Homebrew Half Tabaxi Species Details

We had a half tabaxi come through once, a few winters back. She was a rare sight that one, didn't even know what she was at first. People certainly took a shine to her though between her joyful demeanor and curious nature there wasn't a dull moment the whole time she was here.

— Toblen Stonehill, innkeeper

Born of the uncommon union between a human and a tabaxi, Half Tabaxi strongly resemble their human parent with some subtle traits from their tabaxi parent. Their abilities and personality, however; are almost indistinguishable from their tabaxi heritage.

Feline Androgyny

 

Half tabaxi tend to have the delecate and lithe features of a cat. This often makes differentiating the males from the females.

Their comfort with their body's means that they rarely mind or even take notice when someone mistakes them for a girl and they're almost never mistaken for boys. Some Half Tabaxi actually find humor with this and tend to amuse themselves by teasing those who mistook them for the wrong gender.

Barterers of Lore

Much like their tabaxi relatives, half tabaxi 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 tabaxi’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, half tabaxi 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. They 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 half tabaxi, 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, a tabaxi takes great joy in unraveling the stories behind their creation and the history of their use.

Cat Lord's Intrigue

 

The Cat Lord found immediate interest in the birth of the first half tabaxi, particularly in the fact that they resembeled humans so much more than tabaxi. So he thought it amusing to make them seem more like cats than other tabaxi. Whereas each tabaxi is granted a single feline trait upon their birth, every half tabaxi is granted every feline trait upon there's.

This often leads them to have sudden mood swings going from resting peacefully to feeling the urge to run and climb at the moments notice. They also have a greater urge to chase small creatures and things that resemble such. It's rather easy for a half tabaxi to become distracted by something that would catch their eye.

Tinkers and Minstrels

Not all half tabaxi become adventurers. Half tabaxi who seek a safer path to satisfy their obsessions become wandering tinkers and minstrels.

These half tabaxi often join small troupes of their tabaxi relatives, usually consisting of an elder, more experienced tabaxi 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. Tabaxi 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.

Half Tabaxi Names

Many half tabaxi the names of both of their parents lineages, usually either through a combination of a human given name and their tabaxi clan name or the inverse of a tabaxi given name with their human surname.

 

Half Tabaxi Personality

A half tabaxi might have motivations and quirks much different from a dwarf or an elf with a similar background. You can use the following tables to customize your character in addition to the trait, ideal, bond, and flaw from your background.

The half tabaxi Obsession table can help hone your character’s goals. For extra fun, roll a new result every few days that pass in the campaign to reflect your ever-changing curiosity.

Half Tabaxi Obsessions

d8	My curiosity is currently fixed on …
1	A god or planar entity
2	A monster
3	A lost civilization
4	A wizard’s secrets
5	A mundane item
6	A magic item
7	A location
8	A legend or tale

 Half Tabaxi Quirks

d10	Quirk
1	You miss your tropical home and complain endlessly about the freezing weather, even in summer.
2	You never wear the same outfit twice, unless you absolutely must.
3	You have a minor phobia of water and hate getting wet.
4	Your tail always betrays your inner thoughts.
5	You purr loudly when you are happy.
6	You keep a small ball of yarn in your hand, which you constantly fidget with.
7	You are always in debt, since you spend your gold on lavish parties and gifts for friends.
8	When talking about something you’re obsessed with, you speak quickly and never pause and others can’t understand you.
9	You are a font of random trivia from the lore and stories you have discovered.
10	You can’t help but pocket interesting objects you come across.

Half Tabaxi Traits

Your tabaxi character has the following racial traits.

Ability Score Increase

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

Age

Half tabaxi have lifespans equivalent to humans.

Alignment

Half 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

Half tabaxi are often a bit shorter than humans and relatively slender. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 40 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.

Feline Agility

Your legs aren't as built for climbing or supporting yourself as your Tabaxi relatives. They are however just as muscular allowing you to effortlessly move faster than most races including other Tabaxi since you don't have as much height to carry. This allows you to move 40ft per turn

Cat’s Claws

Because of your claws, you have a climbing speed of 10 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.

Cat’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.