Homebrew Felis Species Details

Felis share with their more cat-like cousins their love of stories, but they use them in a different way. Felis culture is shared orally, passing down their history through songs, rhymes, and parables. This cultural appreciation of song, and the way that music is treated as a way to teach history, often makes felis choose the path of the bard, becoming traveling minstrels who share felis tales and songs. They are often hired to play and sing in the drawing rooms of nobles, where their songs are seen as exotic and strange. It’s said that felis presence in noble houses has given birth to a wide network of felis bard spies who share coded messages between members through their own version of thieves’ cant in the form of song. Some of these bard spies, it’s said, even double as assassins if this secret organization requires it of them.

Felis Traits

The cultural push towards self-reliance, their love for stories, and their innate curiosity often push the felis towards a life of adventuring. Many of them believe that in doing so, they are following in the footsteps of their traveling god, and hope to cross paths with him one day.

Feline Agility

When you move on your turn in combat, you can double your speed until the end of the tum. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you move 0 feet on one of your turns.

Feline Evasiveness

When you move, you can use a bonus action to not provoke attacks of opportunity for the rest of the turn. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Darkvision

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.

Cat's Tongue

You have proficiency in the Performance and Persuasion skills.

Ability Score Increase

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

Language

You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.