Homebrew Archgriffin Species Details

You are an ancient race of Griffin that hybrids an owl and feline, long pursued by the humanoid races for your feathers magical properties and the occasional thievery of livestock.

A silent war rages between the ever expanding races and the endangered Archgriffin. With their habitat dwindling day by day, the council of Archgriffins choose a select few to change form by daybreak to blend in with the enemy and ensure your races existence. Weather it be to rally the just or pass judgement on those deserving.

Like owls, Archgriffins are graced with feathers that make no sound when they move or fly, making it easy for them to sneak up on you in the dead of night.

Your Archgriffin character is nocturnal by nature, making it challenging interacting all day as their false form. This double life can onset a great deal of exhaustion.

Creating Your Character

If you create an Archgriffin character, follow these additional rules during character creation.

 

Languages

Your character can speak, read, and write Common in humanoid form, yet very poorly, with a hiss and hoot mixed in.

Creature Type

Every creature in D&D, including every player character, has a special tag in the rules that identifies the type of creature they are. Most player characters, are of the Humanoid type. Whereas Archgriffins only take this form during daylight. Creature types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the text of the cure wounds spell specifies that the spell doesn’t work on a creature that has the Construct type.

Life Span

The typical life span of a player character in D&D is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent end on an adventure.

Height and Weight

Player characters, including Archgriffins, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world, when they take on that form. 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.

Archgriffin Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type

You are humanoid at day and monstrosity at night.

Size

You are Medium.

Speed

Your walking speed is 30 ft in human form, and 50 ft as a Griffin.

Darkvision

You can see in dim light within 120 feet of yourself 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.

Flight

You can’t use this flying speed if you’re in human form.

Silent Feathers

You have proficiency in the Stealth skill while as a griffin.