Homebrew Acegiak Human Species Details
Humans are a race of social explorers. Their ambition and wanderlust have led them to inhabit all kinds of spaces across the world. Those who do not travel and bring their people to new lands instead seek new heights of knowledge, insight, wealth or power. This drive also pushes humans to adaptation and experimentation; language, lifestyle and personal beliefs are all open to change. Though they live shorter lives than other common races, they make up for this in their tirelessness in pursuit of their goals.
People of the Plains
Humans' exploratory nature sees them comfortably inhabit every kind of landscape, but they thrive on the open plains their race grew up on. The flat landscapes made it easy to hunt and scavenge for sparse prizes and the clear air nurtured the communication and cunning that eventually lead to the great human civilizations of today.
Naturally Empathetic
Humans have inherently strong senses of empathy, which underpin their interactions with all beings. Though this can be repressed or damaged by ambition or trauma, even the most hardened human will struggle not to "catch" a contagious yawn or sense of panic. This knack for feeling the experience of others often earns humans a reputation as being manipulative or gullible or both.
Innovative and Adaptable
The human drive to reach new heights in all fields has crafted in them a sense of versatility and experimentation. Humans are skilled lateral thinkers and are at home using tools and situations in unexpected ways to achieve new results.
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Acegiak Human Traits
Your human character has a number of traits borne into them by their ancestry.Ability Score Increase
Your Intelligence score increases by 2.
Age
Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and live less than a century.
Alignment
Humans do not tend towards any particular alignment as a group. The interplay of their ambition and empathy sees all alignments represented among them.
Size
Humans vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 35 feet.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and one extra language of your choice. Humans typically learn the languages of other peoples they deal with, including obscure dialects. They are fond of sprinkling their speech with words borrowed from other tongues: Orc curses, Elvish musical expressions, Dwarvish military phrases, and so on.
Empathy
You are proficient in the Persuasion and Insight skills.
Innovation
You have proficiency with the vehicle type, tool, or instrument of your choice.
Cultural Heritage
Humans are greatly affected by the culture in which they are raised. Choose one of the three cultural heritages as a subrace.
Acegiak Clansfolk
As a Clansfolk, you come from a culture of strong social bonds and collective work. Clansfolk are the most commonly urban humans, often building and gravitating towards towns and cities with their sense of fraternity and their love of bartering and trade. They are also the most deadly warriors amongst humans, working together as one brutal machine of death.
Ability Score Increase
Your Charisma score increases by 1.
Pack Hunter
When you make an attack against a creature, you may use a bonus action to grant an ally advantage on their next attack against that creature. You must complete a short or long rest before you can use this feature again.
Acegiak Herdsfolk
As a Herdsfolk, your culture instills in you a strong bond with the creatures that you interact with daily. Many Herdsfolk are agricultural, building lives in tune with the landscape and their flocks, yet others live in the wilds, a harsher existence based on a mutual respect between man and beast capable of mutual destruction. Herdsfolk lead slower lives than other humans, often seeking out a deeper understanding of their place in the world. They are more thoughtful and intuitive and can often read their herds, companions, and homes without a second thought.
Domestic Hunter
Whenever you make a Wisdom (Animal Handling) check related to beasts that belong to you, you are considered proficient in the Animal Handling skill and add double your proficiency bonus to the check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus. You may start with one beast that has a challenge rating of 1/4 or lower as equipment in addition to the equipment granted by your class and background. To make a beast perform tricks or act in combat requires an Animal Handling check.
Ability Score Increase
Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
Acegiak Trailfolk
As a Trailfolk, exploration is in your bones. Trailfolk are travelers and nomads. If they have a fixed home, they do not spend much time there, as their wanderlust calls them too quickly to the horizon. They are hardy and can cross vast distances as they migrate, trade, and explore, rarely tiring and always quick to return to the road.
Ability Score Increase
Your Constitution score increases by 1.
Resilient Traveler
You have advantage on saves to avoid exhaustion.
Endurance Hunter
You can navigate, track, and travel while taking a short rest and still gain its full benefits.
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