Homebrew Giant Turtlefolk Species Details

Stemming from giant turtles that emerged from The Elemental Plane of Water, giant turtlefolk appear as humanoids with turtle like features, giant turtlefolk also have a shell that allows them to block attacks.

Like turtles, giant turtlefolk are able to breathe air and water. Most stick to breathing air though.

Creating Your Character

If you create a giant turtlefolk character, follow these additional rules during character creation.

Ability Score Increases

When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one of those scores 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’re free to follow those suggestions or to ignore them. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be raised above 20.

Languages

Your character can speak, read, and write Common, Primordial, and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character. The Player’s Handbook offers a list of widespread languages to choose from. The DM is free to add or remove languages from that list for a particular campaign.

Creature Type

Every creature in D&D, including every player character, has a special tag in the rules that identifies the type of creature they are. Most player characters, including giant turtlefolk, are of the Humanoid type. Creature types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the text of the cure wounds spell specifies that the spell doesn’t work on a creature that has the Construct type.

Lifespan

The typical lifespan of a giant turtlefolk is about 500 years.

Height and Weight

Giant turtlefolk typically weigh about 3000 Lbs and are about 9 ft tall.

Giant Turtlefolk Traits

You have the following racial traits

Creature Type

You are a Humanoid

Size

You are large

Walking Speed

Your walking speed is 30 ft. 

Swimming Speed

Your swimming speed is 30 ft.

Amphibious

You can can breathe air and water.

Shell

You have a shell that gives you minimum base armor 12.

darkvision

You have 60 ft darkvision