Play one of the dozen or so other animal races. Like maybe the rabbit one is closest, and say you look like a hamster instead of a rabbit. Or use the custom lineage rules from Tasha’s.
Assuming you mean an anthropomorphic hamster race, you'll need to find or create a homebrew for it. There are official animal races but nothing imo that really fits a hamster, though you could use one of the others as a baseline and change the features around to fit a hamster.
how can I make a hamster as a playable character not a NPC in the races it only allows me to select from 14 normal races?
Make it a human ( a character)with all the skills levels and abilities.
Then polymorph it into a hamster.
Now it has a reason to stay alive and not be falcon food.
If you just want a world filled by hamsters then its all up to you.'
They could have the ability to hold stuff in their cheeks.
Play one of the dozen or so other animal races. Like maybe the rabbit one is closest, and say you look like a hamster instead of a rabbit.
Or use the custom lineage rules from Tasha’s.
Assuming you mean an anthropomorphic hamster race, you'll need to find or create a homebrew for it. There are official animal races but nothing imo that really fits a hamster, though you could use one of the others as a baseline and change the features around to fit a hamster.
You should definitely play it as a Ranger (with the rescue subclass)
See, I thought you were going to “a ranger with a miniature giant space minsc in your pocket.” But yours is more creative.
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