Aldani (5e Race)

Aldani

Physical Description

Aldani appeared as lobster people the size of humans when viewed from behind, but face to face any could plainly see their only section of flash partially uncovered by chitin is their human face, though even that sports and alien hue, scaled surroundings, and eyes protruding on stalks. Aldani are usually dull brown, rusty red, or dark grey in color, though their eyes could be any hue. When walking about on land, they could move using their bottom six legs, each a spindle of muscle and armor. When swimming in the water, they use their large, meaty tails for propulsion.

History

Modern Aldani are all descended from an ancient Chultan of the same name that overfished lobsters in a long-forgotten river to extinction. This stupidity infuriated Ubtao, God of the peninsula among other things, and he cursed the entire people to spend their days as lobster people. The Aldani peacefully accepted the consequences to their actions, but the other tribes of Chult were horrified of the strange new monsters and drove the new amphibians into the rivers. Over the centuries and generations, the Aldani have grown increasingly reclusive and untrusting of humans as they retreated to the Aldani Basin to live under the swamp. By the time of the Death Curse, no Chultan had seen an Aldani in over century and many thought them extinct.

Society

Aldani society is extremely insular and xenophobic, but also very peaceful. They shun all outsiders to their wet pit of a wet jungle through underwater stealth. If that doesn’t work, they will try to buy creatures to go away with treasures they dig up from the river and lakebeds. Only if hiding, bribing, and swimming fail will the Aldani resort to using their claws, but when they do they leave no survivors.

Aldani Names

The modern Aldani descend from a Chultan tribe and still use Chultan names.

Male: Atumwa, Juma, Osaw, Ugor, Yapa

Female: Bati, Fipya, Mainu, Razira, Zamisi

Aldani Traits

Lobsterfolk descended from a tribe of cursed fisherfolk in Chult.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2 and your Strength score increases by 1.
Age. Aldani reach adulthood in their late teens and live less than a century.
Alignment. Aldani lean towards the lawful neutral alignment
Size. Aldani usually stand 5 and 6 feet tall and weigh 250-300 pounds. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet. You have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
Amphibious. You can breathe air and water.
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.
Carapace. You have tough, chitin plates surrounding your flesh. When you aren’t wearing armor, your base AC is 13 + your Constitution modifier. You can use your carapace 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 carapace.
Dredger. You have proficiency with the Perception skill. While underwater, being in a lightly obscured area or dim light does not impose disadvantage on your Perception ability checks relying on sight.
Emissary of the Lake. You can communicate simple ideas to any Beast, Elemental, or Monstrosity that has a swimming speed. It can understand your words, though you have no special ability to understand it in return.
Pincer. You can use your pincers to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier slashing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. When you score a critical hit with an unarmed strike using your pincers, you may attempt to grapple the target as part of the same attack.
Vice Grip. Creatures grappled by you have disadvantage on ability checks to escape your grapple.
Ubtao's Ire. You have disadvantage on the Intelligence ability check to escape the maze spell.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Chultan.

Random Height and Weight

Base Height	Height Modifier*	Base Weight	Weight Modifier**
5′ 0''	+2d6	250 lb.	× (1d6) lb.
*Height = base height + height modifier **Weight = base weight + (height modifier × weight modifier)

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