Homebrew Cervitaur Species Details

Cervitaurs look mostly like an elf from the waist up, with a slight frame and long, pointed ears, but below the waist have the body of deer. They may or may not have antlers and some even have small tusks protruding down from their upper jaw.

They come in all range of elven skin tones and their natural fur color is typically brown, black, grey, red, or white. Although, the chaotic magics of the feywild will rarely result in fur of less natural colors such as green or pink.

Creating Your Character

At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.

Ability Score Increases

When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy. The “Quick Build” section for your character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to increase. You can follow those suggestions or ignore them, but you can’t raise any of your scores above 20.

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 Player’s Handbook offers a list of languages to choose from. The DM is free to modify that list for a campaign.

Life Span

The typical life span of a player character in the D&D multiverse is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent end on an adventure. Members of some races, such as dwarves and elves, can live for centuries. If typical members of a race can live longer than a century, that fact is mentioned in the race’s description.

Height and Weight

Player characters, regardless of race, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.

Cervitaur Traits

As a cervitaur, you have the following racial traits.

Darkvision

Thanks to your cervine heritage, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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 can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Creature Type

You are a Fey.

Size

Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your walking speed is 40 feet.

Mirthful Leaps

Whenever you make a long jump or a high jump, you can roll a d8 and add the number rolled to the number of feet you cover, even when making a standing jump. This extra distance costs movement as normal.

Cervine Build

Any climb that requires hands and feet is especially difficult for you because of your cervine legs. When you make such a climb, each foot of movement costs you 4 extra feet instead of the normal 1 extra foot.

Natural Affinity

Your fey connection to nature gives you an intuitive connection to the natural world and the animals within it. You therefore know the druidcraft cantrip and have proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Medicine, Nature, or Survival.