D&D General Crisis on Infinite Subraces! Suggest a plausible subrace that doesn't exist


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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
 




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:

  • 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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