Homebrew Yordle Species Details
Yordles come from a self-contained pocket within the Ethereal Plane. Their Origin on Runeterra is unknown. They are a small and highly adaptive race found in Runeterra. While many Yordles live in Bandle City others have ventured out into the world.
Yordle Traits
Yordle's share a number of traits in common with each other.Age
Due to their magical nature Yordles usually outlive many other races and can live as long as elves.
Ability Score Increase
Increase your Dexterity score by 2, and one other ability of your choice by 1.
Alignment
Yordles tend towards no particular alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.
Size
Yordles are a small race, rarely exceeding 3 feet in height. Your size is Small.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 25 feet.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common, Yordle, and one additional language of your choice. Yordles typically learn the languages of other peoples they may deal with, including obscure dialects.
Adaptive Skills
You may gain proficiency in one skill of your choice.
Environmental Adaptation
Yordles gain different adaptations based on where they have spent most of their lives. Choose one environment from the list below and you gain that adaptation.
- City: You gain proficiency with Tinkerer's Tools. Additionally you can spend one hour to craft any item found on the Adventuring Gear Table in the Player's Handbook if you have the right materials.
- Desert: You gain resistance to fire damage, and can survive 1 week without water or food.
- Forest: Choose one beast that is Challenge Rating 1/4 or lower and is Tiny or Small. Once per long rest you can use an action to shape shift into that beast for one hour.
- Mountain: You gain resistance to cold damage, and can survive in cold climates without cold weather gear, as described in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide.
- Ocean: You gain the ability to breathe underwater as well as on land. Additionally you gain a swim speed equal to your walking speed.
- Shadow Isles: Once per long rest if an attack would hit you, you can use your reaction to become spectral and instead cause that attack to miss.
- Underground: You gain Darkvision out to 60 feet and cannot be lost except by magical means.
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Posted Oct 7, 2023Environmental adaptation doesn't actually provide any choices. just wondering if that was intentional?