Homebrew Hill Goliath Species Details

The most brutish of the Goliath race, Hill Goliath's claim their giant lineage from the blood the share with the well known Hill Giants. As hill giants have no clear culture of their own, neither do their descendants. Hill Goliaths mimic the cultures of societies they observe around them often mixing the most simplistic parts of multiple cultures to create their own.

Hill Goliath Traits

Goliaths share a number of traits in common with each other.

Ability Score Increase

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

Age

Goliaths have lifespans comparable to humans. They enter adulthood in their late teens and usually live less than a century.

Alignment

With little order in their culture hill goliaths tend towards being chaotic. Their brutish nature leads them to be evil.

Size

Goliaths are between 7 and 8 feet tall and weigh between 280 and 340 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Iron Stomach

You have the ability to eat even the most deadly foods. Rotten meat, poisonous plants and animals have little detrimental effects on you. You gain advantage on saving throws against poison and resistance to poison damage for poisons that must be consumed.  You can also consume twice the normal amount of food that others of your race can consume.

Stone’s Endurance

You can focus yourself to occasionally shrug off injury. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to roll a d12. Add your Constitution modifier to the number rolled, and reduce the damage by that total. After you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Powerful Build

You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Hill Born

You’re familiar with the patterns of nature in regions with hills and mountains and are easily able to find your way through them. You have advantage on skill checks made to navigate through mountains and hills.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Giant.

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