We break down all of the cooler powers and features of the monster stat block and rebuild them as an optional feat tree. This lets players select the aspects of the monster they find most appealing as the character levels up. By making PCs pay for the cool bits using their ASI increases and carefully arranging the feat tree structures, the power level of the new monstrous PC is kept firmly in line with the rest of the party.
- from the publisher's blurb