Homebrew Apeling Species Details

Apelings are a fusion of human and monkey traits. This relation is evident in their fur, tails, fangs, and other traits. However, their intelligence, larger size, and more bipedal posture suggest some closeness to humanity. Apelings are slightly smaller than humans but are still medium. They usually have more defined muscles than monkeys, though they are still rather slender, keeping a very athletic appearance. Fur colors include black, brown, red, orange, and grey. White fur is usually a "sign" of inherent greatness. Apelings age fast, reaching full adulthood in only 12 years. Although apelings only have a slightly longer lifespan than humans, their active nature and lifestyle mean they burn through their years faster than a human, putting their average lifespan at 100 years. Few careful and quieter apelings may live to see 150 and usually hold roles as tribal leaders and chiefs. Despite aging fast, apelings do not feel the usual effects of old age until months before their death, many still adventuring within the last year of their life.

Apeling Traits

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Ability Score Increase

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

Adept Climbers. 

Your natural agility gives you a climbing speed of 30 feet. You can also climb across ceilings, as long as you have something to hold on to.

Empty Stomach

You burn through your energy faster than most humanoids and require twice as much food as a creature your size requires each day.

Heavy Slumber

 During a long rest, anyone trying to wake you up must make a DC 15 Charisma ability check. Taking damage will wake you up as will being thrown into or splashed with water.

Limit Break.

Apelings are always striving to push themselves. As a reaction, when you fail StrengthDexterity or Constitution ability check or saving throw, you can remake the check and take the new result. Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you complete a long rest.

Skills of the Primate. 

You have proficiency in either Acrobatics or Athletics. You can use your feet and tail as if they were hands. If you use both of your feet simultaneously to interact with an object, your speed becomes 0.

Extra Appendage

Apeling Monkeys have a long tail which is able to hold objects and help prevent them from falling. They cannot use this to manipulate tools, but the tail does add to the Apelings balance allowing advantage against being knocked prone. The tail also gives advantage to sleight of hand checks and when swung side to side in a hypnotic pattern, the user can choose a spell from the ones listed that will affect the target once per long rest.

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