Yordle (3.5e Race)

Yordles

Personality

Yordles live in large yordle communities and enjoy social interactions. Generally friendly and peaceful, yordles are most often good or neutral. They are known for their love of revelry and pranks as much as gnomes but they are heavily dependent on the healthy relationships with others to maintain their goodhearted nature. A yordle that has had little or no social interaction over a long period of time may become evil. Such yordles rarely enjoy company and are most often found exiled from their communities.

Physical Description

Yordles range in size from 2 to 3 feet in height. Yordles can have smooth, slightly furry, or significantly furry skin. Their skin tone can be of almost any shade but generally tends towards light blue and purple. Eye color ranges from blues, grays and greens to dark brown and hazel.

Relations

Generally jovial, yordles enjoy the company of most other races.

Alignment

Most yordles desire social interaction and maintain a good or neutral alignment. A yordle that has gone too long without social activities will occassionally become evil, but this is a rare case at most.

Lands

Yordles live almost exclusively in their own cities and communities. The few that travel away from their homes are, in general, most likely to take up residence in larger cities with other yordles.

Religion

Yordles practice no specific religion but tend to frequent deities of good and neutral alignments.

Language

All yordles learn Common and Yordle. Being socially active creatures, yordles will pick up languages from other races they interact with.

Racial Traits

• +2 Charisma and -2 Strength. Yordles are generally frail but very endearing.
• Humanoid: Yordles closely resemble humans.
• Small size: +1 bonus to Armor Class, +1 bonus on attack rolls, +4 bonus on Hide checks, -4 penalty on grapple checks, lifting and carrying limits 3/4 those of Medium characters.
• Yordles are very energetic and have a base land speed of 30 feet.
• Low-light Vision: Yordles can see twice as far as a human in poor illumination such as moonlight.
• They gain +4 dodge to Armor Class whenever they are fighting creatures of the giant type. Most yordles are trained to avoid a giant's attack.
• +2 Listen. Yordles have very keen hearing.
• Socially aware: Yordles are very socially active creatures and gain +2 to Diplomacy, Gather Information and Sense Motive.
• Yordles take -2 racial penalty to Intimidate, Bluff and Disguise. They are notably less evasive and frightening than other races.
• Automatic Languages: Common, Yordle. Bonus Languages: any.
• Favored Class: any

Vital Statistics

Table: Yordle Random Starting Ages

Adulthood	Simple	Moderate	Complex
15 years	+4d4	+6d4	+9d4

Table: Yordle Aging Effects

Middle Age1	Old2	Venerable3	Maximum Age
90 years	130 years	160 years	+4d% years
At middle age, −1 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha. At old age, −2 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha. At venerable age, −3 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha.

Table: Yordle Random Height and Weight

Gender	Base Height	Height Modifier	Base Weight	Weight Modifier
Male	2'0"	+1d12	25 lb.	× (1) lb.
Female	2'0"	+1d12	25 lb.	× (1) lb.

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