Homebrew Scrouge Species Details

Scrouges are a rat-like race who mostly live in sewers and rarely interact with the outside world.  They struggle to trust others and mostly live in small groups. When they do wander out of their sewers, they are usually sneaky and avoid drawing attention on themselves. Scrouges are selfish and rarely give gifts or say kind words.

Scrouges look scary to most commoners. Their height ranges from about 5 feet to just below 6 feet. They often have to suffer from malnutrition and as a result weigh just below 100lbs.  Their fur ranges from grey to white and their eyes are usually red. They are known to retreat easily and use the sewers to their advantage. They aren't blessed with a long life, usually living just below 30 years.

Most scrouges are careful and move through shadows and wait for the right oppurtunity to strike. They prefer combat against bigger enemies, so they can use their nimbleness to fool their enemy. The scrouges who wander away from their groups are either too stupid to seek companions, or smart enough to find companions and survive. Most of them are either outcasts or seek for better life elsewhere.

Scrouges are considered adults after their 10th birthday. They don't have last names and their names don't have a real meaning.

Popular scoruge kids' names: Sham, Hast, Plom, Kau, Lestu.

Popular scrouge male names: Rasher, Mohtas, Shamut, Jaften, Ihtan

Popular scrouge female names: Yanne, Balsa, Ponnu, Lao, Malve

Scrouge Traits

Your scrouge character has many natural abilities learned from their childhood.

Keen Smell

You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.

Ability Score Increase

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

Age

Scrouges reach phisical maturity around the age of 7, but call themselvey adults after their 10th birthday. They live to about the age of 30, although some scoruges have lived to the age of 40.

Allignment

Scrouges grow up in a ruthless civilization and mostly lean toward chaos. Most scrouges have little empathy towards anyone other than themselves, and are usually neutral. Some outcast scrouges are evil, and some turn out good.

Size

Scrouges range from 5 feet to just under 6 feet tall. Your size is medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 35ft.

Darkvision

Accustomed to dark sewers, you have superior vision in the dark on in dim light. 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.

Keen Senses

You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Rat's Teeth

Thanks to your sharp teeth, you have a burrowing speed of 10ft. Additionally, your teeth are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed attacks. If you hit with them, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Languages

You can speak, read and write Common and Scrougish. Scrougish is a foul sounding language which most people avoid learning.