Homebrew EggDog Species Details

We had an EggDog come through once, a few winters back. It kept the taproom packed each night with it's stories and spent most days napping in a chair in front of the fireplace. We thought It was lazy, but when some hunters came around looking for a little white dog, It was out the door before I could blink an eye.

— Toblen Stonehill, innkeeper

Hailing from a strange and distant land, wandering Eggdog are egg-like humanoids driven by curiosity to collect interesting artifacts, gather tales and stories, and lay eyes on all the world’s wonders. Ultimate travelers, the inquisitive EggDog rarely stay in one place for long. Their innate nature pushes them to leave no secrets uncovered, no treasures or legends lost.

Wandering Outcasts

Most Eggs Dogs remain in their distant homeland, content to dwell in small or large clans. These EggDogs hunt for food, craft goods, and largely keep to themselves.

However, not all EggDogs are satisfied with such a life. The EggDog Lord, the divine figure responsible for the creation of the EggDog, gifts each of his children with one specific trait. Those EggDogs are gifted with curiosity are compelled to wander far and wide. They seek out stories, artifacts, and lore. Those who survive this period of wanderlust return home in their elder years to share news of the outside world. In this manner, the EggDogs remain isolated but never ignorant of the world beyond their home.

Barterers of Lore

EggDogs treasure knowledge 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 EggDog’s 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, EggDogs value knowledge and new experiences. Their ears perk up in a busy tavern, and they tease out stories with offers of food, drink, and coin. EggDogs might walk away with empty purses, but they mull over the stories and rumors they collected like a miser counting coins.

Although material wealth holds little attraction for the EggDogs, 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, an Eggdog takes great joy in unraveling the stories behind their creation and the history of their use.

Fleeting Fancies

Wandering EggDogs are mercurial creatures, trading one obsession or passion for the next as the whim strikes. An EggDog’s 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.

An EggDog rogue could happily spend months plotting to steal a strange gem from a noble, only to trade it for passage on a ship or a week’s lodging after stealing it. The EggDog might take extensive notes or memorize every facet of the gem before passing it on, but the gem holds no more allure once its secrets and nature have been laid bare.

Tinkers and Minstrels

Curiosity drives most of the EggDogs found outside their homeland, but not all of them become adventurers. EggDogs who seek a safer path to satisfy their obsessions become wandering tinkers and minstrels.

These EggDogs work in small troupes, usually consisting of an elder, more experienced EggDogs who guides up to four young ones learning their way in the world. They travel in small, colorful wagons, moving from settlement to settlement. When they arrive, they set up a small stage in a public square where they sing, play instruments, tell stories, and offer exotic goods in trade for items that spark their interest. EggDogs reluctantly accept gold, but they much prefer interesting objects or pieces of lore as payment.

These wanderers keep to civilized realms, preferring to bargain instead of pursuing more dangerous methods of sating their curiosity. However, they aren’t above a little discreet theft to get their claws on a particularly interesting item when an owner refuses to sell or trade it.

EggDog Names

Each EggDogs has a single name, determined by clan and based on a complex formula that involves astrology, prophecy, clan history, and other esoteric factors. EggDogs names can apply to both males and females, and most use nicknames derived from or inspired by their full names.

Clan names are usually based on a geographical feature located in or near the clan’s territory.

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

EggDog Names: Snoof, Snorf, Boop, Borf, Blorf, and EggBoi, and Finally, EggPog.

The Snoofs are the runt of the group, while the EggBois are the Alpha of the group. However, if an EggDog leaves it's home it's name becomes EggPog. EggPogs get humanoid size legs.

EggDog Traits

Your EggDog character has the following racial traits.

Humanoid Transformation

Once a day, an EggPog can grow an entire humanoid body (limbs and all).  This transformation lasts 1 d4 hours.

Ability Score Increase

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

Age

Tabaxi have lifespans equivalent to humans.

Alignment

Tabaxi tend toward chaotic alignments, as they let impulse and fancy guide their decisions. They are rarely evil, with most of them driven by curiosity rather than greed or other dark impulses.

Size

Tabaxi are taller on average than humans and relatively slender. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision

You have a cat’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.

EggDog 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.

Pog 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 the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Egg's Talent

You have proficiency in the Perception and Stealth skills.

Languages

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