User:Proton/5e campaign setting
Overview[edit]
- Begin at 1st level, but have mockups prepared (or instructions for yourself) for 2nd and 3rd level, to keep things moving at the table.
- Standard array, point buy, and rolled ability scores are all acceptable (rolled scores must be watched).
- On level up, always use the flat hp increase (plus your Constitution modifier) instead of rolling to see how much you gain. For reference, the flat amount is (hit die ÷ 2) + 1.
- All classes are permitted.
- All backgrounds are permitted. Custom backgrounds are permitted, subject to DM approval.
- Common is the only language known to player characters (exceptions include Thieves’ Cant, druidic, and other secret-society types of language).
- Racial restriction: player characters belong to any of four tribes, which are all mechanically identical to humans (Medium size, base speed 30 feet, +1 to all ability scores).
- Revised coinage: The standard unit of currency is silver pieces instead of gold pieces, plus other changes (see below).
Tribes[edit]
Clavats are hard-working people who typically focus on living quiet lives in honest communities. Fond of the simple things in life, they often enjoy showing off fashion, with garments fancier than the other tribes typically wear. Clavats are usually toned from years in the fields, and have hair ranging from blonde to brown, with occasional reddish hues. Loyal, protective, kind, reluctant.
Lilties are significantly smaller than the other tribes, but renowned for their combat prowess historically and still. Instead of fine strands of hair, lilty scalps grow broad, leaflike hair, whose appearance readily indicates the lilty’s health. Female lilty hair tends to appear more petal-like, with wider variety in color than male leaves. Lilty military background leads them to often wear armor as a default fashion statement. Strong, stable, fierce, stubborn.
Selkies have narrow eyes, pointed ears, and a grace and swiftness rarely matched by the other tribes. Too often, this grace lends itself to thievery and other mischief, which leads most people of the other tribes to be wary upon first meeting them. In actuality, many selkies are good-hearted and genuine, plagued by the stereotypes perpetuated by their unscrupulous peers. Selkies usually have bluish or silver hair, with infrequent pale green, and almost always wear it long, even among males, and have paler skin than the other tribes. Selkie physique is effortlessly excellent, and finding one outside of peak condition is unheard of. Swift, sharp, clever, brash.
Yukes are notably taller than the other tribes, and known for their scientific and arcane advances. Few are the great spell slingers who weren’t yukes, and the ones that were yukes were all but reclusive and mysterious. Their arms are coated in long, soft fur, and their backs are adorned by a pair of small, functional, but not practical, wings similar in appearance to a bat’s. Yukes keep their heads and faces covered under all circumstances, typically with a beaked helmet. It is a momentous occasion in which a yuke would show their face, and few walk the earth from the other tribes who have seen the face of any yuke. Patient, wise, bright, reserved.
Revised coinage[edit]
Precious metals are worth more. Instead of gold pieces, silver pieces are the standard unit of currency. Platinum pieces and electrum pieces do not exist, and the remaining coins use the following exchange rates:
| Coin | cp | sp | gp |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copper (cp) | 1 | 1⁄5 | 1⁄50 |
| Silver (sp) | 5 | 1 | 1⁄10 |
| Gold (gp) | 50 | 10 | 1 |
Examples: A longsword costs 15 silver pieces, splint armor costs 200 silver pieces (or 20 gold pieces), and a dagger costs 2 silver pieces (or 10 copper pieces).
All revised coins are one inch in diameter and weigh 1⁄100 of a pound (two United States dimes). Revised gold, silver, and copper coins are 0.36 mm, 0.67 mm, and 0.78 mm thick, respectively.
Also of note, the “1 lb. of copper,” “1 lb. of silver,” and “1 lb. of gold” entries on the Trade Goods table are specifically corrected to 20 sp, 100 sp, and 1000 sp, respectively, while the “1 lb. of platinum” entry is removed.