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You are Humanoid

Batfolk are roughly the same size and build as humans. You are Medium.

Your walking speed is 30 feet.

You can speak, read, and write Common, Undercommon and Nocturne, a soft, echoing language of clicks, breath tones, and subtle wing gestures.

Batfolk wings are built for controlled, efficient movement rather than raw speed. Their flight favors gliding, circling, and short bursts of acceleration, allowing them to navigate tight spaces and uneven terrain with precision.

Flight is treated as a skill learned from early youth. Elders teach restraint before freedom, emphasizing when not to fly as much as how. Overburdening armor or restraint disrupts wing movement, grounding even the most experienced fliers.

In Batfolk culture, flight is symbolic of perspective, not dominance.

• Flight Speed: 40 ft
• You cannot fly while wearing medium or heavy armor
• If you start your turn grappled, restrained, or prone, your flight speed becomes 0 until the end of that turn
• You must land at the end of your turn if you are encumbered

Batfolk eyes are adapted to environments where light is fleeting or absent. In darkness, their vision favors shape, distance, and motion over color. This allows them to move confidently through moonless skies and lightless tunnels, though the world appears drained of hue and warmth.

To a Batfolk, night is not blindness—it is clarity stripped to essentials.

You have darkvision out to 120 ft.

Batfolk perceive the world not only through sight, but through sound. Subtle clicks, wing vibrations, and breath tones ripple outward, returning information about nearby surfaces and movement. This sense is instinctive and constant, requiring no conscious effort.

Echolocation allows Batfolk to sense obstacles, living creatures, and spatial layout even when sight fails. However, it depends on sound returning to them—overwhelming noise, magical silence, or deafening effects disrupt this awareness entirely.

Among Batfolk, echolocation is considered a shared sense rather than an individual gift. Losing it is described as "falling inward."

• blindsight out to 20 feet
• Your blindsight does not function in areas of complete magical silence
• Creatures behind total cover are not detected
• You have disadvantage on blindsight-based Perception checks in heavy rain, roaring wind, or thunderous environments

Batfolk wings are layered with soft membranes and specialized muscle control that dampens air displacement. When moving with care, they can pass overhead with little more than a whisper.

This trait is not associated with predation in Batfolk culture, but with respect. Silence is a way of sharing space without imposing oneself upon it.

• You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks while flying or gliding in dim light or darkness
• When falling at least 10 ft, you may glide:
• Reduce fall damage to 0
• Move up to 40 ft horizontally

Batfolk claws and feet are naturally suited for vertical surfaces. Stone walls, wooden beams, and ruined masonry provide natural pathways to them. Climbing is second nature, often used in place of walking where others would struggle.

Young Batfolk are taught to rest on walls and ceilings before they ever master flight, learning balance and patience before elevation.

You have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed. You have advantage on Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks made to cling to or maneuver along vertical surfaces.

Batfolk claws grow stronger as their bodies harden through experience and survival. These changes reflect natural adaptation rather than training or combat specialization.

• Level 1–4. Your claws are natural weapons, dealing 1d4 slashing damage on a hit. You use Dexterity for attack and damage rolls.

• Level 5–10. Your claws strengthen and sharpen. They deal 1d6 slashing damage, and they count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks.

• Level 11–16. Your claws are fully matured. They deal 1d8 slashing damage, and when you hit a creature no more than one size larger than you, you have advantage on the first grapple check you make against it before the end of your turn.

• Level 17–20. Your claws reach their peak refinement. They deal 1d10 slashing damage. Once per turn, when you hit a creature with your claws, you may deal an extra 1d6 slashing damage as tearing force.

  This progression represents instinctive refinement over time and does not replace class-based features or extra attacks.

Constant exposure to echo, vibration, and confined spaces has hardened Batfolk bodies against sudden bursts of sound. While still vulnerable to harm, their inner ear and nervous system are more resistant to disorientation caused by sonic force.

This resilience is seen not as toughness, but as endurance—the ability to remain aware under pressure.

You have resistance to thunder damage

Bright, direct light overwhelms Batfolk senses. Sunlight scatters detail, dulls depth, and interferes with echolocation patterns. In such conditions, Batfolk rely more heavily on memory and positioning than perception.

This is not a weakness in Batfolk eyes, but a consequence of specialization. To them, daylight feels loud.

While you are in direct sunlight, your blindsight range is reduced to 10 feet, and you have disadvantage on
Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.