D&D General Crisis on Infinite Subraces! Suggest a plausible subrace that doesn't exist
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Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
we need a pc sized aberration
ichabod
Legned
Gibbering mouther. Sounds like several players I have run into.
Voadam
Legend
3.5 had the medium sized PC aberration race the Elan in the psionic section of the SRD/Expanded Psionics Handbook.
Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
I mean as in it is an aberration built to be to pc spec as opposed to monster spec like dragonborn vs dragons
CreamCloud0
Hero
now many of these suggestions are actually subraces? like, more species is cool and we can spout them off all day but exploring subraces that feel like they'd actually have genuine reasons to exist is their own brand of an interesting concept
DrunkonDuty
he/him
Snarf is the fat house cat who thinks they're a tiger.
The other dimensional wizard is from He Man.
Incenjucar
Legend
You're thinking of Snarfer, the Scrappy-Doo of Thundercats. Snarf is the hand-wringing nanny of a slug cat.
Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
I get them all mixed up as they were all before my time.
why bring him then?
jgsugden
Legend
I rarely make up something wholesale, but I do steal a lot from other fiction. I've reskinned the Narn and Centauri from Babylon 5; the Romulans, Ferengi and Klingons from Star Trek, and many Marvel characters into visually different but essentially copies in my setting.
The only wholesale creation in my setting that has a special role are my Nezumi (Ratfolk). Capitalizing upon a number of inspirations, the Nezumi exist because of a bad pun I made as a kid: Pi-rats. I had wererat pirates in an early game, and that grew into a non-lycanthropic rat person which then became the dominant sailing species in my setting. They are ruled by the largest and most ancient Red Dragon in my setting and have a Githyanki inspired relationship with Red Dragons and Red Drakes (animal intelligence dragons). In 5E they have:
The only wholesale creation in my setting that has a special role are my Nezumi (Ratfolk). Capitalizing upon a number of inspirations, the Nezumi exist because of a bad pun I made as a kid: Pi-rats. I had wererat pirates in an early game, and that grew into a non-lycanthropic rat person which then became the dominant sailing species in my setting. They are ruled by the largest and most ancient Red Dragon in my setting and have a Githyanki inspired relationship with Red Dragons and Red Drakes (animal intelligence dragons). In 5E they have:
- Advantage on perception that allows for the use of smell.
- Natural claw and bite attacks that deal d6 or d8.
- Size medium or small.
- Stealth proficiency.
- Nezumi magically sense the location of the nearest Nezumi at all times.
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