Homebrew Catfolk Species Details

Catfolk are a nomadic race, often traveling from tribe to tribe to experience different cultures. Catfolk get along with most other races, and is quite common to find Catfolk integrated into other societies, especially human, elves, and halflings. It is less common to find them with Orcs and Dwarves, but it not unheard of due to the variety of Catfolk personalities. 

Catfolk are very accepting of other people. They take every opportunity to try and understand the world around them, even if that sometimes ends up getting them hurt. Because the Feline language lends itself well to music, many tribes teach their young about the race’s history through song and dance. This informative entertainment tends to pique the interest of outsiders, leading to the inspiration of many a catfolk bard.

When spending time in the company of other races, catfolk make themselves useful as minstrels, scholars, and healers. Some catfolk hone their natural grace to become circus performers, and others practice precision in order to make a living as a locksmith. Stronger specimens prefer to work as guards, but some have been known to be very successful farmers. No matter the task, for better or worse, catfolk approach life with confidence, believing that even failure is an opportunity to learn and improve.

Catfolk Traits

Catfolk is a broad term for humanoid Cat people with many variations and traits *note, Tabaxi are under the Catfolk umbrella, but are listed elsewhere as their own race

Cats Claws

Because of your claws, you have a climbing speed of 20 ft. Additionally, your claws are Natural Weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. The damage die for your unarmed strike is 1d6 + Dex, and it deals slashing damage instead of bludgeoning damage.

Feline empathy

You can attempt to communicate simple ideas with other feline creatures, such as cats, lions, tigers, etc. A non-humanoid feline can: understand simple ideas, answer yes/no questions, convey simple ideas, give information biased on its natural behavior or knowledge, etc. If the creature is neutral or friendly to you, it will answer truthfully to the best of its ability.

Catlike Tread

Your soft paws, and gentle step give you proficiency with the Stealth skill. 

Catlike Reflexes

Your natural swiftness and instincts make you quick on your feet. You may add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to your initiative rolls. 

Ability score increase

Dexterity improves by 1

Size

A Catfolk's size and weight will usually depend on their particular subrace. They can be anywhere from two and a half to eight feet tall, with weight ranging from 25-250 lbs respectively. Unless stated otherwise by your subrace, your size is Medium. 

Large breed increase carrying capacity by one size

 

Darkvision

As a nocturnal race, you have superior vision in dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in Darkness, as if it where dim light. You cannon discern color in Darkness, only shades of grey.