Homebrew Awakened Bear Species Details

What is this?  Who am I?  These thoughts flood your mind for the first time.  You have Awakened to a whole new world of understanding...whether or not this was by divine, magical, or mutation the world is now being grasped in a whole new light.  For the first time you feel the need to walk and talk like those funny fur-less creatures you have seen before.  Go forth into the world and make it your own, stay in the forest and rule, or simply keep living your life the way it is now.

Were you captured and experimented on? Do you have a desire to see all nature thrive?  Explore how to walk like a Humanoid and try to keep your cool under their gaze.

Awakened Bear Traits

Given human-like intelligence by magical spells/means that awakened the mind, these particular bears have the following Racial Traits

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.

Age

Brown Bears mature around the Age of 6, and live between 20 and 30 years.  Since you have been Awakened you feel new vigor throughout your step and can live to be 70 to 80 years old.  *DM discretion

Alignment

Bears have no concept of good or evil, so awakened bears tend towards neutral alignments.  This may change depending on their treatment and experience during their awakening.

Size

Bears vary greatly in size, from around 5 to 9 feet long, and from 3 to 5 feet tall. And weight between 180 – 1,300 lbs.  Your size is Large

Speed

Your base walking speed is 40 feet, and you have a climbing speed of 30 feet.

Keen Smell

Advantage on Wisdom (Perception) Checks that rely on smell

Natural Armour

You have thick, furry hide. When you aren't wearing Armour, your AC is 13+ Dex.  You can use your natural Armour to determine your AC if the Armour you wear would leave you with a Lower AC.

Natural Weapons

Your front claws and fanged maw are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes.  If you hit with these attacks, you can deal slashing damage or piercing damage instead of bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.  

*Multi-Attack: If you do not use your movement you can do two claws attack.  If you make one of them, you can use your bonus action to do a Bite Attack.

Animal Kinship

Given your connection to the natural world, you may cast Speak with Animals without expanding a spell slot. You must complete a long rest before this feature can be used again.

Forest Creature

You have proficiency in the Nature skill.

Bestial Body

Your ursine body makes it difficult to wear clothes and Armour, or for you to handle certain objects.  Armour and weaponry may have to be custom made for you to use.  Whether you can use an item or object is up to the DM's Discretion.

Languages

You can speak, and write in Common and Bear

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