Homebrew Crawler Species Details

The Crawlers are a hated sort of "copied" Dragonborn. Their name means , well, "crawler" in Common and is used as an insult in most of the Overland. The Crawlers are known as the Yakasimba in Sona. The Yakasimba originated after the Greater Dragonborn were created. Zir became jealous of Azhodehya's design for the Dragonborn, and he asked Zandegi to help him create one more race. A black scaled cave dweller. The Yakasimba were then cursed by Azhodehya and became much more like lizards than Dragonborn. They became disgraced, and called Crawlers, because of their maker, even though their treatment is unjust. The curse only afflicted them slightly, but it is unknown what happened. The only known thing is it just made them stronger and more hateful.

Yakasimba appear as ash-colored lizards that mostly crawl around on all fours. They appear much like a Komodo dragon most times. They have large, brightly colored spines on their backs and heads and use acid as a breath weapon.

Crawler Traits

Crawlers are imbued with primal strength and rage that has kept them alive even through the curse.

Ability Score Increase

Your strength score increases by 2, and your constitution score increases by 1.

Earth's Endurance

You can focus yourself to occasionally shrug off injury. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to roll a d12. Add your constitution Modifier to the number rolled and reduce the damage by that total. After you use this trait you can't use it again until after you finish a short or long rest.

Powerful Build

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

Tough as stone

You have tough, scaly skin. When you aren’t wearing armor, your base AC is 13 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use your natural armor to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield’s benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.

Intimidating Presence

You are proficient in the intimidation and persuasion skills.

Darkvision

Accustomed to the dark Underland, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 120 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.