Homebrew Fairy (Variant) Species Details
The Feywild is home to many fantastic peoples, including fairies. Fairies are a wee folk, but can shift into a larger form without wings. The first fairies spoke Elvish, Goblin, or Sylvan, and encounters with human visitors prompted many of them to learn Common as well.
Infused with the magic of the Feywild, most fairies (Variant) look like elves, but they can shift to a much smaller form with with insectile wings, each fairy has a special physical characteristic that sets the fairy apart.For your fairy, roll on the Fey Characteristics table or choose an option from it. You’re also free to come up with your own characteristic if none of the suggestions below fit your character. The characteristic you chose can only apply to your tiny form or both (DM’s discretion)
Fey Characteristics
| D8 | CHARACTERISTIC |
|---|---|
| 1 | Your wings are like those of a bird. |
| 2 | You have shimmering, multicolored skin. |
| 3 | You have exceptionally large ears. |
| 4 | A glittering mist constantly surrounds you. |
| 5 | You have a small spectral horn on your forehead, like a little unicorn horn. |
| 6 | Your legs are insectile. |
| 7 | You smell like fresh brownies. |
| 8 | A noticeable, harmless chill surrounds you. |
Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy. The “Quick Build” section for your character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to increase. You can follow those suggestions or ignore them, but you can’t raise any of your scores above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character.
Creature Type
Fey
Life Span
The typical life span of a player character in the D&D multiverse is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent end on an adventure. Members of some races, such as dwarves and elves, can live for centuries. Fairies and harengons, however, have a life span of about a century. Variant Fairies can live much longer having been been fully infused with the magic of the Feywilds. (Optional)
Fairy (Variant) Traits
As a variant fairy, you have the following racial traits.Creature Type
You are a Fey.
Size
You are Tiny.
Variant Fairy’s base size range from 2 to 10 inches in height with a medium form of 5’ to 5’10
Speed
Your walking speed is 30 feet.
Fey Ancestry
You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.
Fairy Magic
You know the druidcraft cantrip.
Starting at 3rd level, you know the faerie fire spell. Starting at 5th level, you also know the enlarge/reduce spell. You can cast either of those spells using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level.
Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).
Size Shift
As an action,You can shift between your Tiny from and a Medium form. Your Tiny form has wings, Because of your wings, in your tiny form you have a flying speed equal to your walking speed. You can’t use this flying speed if you’re wearing medium or heavy armor. Your Medium Form has no wings and looks like an elf.
You can shift between forms as an action. You cannot shift while restrained or grappled. This size change does not require concentration to sustain.Your primary form is your Tiny size, you feel a slight discomfort at the lack of wings in your Medium form, it is at the DM’s discretion what problems this discomfort causes.
Everything you are wearing and carrying changes size with it. Any item dropped by you returns to normal size at once.
Imbued Senses
Your high exposure to the magic of the Feywilds grants you enhanced senses.
You have you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 30 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. You also have proficiency in the perception skill.
Chaotic Nature
Variant Fairy’s are like cats, they have random urges to cause slight chaos. These urges can be controlled with a Wisdom save. The DC is at the DM’s discretion, typically a DC 20 for young children and a DC 12 For older Adults. The action caused by this urge cannot be overly harmful to others, merely mildly annoying. These urges do not coalesce during or right after high stress moments like combat, poison, or death of friends or family. The DM can roll a (1d4+1) for how often, in hours you get these urges, this can be rerolled this every long rest or (1d6+1) days (DM’s Discretion).
You must also have one of the chaotic alignments.
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