Homebrew Enlightened Monkey Species Details
Either you were an ordinary monkey that was magically enlightened, or you were born with the intellect of a humanoid. You can now do what the humanoids can do, although you are still quite literally a monkey.
Monkey Traits
Creature Type: Beast
Size: Tiny (typically 1–2 feet tall)
Speed: 30 feet walking, climbing equal to walking
Enlightened Monkey Traits
As a monkey, you have these special traits.Born to Climb
Your walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed. If your base walking speed is increased, your base climbing speed is also increased by that amount.
Monkey's Skill
You gain proficiency in acrobatics and survival, and your species' natural use of tools has given you proficiency with improvised weapons.
Simple Speech
Normal characters know at least three languages, but you only speak common and monkey. You have advantage on persuasion and deception checks you make against monkeys and apes.
What's the monkey doing here?
Humanoids are less likely to take you seriously, so you have a -1 penalty on all charisma checks made against them. However, you have a +1 on charisma checks against all mammals that are classified as beasts.
Human Mount
As a bonus action, you can grab onto an ally that is willing to transport you if the creature is medium or larger in size. When the creature moves, you are moved with it. Additionally, you can end your turn in another creature's space, but you do not gain the +1 AC bonus from Small Target against a creature inside your space.
Small Target
Your small size combined with your dexterity has given you a permanent +1 bonus to AC, which you can't use while incapacitated, prone, etc.
Cute Growl
You have a -2 on intimidation checks, due to how adorable you are.
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