Homebrew Floridian Species Details
A chaotic variant of human that most of it's parent race is rather comically embarrassed of. This subrace lives and breathes chaos in its most neutral form. From regretting the murder of an imaginary friend to successfully robbing a store with an avocado, the Floridians have no shortage of stories of their questionable exploits.
Floridians primarily live in any humid, swampy areas.
Floridian Traits
As a floridian, you have the traits of a typical human along with a few additions brought on by your pure chaotic nature.Ability Score Increase
The strange and questionable upbringing all floridians seem to collectively have have granted you a hardier body to do even more strange and questionable things. Your choices in life have also granted you the ability to be slightly better than whoever you decide to be better than. In other words, screw that one dude in particular, that job promotion can be, will be, and most likely is already yours.
Age
Due to the strange effects of the curse known as "Florida Man", floridians have been known to perish in the strangest of ways. From artificers unable to leave an unlocked room to fighters attempting to catch lava with telekinesis without even having access to the required spell, there have been many cases of floridians reaching the afterlife a little too quickly. So much so that they have been assumed to have little to no intelligence. Though this debate will never seem to reach a conclusion due to the singular fact that some members of this race have actually managed to die peaceful deaths.
Alignment
Nobody is quite sure how the floridians survived as a race, their strange actions and resulting stories have baffled many a scholar. They seemingly act on impulse and throw caution to the wind more oft than not and yet come out of most situations relatively fine. The very concept of floridian has become synonymous with pure chaos. There is no question about the alignment of a floridian, only what the end result of their actions will be.
Size
Floridians are fairly unremarkable in terms of height. However, the diabetic and artery-clogging nightmare that is the floridian diet have caused them to be slightly higher on the weight scale. Many have concluded this unfortunate excuse for a diet has enhanced their natural energy levels which in turn allows them to partake in the activities that help keep their weight down.
Speed
The speed of a floridian is no different to that of their more "normal" human cousins. Which many floridians have taken as a challenge, resulting in many curious and hilarious experiments. Some such curiosities are the firebolt fueled wagon and the "Human-Safe" Catapult (which is still under development).
Hold my Beer
No one can tell you where this peculiar ability came from, but floridians have had this ability for the longest time. Some scholars of floridian history gave this ability the name it does due to many floridians saying these simple words before doing an activity of high danger, stupidity, or both.
Maelstrom of Thoughts
The mind of a floridian is simply too chaotic to be read. Many of the telepathically enabled have tried to peer into the mind of a floridian, but what was found can only be described as a maelstrom of thought, which is what lead to this ability’s namesake. Further probing ended up driving the telepathy casters near to the brink of insanity. One case left a caster in a vegetative state after they wanted to map a floridian's full thought process and was unable to return. This one case was enough of a precedent and warning to all.
Reptile Wrangler
Early floridians spent their lives in areas that were mostly warm, humid, and riddled with swamp. This has led the floridians to have many encounters with various reptilian beasts. Some particularly daring floridians decided to try and interact with these beasts with various levels of success. Some learned to fend them off, others learned how to defeat them, some learned how to cook them best, and the most impressive achievement was the ability to tame these beasts. Eventually these skills mixed and became a standard within the floridian subrace. Some debate if these skills ended up become genetically ingrained into the floridians' blood, but no one has probed too far to be sure.
Language
Floridians don't always mix well with education, resulting in them mostly knowing simple Common. However, due to their general acceptance of other races, it isn't all that uncommon to see many bilinguals within floridian individuals. This general acceptance and assimilation has been one of their saving graces towards showing others that they aren't completely braindead as a race.
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