Homebrew Elvish Tabaxi Species Details

 

Slender, Graceful, and Hairy

With their unearthly grace and fine features from elven blood, they appear hauntingly beautiful to humans and members of many other races. They are slightly shorter than humans on average, ranging from well under 5 feet tall to just over 6 feet. They are more slender than humans, weighing only 100 to 145 pounds. Males and females are about the same height, and males are only marginally heavier than females.

These beings’ coloration encompasses the normal human range and also includes skin in shades of copper, bronze, and almost bluish-white, hair of green or blue, and eyes like pools of liquid gold or silver. They favor elegant clothing in bright colors, and they enjoy simple yet lovely jewelry. They tend to have a thin fur coat that can range in various colors like their hair. Their ears take up more resemblance to that of a cat, though still located on the sides of their head right within line of their eyes. Due to their cat genetics, they can also have tails of varying lengths as well as claws and fur patterns. Their eyes often have slitted pupils and their noses are more feline-like. Some elvish tabaxi can even have whiskers!

A Timeless Perspective

Elves can live well over 700 years, giving them a broad perspective on events that might trouble the shorter-lived races more deeply. They are more often amused than excited, and more likely to be curious than greedy. They tend to remain aloof and unfazed by petty happenstance. When pursuing a goal, however, whether adventuring on a mission or learning a new skill or art, elves can be focused and relentless. They are slow to make friends and enemies, and even slower to forget them. They reply to petty insults with disdain and to serious insults with vengeance.

Like the branches of a young tree, elves are flexible in the face of danger. They trust in diplomacy and compromise to resolve differences before they escalate to violence. They have been known to retreat from intrusions into their woodland homes, confident that they can simply wait the invaders out. But when the need arises, elves reveal a stern martial side, demonstrating skill with sword, bow, and strategy.

 

Exploration and Adventure

Elves take up adventuring out of wanderlust. Since they are so long-lived, they can enjoy centuries of exploration and discovery. They dislike the pace of human society, which is regimented from day to day but constantly changing over decades, so they find careers that let them travel freely and set their own pace. Elves also enjoy exercising their martial prowess or gaining greater magical power, and adventuring allows them to do so. Some might join with rebels fighting against oppression, and others might become champions of moral causes.

 

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Elvish Tabaxi Traits

Your elvish tabaxi character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of mixed blood.

Cat’s Talent

You gain proficiency in Dexterity (Stealth) and Wisdom (Perception).

Cat’s Claws

Because of your claws, you have a climbing speed of 20 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 bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Feline Agility

Your reflexes and agility allow you to move with a burst of speed. When you move on your turn in combat, you can double your speed until the end of the turn. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you move 0 feet on one of your turns.

Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Charisma score increases by 1.

Age

Although tabaxi tend to live much shorter lives, thanks to your elvish blood you reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans and can live to be 550 years old.

Alignment

Being half-elf you love freedom, variety, and self-expression. You value and protect others’ freedom as well as your own. The tabaxi in you tends to lean more towards chaos, as most of your kind let impulse and fancy guide their decisions. Your unique race are rarely evil and are most likely driven by curiosity rather than greed or dark impulses. It’s the wild child in you!

Size

Both elves and tabaxi range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have relatively slender builds. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision

Having elven blood and feline vision, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.

Fey Ancestry

You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, and one other language of your choice.