The Big Book of Beastfolk

## Falkreeth
- Hunters of the crags
- Brutalistic, survival of the fittest
- Bounded by the Elder Law, words of the first Falkreeth, Kaahrn
- Solo hunters in tribes. Tribes tend to live close and stalk over large territory. Some tribes form groups, to rival other tribal groups

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cradle. 
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—Arslan Faeyanor, *Of Musopii and Men*    </div>

### Falkreeth Traits
The brutalistic life of the falkreeth and their avian qualities grant you a discrete set of skills.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Constitution score increases by 2.

**Age.** Falkreeth mature quickly to avoid the dangers of the crags. They can walk hours after hatching, and are able to fly by the age of 3. By the time they are 8, they are considered mature. They normally live to around 60 years old.

**Alignment.** Falkreeth keep to themselves, but are very strict on following the customs laid out before them. As such, they most often tend towards lawful neutral. However, there are some more chaotic falkreeth who reject their tribe's impartiality to the world around them, or seek to change their traditions in radical ways.

**Size.** Falkreeth are between 6 and 7 feet tall, and on average weigh about 200 pounds. Your size is Medium.

**Speed.** Your base walking speed is 30 feet. You have a climb speed of 30 feet.

**Gliding.** The large feathers on your arms grant you an incredible mobility in the air. While your hands are free, you have a flying speed equal to your base speed. You can't use this speed while you are incapacitated or wearing heavy armor. While flying this way, you can't ascend and you safely descend 15 feet at the end of your turn if you don't have something to hold you aloft.

When you fall and aren't incapacitated, you can subtract up to 100 feet from the fall when calculating falling damage.

**Talons.** Your hands and feet are equipped with formidable talons, which are natural weapons you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

**Sky Sentinel.** You have proficiency in the Perception skill. Whenever you make an Wisdom (Perception) check that relies on sight while gliding, you add double your proficiency bonus to the check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus. Additionally, you’re acclimated to high altitude, including elevations above 20,000 feet.

**Languages.** You speak, read, and write Common and Auran.

**Role.** Each falkreeth must eventually complete a grueling rite of passage when they turn 8, which grants them a corresponding role in the tribe. Choose one of these roles.

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#### Skytaker
You overcame the Hunt of Broken Wings as a young falkreath to become a skytaker. At first light on your eighth anniversary of your birth, you and fellow falkreeth were pushed off of the highest peak in the range, tasked with bringing the largest, most fearsome game they could find back to the village by sundown. That was the last time you saw many of your childhood friends, but you returned with something the tribe thought worthy, and were trained as a Skytaker.

Your job was to hunt, kill, and return your game to the tribe, as well as serving as its first line of defense. The bigger your game, the more respect and standing you achieved within the tribe, but you were always made aware that each trip could have been your last, so you relish the hunt where you can.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Strength score increases by 1.

**Powerful Build.** You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

**Diving Blitz.** If you move at least 15 in a straight line toward a creature as part of a fall or descent immediately before making a melee weapon attack, grapple attempt, or shove attempt, you gain advantage on the roll.

#### Duskbringer
In your eighth year, on the longest night of the calender, they sent you forth into the starlit sky to complete the Night of Bloodied Eyes. You were tasked with staying alive among the mountains until the first light of dawn. The sky and ground littered with enemies seeking to take your life, taking the form of both members of your tribe and the wildlife. To survive this night, you slowly taught yourself to be one with the dark, and embraced the agility you would need to become a true Duskbringer.

As a duskbringer you served as your tribe's eye. You went out into the night sky and you scoured the territory for disturbances, and dealt with them accordingly. You were the first line of defense, and every night you went out knowing your tribe members slept soundly because of your watch.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Dexterity score increases by 1.

**Darkvision.** 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.

**Shrouded.** You have proficiency in the Stealth skill. Creatures have disadvantage on Perception checks to see or hear you while you are gliding in dim light or darkness.

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#### Cragspeaker
On the day of your eighth birthday, you were chained to the top of a high cliff for two weeks to face the Rite of Rooted Feathers. The only way to survive the trial is to be heard, either by the earth itself, or the gods you are prostrating beneath. Being heard, the animals that dwell about the cliffs come to your aid, and deliver to you the food and water you need to survive the trial.

As a cragspeaker, you trained to lead the people of your tribe in council with the other speakers. You used your attunement to the world around you to communicate with other tribes and ensure the people of your own tribe flourish.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

**Innate Spellcasting.** You can cast *animal friendship* an unlimited number of times with this trait, but you can target only birds with it. Starting at 3rd level, you can also cast *beast sense* with this trait. Once you cast it, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

**Speech of the Sky.** You have the ability to communicate in a limited manner with birds. They can understand the meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return.

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#### Tribeless
For one reason or another, you never completed your trials. Perhaps you failed the trials, and were left for dead, or you grew up in a completely different environment. In these instances, you have the features listed below.

**Ability Score Increase.** One ability score of your choice, except Constitution, increases by 1.

**Experience.** You have proficiency in one skill and one tool of your choice. Additionally, you learn one language. 
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## Musopii
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 so large as to contain all of their wanderlust. Having lived amongst them as a child, before the walls came up, I can personally attest to their wonderful appreciation of life. I watched generations of them rise and wither away, and just about all of them passed very content with their lives. <br>
     It captured my imagination: their awareness of their history, and their willingness to take from and adapt to, and learn from it. What could we of such long life achieve if we merely adopted their mindset?
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—Arslan Faeyanor, *Of Musopii and Men*    </div>

Stories are the lifeblood of Musopii culture. They have taken to collecting and sharing the stories and histories of the world around them, both to pass this information on to their children, and because of a deep appreciation of the world in which they live. Their innate curiosity and optimism leads often them to both modest lives in big cities, wherein they mingle with other races and collect and share their stories. A select few find themselves with a deep sense of wanderlust, and thrust themselves out into the world to make their own stories to tell.

### Short Lives and Strong Families
Much of the musopii's cultural love of stories comes from their short lifespans. Storytelling has become a way for them to live on throughout the generations, and a way to teach their kids about the comparatively massive world around them. The result is large, tight-knit family bonds and an incredibly open approach to experiencing life.

The small, flexible bodies of the musopii, combined with their comfort around one another leads to large amounts of musopii being able to live in a relatively small amount of space. A single human-sized home could reasonably house twenty musopii comfortably.

### Carefree Curiosity
Curiosity is the constant of the musopii culture. Under every rock lies an interesting tale, and every person is a portal towards new experience. However, constantly wanting to know more about the lives of others and the histories of things often leads individual musopii to conflict. That could mean they decided to pry a little to deep into their neighbor's personal life, or it could mean they decided to wander a little to deep into a newly discovered dungeon.

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### Musopii Names
A musopii has a given name, and a family name. Due to their large families and casual relationships, their given names are traditionally short and simple, but their love of tales from all cultures means it is not uncommon for musopii to have names traditionally given to other races.

**Male Names:** Arel, Allie, Bolo, Benjie, Caps, Dar, Devie,  
    Ernie, Fern, Frisk, Flake, Hedwig, King, Kit, Lenny, Robbie,  
    Snips, Quark, Stamps, Tek, Tevvy, Tulley, Wihn, Whisk <br>
**Female Names:** Ai, Allie, Arali, Berry, Debs, Ellie, Fara, Fia,  
    Fiel, Gabbie, Jess, Iyla, Lara, Levi, Mai, Pollie, Sal, Tael,      Tess, Ulie, Vael, Vai, Zell<br>
**Family Names:** Aver, Bale, Basskin, Boomhowl, Coggs,  
    Cottonmouth, Meeks, Joru, Splinterpaw, Stonespine,  
    Sugarglide, Traveler, Visken

> ##### Overwhelmingly Hospitable
> Ever-interested and wildly optimistic, the musopii tend to enjoy the company of anyone not openly hostile towards them, though the opposite is not necessarily true. 
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> **Dwarves.** "Dwarves really understand how important family is, and they know how to appreciate a good tale. But honestly, they should be a little more willing to share what they've learned!."
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> **Elves.** "My great-great-grandfather was friends with an elf, and she says her family still considers her a child! I'd love to experience the world from the long-lived eyes of an elf."
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> **Humans.** "These guys know how to have a good thrill, and aren't shy about telling the world afterwards. Though sometimes they expect a bit much in return for their tales."

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### Musopii Traits
Their stature and mostly mousey bodies grant musopii a slew of shared abilities.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Dexterity score increases by 2.

**Age.** Musopii are short-lived compared to other races, reaching adulthood around age 4. They age noticeably faster than other races and rarely live longer than 35 years.

**Alignment.** Musopii tend to be good-hearted, leaning towards neutral good, however a history of being taken advantage of has made them just as likely to fend for themselves.

**Size.** Musopii stand at about 2 to 2 1/2 tall while on two legs, and weigh around 25 pounds. Your size is small.

**Speed.** Your base walking speed is 25 feet. You have a climbing speed of 20 feet.

**Darkvision.** Accustomed to living under the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.

**Skitter.** When both of your hands are free, you can run on all fours, increasing your base walking and climbing speeds by 10 feet.

**Cheek Pouches.** You can store up to 1 cubic foot of items weighing up to 15 pounds in total in your cheek pouches. As a bonus action, you can transfer a single object between hand and cheek or disgorge the entire contents of your pouch onto the ground within 5 feet of them.

**Squirm.** You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours.

**Languages.** You can speak, read, and write Common and Murin. The Murin language is a very precious thing to the musopii, since so much of their culture is based around writing, reciting, and telling stories to their families. Almost all musopii speak Common to converse with the people in whose lands they dwell or through which they are traveling.

**Family.** Defined by how they collect their stories, there are three main families of musopii: pageleaf, glimmerpaw and braveheart. Choose one of these families.

#### Pageleaf
Pageleaf musopii tend to be lighter in color than their cousins, partially due to their proclivity to spend large amounts of time indoors, studying the stories of the longer-lived or cultivating their minds to better understand their place amongst their surroundings. They tend to be the most well accepted within cities and towns, as they are seen as less mischievous than their counterparts.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your choice of your Intelligence or Wisdom score increases by 1.

**Skill Proficiency.** You gain proficiency with one of the following skills of your choice: Arcana, History, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, or Religion.

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**Bookish.** Whenever you finish reading a body of text, you can memorize it, gaining the ability to perfectly recount its contents. You can only have one text memorized at a time. You cannot cast, prepare, or copy spells from memory alone.

**Active Research.** You can take the Search action as a bonus action.

**Extra Language.** You can speak, read, and write one extra language of your choice.

#### Glimmerpaw
Glimmerpaw musopii are well known for their large ears and fuzzy feet, making them appear cute to many. What most don't know is that those fuzzy feet make their movements naturally silent. While they are the most sociable of the musopii, their true calling is for their subterfuge. They collect stories by using their wiles, whether that be through rumors, cunning, or by finding places where they can hear things they shouldn't.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Charisma score increases by 1.

**Naturally Stealthy.** You can attempt to hide even when you are obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger than you.

**Selective Hearing.** Whenever you make an Wisdom (Perception) check related to eavesdropping, you are considered proficient in the Perception skill and add double your proficiency bonus to the check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus.

#### Braveheart
Braveheart musopii are standout amongst their peers. Members of this family are boisterous and filled with bravado. They choose to carve their own tales of glory rather than sit by and listen those of others'. They are natural born adventurers that seek out danger wherever it may be, and have an uncanny ability for coming back alive to tell the tale.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Constitution score increases by 1.

**Brave.** You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

**Mousketeering.** When you move through a creature's space, it has disadvantage on opportunity attacks against you until the end of the current turn.

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## Nosiree

Nosiree are stout, bulky humanoids with bat-like features. Their arms and legs are built like tree trunks.

### Nosiree Traits
The nosiree gain abilities from their bat-like origins and their

**Ability Score Improvement.** Your Intelligence score increases by 2 and your Constitution score increases by 1.

**Age.** Nosiree mature by age 16, but rarely live longer than a century. They live long enough to master their craft and pass on their knowledge.

**Alignment.** Nosiree trend towards good aligned, as much of their work and life goals are about bring new utility and ease to their fellows. Regardless of alignment, nosiree pour their heart and soul into their craft, though the methods they use may be influenced by whether or not they are chaotic, lawful, or neither.

**Size.** Nosiree stand between 3 and a half and 4 and a half feet tall. Your size is Medium.

**Speed.** Your base walking speed is 25.

**Darkvision.** Your eyes are accustomed to the darkness of caverns and the night sky. 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.

**Stability.** You have a climb speed of 25 feet and can move along vertical surfaces and ceilings while leaving your hands free. You do not suffer any penalties from staying upside down for long periods of time. While climbing this way, being unconscious does not cause you to fall.

**Expert.** You have proficiency with a set of artisan's tools of your choice.

**Echolocation.** You can use your action to let out a supersonic screech, audible to only to other creatures with this trait. Until the end of your turn, you have blindsight up to 30 feet away, as long as you are not deafened.

**Expensive Tastes.**  Whenever you make an Intelligence (Investigation) check related to discerning the rough value of a gem, you are considered proficient in the Investigation skill and add double your proficiency bonus to the check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus.

You can bite into a gem with a value of at least 10gp and drain it of its luster, turning it to dust. Doing so provides enough nourishment to sustain you for the next 7 days.

**Luster Sense.**  You can cast *locate object* with this trait, using Intelligence as your spellcasting ability for it. When you use this version of locate object, you can only attempt to locate gems, jewelery, and similar objects. Once you cast this spell, you can't cast it again with this trait until you finish a short or long rest.

**Languages.** You can speak, read, and write Common and Undercommon. Underground cities of the nosiree often come into contact with the denizens of the underdark, so undercommon is well known.

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## Gharro
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gharro. These people are as unwavering in their convictions as they are behemothian in stature. Others oft squabble over the results of politics and management, but the gharro I see around me each day understand their laws to the letter and are quick to follow them, regardless of personal opinion. Orderliness is key in the lands of the Gharro.  <br>
     The driving force of gharro society however, is trust. The word of a gharro is binding, and any caught going back on their word within the walls of a gharro city will be met with a swift and unrelenting punishment. Similarly, the biggest insult you can levy against a gharro is to devalue their word. 
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—Cassious Gemspark, *The Fabric of Society*    </div>

Because rhino people
- Horn Jewelry
- lawful, civilized, very monk-y

### Gharro Traits
Their large stature, leathery skin, and powerful rhino horns of the loyal gharro are granted these innate abilities.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

**Age.** Gharro are long-lived people, which some say is owed to their rigorous lifestyle. They reach maturity by age 25, but are not considered adults until they are 50 years old, and usually live to be around 350 years old.

**Alignment.** Gharro are deeply ingrained within their societies, which values trust and loyalty above all else. This is why Gharro tend to be fairly isolationist, however they are encouraged to lend assistance to others when it wouldn't go against the grain. Gharro tend to be lawful good.

**Size.** Gharro are imposing figures, standing at around 7 to 8 feet tall, although some can become even taller. Your size is medium.

**Speed.** Your base walking speed is 40.

**Horn.** You have one or two horns growing from your face, that are natural melee weapons, with which you are proficient. When you hit with them, the target takes piercing damage equal to 1d8 + your Strength modifier.

**Charge.** If you move at least 20 feet in a straight line immediately before hitting a target with your horn, you can force the target of the attack to make a Strength saving throw against a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier. On a failure, you can push the target up to 10 feet away from you.

**Powerful Build.** You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

**Natural Armor.** You have tough, leathery skin. When you aren't wearing armor, your AC is 12 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use your natural armor to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield's benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.

**Loyalty.** You cannot be forced to attack a creature you would normally consider an ally.

**Languages.** You can speak, read, and write Common and Giant.

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## Pangolian

### Pangolian Traits
You are

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1.

**Age.** Pangolians reach maturity by age 16, and usually live up to 120 years.

**Alignment.** When given the opportunity, a pangolian will generally lend a helping hand unless they are given a reason not to, but their culture emphasizes romanticisms, meaning they can ignore certain rules if it would lead to good theatrics. Therefore, they tend towards neutral good.

**Size.** Pangolians tend to grow to be around 5 feet tall, but are fairly wide to accommodate their scaling. They tend to be weigh around 180lbs. Your size is Medium.

**Speed.** Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

**Plating.** Your plates provides ample protection, giving you a base AC of 16 while you aren't wearing armor (your Dexterity modifier doesn't affect this number). You can use your plating to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield's benefits apply as normal while you use your plating.

**Ball Curl.** You can roll into a ball as an action. Until you unroll, attack rolls against you have disadvantage, and you are immune to becoming prone. While you're curled into a ball, the only actions you can take are an action to roll up to your speed in a straight line or a bonus action to unroll from your ball. If you go down a slope at any point during movement while curled, your speed doubles until the end of your turn.

**Reactive Defense.** When you are targeted by an attack, you can use your reaction to curl into a ball as per your Ball Curl trait, possibly causing that attack to miss. Once you use this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

**Strong Tail.** You have a strong tail which is about 5 feet long, and it allows you to grab onto small or larger objects and hold on to them, allowing you to hang from branches and drag things such as barrels or unconscious creatures behind you. The tail is too large to handle fragile objects or objects that require any fine manipulation.

**Theatrics.** You have proficiency in the Performance skill.

**Languages.** You can speak, read, and write Common and Terran.

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## Ranno
Arg, You be Monk Frog, Geninja or some shit

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

**Age.** Ranno spend the majority of their juvenile life in water, unable to breathe air. They develop the ability when they reach maturity by their thirteenth year.

**Alignment.** Ranno are unlikely to place themselves too deeply in the conflicts of others, preferring instead to take a more cautious approach, trending towards a neutral alignment, though wandering ranno can reasonably be of any alignment.

**Size.** Ranno grow to be no more than 5 feet tall, and are relatively light, weighing around 90lbs. Your size is Medium.

**Speed.** Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed of 30 feet.

**Amphibious.** You can breathe air and water.

**Standing Leap.** Your long jump is up to 25 feet and its high jump is up to 15 feet, with or without a running start.

**Sticky Tongue.** You have a long, adhesive tongue, which you can use as a natural weapon, and to make unarmed strikes. This weapon has a reach of 10 feet, and you can use Strength or Dexterity for the attack rolls of this natural weapon. If you hit with it, you deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice).

You can use your tongue to grab and hold items within reach with the same speed and precision as your hands, but you can't use it to wield weapons or shields. Additionally, you can use your tongue to grapple or shove targets in place of your hands. When you successfully grapple a creature with your tongue, you move to the nearest unoccupied space within 5 feet of them, and must remain within 5 feet of them to maintain the grapple.

**Pond's Stillness.** Ranno training has ingrained your being with an unwavering calm. Creatures have disadvantage on Insight checks made against you to determine your motives, and you have advantage on saving throws against any effect that would determine information about you, such as *detect thoughts* and *scrying*.

**Patience of the Archer Fish.** You gain proficiency with the Stealth skill.

<!--If you remain hidden without moving for 10 minutes, you gain tremorsense out to 60 feet until you move or take an action other than the Search action.

Tremorsense means that you can detect and pinpoint the origin of vibrations, such as those caused by footsteps, provided that you and the source of the vibrations are in contact with the same ground or substance.

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### Jesus Frog
Walk on Water Feat, plus some other shit I guess

### Tung-Fu

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### Khalavesp
U. R. Wasp

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Strength score increases by 2, and you Dexterity score increases by 1.

**Age.** Vak'Strikia start their life as larvae, and reach maturity as soon as they break out of their pupa, at 2 years old.

**Alignment.** Strikia are aggressive marauders and value their plunder above most lives, sometimes including their own. They are most often chaotic evil.

**Size.** Strikia stand at around 3 to 4 feet tall, however their thorax and multiple legs makes them longer than normal. Your size is Small.

**Speed.** Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

**Jousting Wings.** You have two pairs insectoid wings; they can't support you for long, but aid you in harrying your foes. As a bonus action, you can begin fluttering your wings. Until the end of the turn, you gain a 30 foot flying speed.

As a part of this bonus action, you can fly up to your flying speed toward an enemy of your choice that you can see or hear. You must end this move closer to the enemy than you started.

**Insectoid Strength.** You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift. You do not suffer disadvantage on attack rolls made with heavy weapons due to your small size.

**Stinger**. Your stinger is a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

When you hit with your stinger, you can cause it to deal additional poison damage equal to 1d6 + your level. Once you use this trait this way, you can't use it again until you finish a short rest.

**Swarm Mentality.** While you are within 10 feet of at least two allied creatures and make an Intimidation check, you are considered proficient in the Intimidation skill and add double your proficiency bonus to the check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus.

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### Mangani [temp?]

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Wisdom score increases by 2. Your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier increases by 1.

**Age.** Mangani have lifespans comparable to humans. They enter adulthood in their late teens and usually live less than a century.

**Alignment.** Mangani keep to themselves, and look out for their own primarily. They tend to be neutral.

**Size.** Mangani sizes can range wildly, from 4 feet tall to 8 feet all. Your size is Medium.

**Speed.** Your base walking speed is 30 feet. You have a climb speed of 30 feet.

**Standing Leap.** Your long jump is up to 20 feet and your high jump is up to 10 feet, with or without a running start.

**Powerful Build.** You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

**Mistwalker.** You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and similar natural phenomena. Your vision is not obscured by these kinds of effects.

**Elusive.** You have proficiency in the Stealth skill. Additionally, you can use your bonus action to create a lightly obscuring fog in a 20-foot radius around you, which lasts until the start of your next turn.

**Unnerving Calm.** You have advantage on saving throws against being  charmed or frightened.

**Strong Arms.** Your unarmed strikes deal 1d6 bludgeoning damage on a hit, instead of 1.

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### Dr.Katz
You are a cat.

**Ability Score Changes.** Your Strength score is reduced by 4 (minimum of 3). Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Intelligence score increases by 1.

**Size.** You are Tiny. Your type is Beast.

**Age.** You live to at most 20.

**Speed.** Your base walking speed is 40 feet. You have a climb speed of 30 feet.

**Feline Form.** You are quadrupedal, and have no hands. You can hold small objects between your paws and carry objects in your mouth. You move at half speed while carrying an object in your paws. Armor has to be specially made for you, but the cost of the armor is the same. You can wield only weapons with the light and finesse properties, and you must use your mouth to do so.

**Darkvision.** 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.

**Feline Grace.** When you fall and aren't incapacitated, you can subtract up to 100 feet from the fall when calculating falling damage. Your long jump is up to 15 feet and your high jump is up to 7 feet, with or without a running start.

**Nimble.** You are proficient in the Stealth skill. You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours.

**Natural Weapons.** Your claws and fangs are are natural weapons you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. These weapons have the finesse property.

**Nine Lives.** Whenever you would be killed as a result of failing death saving throws, you can instead regain 1 hit point. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest. Once you use this feature eight times, you lose it forever.

**Arcanocat.** You know the *mage hand* cantrip. You can cast *mage armor* at-will on yourself.

**Dreamwalker.** While touching a sleeping creature for 1 minute, you can cast *dream* on them. When you cast dream this way, it does not deal damage. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

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### Addtional Subraces
#### Greatmaus
Some musopii are built a bit studier, heftier than others. The greatmaus are mountains of mousey muscle that tend to prefer when other people talk instead of them. These musopii collect the sort of stories that people don't want told, most often through brute force. Greatmaus often look humorous to the outside world, because they sometimes carry weapons much larger than they are, but they are masters of mousey momentum and can use their whole body weight to wield these arms with relative ease.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Strength score increases by 1.

**Swole.** You can wield weapons that have the heavy property without suffering disadvantage on attack rolls.

**Convincing.** You can add your Strength modifier instead of your Charisma modifier to Charisma (Intimidation) or Charisma (Persuasion) checks against creatures you have dealt damage to within the past minute. You can also use this feature against a creature who has seen you slay one of their allies within the past 24 hours.

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BOOKLEAF
prereq pageleaf musopii
You gain the following benefits:
-If you study a language for an entire day, you can achieve fluency in it during that one day.
-You have advantage on checks you make for the Search action.

TOMEWRITER OF GRIMOIRES
You gain the following benefits
-You can write a weighty book in a single day, with inhumanoid writing and cognition speed.
-You have advantage on checks made with writer's tools.
-You can never forget something that you have written down, even against magical spells such as modify memory.

PAGETREE
prereq pageleaf musopii
You gain the following benefits:
-You can memorize an innumerable amount of texts as long as you read them.
-Your reading speed is drastically increased, such that you can read a weighty tome during a short rest.

EAVESTHROWER
prereq glimmerpaw musopii
You gain the following benefits:
-You always recognize the voice you hear if you have heard it before, and can place it to a face or memory.
-You can't roll less than 12 + your Wisdom modifier + your Proficiency bonus on a check made to hear.
-You can hear casual conversation in a range of up to 1 mile, and can hear whispers in a range of 120 feet.

GIANT MOUTH
prereq mouthfolk
You gain the following benefits:
-You can store up to 3 cubic feet of items weighing up to 30 pounds in total in your cheek pounces.
-When you are grappling a creature, you can make an additional Strength (Athletics) check to engorge them.  On a success, they are restrained and your speed is reduced to 5 feet.  If they succeed on a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) against you, they escape unharmed and ungrappled.

MIGHTY MOUSE
prereq musopii
You gain the following benefits:
-You don't have disadvantage on attack rolls with heavy weapons, and any 1 on a damage die with one counts as a 2.
-Large and Huge creatures don't automatically succeed on grapples and shoves against you.
-You have advantage on checks and saves against being knocked prone.

GREATSIGHT
prereq musopii
You are an anomaly among mousekinfolk, one whose eyes are blessed with some magical alteration.  You gain the following benefits:
-Invisible creatures don't have advantage on attack rolls against you.
-You ignore half-cover.
-The range of your darkvision extends to 180 feet.
-You can see invisible creatures within 5 feet of you.

BRAVESTHEART AND LONGEST LEGACY
prereq braveheart musopii
You gain the following benefits:
-If stories are told about you, they continue to be told about you for a thousand years, and generations of a hundred musopii will know your name.
-You can't be frightened and have advantage on saving throws against being charmed.
-Your Constitution score can't be reduced, your Constitution score increases by 1, and your maximum for that score increases to 21.(edited)

OF MICE AND MEN
prereq musopii braveheart
You gain the following benefits
-When a creature has disadvantage on an attack roll against you, it must roll an additional d20 and select the lowest of those 3.
-While moving through a creature's space, you have half-cover.
-If a humanoid kills you, that humanoid will die of some cause within 1 week, for which the DM will determine.
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# Credits
A huge thanks to everyone in the Discord of Many Things for their invaluable feedback.

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> ##### Detect Balance Scores
> If you use the [Detect Balance Homebrew Race Guide](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vq1kz6PRAbw5LHy6amH-bNb4OuB8DBXL1RsZROt03Sc/edit#gid=0 "Detect Balance Homebrew Race Guide"), here are my integer point values for the above races, for convenience. Some features here are fairly difficult to find a reference point for, so these point values may vary depending on how you rate certain features. 
> <br>
> **Musopii (16):**  
>      Pageleaf: 27  
>      Glimmerpaw: 26    
>      Braveheart: 26    
> **Falkreeth (17):**  
>      Skytaker: 26  
>      Duskbringer: 28  
>      Cragspeaker: 27  
> **Nosiree (29)**  
> **Gharro (28)**  
> **FIX DB SCORE: Pangolian (27)**

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Thri-Kreen

Ability Score Improvement. Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Constitution score increases by 1.
 
Speed. Your speed is 35 feet.
 
Darkvision. 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.
 
Extra Arms. You have an extra set of weaker arms. You can use these arms in the same ways as your normal set, but they can't be used to effectively wield weapons or shields. You can perform an additional object interaction each turn.
 
Torpor. Thri-Kreen don't need to sleep. Instead, they enter a state called torpor, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. While in torpor, you retain full awareness of your surroundings. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.
 
Standing Leap: The thri-kreen's long jump is up to 30 feet and its high jump is up to 15 feet, with or without a running start.
 
Chameleon Carapace. You can change the color of your carapace to match the color and texture of its surroundings. You have advantage on Stealth checks made to visibly conceal yourself.
 
Natural Armor. You have tough, armored carapace. When you aren't wearing armor, your AC is 13 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use your natural armor to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield's benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.
 
Bite. Your insectoid mandibles and bite are a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
 
If you hit with a bite attack, you can choose unleash a potent poison into your opponents veins. They must succeed on a Constitution saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution  modifier) or take an 1d6 poison damage, or half as much on a successful one. The damage increases to 2d6 at 5th level, 3d6 at 11th level, and 4d6 at 17th level.
 
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### Kitikiri
You are an adorable kitty, which means you are a ball of death that people underestimate.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and you Wisdom score increases by 1.

**Age.** Kitikiri reach maturity at 2 years old, although they look extremely young to the unfamiliar regardless.

**Alignment.** Kitikiri are hunters and survivalists by nature, and as such they tend to believe that people should fend for themselves. They tend to be neutral.

**Size.** Kitikiri stand at around 3 feet tall, but sometimes the pretend to be bigger to try scare off animals. Your size is Small.

**Speed.** Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and your small claws allow give you a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.

**Darkvision.** Accustomed to hunting under the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.

**Prowl.** You are proficient with the Stealth skill, and can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.

**Cunning Hunter.** As part of a short rest, you can harvest bone or a other hard material from a slain beast, construct, dragon, monstrosity, or plant creature of size small or larger to create one of the following items: kitikatar, kitispear,  or kitiquarrel. You are proficient with all of these weapons.

To use this trait, you need a blade, such as a dagger, or appropriate artisan's tools, such as smith's tools. These weapons are made fragile in order for them to be able to break on contact. As such, these weapons naturally break after 8 hours regardless of use.

**Inconspicuous.** Whenever you make a ability check in order to convince a creature you weren't tracking or stalking it, you are considered proficient in the skill and double your proficiency bonus for the check.

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> ##### Special Kitikari Weapons
> The kitikari have developed special hunting tools that all kitikari are expected to know how to use. These weapons are not simple or martial weapons and as such no character except kitikari start with proficiency with them. However, they can be used as if they were simple weapons for any features that use them, such as monk's martial arts. 
>
> **Kitikatar.** The kitikatar are melee weapons, crafted as a jagged set of knives bound together as to fit snuggly on a kitikari's delicate paws. Kitikatar deal 1d6 piercing damage on a hit, and the light, finesse, and special properties. When you hit  acreature with a kitikatar, you can choose to break the weapon and leave it stuck in the creature's body, causing the attack to deal an additional 1d6 damage.
>
> **Kitikama.** The kitikama is a roughly serrated sickle-like melee weapon. It deals 1d8 slashing damage, and has the finesse and special properties. When hit a creature with a kitikama, you can choose to break the weapon as you attempt trip the creature.
If the creature is no larger than twice your size category, it must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw (DC 8 + proficiency + your Dexterity modifier) or be knocked prone.
>
> **Kitiquarrel.** The kitiquarrel is a barbed war dart, made to lodge itself in its target. This weapon uses the same statistics as the dart, but it also has the special property. When you hit a creature with a kitiquarrel, it breaks and lodges itself into the target. At the end of each of its turns, the target takes 1d4 damage, unless it uses its action to take out the quarrel.

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## Pistora

NO SHRIMP, WE CRABS NOW

### Pistora Traits
The shrimp-like pistora are a shrewd race of mercantile people, granting them the following traits.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Intelligence score increases by 1.

**Age.** Pistora are raised in large communal groups until they turn 20 years old or so. They live for about 180 years on average.

**Alignment.** Pistora are open-minded as far as it services them. They are neutral.

**Size.** Pistora are stand at around 3 to 4 feet tall, however their long tails and multiple legs makes them longer than normal. Your size is Small.

**Speed.** Your base walking speed is 30 feet. You have a swimming speed of 30 feet.

**Amphibious.** You can breathe air and water.

**Aquatic.** Adapted to even the ocean depths, you ignore any of the drawbacks caused by a deep or cold underwater environment.

**Sonic Snap.** By snapping your hand into place, and applying pressure to your joints, you can create and pop a bubble of immense pressure, which can be heard from up to 100 feet away. Your sonic snap is a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you deal thunder damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

**Languages.** You can speak, read, and write Common and Aquan.

11 4 + 2 + 2 + 3

**Subraces.**

#### Pirates

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#### Artist
Can see billions of colors; can see what objects looks like before they were broken

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- SMALL WASPS
- GOATS
- Frog Monks w/ tongue unarmed

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## Castora

### Castora Traits
Your castora character has the following traits.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Strength score increases by 2.

**Age.** Castora are raised in large communal groups until they turn 20 years old or so. They live for about 180 years on average.

**Alignment.** Castora are open-minded as far as it services them. They are neutral.

**Size.** Castora can vary from around 5 to 6 and a half feet tall, however their thick shells and wide shoulders make them appear larger than they are. Your size is Medium.

**Speed.** Your base walking speed is 25 feet. You have a swimming speed of 30 feet.

**Aquatic.** You can breathe air and water. Adapted to even the ocean depths, you ignore any of the drawbacks caused by a deep or cold underwater environment

**Crushing Claws** You have an additional set of arms, each of which end in large pinching claws in place of hands. These claws can't be used to wield weapons or shields, or perform tasks that require fine motor skills. Your claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier.

**Natural Armor.** Your chitinous plates provide ample protection, giving you a base AC of 13 + your Dexterity modifier while you aren't wearing armor. You can use your plating to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield's benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.

**Vice Grip.** Whenever you make an Strength (Athletics) check related to grappling with your claws, you are considered proficient in the Athletics skill and add double your proficiency bonus to the check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus.

Whenever you are grappling a creature with your claws, you can use your bonus action to attempt to lock one of your claw in place. The creature must make a Strength saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier). On a failure, the target takes 1d8 bludgeoning damage. For as long as the target is grappled in this way, you can use your bonus action on your turn to repeat this damage.

#### Cooking Crab
Cooking

**Culinary Savant.** You know the *control flames* cantrip. Once you reach 3rd level, you can cast the *grease* spell once per day as a 2nd-level spell. Once you reach 5th level, you can also cast the *locate animals or plants* spell once per day. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

#### Merchants
these bois sell things generally, but they can be pretty theivy at points

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Intelligence score increases by 1, and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

**Mercantile Magic.** You know the *prestidigitation* cantrip. Once you reach 3rd level, you can cast the *identify* spell once per day. Once you reach 5th level, you can also cast the *arcane lock* spell once per day. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

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