Homebrew Essune Grung Species Details

 

Short and short-lived, Grung are amphibious, frog-like creatures, with powerful legs and enormous bulging eyes. At home on land, in trees, or underwater, Grung are natural scouts and ambushers. 

Short lives, but fruitful ones

Grung live an especially brief amount of time compared to other humanoid races. Reaching physical maturity in only 10 months, Grung move through the world at an incredibly quick pace. By the time a Grung reaches 4 years of age, they are typically considered wise, and have likely had a large array of experiences. If a Grung lives to 6 years old, they are considered extremely elderly. 

Communal Creche

As an egg-laying race, Grung are raised communally, often in pods of several hundred at a time. As such, feelings of familial or parental devotion are rather limited amongst Grung - instead, they have a love for their entire community, and see all young Grung as potentially their own. Each new pod of tadpoles is considered a new generation of all Grung within the community, regardless of parentage. An individual Grung might never mate or contribute to the reproductive cycle, but still consider themselves a parent or even grandparent, depending upon how many pods have been hatched since their physical birthday. As an example, a 4 year old Grung has likely witnessed 4-6 births pods, so might consider themselves a great-great-great-great-grandparent, but would have no real interest in the individuals of different generations. 

 

 

 

Essune Grung Traits

As a Grung, you have certain traits in common with your people.

Amphibious

You can breathe air and water. 

Poison Immunity

You're immune to poison damage and the poisoned condition.

Standing Leap.

Your long jump is up to 25ft and your high jump is up to 15 ft, with or without a running start. 

Water Dependency

If you fail to immerse yourself in water for at least 1 hour during a day, you suffer one level of exhaustion at the end of that day. You can only recover from this exhaustion through magic, or by immersing yourself in water for at least 1 hour. 

Observant

You gain the benefits of the "Observant" Feat.

Ability Score Increase

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

Age

Grung mature to adulthood in a single year, and typically live to around 4 or 5 years of age. A Grung older than 6 is considered especially ancient and is revered in the community for their wisdom. 

Alignment

Having been raised communally, most Grung tend towards lawful. They aren't inherently good or evil, and tend towards neutrality. 

Size

Grung stand between 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 feet tall and average about 30 pounds. Your size is Small. 

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25 feet, and you have a climbing speed of 25ft. You also have a swim speed of 40 feet

Arboreal Alertness

You have Proficiency in the Perception skill.

Languages

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