Homebrew Elfling: Leprechaun Species Details

The collection of coin and valuables are the goals of most leprechauns’ lives: a assortment of vauleable, gems, jewels, and many things that shine but more then all else gold. To accumulate such wealth leprechauns lean to the mischief of deals, bets, scams, fraud, hoax, hoodwink, bamboozle, flimflam, dupes, and deception. Though some leprechauns live out their days in remote solidarity of cart traveling sales man, making a living off of traveling adventures, other merchants, and smaller towns. But even these wanderers love the thrill of the bartering, pulling the wool over peoples eyes, and of course gold. 

Not Small or Tall

The diminutive leprechauns survive in a world full of larger creatures by wit or, cunning, avoiding offense. Standing about 4 -5 feet tall, they appear relatively harmless and so have managed to survive for centuries in the shadow of empires and on the edges of wars and political strife. They are inclined to be slender, weighing between 80 and 110 pounds.

Leprechauns’ skin ranges from tan to pale with a ruddy cast, and their hair is usually brown or reddish brown and wavy to straight. They have brown, hazel, and green eyes. Leprechaun men often sport well keep short beard, but sideburns aren't rare among them but only a mustaches is. They like to wear outlandish clothing, favoring bright colors.

Leprechauns practicality extends beyond their clothing. They’re love to live lavish life styles with needs and pleasures and reach for the excess. The wealthiest of leprechaun keep their treasures locked in a cellar rather than on display for all to see. They have a knack for finding the most straightforward solution to a problem, and ignore it completely for a grand exorbitant plan.

Blend into the Crowd

Leprechauns are adept at fitting into a community of humans, halfling, or elves, making themselves valuable and welcome. The combination of their inherent stealth and their unassuming nature helps leprechauns to avoid unwanted attention.

Leprechauns mostly work solo but work readily with others, and they are loyal to their friends, claiming they bring them luck. They can display remarkable ferocity when their friends or families are threatened.

Caravan Communities

Most leprechauns live travelling around from place to place. Exploring the world for its wealth, and new experiences. In retirement look for a peaceful communities with large farms and well-kept groves. Opening up a bar, shop, or apothecary. They rarely build kingdoms of their own or even hold much land beyond a small home or traveling cart. They typically don’t recognize any sort of leprechaun nobility or royalty, instead looking to others experience and failures help guide there future adventures. Families preserve their mischief ways despite the rise and fall of empires.

Many leprechauns' live among other races, where the leprechauns’ mischief and deceptive behavior offer them abundant rewards but also some creature mistrust. Many leprechauns' travel as a way of life, driving wagons or guiding boats from place to place and maintaining no permanent home.

Exploring Opportunities

Leprechauns' usually set out on the adventurer’s path to accumulate wealth, swindle unknowing folks, or explore a wide and wonder-filled world. For them, adventuring is less a career than an opportunity.

Elfling: Leprechaun Traits

Your leprechauns character has a number of traits in common with all other halflings.

Ability Score Increase

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

Age

A leprechauns reaches adulthood at the age of 20 and generally lives into the middle of his or her second century.

Alignment

Most leprechauns are chaotic good.

Size

Halflings average about 4 - 5 feet tall and weigh about 80 - 110 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Pot Odds

For one gold coin in between a hand shake, you trace a four leaf clove on top of there hand to bestow luck to a character. One time through out the day when they roll a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, they can reroll the die and must use the new roll.

Lucky

When you roll a 1 on the d20 for an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll.

Hidden Step

As a bonus action, you can magically turn invisible until the start of your next turn or until you attack, make a damage roll, or force someone to make a saving throw. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Serendipity

Able to use the Bountiful Luck and Second Chance feat.

Innate Spellcasting

You know the Shillelagh Cantrip

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, and Halfling. The leprechaun language is sporadically mix of all three, which helps them to confuse and enchant there mark. They write very little, so they don’t have a rich body of literature. Their oral tradition, however, is very strong. Almost all leprechauns speak Common to converse with the people in whose lands they dwell or through which they are traveling.