Homebrew Bugbear (Evergarden) Species Details

Neither bugs nor bears, bugbears are the hulking cousins of goblins and hobgoblins. With roots in the Feywild, early bugbears resided in hidden places, in hard-to-reach and shadowed spaces. Long ago and from out of the corner of your eye, they came to the Material Plane, urged to spread throughout the multiverse by the conquering god Maglubiyet. Centuries later, they still bear a fey gift for lurking just out of sight, and many of them have sneaked away from that god’s influence. A small contingent of bugbears found their way to the mysterious lands of Evergarden. Over time, the influence of Evergarden's magic caused these bugbears to grow a second set of fully-functional arms.

They are covered in coarse hair, with wedge-shaped ears and pointed teeth. Both their stature and arm length are shorter than their long-limbed kin. The bugbears of Evergarden tend to range from 7-9 inches tall. Despite their formidable build, bugbears are quiet skulkers, thanks to a fey magic that allows them to hide in spaces seemingly too small for them.

Bugbear (Evergarden) Traits

As a bugbear, you have the following traits.

Creature Type

You are a Humanoid. You are also considered a goblinoid for any prerequisite or effect that requires you to be a goblinoid.

Age

Quicksteps have remarkably short lifespans compared to other fey. Quicksteps mature around 10 years and life up to 50 years.

Size

Your size is Small

Darkvision

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

Fey Ancestry

You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed condition on yourself.

Multi-Limbed

You have a second set of fully-functional arms below your primary set of arms, and are capable of dual-wielding versatile, two-handed, and heavy weapons.

Powerful Build

You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Sneaky

You are proficient in the Stealth skill. In addition, without squeezing, you can move through and stop in a space large enough for a Tiny creature.

Surprise Attack

If you hit a creature with an attack roll, the creature takes an extra 2d6 damage if it hasn’t taken a turn yet in the current combat.