Your Charisma score increases by 1.

Dogs reach maturity around 18 months and usually live between 10 and 15 years.

Dogs tend towards good alignments due to their natural urge to be helpful, but there are exceptions to this.

Dogs vary in height and length enormously. Your size is dependent on your subrace.

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

You can ‘speak’ and read Common and two extra languages of your choice. Note that dogs do not necessarily use speech; whilst they can understand their chosen languages, the specifics of how they communicate are left to the players. Some possibilities include having the full ability of speech, being uncannily effective at conveying meaning through gesture and sounds (“I think she is saying the kids are down the well”) or having another character who can understand and interpret for the dog. Regardless of how the dog expresses itself, it is assumed that it is communicating with its allies with sufficient fluency as to avoid any penalties to rolls.

Advantage on Perception checks based on smell or hearing and disadvantage on Perception checks depending upon colour recognition.

Dogs may cast the Charm Person spell using Charisma as the spellcasting ability once per long rest . No spell components are necessary. The DC for this ability is 8 + your Charisma modifier.

You have a natural bite attack. You are proficient with this attack and it counts as both a weapon attack and an unarmed attack. This attack does 1d4 + your Strength modifier damage. This increases to 1d6 + your Strength modifier at level 5 and 1d8 + your Strength modifier at level 10.