Homebrew Chocobo Species Details

Chocobo are bird-like creatures, resembling chickens in a way, but they are unable to fly in any way, despite having wing-feathers on their arms, suggesting they were able to at one point. They evolved from ancient, animal-like wild Chocobo, which were bred for similar use as horses, all the way from riding to racing, and so on. It's unknown how they evolved in such a way to give them more intelligence, and a more humanoid stature, but the old wild Chocobo are mostly extinct.

 

Chocobo still retain their natural speed, being much faster than most other races. For this reason, Chocobo, as tradition, still participate in their own races. Wild Chocobo were also used by ancient heroes as mounts, they had a natural sense of good and evil, and rarely ever co-operated with anyone evil. However, ancient black-feathered wild Chocobo lacked that sense of good and evil, and were mostly hostile. In this regard, Chocobo have not changed at all, they still have their innate sense of good and evil, and rarely align themselves with evil, although, due to their increased sentience, some Chocobo align themselves neutrally, or even with evil.

Chocobo Traits

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Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1.

Age

Chocobo reach maturity at around 12 years old, and live up to 60 years.

Alignment

Chocobo are mostly good, and have a very high moral standing, coming from their ancient ancestors being mounts for heroes of their time. Black feathered Chocobo come from ancient wild Chocobo, and lean more towards Evil. 

Size

Chocobos can vary from 5 feet tall all the way to 6'6", and are usually around 100-120 pounds. However,
some Chocobos are known to reach all the way up to 7 feet tall, and weight up to 250 pounds. They are Medium size.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 40 feet.

Dash Bonus

Chocobo are naturally fast, coming from their ancestors being bred for riding, to race or just to get around. You can dash twice as one action. You can use this feature once per long rest. You gain additional use of this feature at level 8, and another one at level 12.

Talons & Beak

Chocobo can use their naturally sharp talons and beak to deal unarmed strikes, dealing slashing/piercing damage, about 1d4 + strength modifier.

Languages

Chocobo can speak Common, and Auran.