More playful than sprites, more vicious than pixies, the scamps are tiny fairies with a penchant for trickery and a talent for impersonation. They appear as misshapen and emaciated pixies, often with a pale or ashen cast to their skin. Some have wings like moths, but others have feathered wings like those of a small hummingbird or crow. They are highly competitive and often envious of others, though their emotions and desires are mercurial and ever-changing, even when kept hidden.

The cunning scamps delight in playing tricks that are always at least a bit more than harmless, and they often gleefully revel in the misfortune of others. Most scamps plays pranks to make their target feel worse -- and the worse they feel at the end, the more fun a typical scamp has. Most scamps are selective with their trickery, only targeting those they feel deserve to be taught a lesson or "taken down a peg or two." Some weaker scamps have been on the wrong end of their peers' torment too many times, and this pushes them toward kindness and good alignments. But sometimes their torment can fester into bitterness and hatred, pushing a scamp to evil.

There are communities where pixies and scamps live together without much issue, but many pixie villages do not get along well with most scamps. Scamps often live in their own small communities, but sometimes live in secret among the other races, such as humans or elves. Some families of scamps live as nomads, roaming from place to place and hiding wherever they can find.

In some worlds, scamps are known by other names, such as boggarts or gremlins. In worlds where fey are divided between the seelie and unseelie, scamps are the unseelie counterpart to pixies.

Scamp Traits

Ability Score Increase

Your Intelligence score or your Charisma score increases by 1 (your choice).

Innate Spellcasting

You know the minor illusion cantrip. Once you reach 3rd level, you can cast the silent image spell once, and it recharges after a long rest. Once you reach 5th level, you can also cast invisibility once, and it recharges after a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells, and you don't require material components to cast them.

Trickster

You have proficiency in the Deception skill and one gaming set of your choice.

Extra Language

You can speak, read, and write one language of your choice.