Homebrew Bear Wereshifter Species Details

WereShifters are sometimes called weretouched, as they are descendants of people who contracted full or partial lycanthropy.

WereShifters are similar to humans in height and build but are typically more lithe and flexible. Their facial features have a bestial cast, often with large eyes and pointed ears; most shifters also have prominent canine teeth. 

 

Bear Wereshifter Traits

As a shifter, you have the following racial traits.

Creature Type

You are a Humanoid.

Size

You are Medium.

Speed

Your speed is 40 feet.

Bestial Instincts

Channeling the beast within, you have proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Acrobatics, Athletics, Intimidation, or Survival.

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.

Blood Sense

You have a distinct sense for where your prey may be hiding. You can activate your bloodsense as a bonus action, allowing you to see the locations of all creatures within 120 feet of you for 1 minute. This ability allows you to see invisible creatures and to see through cover such as walls or obscuring terrain. However, this ability does not show you the location of constructs, elementals, oozes, plants, or undead, and creatures of these types that are invisible remain invisible to you. Once you use this ability, you require a short or long rest before you may use it again.

Hold Of the Bear

You are imbued with an iron grip, able to hold those that would struggle to escape. While you have at least one free hand, you may attempt a grapple of a creature up to one size category larger than yourself as a bonus action. Grappled Creatures are frightened.

Werebear Shifting

Shapechanger: The werebear can use its bonus action to polymorph into a Large bear-humanoid hybrid or into a Large bear, or back into its true form, which is humanoid. Its statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies. While Shapechanged, you and allies within 5 feet of you gain advantage on Strength and Dexterity saving throws.

In both the full bear form and the bear-humanoid hybrid form, you use the polar bear's damage statistics:

- Bite: Melee Weapon Attack, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: (1d8 + 5).
- Claw: Melee Weapon Attack, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: (2d6 + 5).

you ignore resist and immunity to non magical attacks at level 9 for the purpose of these claws and bite only (i had to otherwise it becomes useless)

You do not gain the Multiattack feature until reaching level 5. At level 5, you can make two attacks in your bear form.

BearHide: You gain resistance to bludgeoning, piecing and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks

Keen Smell: You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks

 Moonlit Strength: +1 bonus to AC

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