Homebrew Dewayo Species Details

Throughout the Daggamir Quarter, a race of bipedal dog people call it home. These Pagiwhy peoples are often reclusive, keeping distant from the other Pagiwhy tribes. Occasionally, Dewayo leave their packs to explore and live amongst other races. Because of this, they are usually encountered as adventurers, sellswords, or merchants.

Creating Your Character

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

Ability Score Increases

When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one of those scores 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’re free to follow those suggestions or to ignore them. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be raised 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 widespread languages to choose from. The DM is free to add or remove languages from that list for a particular campaign.

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, including dewayo, are of the Humanoid type. 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 dewayo, 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.

Dewayo Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type

You are a Humanoid.

Size

You are Medium or Small. You choose the size when you select this race.

Speed

Your walking speed is 40 feet.

Keen Hearing

You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing.

Tracker's Snout

You can remember and recall a number of unique scents equal to your proficiency bonus. You can track a scent regardless of distance. When doing so, you have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track the scent.

Pack Tactics

When you make an attack roll against a creature while an ally is within 5 feet of the target and the ally isn't incapacitated, you have advantage on the attack roll.

Athletic Build

You have proficiency in Strength (Athletics). Additionally, you double your proficiency bonus when applying it to the skill.

Bite

You have a fanged maw that you can use to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with it, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier slashing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.