Homebrew Faerie Species Details
Faeries live their lives in pursuit of gossip, diversions, amusing intrigues and a burning passion for mischief and trickery. But faeries can also be cruel, capricious, and vindictive, in their carelessness, quickly forgetting their own misdeeds. Do not mistake the faeries diminutive size for weakness, for what they lack in physical strength they make up in speed and cunning.
Tiny Trickery
With pointy ears and slim bodies, faeries look like tiny young elves, with "large" translucent wings. Their hair and skin range from deep blues to light greens, giving them a vivid pallet of spring-like colours. Most often than not, faeries have a slightly out of proportion head, being a bit bigger when compared to the proportions of average humanoids. Faeries can also have a variety of insect-like features, ranging from just their wings, to a chitinous carapace on arms and legs, to antennae and digitigrade legs similar to those of a mantis.
Normally faeries are female, but it isn't unheard of male faeries.
Birthed from Blossoms
Faeries are born from flowers during spring and summer, and occasionally during the early stages of autumn or late winter. No one truly knows how faeries come into existence, not even faeries themselves, giving their kind a deep appreciation for the mysteries of life. When a faerie is born, it rarely does so alone, usually so in groups of three to six faeries being born at once or in rapid succession, considering each other siblings and forming a clique.
Faerie Names
Male Names:
Female Names:
Faerie Traits
Your faerie character has the following racial traits. These traits are also suitable for the faeries of other worlds where there are faeries of fey origin.Ability Score Increase
Your Dexterity score increases by 2, your Constitution score is decreased by 2 and your choice of Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma score increases by 2.
Age
Fairies are born as adults, and barely age at all, having an average lifespan of a 150 years
Alignment
Faeries are naturally mischievous and love trickery, they are naturally inclined towards Chaotic. While some faeries can be vindictive, cruel and capricious, they rarely are truly evil, most being Neutral.
Size
Faeries are of diminutive size, standing between 7 and 8 inches tall. Your size is Tiny.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 10 feet, and your base flying speed is 40 feet.
Because of you size, you can hover in the same place without falling, but you'll still plummet if incapacitated or your speed is reduced to 0.
Whimsy Magic
You can cast the minor illusion and prestidigitation cantrips. Intelligence is your casting ability for these spells.
Blossoming Defense
Your insect-like flight is difficult to predict so attackers have trouble hitting you.
As a reaction, you can impose disadvantage on all attacks made against you until your next turn as long as you are flying. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Dexterity modifier, recovering all uses on a short rest.
Faerie Play
As a Tiny creature, the everyday items of the world are too unwieldy for you to use comfortably. Equipment and items specially crafted for your kind weighs a tenth of what they normally weight, and if they have any type of effect that has a range, like bows or lanterns, the range is reduced by half.
You can't fly while wearing heavy armour, and weapons of your size use die one step lower than their normal counterparts (i.e. a d6 to a d4, a d4 to 1) unless they have the light weapon property.
Fey
Your creature type is fey, rather than humanoid.
Delicate resilience.
While frail, your body can recover from severe damage. As long as you are alive, your body regenerates lost limbs after a long rest.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Sylvan.
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