Homebrew Cookie Species Details

 Cookie people are a vibrant, diverse, and energetic race full of life and close-knit communities. Cookies take delight in the little things in life, enjoying every moment in the comforts of home. They enjoy having a place to settle into peace and quiet, with a blazing fire, generous meal, and interesting conversation. Most importantly, Cookies can make a home out of anything, be it a remote agricultural community or a wagon train traveling across the kingdom.

Small in Stature, Large in Life

A Cookie’s enthusiasm for life shines through every inch of their tiny body. Cookies average anywhere from 3-4 feet tall and weigh 40-50 pounds. Their tan or golden-brown faces are usually adorned with broad smiles and their bright eyes shine with general contentment. Their hair, usually a similar tone to their baked-just-right skin, has a tendency to stick out in every direction.

A Cookie’s personality is often shown largely in their appearance. They keep their hair styled into curious curls or neat points, with clothing elaborately decorated with embroidery, embossing, or gleaming jewels in the style of icing, sprinkles, and sugary delights.

Never to Crumble

Cookies may have delicate constitutions and be fractured into many various cultures across their vast population, but they are always prepared to help a fellow Cookie out and find great solidarity even among strangers. They work readily with others and are fiercely loyal to their friends, no matter their race. They can display remarkable strength when their friends, families, or communities are threatened.

These qualities make Cookies very impressive soldiers, which is how they became the main makeup of Candyland law enforcement: the Cookie Patrol. The vast majority of Cookies born and raised in the capital of Candyland, the Candy Keep, are born to Cookie Patrol officers and raised to become officers themselves. As adults, they are sent throughout Candyland to protect the land and keep the peace.

Outside the Keep

Across Candyland, Cookies can be found everywhere. Their communities are easy to spot as their homes are often as decorated as their clothing, and usually include small living areas with big families. Cookies look to family elders to guide them, preserving their traditional ways. They live among other races, where their dedication and loyalty offer them abundant rewards and creature comforts. Nearly all of them work within the Cookie Patrol, and regard it as an honorable and practical way of life. Those who set out on the adventuring path often do so to defend their communities or support their friends, and rarely just to explore the world.

Cookie Names

Cookies love names, and most have half a dozen or so. A Cookie’s parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles each give the Cookie a name, and various nicknames from just about everyone else might or might not stick over time. Cookie names are typically variants on the names of ancestors or distant relatives, though some are wholly new inventions. Usually, a Cookie chooses the name they believe represents them best out of the bunch to go by as an adult.

Subraces

There are many subraces of Cookie, including Sugar, Gingerbread, and Shortbread to name a few, but they are more likely closely related families than true subraces. Each has their own specific cultural quirks and traditions, but largely share the dedication, loyalty, and creature comfort needs as other Cookies. 

Cookie Traits

Your Cookie character has certain characteristics in common with all other Cookies.

Ability Score Increase

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

Age

A Cookie reaches adulthood at the age of 20 and generally lives into the middle of their second century.

Size

Cookies average anywhere from 3-4 feet tall and weigh 40-50 pounds

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Cookie Combat Training

As a trainee soldier from birth, you have advantage against being frightened, and proficiency with the battleaxe, mace, rapier, and quarterstaff.

Subrace Proficiency

You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice. Each subrace of cookie has its own customs and traditions, which might make some skills more suitable than others.

Sugar Cookies tend to follow the Golden Rule: treat everyone with sugar and spice and everything nice. Therefore, Charisma-based skills such as Persuasion, Deception, Intimidation, or Performance are good fits.

Gingerbread Cookies can be full of strong spices and opinions picked up from friends and family. Therefore, Wisdom-based skills such as Insight, Medicine, Perception, and Survival may fit your Gingerbread character.

Shortbread Cookies prize thorough decision-making and patience above all, which is why Intelligence-based skills such as History, Arcana, Investigation, and Religion may fit them best.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Cookie. The Cookie language isn’t secret, but Cookies are loath to share it with others. They write very little, so they don’t have a rich body of literature. Their oral tradition, however, is very strong.