Homebrew Chocobo Species Details

Natural Sprinters

Similar to horses, chocobo newborn learn to walk hardly a few hours after birth and sprint by the end of the day. Even the most sickly chocobo can run for days without rest and it is this ability that allows them to be very versatile. Their endurance and the strength comes with it, allows them to be a force to be feared on the battlefield when they charge the front lines with the ferocity of a hawk while carrying a fully armored soldier on its back. They can also be seen running up and down the battlefield tending to the wounded and carrying them back behind friendly lines for more serious treatment.

Couragous Couriers

Those with more passive personalities tend to find employ as personal couriers for rich merchant guild and nobles alike. For a fraction of the coast and time, a single chocobo can be literal golden goose when it comes to sending important packages and sensitive information across vast distances. With their naturally gifted speed and perception, stealth is the only way. Even then, one snap of twig and the quarry will be back on the road laughing as his would be attacker as he is coughing up dust left in its wake.

Chocobo Names

Chocobo have personal names given at birth in Auran that might recall an event or center on a habit., but they will have a nickname they use that is usually a shorten version of it. It also normal for them to use nickname given to them by close friends.

Auran Names: Kuraima, Keiiousna, Nesshin, Gekido, Shirudobaita, Kohaku

Shortened Names: Kura, Kei, Ness, Gek, Shiru, Haku

Nicknames: Beaky, Meryl Cheep, Kiwi, Pipsqueak, Hootie, Chick Jagger, Motley, Wingman

Chocobo Traits

Your chocobo character has the following racial traits:

Ability Score Improvement Increase one ability score of your choice by 2 and increase different ability score by 1.

Age Chocobos are relatively short lived. They reach maturity at 5 and live an average of 45 to 50 years.

Alignment While most are neutral throughout their lives, refusing to choose sides and simply want to live their lives, Chocobos tend to lean toward the good alignment, but an evil chocobo is not exactly rare either.

Size Chocobos can range as small as 5ft or as tall as 9ft in extreme cases. Your size is Medium.

Chocobo Traits

Your Chocoboic heritage manifests in a variety of traits you share with other chocobos.

Survival Instinct

You have proficiency in the Survival skill.

Struthion Build

You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift. In addition, a Medium or smaller creature can ride on your back if you allow it. In such a situation, you continue to act independently, not as a controlled mount.

Runner's Endurance

Chocobos serve as their own mounts. You have advantage on Constitution saving throws to maintain your pace during a Force March or when chasing a quarry. This does not apply if you are carrying a creature, are encumbered, or moving through difficult terrain.

Rushing Strike

 If you move at least 20ft straight toward a target and then hit it with a melee weapon attack on the same turn, roll the weapon’s damage dice twice and add them together. Once you use this ability, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Ability Score Increase

Your may increase one ability score by 2, and a different ability score by 1.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 40 feet.

Environmental Influence

Chocobos are surprisingly adaptable and can be founds in various climates. From freezing tundra's to searing deserts, a chocobo's home is reflected by its color. Choose one color of Chocobo from the Environmental Influence table. Your damage resistance is determined by the color type, as shown in the table. Standard Yellow chocobos can chose 

Enviromental Influence

Color	Terrain	Damage Resistence
White	Artic	Cold
Red	Desert	Fire
Blue	Coast	Lightning
Green	Forest	Acid
Brown	Swamp	Poison
Black	Underdark	Necrotic

Damage Resistance

You have resistance to the damage type associated with your environmental influence.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Birdfolk (Kweh!). Birdfolk (Kweh!) is thought to be one of the oldest languages in all of Mironia. The language is similar to Kuponics where one word can mean many different things. If you don't know, don't ask