Homebrew Carabat Species Details

The carabat are humanoid creatures that resemble beetles. They are medium creatures, and are protected by a layer of sturdy natural chitin armor. Although it may look like it, the horn on their head is not a weapon, infact it is a very important part of the body to them, they are very proud of their horn and insulting their horn is a direct insult to them. The armor has a downside aswell to the carabat, due to the weight of it they are slower them most other races. Naturaly the Carabat have a great interest to shiny objects, which they tend to find fascinationg, they use these objects as a status symbol, the more of them you have the higher of status you usualy are.

 The carabat think that most life is holy, and therefore see no reason on hunting on other animals. Besides this they have no need for bones and skins because they live on a diet of bark and tree sap, which they drink from trees by the use of their strong fangs. This basically means that they have a vegan lifestyle. This does not mean that the carabat won’t kill anyone, if they are forced to because they are defending themselves, they will.

 The carabat were once a species that lived in jungles that they simply named “the hunting grounds” It was their home and their numbers spanned into the millions. But living in the jungles was not easy for them, the Carabat were in the constant fear of being attacked by an aggressive tribe of minotaurs. Although the threat of the minotaurs was not very big at first it started to, due to the increasing amount of minotaurs. These minotaurs are very aggressive and hunted down the carabat and any other races for sport. The threat of these minotaurs became simply too much for a small group of carabat and they eventualy decided to leave their ancesteral jungles.

 The Carabat that left their ancestral jungles eventualy found themselves a new place to call their own, a place that started as a small and simple settlement that in decades grew out to be a village.

 

Carabat Traits

Your carabat has an assortment of abilities granted to him by his unusual natural build and physiology.

Carabat

Carabat do not get as old as most races and usualy won’t get older then 40, they have grown entirely when they are 4 years old.

Language

Common and Cara. Cara is a very hard to understand, comprehend or learn for most other races. It sounds very strange and seems more like odd clicking noises which the carabat make with their mandibles. The carabat do not have a written language.

Ability score increase

Your Constitution score increases by 2.

Age

Carabat do not get as old as most races and usualy won’t get older then 40, they have grown entirely when they are 4 years old.

Size

Even though they have quite an impressive size, standing higher than humans a Carabat is still a medium sized creature. On average they are about 230 cm tall.

Speed

Due to their heavy plated chithin armor the Carabat are not as fast as most other races, their base walking speed is 25 feet.

Natural armor

+1 bonus in your AC due to your natural Chithin armor.

Vibrating air

Carabat can sense small vibration in the air around them because of their horn. They have blindsight up to 10 ft around them.