Homebrew Beasky Species Details

We have seen few Beaskies come through our humble town, normally during the time's of harvest. They seem shy and rather timid creatures that seem to mind their own business and seem scared to interact with others, but they are also very smart. One that I remember in particular without our notice made not only a den but a whole working underground network of distilleries and farm for herself. We only found it all when we went to plant the next harvests crops the little one has long since left with out us knowing it.

— Zagirha Highguard, Town Elder

Hailing from a strange and distant land, the wandering Beaskies are short a short doglike humanoid race resembling a husky and beagle mix, and are driven by a need to learn and collect interesting artifacts, knowledge, and friends. Lonely travelers, the inquisitive Beaskies rarely stay in one place for long. Their innate nature pushes them to leave no secrets uncovered, and to find new friends to cling to.

Lonesome Wanderers

Most Beaskies remain in their distant homeland, content to dwell in small, tight knit towns.These beaskies hunt for food, craft goods, and largely keep their communities thriving.

However, not all beaskies are lucky enough to have such a life. Some beaskies be it from bad luck or timing are made orphans to wander the cruel world around them to find a place in which they belong. They seek out new friends, artifacts, and lore. Those who survive this period of wandering can usually make for themselves a new home in their elder years to share the stories of the outside world with young-lings born in their new home. In this manner, the beaskies make sure the next generation is not ignorant of the world beyond their home.

Unending Friendship

Beaskies treasure Friendship rather than material things. A chest filled with gold coins might be useful to buy food or a coil of rope, but it’s not intrinsically interesting. In the beaskies eyes, gathering wealth is like packing rations for a long trip. It’s important to survive in the world, but not worth fussing over.

Instead, beaskies value friends and new experiences. Their ears perk up on reuniting with an old friend, and they tease out stories with offers of food, drink, and coin. Beaskies might walk away with empty purses, but they mull over and fret for there friends safety like an overprotective parent.

Although material wealth holds little attraction for the beasky, they have an insatiable desire to find and inspect ancient relics, magical items, and other rare objects. Aside from the power such items might confer, a beasky takes great joy in unraveling the stories behind their creation and the history of their use.

Ever Changing Needs

Wandering Beaskies are needy creatures, trading one obsession or passion for the next as the need arises. A beaskies desire burns bright, but once met it disappears to be replaced with a new obsession. Objects remain intriguing only as long as they still hold secrets.

Beasky Names

Each beasky has a single name, determined by there family at birth and based on a complex formula that involves astrology, prophecy, and other factors. Beasky names can apply to both males and females, and most use nicknames derived from or inspired by their full names.

The following list of sample beasky names includes nicknames in parenthesis.

Beasky Names:  Liyran, Danner(Dan), Hazolra(Zol), Trassal, Nihilru, Yifi, Vafarsa.

Beasky Personality

A beasky might have motivations and quirks much different from a dwarf or an elf with a similar background. You can use the following tables to customize your character in addition to the trait, ideal, bond, and flaw from your background.

The Beasky Obsession table can help hone your character’s goals. For extra fun, roll a new result every few days that pass in the campaign to reflect your ever-changing curiosity.

Beasky Obsessions

D8	MY CURIOSITY IS CURRENTLY FIXED ON …
1	A god or planar entity
2	A monster
3	A lost civilization
4	A new friend
5	A mundane item
6	A magic item
7	A location
8	A instrument

 Beasky Quirks

D10	QUIRK
1	You miss your snowy home and complain endlessly about the Hot weather, even in Winter.
2	You never wear the same outfit twice, unless you absolutely must.
3	You have a minor phobia of fire and hate getting close to it.
4	Your tail always betrays your inner thoughts.
5	You bark in excitement when you are happy.
6	You keep a small squeaky ball in your hand, which you constantly fidget with.
7	You are always in debt, since you spend your gold on lavish parties and gifts for friends.
8	When talking about something you’re obsessed with, you speak quickly and never pause and others can’t understand you.
9	You are a font of random trivia from the lore and places you have discovered.
10	You can’t help but pocket any interesting objects you come across.

Beasky Traits

Your Beasky character has the following racial traits.

Ability Score Increase

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

Age

Beasky have lifespans equivalent to humans.

Alignment

Beasky tend toward natural alignments, as they tend to befriend anyone they meet despite there background as long as there treated well enough.

Size

Beasky are taller then kobold's but smaller then most human children. Your size is Small.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision

You have a dog’s keen senses, especially in the dark. 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.

Dog’s Talent

You have proficiency in the Perception and Performance skills.

Den Digger

Because of your claws, you have a Burrowing speed of 10 feet. In addition, your claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing 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 and Two other language of your choice.