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Common names include Chak-tha, Drik-chkit, Kacht-ta, Ptekwe, Tak-tha, Tik-tik, Kat’chka, Pak’cha, Pik-ik-cha.Ĭarapace Armor. Thri-Kreen have a thick outer carapace, granting them a base AC equal to 13 plus their Dexterity modifier.

Thri-Kreen make no distinction between male and female names, nor do they use a surname. Therefore, they are almost always chaotic in alignment, and often neutral with respect to good and evil. Charisma decreases by 1.Īlignment.Thri-Kreen have a sense of morality that is alien to most humanoid races. Click to embiggen.Ībility Score Increase.Your Dexterity and Wisdom scores increase by 1. So for D&D 5e it was important to reign back many of their abilities, while emphasizing the ruleset that makes D&D 5e so great. But the Thri-kreen are a powerful race, ideally suited for Arthas, the hostile planet of the Dark Sun setting. Princes of the Apocalypse introduced the aarakocra to D&d 5e, so in addition to the bird men, we need the bug men. Well, the D&D 5e Monster Manual gives the Thri-Kreen a one page spread, so let’s start there and see if we can’t get a playable class into your homebrew campaigns. But the problem is the Dark Sun Thri-Kreen were heavily tied to psionics, something that isn’t yet available in D&D 5e. When the Thri-Kreen were made a playable race in the Dark Sun campaign setting, it was glorious on the level of having a pristine white unicorn graze your front lawn. Later, they were included in the Forgotten Realms setting in 1989, but no one really cared about all that came before, because Dark Sun, man, Dark. The Thri-Kreen first displayed their multiple appendages in the AD&D Monster Manual II in 1983. The Thri-Kreen are not a playable race in D&D 5e, so we’ll first need to take a little history lesson before we take a stab at creating our custom Thri-Kreen for D&D 5e.

Sure, all that power was mitigated by a short lifespan, communication issues, and an inability to use many magic items and armor due to their oddly shaped insectoid bodies, but still, what a freaking cool D&D class.

The Thri-Kreen mantis men of Dungeons and Dragons have four arms, carapace armor, leaping ability, and a paralytic bite, so really the only thing they are missing is a head that swivels 360 degrees.