Homebrew Vanara Species Details
Vanara
Vanaras are intelligent, simian humanoids who live in deep forests and jungles. They are both agile and clever, but saddled with boundless curiosity and a love of pranks that, while normally harmless, hinder ingratiations with those they encounter. A vanara's body is covered in a thin coat of soft fur, and individuals with chestnut, ivory, and even golden coats are common. Despite its fur, a vanara can grow lengthy hair on its head just like a human, and both male and female vanaras take pains to wear elaborate hairstyles for important social functions. The hair on a vanara's head matches the color of its fur. All vanaras have long, prehensile tails and handlike feet capable of well-articulated movements. A vanara stands slightly shorter than a typical human. Males weigh from 150 to 200 pounds at most, with females weighing slightly less. Vanaras live roughly for 60 to 75 years.
Vanaras live in large, tree-top villages connected by rope-bridges and ladders. Homes are carved out of trees but usually left open to the elements except for woven leaf canopies and overhangs. Vanara villages are typically led by the community's religious leader—usually a Cleric, oracle, or monk.
Personality
Physical Description
Vanara Traits
These lean, simian Humanoids is covered in a layer of soft, lightly colored fur and has a long, prehensile tail, and are quite adept at using a quarterstaff.Ability Score Increase
Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.
Size
Vanaras are slightly shorter than humans, standing 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 feet tall and typically weighing 90 to 140 pounds.Your size is Medium.
Age
Vanara reach adulthood at 14 and can live to about 80 years
Alignment
Vanaras are strongly chaotic but equally strongly good. They show little to no respect for social norms, rules with no purpose they can understand, or codes of discipline, and hate tyranny and oppression. Their only concession to social order is their acceptance of caste systems. Their religion allows for the possibility that different divine gifts might be given to different people, although it rejects any different valuation of those gifts. Vanaras, therefore, might respect that religion is the province of the priestly caste among humans but do not necessarily accord that caste with the respect and veneration human priests might expect.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet and a climbing speed of 30 feet.
Tree Inhabitant
Being a creature who lives in trees, you are proficient in Acrobatics and Survival.
Climbing Expert
Whenever you make a Dexterity (Acrobatics) or Strength (Athletics) check related to traversing (climbing, swinging, jumping, etc) you are considered proficient in the Athletics and Acrobatics skill and add double your Proficiency Bonus to the check, instead of your normal Proficiency Bonus.
Staff Master
You are proficient with quarterstaffs. You may choose to use Dexterity for your attack modifier and damage. Additionally, while wielding a quarterstaff, if you are knocked prone, you can use your reaction to instead not be knocked prone, once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Prehensile Tail
You have a long, flexible tail that you can use to carry objects. You cannot wield weapons with your tail, but the tail allows you to retrieve a small, stowed object carried on your person as a bonus action.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common, and Vanaran. Vanaras speak Vanaran, which is written in the Common script. Humans complain that Vanaran sounds like nothing but screeches and chattering, but it is a complex and subtle language.
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