Homebrew Ferren Species Details

Distant kin of giant Foxes from the Feywild, Ferren come in many shapes and sizes, from petite and fluffy to wide shouldered and majestic. Ferren have arms and legs like other Humanoids, as well as a strong fluffy tail.

Like foxes, Ferren are graced with auburn fur patterns, making it easy for them to sneak up on unsuspecting victims inside their homeland's sprawling forests.

Your Ferren character might be nocturnal. Or perhaps your character is simply prone to rise later, still stuck in the ways of their home villages.

Creating Your Character

If you create an Ferren 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.

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 Ferren, 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.

Life Span

The typical life span of a player character in D&D is about 30 - 40 years,  assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent end on an adventure. Ferren mature at the age of 8 and are considered elderly at around 26, living to 40 is very rare and the eldest are very well respected.

Height and Weight

Player characters, including Ferren, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that small humans have in our world.

Ferren Traits

You have the following racial traits

Faerie Luck

Faerie Luck

Faerie Luck gives you access to a group of 4 D6 dice (+1 D6 every 4 levels after level 2) named Faerie Dice. You gain 1 D4 faerie dice back per long rest, you can expend these dice to do 1 of two actions

1 - Faustian Luck

You may use one die from your Faerie Dice and exchange it for a plus 1 modifier to any roll so long as it's used before the actual dice is rolled.

2 - Topsy-turvy fey aura

You may use one die from your Faerie Dice pool so long as its announced before any roll is made (by you, a party member or enemy). And in return you can effect the luck of any action, the luck effect depends on the number rolled. And you may not effect an already advantage/disadvantaged roll. 

1 - 2    =   Disadvantage

3 - 4    =   Unaffected 

5 - 6    =   Advantage

Language

Your character can speak, read, and write Common.

Size

You are a small - medium Humanoid.

Creature Type

You are a Humanoid.

Speed

Your walking speed is 30 ft.

Darkvision

You can see in dim light within 120 feet of yourself 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.