Homebrew Crocfolk Species Details

 

"I don't know what it was or what it wanted but it was chasing me, it looked like a crocodile but it's on 2 legs and it looked massive I've never heard of this thing nor seen it in all my adventures it was stalking me for a while and when I finally dared to look back at it and pull my sword out a whole group of them jumped at me and said "what are you doing in our territory." They looked like they had no patience but, in the moment, trembling with fear I managed to stutter out. "I'm a high elf named Almar Faro." They looked at me as if they thought I was lying and started chasing me down all I can remember is who I think was their leader saying, "he's gone long enough let the human go."

-Almar Faro the elven adventurer and fighter.

Lore:

In ancient times a man Sindlin who owned one of the biggest cities in Faerun wanted to make his armies more powerful so they stole thousands of crocodile eggs and did horrible and torturous rituals with them in hope for his men to gain crocodile forms after. The rituals were performed by Sindlin killing the baby crocodiles and mixing their blood with his men's blood. After years of doing this they got the attention of crocodile god Sobek who didn't like the disrespect they were giving to crocodiles who in return gave Sindlin and his men what they wanted but with a horrible twist they could remember their past but had more primal instincts and couldn't maintain their civilization so they retreated to a cave in the sword coast mountains but soon after they realized they would be better off being swamp dwellers it is in the swamp they thrived most and built tribes, this is known by the cave arts found in the cave that is said to be where the first ever crocfolk lived, crocfolk don't like sharing their past as it haunts them how evil their ancestors were to their now friends the crocodiles. The crocfolks first ever encounter with life other than crocfolk, beasts, lizardfolk or humans was years ago when a high elf named Almar Faro who was unlucky enough to stumble upon their territory.

Human or crocodile?

Crocfolk resemble humanoids but with crocodile feature such as crocodile mouth, teeth, scales, claws and tails. Crocfolk also have thick spikes on their backs that provide for great armor. Crocfolk actually come in many colours such as green, beige, black, grey and very rarely even white. Crocfolk mostly come in large sizes a fully grown one normally comes in at 7-8 feet tall depending on their size and due to their muscular body type Crocfolk normally come in at 500-1200 lb. Crocfolk are known for their excessive scars they gained through swamp travel it is very rare to encounter a crocfolk without any scars crocfolk are known for showing off their scars to other tribemates

Crocfolk are extremely territorial and will attack if anything enters their territory Crocfolk are known to stalk if something comes close to their territory.

Territorial beings

Crocfolk normally stay in their territory for all their life but some are known to venture to cure their curiosity of life outside the swamp. Crocfolk regularly warship the crocodile god called Sobek the one who made them. Crocfolk have little knowledge on any race other than their own so will sometimes act cautious around other races and sometimes immediately attack however crocfolk have learned overtime that if they have allies in their territory they are more likely to survive, so they normally share their territory with lizardfolk. Crocfolk will allow visitors only if they see no threat in them crocfolk love meat, chats and OfCourse beer if you ever get into a crocfolks territory don't pull out weapons or seem a threat and definitely don't touch their mud Sobek sculptures. It may seem bad but they will defend them with their lives

No knowledge on others

Crocfolk have little to no knowledge on any other race except humans the ones they hate and lizardfolk their friends. Crocfolk hate humans as they think from the stories their ancestors share with them that all humans are evil and view them and their friends the lizardfolk as outsiders or beasts. The only race crocfolk will share their territory with is lizardfolk as them and lizardfolk have a strong connection they hunt together, kill together, live together. They are basically one race though through time they have encountered and learnt about the common races such as halflings, elves, dwarves and gnomes.

Dwarves: They are just small humans they seem pretty weak

Elves: Just humans with pointy ears, ears are overrated anyway

Halflings: They just smaller dwarves which are just smaller humans

Gnomes: They are just smaller elves and ears are overrated anyway so I don't really get why.

Lizardfolk: They're the best ones other than us they like the same things and live the same way.

Goliaths: Rarely see them, just bald big humans that are grey seem pretty weak

Dragonborn: They are like us and lizardfolk in terms of their looks but they actually live in towns, don't mind 'em overall.

 

A crocfolk giving his opinion on other races

Crocfolk names

Crocfolk normally name their children human names but with cr or cro infront of them.

 

Male names: Crohn, Cronthany, Crorry, Cren, Crylan, Croscar, Crolix, Croah, Crarshall, Cryler, Crolan

Female names: Crabara, Crarni, Cromantha, Cria, Cricky, Crudy, Crobby, Crindi, Crarlie, Crostine

Crocfolk Traits

Because of their crocodile heritage Crocfolk have picked up a lot of traits

Impaling bite

Because of your sharp teeth you can bite someone within 5 feet of you and deal 1d6 + 2 damage and the target must succeed on a dc 8 strength save or be grappled, the target can make a dc 10 strength save to escape at the beginning of their turn and at the beginning of your turn you can use this attack only on the person in your mouth if you choose to attack with weapons the attack roll is at disadvantage if you have the target in your mouth for 1 minute you suffer a hint of exhaustion  

Water hunters

Because of your crocodilian ancestry you are used to the water and have advantage when in or near water so you have advantage on all stealth checks and also get a plus 4 to all hit

Ability score increase

Because of your large figure you gain a plus 2 to your strength and because of your knowing of the world you have +1 into stealth

Doesn't fit in

Because of your large crocodilian figure in towns it isn't easy to fit in so you have disadvantage on all stealth checks you make outside of the natural world

Weapon proficiency

Because of crocfolks primal history they have proficiency in simple weapons

Proficiency bonus

Your proficiency bonus is +3

Maturity

Crocfolk mature at 50 years old and live to well over 300 years

Hold breath

Because crocfolk are part crocodile you can hold your breath for 2 hours whilst moving or 10 if you stay completely still 

Hard scales

Because of your hard scales your base ac is 13+ your dexterity modifier

Bloodthirsty

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When you fall to zero hp instead, as a reaction you go to one and enter a bloodthirsty stage and must attack at the start of every turn you must use impaling bite if you miss or fail to use it you go back to zero hp after 5 minutes if you fail to gain any other hp you go back to zero. 

 

Size

You are medium

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25ft.

Creature type

You are a humanoid