Homebrew Canii Species Details

Canii are dog like humanoids created through the mixing of DNA of a dog and a humanoid by celestial beings to blend the best traits of both dogs and humans, Canii are naturally friendly creatures who dislike unfriendly combat but will use it if self defense is required, despite this Canii are incredible in combat being able to take many blows and love to roughhouse playfully with other Canii like in wrestling. Canii also enjoy the hobbies of both dogs and humans sometimes mixing them into new unique hobbies. Canii also have a natural rivalry with Tabaxi viewing them as their friendly rivals in the world and will try and one-up a Tabaxi if possible in any secnerio.

Canni can look like a large variety of dogs such as; labs, retrievers, German shepherds, sheep dogs, bulldogs, poodles, beagles, husky’s and so on.

Creating Your Character

At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.

Ability Score Increases

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 speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character. The Player’s handbook offers a list of languages to choose from. The DM is free to modify that list for a campaign.

Creature Type

Every creature in D&D, including each player character, has a special tag in the rules that identifies the type of creature they are. Most player characters are of the Humanoid type. A race tells you what your character’s creature type is.

Here’s a list of the game’s creature types in alphabetical order: Aberration, Beast, Celestial, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze, Plant, Undead. These types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn’t work on a Construct or an Undead.

Life Span

The typical life span of a player character in the D&D multiverse is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent end on an adventure. Members of some races, such as dwarves and elves, can live for centuries. If typical members of a race can live longer than a century, that fact is mentioned in the race’s description.

Height and Weight

Player characters, regardless of race, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the random height and weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.

Canii Traits

As a Canii, you have the following racial traits.

Creature Type

You are a Humanoid.

Size

You are Medium or Small. You choose the size when you select this race.

Speed

Your walking speed is 30 ft., and you have a burrowing speed equal to 1/3rd of your walking speed (rounded down)

Dog’s Jaws

You can use your jaws to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier piercing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Threatening Bark

You have proficiency in the intimidation and when you bark as an intimation roll you can add a d4 to it

Rough and Tumble

Your tough and durable body lets you reduce incoming damage in combat. When you take damage on your turn in combat, you can reduce that damage equal to your class level. Once used 2 times, you can’t use this trait again until you take a short rest.

Roughhousing

Starting at 3rd level, Your years of roughhousing with other fellow Canii allows you to attempt to grapple an opponent in combat as a bonus action, this grapple is with disadvantage if they are wearing heavy armor, spiked armor, or studded leather.