Homebrew Felinid Tabaxi Species Details

Felinid Tabaxi Species Details

Though everyone knows that no two cats are alike, few account for the dramatic variance between breeds of tabaxi. Even the tabaxi themselves do not differentiate culturally between themselves and their kin of other ancestry, considering all tabaxi to be different manifestations of the same race.
Nevertheless, such differences do exist, and create pronounced traits that lend each tabaxi certain aptitudes not found in others of their species.

As the smallest variety of tabaxi, felinid tabaxi are crafty and charming, and can commonly be found living amongst other races. Felinid tabaxi are quick to make friends, but are still free spirits in pursuit of their own agendas.

Felinid Tabaxi Traits

Small cat-like Tabaxi

Darkvision.

You have a cat’s keen senses, especially in the dark. 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.

Feline Agility

Your reflexes and agility allow you to move with a burst of speed. When you move on your turn in combat, you can double your speed until the end of the turn. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you move 0 feet on one of your turns.

Cat’s Claws

Because of your claws, you have a climbing speed of 20 feet. When you use your unarmed strike, you can choose to deal slashing instead of bludgeoning damage.

Size

Felinid tabaxi are sleight, short, and lightweight, most being slightly over 3 feet in height.
Your size is Small.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Sly Friend

You have proficiency in Stealth and your choice of either Persuasion or Deception.

Nimble Claws

You have proficiency in thieves’ tools, and can treat the claws of one of your unoccupied hands as if they were a set of thieves’ tools.

Nine Lives

You have an uncanny ability to survive what should kill you, through agility, absurd coincidence, or luck. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.

Feline Charming

Your Dexterity score increases by 1, and your Charisma score increases by 2.

Felinid Tabaxi Traits

Your unique lineage and breed grant you distinct physiological and instinctual aptitudes, manifesting as traits that set you apart from other tabaxi.

Darkvision

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 discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Cat's Talent

Your feline instincts grant you sharpened senses and a quiet step. You gain proficiency in the Perception and Stealth skills.

Feline Agility

Your reflexes and agility allow you to move with a burst of speed. When you move on your turn in combat, you can double your speed until the end of the turn. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you move 0 feet on one of your turns.

Cat’s Claws

Because of your claws, you have a climbing speed of 20 feet. When you use your unarmed strike, you can choose to deal slashing instead of bludgeoning damage.

Nimble Claws

You have proficiency in thieves’ tools, and can treat the claws of one of your unoccupied hands as if they were a set of thieves’ tools.

Nine Lives

You have an uncanny ability to survive what should kill you, through agility, absurd coincidence, or luck. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Feline Charming

Your crafty nature and endearing feline presence lend you a sharp reflexes and a magnetic personality. Your Dexterity score increases by 1, and your Charisma score increases by 2.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice. Felinid tabaxi frequently pick up the tongues of the communities they settle amongst.