Your Constitution score increases by 2 and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Equidites reach maturity by age 5. Equidites live about 15 years. This is considered longer than they should be allowed to exist by both the Equidites and those around them.

Equidites stand between 4 and 5 feet tall. Your size is Medium.

Your walking speed is 30 feet.

You have a toothy 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. As one of your only natural defenses, you are proficient with biting.

You can throw yourself into a feeding frenzy. As a bonus action, you can make a special attack with your Bite. If the attack hits, it deals its normal damage, and you gain temporary hit points equal to your proficiency bonus. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Due to your the composite shape of your body, you are ill-suited to wield most weapons effectively. You are unable to wield weapons with the two handed, heavy, or finesse property.

Your composite biology makes your vital organs less effective, a fact represented by the following disadvantages:

• You have disadvantage on saving throws against disease and being poisoned.
• You are vulnerable to poison damage.
• You have disadvantage on death saving throws.