Homebrew Bugfolk Species Details

The Bugfolk are a very vibrant race usually swinging both ways in the alignment line not afraid of even meeting in the middle. They share a love for the outdoors and bright lights having fireworks embedded into their culture for as early as their creation. They stay mostly secluded having mixed reactions to outsiders and rarely good things to say for other races. Because of their lack of communications they are often seen as mysterious and dangerous only with exceptions being the few sub-races that look presentable or just less threatening.

Some have near unbreakable carapaces, some thin but with steel like wings  each of them is quite a challenge to hit or more precisely to deal damage to. They are quite close to human’s height wise as well as proportion wise with mostly bulky and heavy bodies. Males are mostly smaller than females yet wield colorful designs on their bodies to attract attention to them.

 

The Bugfolk are known fro their range of shapes and colors going from a plain snowy white to a canvas of colors and designs meant to aid them in attracting a mate. They are quite fond of warmer land despising the cold except every few who have adapted to such areas. Their weapons and armor reflect their home as a way to fight off homesickness. A Bugfolk coming from a farming community might bring or wield a sickle or a staff carved from the wood of the town’s great oak. Some even take it more artistically.

 

Most Bugfolk live in big communities because of their breeding producing a large number of offspring ranging from 5 to 15 for pregnancy which lasts only a month. They breed only once in 20 years to not overpopulate their lands and when the eggs are laid they will stay in egg form form for three years until they are developed enough to walk on their own and exit the egg.

 

Bugfolk are naturally curious and can be very dedicated. Their long lives only aid in making them more prone to adventuring and travel. Bugfolk are mostly very self reliant and have a talent for copying or making inventions of other races their own. Despite their friendliness with their own subrace they are extremely aggressive to others some times even leading to entire subraces being slayed to extinction by their own race.

 

 

The outside reflects the inside

Most Bugfolk are quite easily stereotyped by the type of body they have as they can be personalized by their subrace body shape, height and features. A small bodied and winged would be very docile and delicate while an armored bug stomping about would be rough and proud.

Dwarves. “Dwarves are dangerous, they do not think, they attack, they forge bright beautiful lights only to hide them forever in dark. Such drunk short disasters are nothing but trouble.”

Elfs. “Elves are quite similar, but so different at the same time, yet we seem to get along just fine, like family from another land or a friend you had not run into in years. It would be nice if they were not so harsh to describe Bugfolk as quite hideous.”

Humans. “Humans are perhaps so close to us that they mistake us for themselves and thus they fear and hate us. We share their sentiment.”

 

Subrace

The Bugfolk are divided by their subraces: Moths, Mosquitoes, Beetles and Centipedes. Choose one of these subraces. Depending on the subrace you choose dictates the way you are treated, or seen.

Moth

  The moths are a kind and delicate race relying more on their looks and diplomacy rather than brawn.

Bugfolk Traits

These are the race traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Age

Bugfolk mature very slowly and extremely fast ranging from 30 years to 300 years.

Alignment

Due to their range of alignments it’s impossible to sway the line one way, but Bugfolk tend to be mostly viewed as Neutral.

Size

Bugfolk range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet. Bugfolk can be tend to be very nimble despite their armored carapaces or wings.

Superior Darkvision

Accustomed to the lowest light areas in the world they make home were most would not.

Three Toed

You are not affected by difficult terrain created by the earth.

Bug Wings

You have a flying speed of 30 feet.

Cocoon

When you are downed or are sleeping your AC becomes 20

Languages

You can speak, read and write Common and Bugfolk. A language containing very low pitched clicks and different speeds of their tongue hitting their mouth to produce different sounds. Their mouths stay static when they talk between one another with only their tongues moving for easier understanding. The usage of lips to form letters and words is quite hard to them although most have had to learn common.