Homebrew Dohwar Species Details

Dohwars are short, pudgy, flightless avians that look and move like penguins. They are inveterate merchants, always looking for an opportunity to turn a profit. Dohwars conduct their dealings in secrecy, preferring to do business in dark alleys and out-of-the-way places even when the items being bought or sold aren’t illegal or dangerous. They tend to dress in a garish mishmash of clothing, but many of them also shroud themselves in hooded cloaks. A group of dohwars is called a cartel.

The average dohwar stands 3 feet tall and has bright plumage. Instead of wings, it has arms and tiny hands.

Dohwars prefer to communicate through a form of telepathy they call merging, in which two dohwars stay in mental contact while both are telepathically linked with a third creature.

Dohwars have their own pantheon of deities, made up entirely of gods of commerce and wealth. These deities include Waukeen, Abbathor, and Zilchus. By focusing on the worship of such deities, the dohwars hope to become the best merchants in the multiverse without alienating or offending any god in particular.

Dohwar Traits

As a Dohwar, you have the following racial traits.

Creature Type

You are a Fey.

Size

You are Small.

Speed

Your walking speed is 30 ft. and you have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Dohwar Psionics

You know the detect thoughts spell and can cast it once per day without using a spell slot or any spell components.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Merge

Dohwars can have a telepathic conversations with up to three willing creatures of their choice, provided all three are within 30 feet of one another and share a language.

As an Action, you can establish a mental connection with up to two other willing creatures that share a language. The connection breaks if you or one of the other two creatures decides to sever it or if one of the affected creatures leaves the 30-foot range.