Homebrew Badger Lord Species Details

"This is not your fight. This one was written long ago on the wall behind my father. It must be."

- Boar the Fighter, Mossflower

Badger Lords emerged from the Feywild decades ago, and in that time they have spread across the world, seeking out caverns and mountains within which to practice their forgecraft. However, as time has gone on, they have left their caves and mountainous homes and lived among more civilizations and people, leading them to adapt to their new civil environments.

Physiology

Badger Lords are larger versions of your everyday badger, standing and walking like that of a person. Their physiology is otherwise exactly the same as your everyday badger other than their stronger builds, allowing them to do everyday business among people. Badger lords tend to be around 3 - 5 feet tall. Badger Lords can live up to 300 years, maturing at 25.

Society

Badger Lords live in small family groups, most often as a mated pair of male and female, one or two elders and a child. They almost never join forces with other Badger Lord families, even in battle. Within the family, however, they have strong bonds doing whatever they could for even a single member of their family. When two families or more do meet, such as when one finds new territory near another, they tend to slowly join together. The exception is when young females of one family are cast into the wild at their thirtieth birthday, to find a mate in another family. Families often attempt to fulfill the prophecies scratched by their ancestors into the walls of their dwellings. 

Badger Lord Names

Male: Boar, Tiger, Wolf, Sunflash, Greattree, Clein, John, Aaron, Battleaxe

Female: Silvermace, Goldenaxe, Gem, Bronzeflail, Mooncave, Susan, Alisha, Maribel

Subrace

Three main subraces of Badger Lords populate the worlds of D&D: Uro, Honi and Ameri. Choose one of these subraces.

Random Weight and Height

Base Height	Height Modifier	Base Weight	Weight Modifier
3′	+3d6"	60 lb.	1d4 x (3d6) lb.

Badger Lord Traits

Your Badger Lord character has an assortment of inborn abilities, part and parcel of their nature.

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution, and Wisdom scores increase by 1.

Age

Male badger lords can live up to as much as 300 years. Females live up to 275 years. They reach maturity at 25.

Alignment

 Badger lords are almost always neutral or good with a tendency towards chaotic alignments, but some may be lawful, depending on the prophesies they are called to fulfill, while others may simply live by the laws of the civilization they live in.

Size

Dwarves stand between 3 and 5 feet tall. Your size is Small.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25 feet and a burrow of 20 feet.

Darkvision

Accustomed to life underground, 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.

Thick Hide

You are covered in thick hide which helps or has helped you survive. While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class is equal to 11 + your Dexterity modifier.

Excellent Sniffer

You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks regarding smell.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Dwarvish. Dwarvish is full of hard consonants and guttural sounds, and those characteristics spill over into whatever other language a dwarf might speak.