Homebrew Folivoran Species Details
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They are long of limb and covered in coarse hair, with wedge-shaped ears and flattened teeth. Despite their large build, bugbears are quiet skulkers, thanks to a fey magic that allows them to hide in spaces seemingly too small for them.
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
Your Wisdom score increases by 2, and Strength increases by 1
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Birdfolk, Folivori and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character.
Creature Type
You are Humblefolk. Due to the symbiotic relationship that you have with the plants and fungi that grow on your fur, you are also considered a plant for any prerequisite or effect that requires you to be a plant.
Life Span
Although Folivorans reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the Folivoran understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. A Folivori typically claims adulthood around the age of 50 and can live to be 750 years old.
Height and Weight
Folivorans are gangly, lean and slow moving, but they stand over 6 feet tall some reaching as large as 8 foot. Their light builds usually lend themselves to bodies that weigh far less than one would expect for their height, averaging around only 120 pounds. Your size is Medium.
Folivoran Traits
As a Folivoran, you have the following racial traits.Age
Folivorans reach maturity around 50 years. Due to their exceptionally slow metabolism, they can live for multiple centuries, up to 750 years.
Alignment
Folivorans tend towards neutral alignments. Having such a long life span forces a more big picture perspective on them as a species, knowing that all things eventually do come back to the embrace of the earth.
Size
Your size is Medium.
Creature Type
You are Humblefolk. You are also considered a plant for any prerequisite or effect that requires you to be a plant.
Speed
Your walking speed is 25 feet.
Folivoran Constitution
You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed condition on yourself. You also can't be forced to sleep through magical means.
Long-Limbed
When you make a melee attack on your turn, your reach for it is 5 feet greater than normal.
Powerful Build
You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.
Algae Camouflage
You move at a slow and methodical pace, slow enough that life has taken up root in your fur. A special magical algae that works in symbiosis with all Folivorans shares space on your slow moving self. This algae allows you to incorporate plant life from the various biomes from around the world into it. By spending a short rest, during which you do nothing other than tend the algal garden in your fur, you can incorporate a form of plant life from those biomes that best represent them. You must have at least five freshly picked specimens for the effect to take place.
You are proficient in the Stealth skill. In addition, you can use an action attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage and other natural phenomena which you have cultivated in your fur. While obscured in this way due to foliage, or other previously cultivated flora, you can be considered to have expertise in the stealth skill and can add your proficiency bonus again. This bonus lasts for one hour, and you can use it a number of times equal to your wisdom modifier per long rest.
Symbiotic Spray
The first time a creature hits you on a turn with a an attack roll, it takes 1d4 poison damage. This effect's damage increases by 1d4 when you reach 5th level (2d4), 11th level (3d4), and 17th level (4d4).
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