Novashard - 5e Homebrew Race

# Novashard - 5e Homebrew Race
### by Nines, V1.0

## Stardust and Memory
From places unknown to civilization hail the Novashards, a race formed from a shattered celestial body. With luminous bodies and scattered memories, these fragments of celestial power live in moments of caprice, with little reflection on their past. Based on the Novakids of Starbound.

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## Novashard Features
Novashards share the following features.

### Ability Score Increase
Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1.

### Flexible Ability Score Increase (Optional)
If your table uses Tasha's rules for character creation, you may increase one ability score of your choice by 2 and a different ability score of your choice by 1 instead of the set ability score increases shown above.

### Creature Type
As a Novashard, you are the closest thing to a star in humanoid form. Your creature type is both Celestial and Humanoid.

### Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common, Celestial, and one other language of your choice.

### Made of Light
You shine with a bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet. This light can be colored as you like, and can be blocked by opaque objects. As an action, you can change the color of the light, and can dim or brighten it within this radius.

In addition, you have resistance to radiant damage.

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### Stellar Combatant
You have an instinctive knowledge of certain forms of ranged combat. You have proficiency with light, heavy, and hand crossbows.

### Photon Burst
Your plasma-like hands are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. You may use either Strength or Dexterity for your unarmed strikes, and if you hit with them, you deal radiant damage equal to 1d4 plus the ability modifier you used for the attack roll, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

You can also use your unarmed strikes to make a ranged weapon attack by ejecting a burst of plasma from your fingers, dealing radiant damage equal to 1d4 plus the ability modifier you used for the attack roll on a hit. This attack has a normal range of 30 feet and no long range.

### Unending Breath
You can hold your breath indefinitely while you are not incapacitated.

>Image Credit: [Starbound Character](https://www.deviantart.com/noxseban/art/Starbound-Character-627340486 "title") by NoxSeban