Homebrew Erina Species Details

This small humanoid has a slightly pointed face with bright, brown eyes and a black snout-like nose.  Its skin is covered in short, tan fur, and its head, shoulders and back have smoothed-down quills.

Erinas, or hedgehog folk, are a small, communal race.

Burrowed Villages. Natural diggers at heart, erinas live in shallow networks of tunnels and chambers they excavate themselves. Enemies who attack the peaceful erinas easily become confused and lost in the mazelike tunnels. On their own ground, the erinas can easily evade, outmaneuver, or surround invaders. They often lure them onto choke points where the enemy can be delayed endlessly while noncombatants and valuables are hustled to safety through other tunnels.

Scroungers and Gatherers. Erinas are naturally curious. They tend to explore an area by tunneling beneath it and popping up at interesting points. They dislike farming, but subsist mainly on the bounty of the land surrounding their homes. In cities, they still subsist on what they can find, and they have a knack for finding whatever they need. Sometimes they are called thieves, but they aren’t greedy or malicious. They take only what they need, and seldom take anything from the poor. Some humans even consider it lucky to have a family of erinas nearby.

Erina Traits

Your erina character has certain characteristics in common with all other erinas.

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increase by 2, and your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Age

Erina mature at the same rate humans do, and most are expected to settle down into an adult life by around age 40. They can live 200 to almost 350years.

Alignment

Erinas are most often good. Those who tend toward law are sages, researchers, scholars,  or investigators. Those who tend toward chaos are minstrels, tricksters, wanderers, or fanciful jewelers. Erinas are good-hearted, and even the tricksters among them are more playful than vicious.

Size

Erinas are between 3 and 4 feet tall and average about 40 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 20 feet.

Darkvision

Accustomed to life underground, 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.

Defensive Quills

You have advantage when making rolls involving grapple and you do 1d4 piercing damage to anyone who grapples you.

Hardy

You have advantage on saving throws to resist poison.

Keen Smell

You have advantage on all Wisdom(Perception) checks involving smell.

Languages

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