Homebrew Caudata Species Details
Salamander Folk
Caudata resemble Giant Salamanders and a resilient but often times arrogant and proud folk. They live in a number of fresh water ecosystems and can often be found in rivers, white water rapids, lakes, and water falls where they can be seen pan mining for gold, hunting crayfish, stacking rock cairns or even building sand castles.
Awkwardly Adorable
These adorably awkward little beings have little black beady eyes, a rounded back, and stumpy little legs that give them a waddle like a duck as they walk. They have an extremely large mouth that runs across the entire width of their head which allows them to hold onto fish, crustaceans, and have even said to have swallowed gnomes, goblins and other similar sized creatures whole.
River Barons
They have a unique social hierarchy as each pod of Caudata are ruled over by a River Baron that acts as the pods leader, who often is the largest most dominant Male. The Baron will usually be in the highest point in the pods territory, as it is used to oversee the group and the territory.
Caudata Names
Because Caudata do not actually have the ability to form sounds for languages they often receive names from their linguistic companions. This can be strange to them as names are a strange concept invented by humans and elves and such. They do have their own language but it often consists of gurgles, hisses, bellows and chirping noises.
Male Names: Steve, Karl, Billy, Bob, Tom, Jerry, and Captain Sprinkle the destroyer of worlds.
Female Names: Jenny, Jane, Mary, Sally, Lucy, Margret and Madam Bubbles the Magnificent.
Caudata Traits
Your Caudata character has an assortment of inborn abilities, part and parcel of Caudata nature.Ability Score Increase
Your Wisdom score increases by 2 and your Charisma score increases by 1.
Age
Caudata mature to adulthood by the age of 5 but have been known to live up to 60 years.
Alignment
Most Caudata are true neutral or have some aspect of neutrality in their alignment. They tend toward chaotic, coming from a life on the rapid white water currents making them illusive and adaptable.
Slimey
To stay out of water for so long you secrete slime from your pores which holds water in place around you. This also helps you escape the clutches of large predators that might want to eat you, as you have advantage against being grappled and restrained and can slip through small spaces otherwise impossible for other creatures. The entrance to such a hiding place must be of at least a 6 inches in diameter.
Chomp
You have a massive powerful jaw, even for such a small creature and can bite an enemy as an action during combat. (Your bite attack is a 1d6 + STR modifier)
You may also use a bonus action to clamp onto your enemy and try and hold onto them, which they can shake you off with a contested Strength Saving Throw against your athletics ability check. Creatures that are small will be grappled, and creatures of a medium size or large act as if in difficult terrain until you are shaken off.
Stone Camouflage
You have advantage on dexterity (Stealth) checks to hide in rocky terrain.
Limited Amphibiousness
You can breathe air and water, but you need to be submerged at least once every 12 hours to avoid suffocating.
Size
Caudata stand between 3 and 4 feet tall and average about 60 to 80 pounds. Your size is small.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 25 feet, and you have a swim speed of 40 feet.
Languages
Caudata do not have the ability to create sounds similar to humans, dwarfs, and elves, and because of this they do not speak. However they can understand written and spoken language and can communicate that way. Caudata do have their own language but it consists of gurgles, bellows, hisses and chirps. You can read, and write Aquan and Primordial and you can speak, read, and write Caudatan which is a dialect of Sahuagin.
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