Homebrew Giff Species Details

Giff can no longer remember where their home world is, so long have they wandered between the spheres. They tell stories of a jungle planet where weapon caches lie between every tree, and smoke powder billows through the air. In fact, many historians think that these creatures came from a war-torn world of sorts, with death and destruction at every turn by the hands of either their own kind or an alien race of some kind. In anyways, they seem to live out their lives like they would in that land in their stories.

Giffs tend to be fighters and rogues, but can also be other classes depending on their lifestyle. Fighters act as bodyguards, marines and soldiers, while rogues function as military scouts, spies or assassins. Bards will usually be found in taverns and the like weaving stories of what they believe to be their homeworld and create music with automated instruments. Wizard and sorcerer giffs function as the collectors and archivists of their community, collecting artefacts of great power in their collection. They love weapons of any sort and tend to accumulate a collection of their favourite instruments of war. They will sometimes use these weapons they collect over time, but only enough so it doesn't permanently damage it in any way.

Giffs like unarmed fighting and will brawl just for fun. They like friendly tests of strength but can be nervous around stronger races such as giants. Drawing a weapon in front of a giff, however, is a serious matter, and they are known to fight to the death after such provocation. They will even use their prized weapon to fight for their life to the bitter end.

Giff Traits

Thick-skinned, hippopotami-headed spacefaring mercenaries with a love of firearms. Ability Score Increase. Your Strength increases by 2 and your Constitution increases by 1. Age. Giff mature faster than humans, reaching adulthood at 14 and old age at 60. They can live to 90 years. Alignment. Giff have a reputation for honouring contracts: many are Lawful. They are less concerned about the ethics of those contracts, so Good giff tend to be less common. Size. Giff are bulky and tall, and can be as tall as 9 feet. Your size is Medium. Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. Headbutt. When you make a weapon attack, you can make a powerful headbutt. This is a melee weapon attack that deals deals 2d6 + your Strength modifier bludgeoning damage. You must finish a short rest before you can do this again. Menacing. When you make a Charisma (Intimidate) check against Medium or smaller creatures, you can instead make a Strength (Intimidate) check, adding double your Strength modifier (instead of your normal Strength

Age

Giff mature faster than humans, reaching adulthood at 14 and old age at 60. They can live to 90 years.

Ability score increase

Your Strength increases by 2 and your Constitution increases by 1

 

size

Giff are bulky and tall, and can be as tall as 9 feet. Your size is Medium

Headbutt

When you make a weapon attack, you can make a powerful headbutt. This is a melee weapon attack that deals deals 2d6 + your Strength modifier bludgeoning damage. You must finish a short rest before you can do this again.

Menacing.

When you make a Charisma (Intimidate) check against Medium or smaller creatures, you can instead make a Strength (Intimidate) check, adding double your Strength modifier (instead of your normal Strength modifier).

Darkvision

You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Giff Weapon Training

You gain proficiency with simple and martial firearms

Hoplophile.

You are proficient with smith's tools. In addition, when you use the crafting downtime activity to craft firearms, you make progress every day in 15-gp increments (instead of 5-gp).

languages

Common, Giant