Homebrew Dryad Species Details
Dryads are a Feywild family of frolicsome foresters. This entirely female sisterhood of tree huggers live on vegetarian diets and roam the trees to forage their meals and to protect their treeline from loggers and others who would do harm to their home.
Behavior
Together, dryads are a mischievous and childlike lot, but unwary outsiders may find behind a dryad's impish persona hides a quick-tempered being whose idea of "play" might be described as a predatory. Many dryads enjoy the thrill of hunting any creature that enters its forests (aside from beasts) and of capturing human men as playthings.
Reproduction
Dryads consider reproduction to be a casual bodily function and don't understand the bashful behaviour of most humans. Because human men pass through the Feywild forests so infrequently, a grove of dryads will often share a captured man before killing him. While pregnant, dryads perform a ritual to tie the souls of their unborn children to those of the seeds of trees. When the child is born, the seed will sprout and together they will grow, age, and inevitably die at the same pace.
Dryad Traits
Your Dryad character has the following racial traits.Ability Score Increase
Your Constitution, Dexterity, and Wisdom scores increase by 1.
Age
Dryads share their lifespan with their soulbound tree. If lucky, they can live for several thousand years. A Dryad isn't mature until about age 500.
Alignment
Dryads respect and listen to their elder matron, but that's the extent to which they will follow any particular sense of order. Dryads tend to be neutral and rarely display any morale sense of good or evil, they simply enjoy life as they see fit.
Size
Your size is Medium. You choose the size when you select this race. Dryads range from 4 feet to 5 and a half feet tall, with generally slender builds, weighing between 60 pounds to 100 pounds.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet and you have a climbing speed of 10 feet.
Fey
Your creature type is fey, rather than humanoid.
Forester
You can cast speak with plants once with this trait, speaking only with trees. You can cast the tree stride spell once with this trait, instead moving through any species of tree within 60 feet. Both trees must be living and at least the same size as you. You regain the ability to cast these spells with this trait when you finish a long rest.
Magic Resistance
You have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Tree Empath
You understand a tree's feelings. Additionally, you can make an insight or perception check to listen to the talk of the trees and learn the disposition of the forest you are in.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write common and Sylvan.
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