Homebrew Lesser Sand Kobold (Modified) Species Details

The Lesser Sand Kobold

You are a Lesser Sand Kobold, distant relative of the common Kobold usually found burrowing underground and using their keen mind of traps to their advantage. Instead, you use your keen mind of using the materials in your surroundings to your advantage, crafting necklaces and bracelets and exchanging them to strangers for scraps of food. As such, people often portray you as a gentle, innocent, and kind subrace and expect no harm to come from you. 

Your physical and behavioural changes are the most striking when comparing the Lesser Sand Kobold to the normal Kobold, and one swimming in the shallow beaches of Ariatum may mistake you for a merfolk, with your sandy-coloured scales, webbed toes and fingers, and your tail, almost as long as your body, which aids you in gracefully streamlining through the waves.

As for your behaviour, your race has abandoned trap-making completely, either for better or for worse, instead using your wits to implement whatever you find to your advantage; This has materialised in the famous shell-jewelry your kind is renowned for making for.

Lesser Sand Kobold Names

A Lesser Sand Kobold usually uses the same names as their regular Kobold cousins, however they often implement the Aquan tongue to their names, along with Draconic, therefore their names may have elements of water or waves in them.

The naming conventions of these Kobolds are somewhat different to other mortal races, as they first have their normal name, a middle name (usually a simple word that describes the place where they live) and a family name (a name adopted from their family's main occupation). when non-Kobolds refer to a Lesser Sand Kobold, they do so with their normal name first, and then their family name, however when one of their own kind refer to each other, they do so with normal name first, middle name second, and family name last.

Lesser Sand Kobolds have no differentiation in gender or sex, and find mortal cultures who base names and jobs off of gender and sex to be confusing and strange.

Normal names: Ekruzure, Vapora, Zureptis, Aquazur, Tempestus, Vusphos, Zerivule, Kreneptulus, Vrintsuna

Middle names: Splashing Water, Rolling Waves, Scorching Sun, Tropical Oceans, Endless Beaches, 

Family names: Shellsetter, Threadmaker, Clamfinder, Waveswimmer, Reedfinder

The following Racial Traits are shared by Non-Player Characters and Player Characters who are Lesser Sand Kobolds

Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity increases by 2, and your Charisma increases by 1. Your Strength score reduces by 1.

Alignment

Lesser Sand Kobolds mind their own business and find the concept of evil to be strange. They lean towards Good and Neutral alignments, however other alignments are not uncommon.

Size

Your kind have small, agile, and short frames suited to swimming and used to soft, sandy terrain. The shortest reach around 2'8ft and the tallest 3'7ft, with an average weight of 30 pounds. Your size is Small.

Beguiling Innocence

You have advantage on all Persuasion (Cha) checks on creatures you and your allies are not hostile towards.

Sandy Camouflage

You have advantage on all Stealth (Dex) checks to hide only yourself in a sandy environment.

Languages

You can read, write, and speak Common, Aquan and Draconic.

Age

Lesser Sand Kobolds reach maturity much faster than most mortal races, reaching full maturity at around roughly 4 years and being able to live up to 120, however some have reached the ripe age of 150 before.

Merchant's Appraisal

You have advantage on persuasion checks made to buy and sell mundane jewelry. 

Scorching Resilience

Due to you being used to the tropical heat of your coastal homelands, you exhibit a natural strong resilience to hot landscapes and environments. You have +1 to all throws made against being Exhausted due to hot weather.

Salty Resilience

You can drink saltwater without anything bad happening.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25 feet, and you have a swimming speed of 30 feet. To have your swimming speed, you must not be wearing heavy armour.

Everybody Likes You!

You are used to being friends with everyone, and if not, you have special ways to make them your friends. You can cast Friends cantrip once per Short Rest or Long Rest.

Pack Tactics:

You have advantage on attack rolls against a creature if at least one of your allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.

Lesser Sand Kobold (Modified) Traits

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