Homebrew Nixie Species Details
Physical appearance Nixies resemble women with flattened noses, greenish skin, long froglike legs, and webbed fingers and toes. Nixies have long black hair that acts like it is always underwater. They have usually have fins on their arms and cheeks. Male Nixies are called Nokks, and are very rare. They resemble the Nixie in most physical ways, but they have a stockier, more masculine figure. Nixies and Nokks do not typically wear clothes.
Nixie society Nixies are allied with the unseelie fey and the queen of air and darkness. They are usually not evil, they are just tricksy. Nixies live alone, and they have a nasty habit of luring unsuspecting humanoids into the body of water that they reside in. The Nixie they drags the poor soul underwater, were it plays with the humanoid until they drown. Nixies have no idea that most humanoids can’t breathe underwater, and the fey creature is oblivious to the fact that it has condemned the thing to death.
Gossip when Nixies are not alone they will chatter on about gossip in a seemingly unending stream of words. They will gossip to almost any living thing. As fey, Nixies have incredibly long lives, so their gossip can go on for days on end, without ever stopping.
Names Nixies take on many names colourful names.
Nixie names: amhrán abhann, fionnuisce, cairríní, plandaí
Nokk names: bhlaosc, iasc, carraig, láibe
Nixie Traits
As a Nixie, you gain the following racial traitsAbility Score Increase
You Charsima score increases by 2 and your Dexterity score increase by 1.
Age
Nixies reach physical maturity at age 50, and can live to be around 2,000 years old. Unlike most creatures, Nixies reach physical maturity, and then their bodies do not start to age until they are around 1,600 years old.
Alignment
Even though Nixies drown people, it is never done intentionally. Nixies are very rarely evil, and are much more commonly good or neutral. Nixies are chaotic by nature, and hate strict rules.
Size
Nixies stand 5-6 feet tall. Nixies and Nokks are around the same size.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 ft. You have a swimming speed of 35 ft.
Amphibious
Nixies can breathe indefinitely on land as well as indefinitely underwater. They have gills located on their upper neck. They are protected by the fins on a Nixies face.
Nature’s Children
Nixies live in the still wild and untamed places of the world, and have innate control over small aspects of nature. You can cast the Druidcraft cantrip at will. You can also communicate basic messages to freshwater creatures that have an intellgence score of 2 or higher.
Freshwater Regeneration
If you spend at least 1 hour of a short or long rest submerged in freshwater, you regain and additional 1d8 hit points. You can only regenerate hit points that are missing, and if you regain more than you lost, it does not become extra hit points.
Unending Gossip
As a bonus action on your turn, you can chatter incessantly to a target creature to deal 1d6 psychic damage. This ability can be used once. You may use this ability again after a long rest.
Nixie Knowledge
You are proficient in the deception and persuasion skills. Additionally, you have advantage on all ability checks made to grapple a target. You do not get advantage on these checks if you are not grappling a target.
‘Playtime’
You have advantage on your attacks if you are fighting completely submerged in freshwater and have more than half your total hit points.
Water Vision
Your vision cannot be obscured in any nonmagical way if you are submerged in freshwater.
Languages
You know Common, Aquan, and Sylvan.
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