Homebrew Cmike's Mouseling Species Details

Mouselings, like all beast folk, originated from Fey magic.  Mouselings are bipedal, with the characteristics of the mice they resemble and fur in a variety of colors. They are often in smaller communities of their own size or making their own way in larger cities, but their tiny chests always carries the biggest hearts.

Creating Your Character

At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race such as the fairy or the harengon in this section, follow these additional rules during character creation.

Ability Score Increases

When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase two different scores by 1. You can’t raise any of your scores above 20.

Languages

Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character. The Player’s Handbook offers a list of languages to choose from. The DM is free to modify that list for a campaign.

Creature Type

Every creature in D&D, including each player character, has a special tag in the rules that identifies the type of creature they are. Most player characters are of the Humanoid type. A race in this chapter tells you what your character’s creature type is.

Here’s a list of the game’s creature types in alphabetical order: Aberration, Beast, Celestial, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze, Plant, Undead. These types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn’t work on a Construct or an Undead.

Life Span

The typical life span of a player character in the D&D multiverse is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent end on an adventure. Members of some races, such as dwarves and elves, can live for centuries. Mouseling however, have a life span just short of half a century.

Height and Weight

Player characters, regardless of race, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.

Cmike's Mouseling Traits

As a Mouseling, you have the following traits.

Tiny Stature

As a Tiny Creature, you have disadvantage on all Strength Ability Checks & Saving Throws, but you gain Proficience in Stealth and Perception

Creature Type

You are a Humanoid. You are also considered a beast for any prerequisite or effect that requires you to be a beast.

Size

You are Tiny. 

Speed

Your walking speed is 20 ft.

Speak with Small Beasts

Through sounds and gestures, you can communicate simple ideas with Small or Tiny Beasts (no larger than a dog, but nothing smaller than a common mouse)

Keen Hearing & Smell

You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception), Wisdom (Survival), and Intelligence (Investigation) checks that rely on hearing or smell.  You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all expended uses when you finish a short rest, and you can use it no more than once per turn.