Homebrew Kitsune Species Details
Appearance
In their natural form kitsune are similar to humans, but they posses fox ears in place of normal humanoid ones and tails numbering up to nine (Kitsune with 9 tails are impossibly rare). Kitsune are a race that is incredibly beautiful due to their fey ancestry often having perfect complexion, and move in fluid perfection that makes them appear almost fake even compared to their fey cousins.
Mental Prowess
Kitsune have great mental fortitude that is on par with the high elves. They have remarkable cunning that they use solve problems in the most unlikely solutions imaginable. Due to their familiarity to illusions and enchantments, kitsune often use honeyed words or pranks to oppose their enemies. They can use what humans called 'foxfire', a harmless blue flaming orb that floats above the ground. Skilled kitsune can weave illusions using this ability.
Divine Ancestry
Kitsune are the children of the goddess Selune and a powerful fey spirit, and it is said that their tails come from their fey ancestor. this trait is expressed in as few as one to as many as nine tails (in incredibly rare occasions). The number of tails one has is directly tied to a kitsune's magical talents in most cases, but some are known to have gained their tails through divine favor. The number of tails often signifies a kitsune's position within their society, where the number of tails is associated with political and social power.
Shape shifting
Kitsune can take the form of another person of the same gender, and physical size as themselves. This transformation is limited to two forms that a kitsune must consciously choose upon reaching adulthood. Prior to this young kitsune shape shift fluidly often to cause mischief to their parents.
Kitsune Traits
Your Kitsune character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of fey refinement.Kitsune Shape Shift
As an action, you can assume the appearance of one of the two humanoid forms that you chose of the same gender as yourself when your character reached adulthood. When you use this ability anything that can detect magic can detect the natural transmutation magic employed in this ability.
Tails
You have a number of tails equal to your level rounded down. (minimum of 1 tail and a max of nine)
Fox Fire
Kitsune can cast Dancing Lights at will. These lights appear as small blue flames.
Ability Score Increase
Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and you can increase two other scores by one.
Age
Although Kitsune reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, Kitsune live for an unknown amount of time. The oldest known kitsune was estimated at roughly 1500 years old.
Alignment
Kitsune love freedom, variety, and self-expression, so they lean strongly toward the gentler aspects of chaos. They value and protect others’ freedom as well as their own, and they are more often good than not.
Size
Kitsune range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Darkvision
Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, 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.
Deciever
You have proficiency in the Deception skill.
Trance
Kitsune like many fey creatures don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep (though many kitsune find joy in sleeping like the "normal" races.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Sylvan. Sylvan is the language of the fey, an elegant musical language who's soft tones are almost hypnotic to the "mortal" races.
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Posted May 6, 2018DM Notes: I made this version of the Kitsune as opposed to using some of the others here on DNDBeyond as I felt the others were a bit too unbalanced and did not fit in my campaign's world. I have refined some of the characteristics that make this race what it is, and the key thing I changed was their origin. Kitsune as a anthropomorphic fox sides too far from the folklore which inspires what modern interpretations of Kitsune are. So, I went the anime route with how they look, and gave them a fey origin in order to make them fit into the multiverse.
In case anyone who reads my notes is wondering I have two campaigns I am a part of and two people use this race without it being broken. The limit on the transformation does leave room for creative role-play without taking away from another race's niche, and is far less versatile than the Disguise self and Alter self spells.