Homebrew Bullywug Species Details

Bullywugs lived in primitive, semi-organized communities that hunted and fished together. The hierarchy was based on strength, with respect and leadership given to the strongest individuals. They were territorial creatures who attacked just about anyone who trespassed. Oddly enough, they tended not to fight within the tribe but would fight with rival tribes.

Bullywug colonies disrupted the natural environment of any land, eating off the land until their immense gullets were filled before they moved on. They have been known to strip large swathes of land, leaving behind barren muddy quagmires.

Bullywug Traits

Ability score increase

Ability score Increase

Your dexterity is increased by 2, and your constitution is increased by 1.

Age

Bullywugs mature to adulthood at the age of 10 but have been known to live up to 50 years.

Alignment

Most Bullywugs stick to a neutral alignment. They spend so much time away from society in dense swamps and dangerous lakes, that laws and rules have become irrelevant to them, though they can be taught to follow codes, such as a paladin’s oath.

Size

Bullywugs stand between anywhere from 4 to 5 feet tall and they way around 100-150 pounds. Your size is medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25 feet, and you have a swimming speed of 35 feet.

Amphibious

Your race has survived in swamps and lakes for centuries. You can breathe air and water.

Speak with frogs and toads

Your frog ancestry has given you a weird variety of languages. You can communicate simple concepts to frogs and toads.

Standing Leap

 Your long jump is up to 20 feet and its high jump is up to 10 feet, with or without a running start.

Impressive tounge

Perhaps the most remarkable part of your body is your tongue. This remarkable muscle can stretch up to 10 feet long, and you can use it to grab stuff a normal hand could do. The tongue cannot use weapons or activate magic items, but any strength (Athletics) check you make with your tongue is made with advantage. Additionally, you can use your tongue as a natural weapon with the reach property. If you hit with them, you deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d4+ your strength mortifier, instead of the damage on a normal unarmed strike.

Acidic Lingua

As an action on your turn, or as part of your reaction, when you get the choice to make an opportunity attack, you can make an attack with your tongue. If you hit, the target is grappled (DC 8+your proficiency bonus+ your strength mortifier) and takes acid damage equal to 1d4 +your strength mortifier). While you are grappling a creature with this feature, you cannot use your tongue attack, and you can only have one target grappled by this feature at a time.

Languages

You can read, speak and write Common and Bullywug. The language of the Bullywugs is the same that normal toads and frogs speak, and it is their native tongue. Therefore, common can be quite a chore for them to speak, since it contains a larger variety of words. Most Bullywugs speak common in a simple cave-man way, shortening normal sentences to basic sounds. For example, “Hi, my name is Myrglek, what’s your name”? would translate into the Bullywug gesturing at himself and saying “Myrglek”

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