Beastkin
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‘Beastkin’ is an umbrella term for beings that share common traits and features that are animalistic in nature.
These beings can be split into two more general sub-categories. The first group would be the anthropomorphic animals. These often have a human-like form but have animal features like animal heads, fur/feathers, and claws. Examples of this are dragonborns and tabaxies. The second category is animal shapeshifters. These are magically intelligent animals that have the ability to transform into a human form or a ‘hybrid form’ for the sake of interactions and protection. Examples of these are fox hengeyokai and monkey hengeyokai.
Where they are often lumped together for the sake of generalization, the various types of Beastkin are very different in nature and society. They can range from warlords to common citizens to menaces of cities. Either way, assuming these people act expressively like the beasts they share features with would be a fool’s notion. They are living beings with free will and free thought and are capable of having a full adventuring life.
((Last updated: 12.16.2024))
(Warning: If you are playing a Minotaur or Yuan-Ti, people will feel wary to be around your characters. Play at your own risk.)
Ability Score Increases:
+1 Dexterity, +1 of Choice
Lifespan:
65 years
Size:
You are ‘medium’.
Your size is 134.62 – 147.32
Speed:
Your base walking speed is 2 foundations.
Languages:
Aarakocra can speak, read, and write Common, and Auran
Aarakocra
Sequestered in high mountains atop tall trees, the Aarakocra evokes fear and wonder. Many of these bird folk hail from the boundless vistas of the Elemental Plane of Air. They are immigrants, refugees, scouts, and explorers. Their outposts function as footholds in a world both strange and alien.
Race Abilities
Ability Score Increases:
+1 Strength, +1 of Choice
Lifespan:
80 years
Size:
You are ‘medium’.
Your size is 172.72 – 208.28
Speed:
Your base walking speed is 2 foundations.
Languages:
Dragonborn can read, speak, and write Common and Draconic.
Dragonborn
Born of dragons, as their name proclaims, the Dragonborn walk proudly through a world that greets them with fearful incomprehension. Shaped by draconic gods or the dragons themselves, Dragonborn originally hatched from dragon eggs as a unique race, combining the best attributes of dragons and humanoids. Some are faithful servants to true dragons, others form the ranks of soldiers in great wars, and still, others find themselves adrift with no clear calling in life.
Dragonborn colours are provided in ‘Draconic Ancestry’
Race Abilities
Ability Score Increases:
+1 Dexterity, +1 of Choice
Lifespan:
Hengeyokai lifespans vary but records show that the oldest Hengeyokai to date was 623.
Size:
You are ‘medium’.
Your size is 140.0 – 180.0
Speed:
While a human, you have a base walking speed of 2 foundations.
Languages:
Hengeyokai can speak, read, and write in Common and Sylvan.
Hengeyokai
Hengenyokai are descended from humans and shape-shifting animal spirits originating from the Feywild. They, by and large, are a reclusive and secretive race who preferred to live alone or in very small communities. Understanding that they were unlike humans, hengeyokai usually made no attempt to fit into their society or remain among them for very long. Most avoided contact with other sentient races, with the exception of the spirit folk. Nevertheless, while hengeyokai were wary of strangers, those who showed them true kindness were rewarded with close and long-lasting friendships.
Race Abilities
Ability Score Increases:
+1 Dexterity, +1 of Choice
Lifespan:
120 years
Size:
You are ‘small’.
Your size is 83.82 – 99.06
Speed:
Your base walking speed is 2 foundations.
Languages:
Kobolds can speak, read, and write Common and Draconic.
Kobold
More annoyance than anything, these small beings would rather concern themselves with their mining efforts. Should they find themselves swayed from their cavernous homes, they can be quite the scout or even act as a distraction. When finding a suitable victim, one by one they will yip and scream in their unintelligible language before falling silent as they move in for the attack, rushing from their ambush spots to hopefully drive their target into a mirage of well-placed traps.
Race Abilities
Ability Score Increases:
+1 Strength, +1 of Choice
Lifespan:
Equivalent to humans
Size:
You are ‘medium’.
Your size is 167.64 – 243.84
Speed:
Your base walking speed is 2 foundations.
Languages:
Minotaurs can speak, read, and write Common and Undercommon.
Minotaur
(Application Only)
Minotaurs are a strong and combative race of barrel-chested humanoids resembling bull–human hybrids that were rare in Faerun. They were not welcomed in many cities and received an immediate death sentence, or a stoning if caught in them. Worse off, they were hunted by multiple ignorant hunters seeking the thrill of ‘giving them their own medicine’ despite all Minotaurs not being of the same breed. (If this character is played, you WILL be hunted whether you’re ‘good’ or not.)
Race Abilities
Ability Score Increases:
+1 Dexterity, +1 of Choice
Lifespan:
Equivalent to humans
Size:
You are ‘medium’.
Your size is 147.32 – 193.04
Speed:
Your base walking speed is 2 foundations.
Languages:
Tabaxi can speak, read, and write Common and Payit.
Tabaxi
Hailing from a strange and distant land, wandering Tabaxi are catlike humanoids driven by curiosity to collect interesting artifacts, gather tales and stories, and lay eyes on all the world’s wonders. Ultimate travelers, the inquisitive tabaxi rarely stay in one place for long. Their innate nature pushes them to leave no secrets uncovered, no treasures or legends lost.
Race Abilities
Ability Score Increases:
+1 Charisma, +1 of Choice
Lifespan:
120 Years
Size:
You are ‘medium’.
Your size is 147.32 – 193.04
Speed:
Your base walking speed is 2 foundations.
Languages:
Yuan-Ti can speak, read, and write Common, Abyssal, and Draconic
Yuan-Ti
The serpent creatures known as yuan-ti are all that remains of an ancient, decadent human empire. Ages ago their dark gods taught them profane, cannibalistic rituals to mix their flesh with that of snakes, producing a caste-based society of hybrids in which the most snakelike are the leaders and the most human-like are spies and agents in foreign lands.
(A player can design their yuan-ti to cosmetically appear as a yuan-ti Malison ((snakehead, snakes for arms, or a humanoid with a serpentine lower half)) or a yuan-ti abomination (Must portray the serpentine lower half in a convincing manner, + snakehead)
Race Abilities
Ability Score Increases:
Asabi: +1 Dexterity, +1 of Choice / Blackscale: +1 Strength, +1 of Choice
Khaasta: +1 Strength, +1 of Choice / Swampfolk: +1 Constitution, +1 of Choice
Lifespan:
Asabi/Swampfolk: 100 years
Blackscale: 200 years
Khaasta: 400 years
Size:
Asabi: You are ‘medium’. Your size is between 160-210
Blackscale: You are ‘large’. Your size is between 200-260
Khaasta: You are ‘medium’. Your size is between 150-200
Swampfolk: You are ‘medium’. Your size is between 110 – 180
Speed:
Your base walking speed is 2 foundations.
Languages:
Asabi: You can read and write both Common and Midani. (if midani is removed, replace with Payit)
Blackscale/Khaasta/Swampfolk: You can read and write both Common and Draconic.
Lizard-Folk
Lizardfolk are a race of reptilian humanoids that have skin covered in scales that vary in color from dark green to shades of brown and gray. Lizardfolk hold no interest in money or jewels nor knowledge they found no usage for, deeming things useful on whether or not it was edible. If so, it quickly got their attention; if not, it was ignored. Lizardfolk could be highly dangerous when provoked. However, they were not inherently evil; they were simply savage and had a hard time fitting in with the civilized world.
(Lizardfolk are technically composed of four different races, with each having different physical traits and abilities; choose one during the character creation process. All feats and info not designated as unique to a subrace are inherited by each subrace.)
Race Abilities
Ability Score Increases:
Beasthide: +1 Constitution, +1 of Choice
Longtooth: +1 Strength, +1 of Choice
Swiftstride: +1 Dexterity, +1 of Choice
Wildhunt: +1 Wisdom, +1 of Choice
Lifespan:
80 years
Size:
You are ‘medium’.
Your size is between 150 – 200
Speed:
Your base walking speed is 2 foundations.
Languages:
You can read and write Common.
Shifters
Shifters are sometimes called weretouched, as they are descendants of people who contracted full or partial lycanthropy. Humanoids with a bestial aspect, shifters can’t fully change shape, but they can temporarily enhance their animalistic features by entering a state they call shifting.
(Shifter is technically composed of four different races, with each having different physical traits and abilities; choose one during the character creation process. All feats and info not designated as unique to a subrace is inherited by each subrace.)