Tabaxi
Tabaxi
Hailing from a strange and distant land, wandering Tabaxi are catlike humanoids driven by curiosity to collect interesting artifacts, gather tales and stories, and lay eyes on all the world's wonders. Ultimate travelers, the inquisitive Tabaxi rarely stay in one place for long unless it is their homeland, where all their treasures build in vast collections. Their innate nature pushes them to leave no secrets uncovered, no treasures or legends lost. The Tabaxi will be damned before they are known as anything but the most knowledgeable in all the world.
ability score increase:
Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1.
age:
Tabaxi reach adulthood in their late teens and live less than a century.
Size:
Medium
speed:
30 ft
Languages:
Common, +1
race features:
- Darkvision: You have a cat's keen senses, especially in the dark. 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.
- Feline Agility: Your reflexes and agility allow you to move with a burst of speed. When you move on your turn in combat, you can double your speed until the end of the turn. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you move 0 feet on one of your turns.
- Cat's Claws: Because of your claws, you have a climbing speed of 20 feet. In addition, your claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
- Cat's Talent: You have proficiency in the Perception and Stealth skills.
Tabaxi are taller than most humans, standing at six to seven feet. Their bodies are slender and covered in spotted or striped fur. Like most felines, Tabaxi have long tails and retractable claws. Tabaxi fur color ranges from light yellow to brownish red. Tabaxi eyes are slit-pupilled and usually green or yellow. Tabaxi are competent swimmers and climbers as well as speedy runners. They have a good sense of balance and an acute sense of smell.
Tabaxi are a reclusive people who often avoid interaction with other intelligent races. However, as each Tabaxi possesses a specific feline trait, some had an innate curiosity that compelled them to travel and seek out stories, artifacts, new experiences and knowledge, never remaining in the same place or obsessing over the same piece of lore for too long.
In general, Tabaxi do not care for wealth, but they have an almost obsessive interest in ancient artifacts, relics and magic items, but not for the items themselves, as much as the stories and secrets they held. Once an item has been thoroughly examined and studied, and its secrets revealed, it would lose its allure and the Tabaxi usually quickly loses interest and passes it on.
The Tabaxi hail from the ancient Luswere, and even after Kadamitas have remained attached to their birthlands, coming to establish the great empire of Felesvollr.
