Homebrew City Cat Species Details

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City Cats are Tabaxi who got smaller and acquired other talents to fit more in a city's envirornment. They are resemble more like house cats than big cats.

Creating Your Character

Ability Score Increases

Your Charisma score increases by 2, and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

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 PHB offers a list of languages to choose from. The DM is free to modify that list for a campaign.

Creature Type

City Cats are humanoid.

Life Span

The typical life span of a City Cat is about a century, assuming it doesn’t run out of it's 9 lives before time.

Height and Weight

City Cats typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that goblins have in our world.

City Cat Traits

As a City Cat, you have the following racial traits.

Creature Type

You are a Humanoid.

Size

You are Small.

Speed

Your walking speed is 25 feet, and you have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.

Kitten’s Claws

You can use your claws to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals 1d4 + your Strength modifier slashing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Kitten’s Talent

You have proficiency in the Insight and Persuasion skills.

Darkvision

You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Feline Agility

Your reflexes and agility allow you to move with a burst of speed. When you move on your turn in combat, you can double your speed until the end of the turn. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you move 0 feet on one of your turns.