Homebrew Bear Species Details

 

The Bear

This older creature is a human bear that can walk around quadrupedally or bipedally as well as wield a sword or bow or any weapon. These bear people enjoy working with others and learning, they are quite intelligent they are able to pick up knowledge quickly and are usually quite good wizards.

Bears are quite peaceful creatures and will not usually harm people and like to just chat with them, even though they cant speak any other language then bear as there vocal chords are yet to evolve to that point. The only people that the bears cant stand are the elves who threw them out of there rightful home of the Elvin forest, meaning they do have some Elvin magic if that's the way they wish to go.

Ability Score Increase

When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy. The “Quick Build” section for your character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to increase. You can follow those suggestions or ignore them, but you can’t raise any of your scores above 20.

Languages

Your character can understand an comprehend languages but due to their underdeveloped vocal chords they can only speak bear.

Creature Type

Beast, Fey

Life Span

They have a typical life span of 40 years, reaching adolescence at 8

Height and Weight

This race is considered medium in height yet quite heavy normally due to their muscle mass.

Bear Traits

As a Bear, you have the following racial traits:

Creature Type

Since the bear is still an animal its still considered among some to be from the Animalia kingdom and some consider them to be humanoid.

Size

Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your walking speed is 25 feet.

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 discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Fey Ancestry

You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed condition on yourself.

Quadrupedal

Since a bear is able to move on all fours You are able to move on all fours with doubled movement speed up to 600ft. Once you hit 600ft you can no longer move on all fours and need a short rest.

Powerful Build

You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Sneaky

You are proficient in the Stealth skill. In addition, without squeezing, you can move through and stop in a space large enough for a Small creature.

Infectious bite

The bear is always hungry as it is a big creature with a big belly. As this bear is capable of walking on its hind legs and wielding a special type of sword, it still has its primal urges like all races. The bear viciously lunges at the victim to take a large bite out of it dealing a base damage of 2d6 and an additional 1d4 of necrotic damage that is dealt at the start of the victims turn for 4 turns. The bear can only use this attack while the victim is not affected by the necrotic effect.