I'm currently reviewing characters for a campaign and one of the players has a rather detailed homebrew race I'm going through.
The main two aspects I'm reviewing right now is the size vs the "in lore" size of the species and the species having four arms.
"[...] height between 13- 16 inches and weigh 2-3 lbs."
Four Armed
You have two secondary arms below your primary pair of arms. The secondary arms can manipulate an object, open or close a door or container, or pick up or set down an object. They cannot be used to wield weapons or shields.
The write up for the race makes it pretty clear to me that even though they have four arms, they can't do things like a Thri-keen or Loxodon since they are borderline tiny and anatomically, the arms mostly serve to help with climbing or holding small things like a paintbrush. However, a drinking cup scaled for a human would be pretty big for these little guys.
Should I have him leave the four arms thing as a fluff thing and take it off the traits? Or should I let him keep it and work with the intent?
I don't think it would be broken to give them an additional use of "interact with an object." I'm not sure how that translates to 2024, but it would encompass drawing/stowing items, opening a door, pulling a lever, etc. But not administering a potion, equipping a shield, using a magic item, etc. Seems to be pretty much what they're expecting already.
Size is the bigger problem IMO. The game does not support Tiny PCs and I think there's a lot of unintended benefits here:
Moving through any creature's space as long as it's medium or bigger
Crawling through cracks/under doors
Being carried by allies for physical challenges that it would otherwise be horrible at
Attempting to hide in pockets or other cover that no other PC could hide in
Lets not even get into equipment because unlike Pathfinder 2e, DnD hasn't abstracted things out to something like "Bulk", and they use weight in lbs. All the gear is assumed to be around the same scale. I'm thinking I'm going to let them try it at that size as it feels less broken then flying. A pouch is basically a backpack for this little fellow.
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I'm currently reviewing characters for a campaign and one of the players has a rather detailed homebrew race I'm going through.
The main two aspects I'm reviewing right now is the size vs the "in lore" size of the species and the species having four arms.
"[...] height between 13- 16 inches and weigh 2-3 lbs."
Four Armed
You have two secondary arms below your primary pair of arms. The secondary arms can manipulate an object, open or close a door or container, or pick up or set down an object. They cannot be used to wield weapons or shields.
The write up for the race makes it pretty clear to me that even though they have four arms, they can't do things like a Thri-keen or Loxodon since they are borderline tiny and anatomically, the arms mostly serve to help with climbing or holding small things like a paintbrush. However, a drinking cup scaled for a human would be pretty big for these little guys.
Should I have him leave the four arms thing as a fluff thing and take it off the traits? Or should I let him keep it and work with the intent?
I don't think it would be broken to give them an additional use of "interact with an object." I'm not sure how that translates to 2024, but it would encompass drawing/stowing items, opening a door, pulling a lever, etc. But not administering a potion, equipping a shield, using a magic item, etc. Seems to be pretty much what they're expecting already.
Size is the bigger problem IMO. The game does not support Tiny PCs and I think there's a lot of unintended benefits here:
My homebrew subclasses (full list here)
(Artificer) Swordmage | Glasswright | (Barbarian) Path of the Savage Embrace
(Bard) College of Dance | (Fighter) Warlord | Cannoneer
(Monk) Way of the Elements | (Ranger) Blade Dancer
(Rogue) DaggerMaster | Inquisitor | (Sorcerer) Riftwalker | Spellfist
(Warlock) The Swarm
Lets not even get into equipment because unlike Pathfinder 2e, DnD hasn't abstracted things out to something like "Bulk", and they use weight in lbs. All the gear is assumed to be around the same scale. I'm thinking I'm going to let them try it at that size as it feels less broken then flying. A pouch is basically a backpack for this little fellow.