Homebrew Bovain Species Details

Bovain Race Details

Some bovain herds cloister in remote forest strongholds, preferring to spend their days with the woods. Others may create settlements like those of other non-druidic races as they create more and more inventions, while still living in harmony with the surrounding environment and its creatures. 

When provoked, bovains demonstrate formidable skills with weapons and druidic magic and oftentimes combustible DIY weaponry.

Fiercely Loyal

To a bovain their friends and family are everything, this most always includes the whole of their herd. To bring harm to any person or thing they hold dear would be like putting a red sheet in front of a bull.

Gaining the loyalty of a bovain is very hard. Yet once the connection is made it is even harder to break.

Natural Builders

You can take the materials out of nature, but you can’t take the nature out of the material. The small remnants of their natural origins still remaining in processed materials like lumber and metal still call out to bovains in many ways. To those who don’t have this connection it appears to them that bovains can create amazing machines and devices with no directions or prior teachings at all. It’s almost as if the metal itself is guiding their hands and showing them what it was meant to become.

However, where some bovains create new things like art pieces, machines and weaponry, others prefer to return processed objects back into nature, almost like conducting a funeral. They find ways to break things back down into their base components and let nature safely reclaim them.

Down to Earth

Despite their natural tinkering skills and inherent want to invent new devices and machines, bovains are actually extremely connected to nature. They give the plants and animals around them the utmost respect and see even the smallest blade of grass like a next door neighbor. 

If they ever must bring any living thing to the end of its time in the mortal circle of life they do it with great respect and find any way possible to use every part of the plant or animal. They try their best to work around or with nature, not against it.

Knowledge Seeking Pioneers

Unlike most kinds of druidic people, bovains will actively leave their settlements and villages on small adventures in an effort to collect more knowledge to bring back to their people. Sometimes when they find a place with way too many new sources of information they lay new roots and create whole new settlements as offshoots of their original just to be closer to the newly discovered information hotspot. 

These new pop up settlements normally are founded by young members of old herds looking for new opportunities. The older members of bovain herds are often very reluctant to leave their original homes.

Bovain Names

If a bovain herd is more connected to nature or are druidic they will use names similar to those of elves or fey. If the herd is more modern and centered on invention and innovation they will adopt more western style names much like those of humans.

Sometimes bovains adopt the nicknames or titles outsiders give them under the assumption that those who need names can call them whatever they wish.

Bovain Traits

Your bovain character has the following racial traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your Intelligence score increases by 2, and your Strength score increases by 1.

Age

As fey beastfolk, bovain have long lifespans. A bovain reaches adulthood around 30, and the oldest of them can live until something like sickness or injury kills them. While they do still suffer affects from aging it happens extremely slowly.

Alignment

Bovains love freedom, variety, and self-expression, 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

Bovain are between 7 and 10 feet tall and weigh between 240 and 500 pounds. Your size is large.

Any bovain 7ft and under is considered a runt while any over 9ft are considered tall.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Bovain Magic

You can cast detect magic and identify with this trait, using Intelligence as your spellcasting ability for them. Once you cast either spell, you can’t cast it again with this trait until you finish a short or long rest. 

Speech of Beast and Leaf

You have the ability to communicate in a limited manner with beasts and plants. They can understand the meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return. You have advantage on all Charisma checks you make to influence them.

Horns

As a bonus action, you can use your head and or horns (if you have any) to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier.

Languages

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