Homebrew Bean Species Details

The Great Mother Gertrude, poured the watering can to her legume garden. Unbeknownst to her, the can was filled with contents from the fountain of youth. — F.M, CEO

Since its existence, the bean has been in search for the answers of existence. Most common beans stay in local gangs located in warehouses, celebrating their consciousness with dance. Beans reside in urban areas as they evolved away from the requirement for soil.

Gods

All beans have one thing in common, Great Mother Gertrude. Beans have affection for her, as she gave them life. Beans also worship fallen beans that transcended the material plane. Known "Celestial beans" are the trio Killer Bean, Vagan, and Cappuccino. Killer Bean is the only bean that died mysteriously. The branches of Bean religion usually get along, as they all are under Gertrude. though, small gang violence may occur when a bean crosses a line with another beans God.

Killer Bean followers seek justice and vengeance, and hold pride in their martial expertise. 

Vaganist beans are lead to be honorable, and strategic on the battlefield. 

The Cappuccino family are most driven by material gain, and live most dangerously.

Small and Cartoonish

The vivacious beans survive in a world full of larger creatures by avoiding predators, or becoming them. Staggering up to 2 feet tall, they appear as natural anomalies. The well built beans tend to weigh 40 pounds.

The beans have silky smooth skin, from an array of brown colors, and black. Their arms and legs are comically cartoonish, and they tend to wear vests and hats.

Beans live the life of luxury. They dawn themselves in the swaggiest of caps and drape themselves in suits if they can afford it. Customizing their weapon is ritualistic to the beans and brings them sense of identity.

Tough and Rough

Beans don't take any sass. For their seemingly immortal selves, they would rather move boxes in their gangs warehouse then listen to a boring meeting. 

Beans are slow to trust, but once you form a bond with one, you are accepted into bean society and the bond is almost unbreakable.

Beans aren't the best at fitting into a community of humans, dwarves, or elves, it is more of a problem to the new neighbors than the beans.

Strange humanoids

Beans leaving the garden don't want no smoke, but this is how common races react.

Dwarves. “Why would I converse with a literal bean?”

Elves. “They’re so beautiful! Their faces, their music, their grace and all. It’s like they stepped out of a wonderful dream. But there’s no telling what’s going on behind their smiling faces—surely more than they ever let on.”

Humans. “Yeah, he looks harmless, but if I get hungry something is going down.”

Exploring Opportunities

Beans usually set out on the adventurer’s path to discover ones self or obtain ill gotten gains. For them, adventuring is less a career than an opportunity or sometimes a necessity.

Bean Names

A bean has a birth name, a species name, and possibly a nickname. Species names are the names of the original beans that Mother Gertrude birthed. 

Male Names: Andre, Antoin, Artreesh, Boston, Cappuccino, Darnell, Delron, Datricious, Haderade, Marquis, Tyrel, Tyrone

Female Names: Anisha, BonQueefqueef, Cardi, Jacqueline, Keighleigh, Tenisha,

Species Names: Amphetabean, Black, Black-eyed, Cappuccino, Garbanzo, Jelly, Kidney, Pinto, Soy

Subrace

No subraces yet, DLC coming soon

Bean Traits

Lively Beans

Connected with Nature

You know the druidcraft cantrip. When you reach third level, You can cast the speak with plants spell once per long rest.

Ability Score Increase

Your constitution score increases by 2. You can also increase any other ability score by 1.

Age

A Bean reaches adulthood at the age of 2, the relatively new race has never seen a case of death due to old age. The oldest bean, The Illest Bean, is currently 149 years old.

Alignment

Most Beans are true neutral. As they are infinitely wise in the ways of nature, any time away from the garden diverts the beans from true neutral.

Size

Beans average about 1.5 feet tall and weigh about 40 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 20 feet. You have burrow speed of 20 feet.

Solid

When you are attacked by a nonmagical melee weapon, you can use your reaction to lodge the weapon into your shell. The enemy must make a strength save equal to your constitution score + player level or lose control of its weapon. This has no effect if the weapon is part of the enemy(claws). The enemy can use an action to make a strength check to release his weapon. If an enemy does succeed in removing their weapon, YOU take damage equal to their strength modifier.

Rooted

You can use your action to create tremors in the ground, must be dirt or sand. The area becomes difficult terrain until you use your action to end the tremors.

While rooted, you move at half speed.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Druidic. They write very little, so they don’t have a rich body of literature. Their oral tradition, however, is very strong. Almost all beans speak Common to converse with the people in whose lands they dwell or through which they are traveling, and their rap careers absolutely pop off.