Homebrew Girtablilu (Lenoa Approved 2.0) Species Details

Girtablilu, also known as Scorpionfolk, are desert dwelling monstrosities. They resemble humans, but similar to centaurs, instead of human legs they have the body of a scorpion, pincers and all. They can usually be found in the deepest reaches of the harshest deserts.

 

All girtablilu share a zeal for religion, although the objects of veneration vary from tribe to tribe. Some girtablilu tribes still serve long-forgotten deities, preserving the divinities' names and holy rituals. Others embrace religions derived from prehistoric worship, devoted to the idea of gods that once were or might never have been.

 

Girtablilu leaders are often clerics or oracles, and are responsible for the tribe's religious observances and laws. Tradition and service to the group are important. Those who violate tribal beliefs are killed or exiled into the harsh wasteland. Girtablilu believe that no sacrifice in life (including death in the service of the gods) goes unrewarded in the hereafter; this belief makes them fierce and fearless fighters.

Girtablilu (Lenoa Approved 2.0) Traits

As a girtablilu, your lower half is that of a scorpion giving you access to many of the same physical capabilities of a scorpion

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Strength score increases by 1.

Age

Young girtablilu grow quickly, able to walk as soon as they hatch, attain the size and development of a 10-year-old human child by the age of 3, and reach adulthood by 15. They can live to be around 800.

Size

Girtablilu are tall and imposing creatures. They stand about 7-8ft tall with their scorpion bodies being about 5ft of this. But due to their heavy bodies, a girtablilu will generally stay low to the ground, being closer to 5-6ft tall. Their bodies are generally as long as they are tall. They generally weigh around 800ibs.

Your size is medium. 

Speed

Your base walking speed is 40 feet.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Terran.

Intimidating Presence

Your great size and stature (along with being half scorpion) makes it easier for you to frighten others. You have advantage on intimidation checks.

Pincers

You have two forward facing pincers that come out of your body in addition to your normal arms. These pincers are strong but limited in dexterity. These pincers can lift a number of pounds equal to five times your Strength score each. You can make an unarmed attack with the pincers that deal 1d6 bludgeoning damage. If you hit a creature with an unarmed strike from your pincers, you can use a bonus action to attempt to grapple the creature you hit. These pincers are unable to do anything that requires manual precision such as wield a weapon/shield or make motions for casting spells. If you have a higher damage die for unarmed strikes, you may use that die in place of the pincer’s normal die. 

Stinger

Extending from your scorpion body is a long and deadly scorpion tail. You may make an unarmed strike with your tail that deals 1d6 piercing damage and that has a reach of 10ft. If this attack hits, the target makes a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus or be poisoned for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect on a success. You are able to poison a creature in this way a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain any and all expended uses on a long rest. If you have a higher damage die for unarmed strikes, you may use that die in place of the pincer’s normal die.

Tunneling

Girtablilu are no strangers to living underground, capable of carving out large networks of tunnels into the ground. You can create tunnels and chambers underground taking time based on the material you have to move.

Soft dirt and sand takes thirty minutes to create 10ft of tunnel just large enough to squeeze through and twice as long to comfortably walk through. Creating a chamber requires a full day and can be made no larger than twenty-five feet on either side and no higher than twenty feet

Harder dirt and clay takes twice as long

You cannot do this in rocky or flooded terrain

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