Homebrew Mothfolk of the Mourningfields Species Details

THIS IS HOMEBREW D&D MATERIAL BY MOTODESTRUCTO

These game mechanics are usable in your campaign if your DM allows them.

The Mourningfields are a vast area of grassland that stretch across the central part of Helador's livable areas. The main residents of this area are known as the Mothfolk

Nocturnal by nature. The Mothfolk thrive during the night, they are out and about during the day if the need arises but on the whole, they prefer the darkness of night. They have many natural advantages at night.

Lifecycle

Mothfolk are born as one of a cluster of up to 100 eggs, they then hatch after 1-2 weeks as larvae and spund a 2-3 month period in this caterpillar like form eating and growing between 3 and 5 feet long, then they go through a 1-3 week cocoon stage appearing as a human sized silky cocoon, they emerge as an fully grown adult Mothfolk.

The Mothfolk will often have their cocoon nurseries in tall trees the grasslands or they will dig out trenches to lie them in to keep visibility of this stage of life to a minimum. Human sized cocoons tend to attract a lot of the wrong types of attention.

Alignment

Most Mothfolk lean towards chaotic alignments, as with most races though there is no absolute alignment to the general populace. Their society contains the rich, the poor, the drunk, the sober, all aspects of alignment can stem from their culture.

Erratic Flight

The Mothfolk can fly but is not at all graceful. Their body hair and antennae are very sensitive under normal circumstances and even more so while in flight causing their flight patterns to be strange and erratic. Additionally their wings are capable yet are a bit too small to sustain long periods of flight carrying their body weight. if they attempt to fly a distance of more than 40 feet they must land and rest willingly or receive an exhaustion level and fall to the ground following the rules for falling.

Mothfolk of the Mourningfields Traits

As a member of the Mothfolk species, you have the following special traits.

Size

You are Medium (about 4–6 feet tall).

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a flying speed of 30 feet that is only usable if NOT wearing medium or heavy armor.

Age

The Mothfolk have been known to have lifespans of 50-80 years.

Ability Score Increases

When determining your character’s ability scores, increase Dexterity by 2 and increase Wisdom by 1. None of these increases can raise a score above 20.

Darkvision

You have Darkvision with a range of 80 feet.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Sylvan.

Nocturnal by Nature

Due to their nocturnal nature Mothfolk have a harder time seeing and functioning in bright light. They will have disadvantage on attack rolls as well as  Perception checks and Dexterity checks under these conditions.

Additionally in darkness they will have advantage on attack rolls as well as  Perception checks and Dexterity checks under these conditions.

Dim light causes them to have neither disadvantage or advantage.

The effects of their darkvision making them see as if bright light were occurring in dim light has no adverse effects on them.