Homebrew Foxling Species Details
Young foxlings are loved and cared for within Allista's enchanted forest lair. Snowball, the forest's protector, presides over the foxling warriors. His task is to raise and army of forest protectors in order to care for the ever expanding forest. While these foxlings are strong and witty, they are still young and silly. The instinct to play and lack of awareness for their growing bodies often get in the way of their training sessions.
Foxling Traits
The characteristics of a foxling are:Ability Score Increase
Young foxlings are very agile and wiggly. At their young age, they want to jump and play. Their growing bodies have an increased strength that they may not know how to wield. Foxlings are both dexterous and strong receiving +1 to Strength and +2 to Dexterity.
Skill Proficiencies
Foxlings are in-tune with their bodies and environment having proficiency in acrobatics, survival, and stealth. They are able to maneuver in their environments easily. They are able to stealth out of sight in order to hunt their prey. Foxlings are able to survive in their natural environment.
High Frequency Hearing
Foxlings have two highly mobile ears, the rigid ‘flaps’ (technically called the auricle or pinna, but sometimes referred to as ‘trumpets’) of which serve to catch and funnel sound down into the ear canal. The ears can be moved independently, allowing them to pinpoint the source of a sound. This allows foxlings to pinpoint they prey easily. Foxlings have high frequency hearing giving then advantage on perception checks that involve sound.
Expert Hiders
Foxlings hunt by hiding and surprising their prey. Foxlings can use their bonus action to hide.
Pack Tactics
Folxings are incorporated into a larger pack and are taught to rely on one another. Teamwork and collaboration are encouraged to benefit the entire pack. The foxling has advantage on attack rolls against a creature if at least one of the foxling's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.
Respect for the Alpha
Foxlings are the lowest members of a fox pack society. In order to demonstrate respect for the pack hierarchy, they bow when they are in the presence of the Alpha. Each time a foxling approaches the pack Alpha, they bow to show respect.