Grung (4e Race)

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Grung

By Shawn Wood

Perhaps even more vicious than bullywugs, the grung are an amphibious menace known to enslave those they conquer.

Racial Traits

Average Height: 2'5"-3'5"

Average Weight: 30-50 lbs.

Ability Scores: Dexterity +2, Constitution +2 or Wisdom +2

Size: Small

Speed: 5 squares squares

Vision: Normal vision

Languages: Common and Grung

Skill Bonuses: +2 Stealth, +2 Perception

Venomous: You have resist 5 poison. The resistance increases to 10 at 11th level and 15 at 21st level.

Amphibious: You can breathe both air and water.

Toxic Touch: You can use the toxic touch racial power.

Toxic Touch	Grung Racial Power
You concentrate your inherent venom and utilize your weapons to extend its affliction to your enemies.
Encounter  Poison
Minor Action	Melee 1
Requirement: You must be wielding a weapon and use it for this attack
Target: One weapon
Effect: Once per round when a weapon attack hits with the target, the target of the attack also takes 5 + your Constitution modifier poison damage. This benefit lasts until the end of the encounter.
Level 11: 10 + your Constitution modifier poison damage Level 21: 15 + your Constitution modifier poison damage

From the steamy jungles and swamplands of Chult, the grung are a race of frog-like humanoids that sport brightly colored, poisonous skin. They are known for having worshipped bygone gods that were known tricksters. Living in the unforgiving jungles, the grung hold their own against savage enemies like yuan-ti by proving their own cold-blooded methods of survival. They are known for being vicious ambush hunters and have a complex social caste system in their various villages hidden among the trees and by waters. Their trademark colorful skin of poisonous secretions has earned them a spot among the groups that run Chult.

Play a grung character if you want...

• To be a domineering, relentlessly belligerent creature.
• To use the poison on your skin against enemies.
• To be a colorful, venomous dart frog that tends to be selfish.

Physical Qualities

The grung appear like poison dart frogs, except as large as a human child and with an extra finger allowing them prehensile grip. Their colorful skin is a natural warning via aposematism, advertising their poisonous nature. A telltale sign of grung is that they are not toothless like normal frogs, nor do they have long, sticky tongues. In fact, grung have a whole mouth of sharp teeth. Their eyes relative to their heads are smaller than that which would be normal for frogs. Their poisonous skin is also permeable, allowing them to breathe, and so it must be kept moist. The color of a grung determines its status in a caste system. Covering up one's colors often was impossible without great pains. Even then, it was not comfortable to cover up their skin, so grung will never wear all-concealing clothing. They prefer breathable outfits that cover only parts of their body, lending to flexibility as well. Sometimes, this can be as little as simple jewelry.

Attitudes and Beliefs

Grung are bellicose and warlike creatures in the sense that they actively patrol their territories and attack just about anything they see. Their communities are often lined with outposts like that of military posts to monitor certain areas of entry and even set up traps. They are known infamously to enslave creatures that they capture and are ruthless in battle. Dirty tactics like poisoned weapons are almost expected of grung, and sneak attacks and ganging up on one target is all fair game. Their territory is an important part of their lifestyle, and grung will do anything to hold what land they have. In history, they have held down their temples of worship against creatures like even yuan-ti in battles over territory.

Religion

Nangnang is a central figure in grung beliefs, both in Omu and Chult. She is commonly worshipped for her aspect as a goddess of death. Nangnang is one of the driving forces behind grung ruthlessness and belligerence, as she instructs them to serve only themselves. The exception to such selfish teachings is when they serve Nangnang by bringing her the best spoils and slaves to be sacrificed so she might regain power after death. Temples dedicated to Nangnang usually depict her grung form, as that is how her primal spirit usually appears. Spears are also a preferred weapon among her worshippers, as it represents the spear Nangnang stole from the goodly Shagambi. Clerics of this goddess often can serve as her vessel so she may use them as mouthpieces. Due to Nangnang currently being sealed, grung are driven to one day free their goddess.

Grung Communities

Grung are indigenous to swampy marshes and moist, warm jungles in tropical and subtropical climates. They live in houses that are near moist, still bodies of water, like bogs. Their housing tends to be camouflaged, like crude huts and such. Some of these can be in trees while others lay closer to the surface of water or in dead trees. Rope and liana pathways can string about like ladders through their communities. The caste of colors for grung dictate where they live within a village as well as what they do. Different areas are devoted to different tasks. For example, a tadpole breeding pool would be located deeper within a grung village. Perimeters would be rife with traps and even decorated with the corpses of enemies as deterrent and territorial marking. Caged pits for slaves would be kept under close watch within the village as well, but away from tadpoles and residences.

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