Homebrew Canine Species Details
Ability score increase: Your Charisma increases by 1.
Age: Dogs reach maturity around 18 months and usually live between 10 and 15 years.Alignment. Dogs tend towards good alignments due to their natural urge to be helpful, but there are exceptions to this.
Size: Dogs vary in size based on breed, see below.
Speed: Dogs have a base walking speed of 30 feet.
Languages: Dogs can understand Common and two other chosen languages. 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 in combat situations.
Canine Traits
Senses. Dogs have dark vision. They have advantage on checks that rely upon scent or hearing and disadvantage on checks depending upon colour recognition. Best Friend. Dogs may cast the Charm Person 1st level spell once per short rest. Worse than the bark. You have a natural bite attack. You are proficient with this attack and it counts as an unarmed attack. This attack does 1d4+Str modifier damage. This increases to 1d6+Str at level 5 and 1d8+Str at level 10. Many breeds, many forms. Dogs have such variety of shapes and breeds that they are highly diverse. Choose one of the following sub categories to reflect your chosen breeding and select one canine feat from the list below.Ability Score Increase
Your Charisma increases by 1.
Senses
Dogs have dark vision.
They have advantage on checks that rely upon scent or hearing and disadvantage on checks depending upon colour recognition.
Best Friend
Dogs may cast the Charm Person 1st level spell once per short rest.
Worse than the Bark
You have a natural bite attack.
You are proficient with this attack and it counts as an unarmed attack.
This attack does 1d4+Str modifier damage.
This increases to 1d6+Str at level 5 and 1d8+Str at level 10.
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