Homebrew Dingo Species Details
Dingos are Highly Intelligent, strongly individualistic, affectionate, but cautious, and highly-skilled. They are natural predators and have a highly developed senses of sight, scent, and hearing.
They are strongly territorial and form lifetime bonds with family, either Dingo or Human. Cat-like in their agility, Dingoes use their paws like hands, and like to survey their surroundings from a height. Although they seldom bark, Dingoes have a wide variety of vocalisations from melodious singing (howling), to the high pitched yodel, yelp, crow and purr.
Dingo Traits
Dingo TraitsAbility score increase
Your Charisma score increases by 1
Age
Dingos reach maturity around 1 to 2 years and usually live between 7 and 10 years.
Alignment
Dingos tend towards good alignments due to their natural Demeiner, but there are exceptions to this.
Size
Dingos are roughly all a similar size in adulthood. your size is small.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Languages
You can 'speak' and read Common and two extra languages of your choice.
Note that dingos do not necessarily use speech; whilst they can understand their chosen languages, the specifics of how they communicate are left to the players.
Some possibilities include having the full ability of speech, being uncannily effective at conveying meaning through gesture and sounds (“I think she is saying the kids are down the well") or having another character who can understand and interpret for the dingo. Regardless of how the dingo expresses itself, it is assumed that it is communicating with its allies with sufficient fluency as to avoid any penalties to rolls.
Keen Senses
Dingos have advantage on Perception checks based on smell or hearing and disadvantage on Perception checks depending upon colour recognition.
Natural Hunter
You're a natural hunter. You have advantage on wisdom (survival) checks of rolls related to tracking a target using scent.
Grabbing Bite
You have a strong and powerful mouth and neck. When you succeed in hitting a creature of your size or smaller with your Bite attack you may also declare it is grappled. You may use this ability against a creature larger than you, but if you do, your move becomes 0 while grappling and you will move along with the grappled creature.
Worse than your Bark
You have a natural bite attack. You are proficient with this attack and it counts as both a weapon attack and an unarmed attack. This attack does 1d4 + your Strength modifier damage. This increases to 1d6 + your Strength modifier at level 5 and 1d8+ your Strength modifier at level 10.
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