Homebrew Drowbold Species Details

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A unique crossbreed between Kobold and Drow, these creatures are often the offspring of very odd circumstances of situation when Drow and Kobold meet. Due to certain mutations, the creatures have adapted and no longer suffer the effects of sunlight sensitivity; the drawback with this adaptation is that they have lost some important traits belonging to both parent races. This has also cause them to be seen as outcasts by both of the parent species causing them to be rejected from one society and the other. This has caused many of them to come out and become adventurers trying to find their place in this world.

A Timeless Perspective

Drowbold's can live well over 700 years, giving them a broad perspective on events that might trouble the shorter-lived races more deeply. They are more often amused than excited, and more likely to be curious than greedy. They tend to remain aloof and unfazed by petty happenstance. When pursuing a goal, however, whether adventuring on a mission or learning a new skill or art, elves can be focused and relentless. They are slow to make friends and enemies, and even slower to forget them. They reply to petty insults with disdain and to serious insults with vengeance.

Like the branches of a young tree, elves are flexible in the face of danger. They trust in diplomacy and compromise to resolve differences before they escalate to violence. They have been known to retreat from intrusions into their woodland homes, confident that they can simply wait the invaders out. But when the need arises, elves reveal a stern martial side, demonstrating skill with sword, bow, and strategy.

Arcane Magic Users

Unlike some other humanoids, drowbold's don’t fear or shun arcane magic. They see magic as part of their connection to dragons, and are proud to be blessed with the ability to wield such power. Young drowbold sorcerers are trained by elders, and the training has an almost religious significance. Most drowbold sorcerers are of the draconic bloodline origin and specialize in either damaging magic (which can also be used in mining), augmentation (of materials or allies), or divination (to find raw materials and foresee threats to the community).

The main reason why drowbold's depend on arcane magic rather than divine is there main god's imprisonment, which makes it difficult for him to grant spells to mortals and for those mortals to receive his favor.

Expert Tunnelers

Drowbold's are naturally skilled at tunneling. Similar to dwarves who no longer exist, they seem to have a near-instinctive sense of what sections of stone or earth are strong or weak, are bearing a load or are safe to excavate, or are likely to contain minerals or offer access to water. This ability enables them to fashion secure homes in places where other creatures wouldn’t feel safe.

drowbold's take advantage of their size by creating small-diameter tunnels that they can easily pass through, but that require larger creatures to hunch over or even crawl to make progress. In places where a tunnel opens into a chasm and continues on the other side, the drowbol's might connect the two passages with a rope bridge or some other rickety structure, designed to collapse under the weight of any creature heavier than a drowbold. On occasion, the route through a drowbold lair runs along a ledge that borders a cavern or a crevasse, and the drowbolds might erect a railing or a wall that prevents them from falling off the edge — high enough to protect a drowbold but low enough to serve as a tripping hazard for a larger creature.

Drowbold Traits

Your Drowbold character has the following traits

Ability Score Increase

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

Age

Although Drowbold's reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, there understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass more worldly experience. An Drowbold typically claims adulthood around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old.

Alignment

Drowbold's that stay underground are fundamentally selfish, making them evil, but their reliance on the strength of their group makes them trend toward law, though most love freedom, variety, and self-expression, and the outdoor's so they lean strongly toward the gentler aspects of chaos. They value and protect others’ freedom as well as their own, and they are more often good than not.

Size

drowbolds are between 2 and 3 feet tall and weigh between 25 and 35 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

 

Darkvision

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.

Drowbold Weapon training

You have proficiency with the Hand crossbow, whip, shortbow, rapier.

Diggy Diggy Hole

you have a Burrowing speed of half you walk speed starting at 15ft

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish and Draconic.