Tabaxi (5e Race Variant)
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Tabaxi Variant[edit]
Tabaxi are as varied as their primal kin. Their fur, temperaments, and abilities vary greatly depending on their native environment and ancestral species. Choose one of the four subraces below to indicate your Tabaxi’s evolutionary traits.
All Tabaxi have certain traits in common, regardless of their evolutionary variations. You gain the standard traits except that your Charisma score does not increase. Additionally, these tabaxi only stand between 5 and 6 feet, as opposed to their taller cousins. The remaining base traits are as published in Volo's Guide to Monsters. In addition you choose a subrace below.
- Mountain Tabaxi
The Tabaxi of the mountainous tribes are a hardy, spiritual people. Teeming with culture and tradition, these secluded tribes rarely interact with outsiders, and instead rely on their own knowledge and traditions to see their people through the bitter winters and over the merciless terrain of the mountains they call home.
Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.
High Altitude. You gain resistance to cold damage.
Rocky Road. You ignore difficult terrain that is the result of snow, ice, rock or natural ground.
Iceborn. You have been raised in the bitter cold atop the snow capped mountains, and the cold remains within you wherever you go. You know the frostbite cantrip.
- Grassland Tabaxi
The Tabaxi of the grassland tribes are a fierce and bold people. Living in such desolate lands, the Tabaxi of the grasslands have adapted a more primal lifestyle in order to survive, seizing any opportunity and creating many of their own, in order to prosper.
Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.
Savannah Strider. Your base walking speed increases to 35 feet.
Mask of the Wild. You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.
Apex Predator. You live for the hunt. When you reach 3rd level you can cast the hunter's mark spell as a 1st level spell once with this trait, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest.
- Jungle Tabaxi
The Tabaxi of the jungle tribes are a wild and free-spirited people. Living even more secluded lives than their mountain kin, the jungle-dwelling tribes are rarely seen venturing outside of their native habitat, and instead live off of the bountiful harvest of the untamed terrain they call home.
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.
Nine Lives. You can fall for 10 feet without suffering falling damage, and up to 30 feet taking only half damage.
Pounce. As a bonus action, you can leap up to 20 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see that is within 5 feet of a creature. This movement does not provoke opportunity attacks.
Wild Soul. You have tamed the wild magic of the jungle. You know the thorn whip cantrip.
- Forest Tabaxi
The Tabaxi of the forest tribes are a generous and loyal people. More closely connected to the outside world than their reclusive kin, the Tabaxi of the forests welcome outsiders and trade, believing that they can impart their knowledge and beliefs upon those they forge bonds with, thus reducing the misunderstandings between their people and outsiders.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
Jungle Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longbow, shortbow, spear and scimitar.
Wild Soul. The forest is your home, and it’s bounty is yours for the taking. If there is edible forage or clean drinking water within a 100-foot-radius of your current location, you know it and where to find it. Additionally, you have advantage on Survival checks made to identify and follow tracks in forests.
Hunter’s Instinct. No matter how domesticated and civilized you become, there will always be wild blood coursing through your veins. You know the primal savagery cantrip.
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