D&D 5E How about Them Grung?

[Khelon Testudo]

Grippli and Grung are small, aren't they? While Bullywugs are medium.
You could use Grung stats for Grippli, just swap the poison skin out for a climb speed?
But yeah, I'd be happy with a sort-of-official splat for Grippli, the way they snuck Grung pc's in.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Because pets need multiple names, I've started occasionally calling our cat Nangnang (her real name is Neenu).

I told my one group that grungs were allowed as PCs, but so far no takers. Alas.

Also shouting "NANG-NANG" has been a group in-joke since tomb of annihilation, so it was certainly the most common thing my character said.

 

[Rabbitbait]

I feel like the Water Dependency trait could potentially limit what sorts of games you could play them in, but other than that, I think they're OK.

Yeh, the one in my game could create water magically so it didn't become nearly the issue I'd hoped it would.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Yeh, the one in my game could create water magically so it didn't become nearly the issue I'd hoped it would.

Luckily my ranger is in an advanced magitech galaxy, so having a water tub instead of a bed on a ship shouldn't be an issue, and the druid in the party has create or destroy water.

 

[Iry]

Create Water or Shape Water can take care of the issue pretty easily. It does eat up a slot or cantrip, but the only ones really hindered are non-casting martials with no willing and helpful casters around.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Create Water or Shape Water can take care of the issue pretty easily. It does eat up a slot or cantrip, but the only ones really hindered are non-casting martials with no willing and helpful casters around.

Yeah, and my ranger has purify food and drink, IIRC, which also helps. But a pure martial would be in a bit of a sticky wicket.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

What cultures have y’all come up with for grung, btw?

I’ve got a pretty simple homeworld that is dominated by water, with a few land masses that have some steppes, and some rainforests with immense trees, some of which are “naturally” sapient, and dragon turtles and island turtles (turtles whose backs are so immense they become islands as the ancient members of the species slumber while floating), with grung, Lizardfolk, Sahuagin, locathah, and a refugee population of aarakokra.

The seafaring grung tend to base their culture around the island turtles and dragon turtles, while the swamp grung tend to live in tree hollows and learn from the great ancient trees.

 

[Khelon Testudo]

Create Water or Shape Water can take care of the issue pretty easily. It does eat up a slot or cantrip, but the only ones really hindered are non-casting martials with no willing and helpful casters around.

Also decanter of endless water, or a bag of holding (full to weight capacity with water).

 

[Iry]

Also decanter of endless water, or a bag of holding (full to weight capacity with water).

I like the idea of a Grung just crawling into a bag of holding for an hour every day.

Or an Artificer Grung (with bag) that uses twigs, vines, and beetle shells for their creations.

 

[darjr]

I’ve run the Grung Event at GaryCon twice now and both times were very fun. Kinda under powered, but very flavorful. Note that those games were full parties of grung.