Homebrew Chameleonfolk Species Details
Chameleonfolk are small reclusive reptilian humanoids who can blend seamlessly with their surroundings. They can alter their skin and equipment allowing them to become almost invisible, allowing them to vanish in forests, jungles, or even urban settings.
They are cautious and deliberate, preferring diplomacy and misdirection over open conflict. Though should danger find them, they take advantage of their ability to blend in, climb, and see a full 360 degrees around them with their panoramic vision. Their tongues able to shoot out to grapple foes or items from far away.
Chameleonfolk societies are small and hidden. Their villages are built in elevated locarions such as towering trees or camouflaged against a cliff, nearly invisible until one almost stumbles directly upon them. Chameleonfolk prize subtlety and adaptability above all else, teaching their young to read their environment, predict threats, and to keep a low profile.
Adventurers among them are rare, but those who wander beyond their hidden homes often take the roles of scouts, spies, or emissaries.
Chameleonfolk Traits
Chameleonfolk are small humanoid reptiles that can blend into their surroundings, use their panoramic vision to watch for threats, or their long tongues to grapple or grab items far away.Age
Chameleonfolk mature slightly faster than humans, reaching adulthood around age 14. They live up to 80 years.
Alignment
Most Chameleonfolk lean toward neutrality, valuing adaptability and survival.
Size
Chameleonfolk stand between 3 and 4 feet tall, with lean, wiry frames. Your size is Small.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 25 feet, and you have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.
Panoramic Vision
Your eyes can focus on a single target or move independently, granting you complete panoramic vision. You have full visual awareness of everything around you as long as your vision isn't impaired. You cannot be surprised while you are conscious and can see.
Colormeld
You can shift the pigments in your skin as well as magically shift your equipment to perfectly blend into the enviorment around you. Whenever you take the Hide action, you gain Advantage to the Stealth roll. While motionless, you become near invisible to any creatures that rely on sight.
Prehensile Tongue
You can use your long sticky tongue to freely grab or interact with objects up to 15 feet away.
Additionally as an action, you can make a melee attack against a creature that is Large or smaller within 15 feet using your Dexterity for the roll. On a hit, the target is Grappled and Restrained. At the end of each of its turns, the creature can make a contested check to break free. On a success, the grapple ends.
You may use your Dexterity (Acrobatics) instead of your Strength (Athletics) when rolling to maintain your grapple.
When using this feature in this way, you can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Watcher in the Leaves
You have proficiency in the Stealth skill.
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