Homebrew 🐾 Cougar Tabaxi Species Details

Description

Cougar Tabaxi are mountain-dwelling cousins of their jungle kin. Muscular and broad-shouldered, their coats are tawny gold, sandy brown, or dusky gray, often with faint striping or solid coloration. They are known less for insatiable curiosity and more for watchful patience, survival instinct, and fierce loyalty. While jungle Tabaxi chase stories and treasures, Cougar Tabaxi pursue prey, honor, and endurance, moving like silent predators across craggy peaks and forests alike.

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Culture & Naming Traditions

Cougar Tabaxi live in small, scattered clans across mountain ranges, high forests, and wild borderlands. Unlike their jungle kin who thrive in bustling villages, Cougar Tabaxi prefer quiet, solitude, and open space. They are patient hunters and fierce protectors of their territory, and they value strength, cunning, and endurance above material wealth.

While jungle Tabaxi are known for their endless curiosity, Cougar Tabaxi are known for their focus. They may still pursue knowledge, stories, or treasures, but only if such quests serve their goals of survival, honor, or the thrill of the hunt.

Names

Cougar Tabaxi names follow the same tradition as their kin, often drawn from nature, actions, or omens. A name is usually given at birth by the clan’s elder, inspired by the cub’s temperament or by signs witnessed at their birth. Unlike their playful cousins, however, Cougar Tabaxi names often carry a more stoic or predatory edge.

Examples of Cougar Tabaxi Names:

• Ember in the Pines

• Stone That Watches

• Silent Prowler

• Whisper on the Cliff

• Dusk Between Peaks

• Ash in the Snow

• Eyes of the Storm

• Rumble Beneath Earth

Most Cougar Tabaxi adopt a shortened version of their name when dealing with outsiders. Silent Prowler may simply be called Prowler, while Eyes of the Storm may go by Storm-Eyes.

  

🐾 Cougar Tabaxi Traits

Your Cougar Tabaxi character inherits the agility and charm of their feline kin, tempered by the strength and patience of a mountain predator. These traits reflect their balance of stealth, grace, and feral power.

Darkvision

You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1.

Cougar’s Claws

Your claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the normal unarmed strike damage.

You also have a climbing speed of 20 feet.

Predator

Once per short or long rest, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack (including claw attacks), you may attempt to knock it prone.

• Target makes a Strength saving throw (DC = 8 + proficiency bonus + Strength or Dexterity modifier).

• On a failed save, the target is knocked prone as you pounce on them.

Feline Agility

When you move on your turn in combat, you can double your speed until the end of the turn.

Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you move 0 feet on one of your turns

Cougar’s Talent

You gain proficiency in Stealth and Perception.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.

Cougar Tabaxi Weapon Training

You have proficiency with the shortsword, dagger and shortbow.

Cold Resistance

Resistance to cold damage.