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

Cactacae have lifespans comparable to humans. They enter adulthood in their late teens and usually live less than a century.

Cactacae society, with its clear roles and tasks, leans strongly toward lawful. The cactacae sense of fairness, balanced with an emphasis on self- sufficiency and personal accountability, pushes them toward neutrality.

Cactacae are between 7 and 9 feet tall and weigh between 280 and 380 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

You have proficiency in the Survival skill.

You can focus yourself occasionally to additionally cause damage with your natural needles when attacking within melee range. When you damage a creature with an attack or spell within 5 feet, you can cause the attack or spell to deal extra piercing damage to the creature. The extra damage equals your level. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Your skin in covered in prickly sharp spines dealing extra damage to all those who come in contact with you whom you wish to harm. Creatures who hit you with an unarmed or natural attack receives 1d4 non-magical piercing damage. Additionally if you grapple another creature that creature takes 1d4 non-magical piercing damage at the start of each of its turns so long as it is still grappled by you.

You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

You can speak, read, and write Common and Giant.