Homebrew Faerie Folk Species Details
While typically small by nature, most Fair Folk can alter their appearance at will using magic and glamour. Faeries can thus adjust their size to appear anywhere from 6 inches to 6 feet in height in accordance with their mood, whims, or environment. At full height, a faerie could almost be mistaken for a high elf if not for their striking eyes (often entirely black, or with unnaturally large irises in an iridescent rainbow of varying colors) and the wings that unfold from their shoulder blades. The walking and flying speed of a faerie depends on their current size. Faeries can alter the appearance of their wings and may disguise them completely if necessary. Faeries are often supernaturally beautiful, which they use to their advantage to charm and trick the weak-minded.
Faerie Folk Traits
Faerie Folk are gifted with a variety of supernatural abilities.Faerie Wings
Choose one of the four primary shapes (Beetle, Butterfly, Dragonfly, or Moth) to determine your natural appearance and the special ability granted by your wings. Your wings can be glamoured to look however you want them to, and they can be completely disguised if necessary.
Glamour
Your faerie magic allows you to change your appearance whenever you please, shrinking to six inches or growing to six feet. You can alter the color, size, and appearance of your entire body as well as anything you are wearing. This lasts until you dispel it or fall unconscious.
Invisibility
You can draw upon your innate faerie magic once per day to obscure yourself from sight and become invisible for up to one minute. This effect will end early and you will become visible again if you try to interact with an object held by another creature, make an attack, cast a spell, or if you fall unconscious.
This effect renders you mostly invisible, but causes sparkles of shimmering faerie dust to float down from your body as you move. A nearby careful observer may still see your faint silhouette, especially if you are moving quickly within their field of view. Creatures within 30 feet of you will first notice the effect on a DC 13 Perception check. Creatures actively searching for the cause within 15 feet will be able to deduce your location to within 10 feet on a DC 16 Perception check, or your exact position on a DC 19 Perception check. A creature attempting to find you this way gains disadvantage on the check if you are actively trying to hide from sight or evade capture.
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 can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Gift of the Tricky
You have proficiency with wisdom, sleight of hand, and arcana checks.
Fae Ancestry
You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Sylvan, as well as one more language of your choice.
Ability Score Increase
Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Charisma score increases by 1.
Age
Faeries can live up to 300 years.
Size
Faeries are able to adjust their size in accordance with mood, whim, or environment – a range between six inches and six feet. Your base size is Medium, but it you may change it to Small, Tiny, or back to Medium as an action.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet when medium height, 15 feet when small, and 5 feet when tiny.
Your flying speed is 15 feet when medium height, 30 when small, and 35 when tiny.
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