Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1. As an Awakened creature, your Intelligence cannot go below 10 or you revert to a mundane beast.

As an animal, you mature at a far different rate than most other races. Most Awakened are mature after the first year, and live a little longer than other animals. They live around 20-30 years.

Awakened prefer to take no side unless convinced to, leaning towards neutral alignments.

Awakened Bears are still bears, so adults can weigh between 130 – 660 lbs and are between 3.5 and 4.5 feet long/tall.

Your base walking speed is 30 feet. You also have a climbing speed of 30 feet.

You are considered Beast instead of Humanoid.

You gain proficiency in the Nature and Perception skills.

You can only wield simple weapons with the light property and only one at a time.

You are proficient with unarmed strikes, which deal your choice of 1d4 slashing or piercing damage on a hit.

Your hide is tough as bearhide. You gain +1 to your base AC.

You can speak, read, and write Common and Sylvan, but your handwriting is terrible. You also speak Bear (and some Squirrel).

All Awakened are blessed with their intelligence. You can roll on an item of clothing to show this off or just choose one from the list.