Homebrew Ausaur Species Details

Ausaurs travel throughout the multiverse and trace their origins to many different realms. The Ausaurs presented here hail from the Shadowfell and hold a connection with the unnatural world. From the waist up, they resemble humans, displaying all the human varieties of skin tone. The only variation is that they have wolf ears atop their head. From the waist down, they have the bodies of massive wolves.

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.

Languages

Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character.

Creature Type

Ausaurs hail from the Shadowfell, and are classified as a Beast. They hold the subtype of a Shadow due to their unnatural origins.

 

Life Span

The typical life span of an Ausaur can range from 100 to nearly 700 years, depending on their environment. The more magically saturated their environment, the longer their life span.

Height and Weight

Ausaurs typically reach around 6-7ft tall, and around 300 lbs.

Ausaur Traits

As an Ausaur, you have the following racial traits.

Creature Type

You are a Beast (Subtype of 'shadow' due to Shadowfell origin).

Size

Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your walking speed is 40 feet.

Charge

If you move at least 30 feet straight toward a target and then hit it with a melee weapon attack on the same turn, you can immediately follow that attack with a bonus action, making one attack against the target with your paws.

Tauric Build

You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push or drag.

In addition, any climb that requires hands and feet is especially difficult for you because of your tauric build. When you make such a climb, each foot of movement costs you 4 extra feet instead of the normal 1 extra foot.

However, you cannot be affected by difficult terrain caused by undergrowth or uneven ground.

Paws

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

Unnatural Affinity

Your connection to nature gives you an intuitive connection to the unnatural world and the creatures within it. You therefore have proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Medicine, Nature, or Survival.