Homebrew Cat Folk Species Details

Born of cats, as their name proclaims, the cat folks walk proudly through a world that greets them with fear. Shaped by cat gods or the cats themselves, cat folks originally given birth to by a human or a cat as a unique race, combining the best attributes of cats and humanoids. Some cat folk are faithful servants to true cats, others form the ranks of soldiers in great wars, and still others find themselves adrift, with no clear calling in life.

Proud Cat Folk

Cat folk look very much like cats standing erect in humanoid form, though they lack wings or a tail. The first cat folk had a fur with a pattern like that of it's cat ancestors but generations of interbreeding has made their fur into more uniform colors so most of them are gray , white , black and ginger with the occasional furless and calicos. They are of medium height and light on their feet and have thick thighs (objectively), often standing close to a ledge and weighing 160 or more. Their hands and feet are strong, retractable claws with five fingers and a thumb on each hand AND TOE BEANS.

The blood of a particular type of cat runs very strong through some cat folk families. These cat folk often boast coats that more closely match those of their CATTO ancestor—bright orange, silver, blue, or white, lustrous black, bronze.

Through centuries of selective breeding rare multicolored hybrids exist and are considered elites. it is of a high honor for a family to give birth to one.

Cat Folk Traits

Your felinic heritage manifests in a variety of traits you share with other cat folk.

Ability Score Increase

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

Age

Young cat folk grow quickly. They walk hours after being born, attain the size and development of a 10-year-old human child by the age of 3, and reach adulthood by 15. They live to be around 96.

Size

Cat folk are taller and thicker than humans, standing over 5'2 feet tall and averaging about 170 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 35 feet.

Felinic Ancestry

You have Felinic ancestry. Choose one type of cat from the Felinic Ancestry table. Your claw weapon and damage resistance are determined by the cat type, as shown in the table.

Felinic Ancestry

Cat	Damage Type	Claw Weapon
Black	Acid	5 by 30 ft. line (Dex. save)
Blue	Lightning	5 by 30 ft. line (Dex. save)
Bronze	Poison	5 by 30 ft. line (Dex. save)
Orange	Fire	15 ft. cone (Dex. save)
Gray	Lightning	15 ft. cone (Con. save)
Hairless	Poison	15 ft. cone (Dex. save)
Silver	Cold	15 ft. cone (Con. save)
White	Cold	15 ft. cone (Con. save)

Claw Weapon

You can use your action to attack with destructive energy. Your felinic ancestry determines the size, shape, and damage type of the attack. When you use your claw weapon, each creature in the area of the clawing must make a saving throw, the type of which is determined by your felinic ancestry. The DC for this saving throw equals 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. A creature takes 2d6 damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increases to 3d6 at 6th level, 4d6 at 11th level, and 5d6 at 16th level. After you use your claw weapon, you can’t use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Damage Resistance

You have resistance to the damage type associated with your felinic ancestry.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Felinic. 

Darkvision

Thanks to your felinc ancestors you have enhanced vision in darker places and are ven able to see in complete darkness (though not very well)