Homebrew Boorish Dwarf Species Details

A mixture of the Hill Dwarf and the Giant Boar. Sporting the large stocky build of the dwarf with the mobility of a giant boar. Not as fast as a centaur, but much faster than the average dwarf. These Boorish Dwarves are the rude, rural cousins of Hill Dwarves that prefer to live in a more agrarian society even compared to the Hill Dwarves. They have the large, stocky torso of the Hill Dwarf on top of the Giant Boar's massive body. This gives the Boorish Dwarf slightly more mobility, when compared to the average dwarf, but nowhere near that of a centaur. The natural stockiness of both the Hill Dwarf and Giant Boar lend themselves to make this race all the more hardy and tough.

Boorish Dwarf Traits

Your Boorish Dwarf character has an assortment of inborn abilities, part and parcel of boorish dwarven nature.

Porcine Build

You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push or drag. In addition, any climb that requires hands and feet is especially difficult for you because of you r equine legs. When you make such a climb, each foot of movement costs you 4 extra feet, instead of the normal 1 extra foot.

Dwarven Toughness

Your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a level.

Cloven Hooves

Your hooves are natural melee weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increases by 2.

Age

Dwarves mature at the same rate as humans, but they’re considered young until they reach the age of 50. On average, they live about 350 years.

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength score increases by 1

Size

Dwarves stand between 7 and 8 feet tall and average about 850 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Dwarven Resilience

You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance against poison damage (explained in the “Combat” section).

Boorish Dwarf Combat Training

You have proficiency with the battleaxe, handaxe, lance, and warhammer.

Tool Proficiency

You gain proficiency with the artisan’s tools of your choice: smith’s tools, brewer’s supplies, or mason’s tools.

Stonecunning

Whenever you make an Intelligence (History) check related to the origin of stonework, you are considered proficient in the History skill and add double your proficiency bonus to the check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Dwarvish. Dwarvish is full of hard consonants and guttural sounds, and those characteristics spill over into whatever other language a dwarf might speak.

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