Homebrew Cursed to be a Goose Species Details

Due to not originally being a goose, the seeming goose is a common sight for most. But if you pay attention there is sometimes a singular goose that is always somewhere, that just doesn't seem like the kind of place geese usually hangout. "Do geese usually drink ale?" "Mind your own business."

These geese are typically cunning and mischievous. What a sight for those oblivious to the implication that they can speak and understand you.

Beak and Feather

There can be infinite ways you became a goose, it may have been that you were cursed by an ex or you just wanted to be chaotic as hell.

Those who were Cursed to be a Goose look like normal geese, your size is small.

Avian Mannerisms

The resemblance of Geese to birds isn’t limited to physical features. If someone has been a Goose for a long period of time they could display many of the same mannerisms as ordinary birds. These Geese are frequently tending their feathers, cleaning and scratching away any tiny passengers they might have picked up. Some Cursed Geese even hunt like normal geese would hunt for fish and the such.

Cursed Geese are fluent in Common but they keep to themselves most of the time due to the confusion of talking geese.

The bird part of Cursed Geese find it hard not to pluck the treasure and bring it back to their settlement to beautify it. A Cursed Geese who spends years among normal geese can blend into their flocks. The goose has taken over, these people can never return to their Pre-Goose lives.

Confinement terrifies the Goose . To be grounded, trapped underground, or imprisoned by the cold, unyielding earth is a torment few real geese can withstand so cursed geese can barely stand it as well. Even when perched on a high branch or at rest in their mountaintop homes, they appear alert.

Homelands

 

Cursed Geese have no set home due to the diversity of Pre-Goose life. 

 

Great Purpose

Those Cursed to be a Goose are as chaotic as they come, get joy from change and chaos. Most of them mess with the unsuspecting bird watcher, because really, whose going to believe someone that said the goose talked?

Names of those Cursed to be a Goose

As with much of their speech, cursed goose names include normal names anyone in Faerun would have.

AARAKOCRA BACKGROUNDS

Backgrounds that are most appropriate for Those Cursed to be a Goose include the Charlatan, Criminal/Spy, and maybe even the Urchin.

Many people find themselves cursed as a way for someone else to get revenge on them, for something the Pre-Goose Person could have done to wrong them.

Cursed to be a Goose Traits

As a seemingly normal goose, you have certain traits in common with people and with geese.

Ability Score Increase

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

Age

Aarakocra reach maturity by age 3. Compared to humans, aarakocra don’t usually live longer than 30 years.

Alignment

Most Cursed Geese are Chaotic, they are almost never Lawful.

Size

Geese are about 3'4 feet tall. They have shot, stockier bodies that weigh between  24 to 31 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Peck

Your beak is a natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Aarakocra, and Goose.