Homebrew Wasset Species Details

Cute & Deadly

A wassets exasperated expressions and movements are obvious at first glance. Their twitchy demeanor shows an expressiveness and determination to constantly be moving and noticing the world around it. Wassets average a little over 3 feet tall and weight around 50 to 60 pounds. Wassets are known for their thick white fur when in cold climates, green in tropical and forested areas and even tan fur in the harsh desert lands with long thin bodies. They have small claws they use to help burrow through snow, tall grasses and sand and to tear into flesh. They have eyes in a range of yellow, blue, green, black and even pale pink in some rare instances. Some wassets have even been known to change fur color if they are in a new environment for even a short amount of time.

The differences between male and female wassets are hard to pin down. The most obvious is size, males tend to be larger but not by much and females tend to have longer fur. Some wassets let certain sections of fur grow long and braid them into quite exquisite designs.

Packs of Gems

Wassets strive to survive in any climate they call home. They tend to travel in packs of ten or more and sometimes can be found alone. A lone wasset is usually feared for it was usually driven from its pack for various reasons. A lone wasset will kill and eat anything it can find to survive.

They love a good story or joke and are fairly easily entertained by most races. They love to collect and trade in shiny bobbles and sometimes even steal them if they get exceptionally enthralled with an object someone denies them.

Adaptive Homes

Wassets can sleep out in most environments that they enhabit.  They seem to show great resistance to conditions when accustomed to them. They burrow mostly to travel and can even make great tunnel systems in the ground.  These tunnel systems tend to look like very large ant hills and function in a similar fashion. Everyone works to help maintain it until the region they are in has run out of resources. They then collapse the entrance and move onto a new area. Some people have found old abandoned wasset tunnels by accident and fallen many feet to their untimely demise.

Wasset Names

Wasset names are short and to the point. Usually one or two syllables. They can be taken from sounds made at birth or changed over time to something they are quite good at. Family names are nonexistent but they might state their pack name as something like a last name when dealing with outsiders.

Male Names: Blap, Torn, Hep, Marp, Let, Sleep, Nice, Cook, Cut, Dink

Female Names: Flo, Murm, Hen, Sing, Small, Rat, Nora, Squak

Pack Names: Far, Cold, Sand, Tree, Leaf, Hate, Love, Dream

Wasset Traits

Your wasset character has certain characteristics in common with all wassets.

Ability Score Increase

Your dexterity score increases by 2 and your constitution score increases by 1.

Age

Wassets mature much faster than humans do, and most are considered adults by the age of 10. They can live 100 to almost 300 years.

Alignment

Wassets are most often chaotic.They tend bo good or neutral if in a pack or can go evil when left by themselves. Wassets hate being alone.

Adaptive Body

Your body can easily adapt to most any environment. If a wasset is in a new environment for more than 24 hours they gain one of the following features.

• If in a cold environment their fur turns white and they gain resistance to cold damage and are unaffected by cold environment effects. They can also burrow through snow with ease.
• If in a temperate environment like forests or grasslands their fur turns a greenish color and they gain resistance to lightning damage and can burrow through tall grass and dirt with ease.
• If in a desert environment their fur turns a tan color and they gain resistance to fire damage and are unaffected by the hot environment effects. They can also burrow through sand with ease.

Wasset 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 1d4 + your Dexterity modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Size

Wassets are between 3 and 4 feet tall and average about 50 to 60 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Darkvision

Accustomed to burrowing underground, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.

Languages

You can speak and read Common and Wasset. The Wasset language is similar to that of gnomish but spoken quicker. Those that know gnomish can understand them in a broken dialect.