Avians - Kenku
Description
Feathered folk who resemble birds, avians come in three types, the common avians who specialize in intelligent activities, predatory avians who are the main defenders of their settlements, and uncommon avians who specialize is mimicing human activities, but nonetheless both are blessed with keen observation and accurate memories.
Common Avians
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.
Age. Avians have shorter lifespans than humans. They reach maturity at about 12 years old and can live to 60.
Alignment. Avians are chaotic creatures, rarely making enduring commitments, and they care mostly for preserving their own lives. They are generally chaotic neutral in life.
Size. Avians are around 5 feet tall and weigh between 90 and 120 pounds. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Expert Forgery. You can duplicate other creatures' handwriting and craftwork. You have advantage on all checks made to produce forgeries or duplicates of existing objects.
Avian Training. You are proficient in your choice of two of the following skills: Acrobatics, Deception, Stealth, and Sleight of Hand.
Mimicry. You can mimic sounds you have heard, including voices. A creature that hears the sounds you make can tell they are imitations with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check opposed by your Charisma (Deception) check.
Languages. You can speak, read and write Avian and the Common Tongue.
Predatory Avians
Description
Avians have humanlike bodies, arms, and legs, along with birdlike wings and heads. Two distinct varieties of Avians are found in Eldoria. One has the head of a hawk or similar bird of prey, with short wings allowing for fast flight. The other variety has the head of an ibis atop a long neck, with wide, angular wings better suited to soaring. All aven have lean bodies with feathers extending from their heads down to their shoulders.
Avians delight in flying above their foes, using their superior mobility to confound and outpace their opponents.
Features
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2.
Age. Like humans, aven reach adulthood in their late teens and can theoretically live into their 80s. Of course, most find a glorious (or inglorious) death long before that point.
Alignment. Most aven lean toward some form of neutrality. Ibis-headed aven, focused more on knowledge than any other virtue, are usually neutral. Hawk-headed aven are inclined toward lawful neutral.
Size. Aven stand from 5 to 6 feet tall, but their bodies are slender and their bones are partially hollow to facilitate their flight. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet. You have a flying speed of 30 feet. You can’t use your flying speed while you wear medium or heavy armor. (If your campaign uses the variant rule for encumbrance, you can’t use your flying speed if you are encumbered.)
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Aven.
Plane Shift - Amonkhet
Common Aven
A majority of ibis-headed aven, drawn to the teachings of Kefnet, specialize in spellcasting. They take great pride in all the qualities they share with the god of knowledge—not just their avian heads, but their quick wit, self-confidence, cunning, and spellcasting prowess.
Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.
Bird Brained. You can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any Intelligence check you make that doesn’t already include your proficiency bonus.
Predatory Aven
Description Following the example of Oketra, hawkheaded aven often focus on the techniques of long-range combat. Most prefer javelins, but some are skilled with bows, spears, and throwing axes.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2.
Hawkeyed. You are trained in the Perception skill. In addition, attacking at long range doesn’t impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls.
Uncommon Avians
Ability Score Increase. When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. You can't raise any of your scores above 20.
Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.
Size. Your size is Medium or Small. You choose the size when you select this race.
Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet, You have a flying speed of 15feet, and a gliding speed of 30feet.
Expert Duplicator. When you copy writing or craftwork produced by yourself or someone else, you have advantage on any ability checks you make to produce an exact duplicate.
Avian Recall. Thanks to your supernaturally good memory, you have proficiency in two knowledge based skills of your choice.
Moreover, when you make an ability check using any skill in which you are trained, you can give yourself advantage on the check before rolling the d20. You can give yourself advantage in this way a number of times equal to your highest trained skill, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Mimicry. You can accurately mimic sounds you have heard, including voices. A creature that hears the sounds you make can tell they are imitations only with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check against a DC of 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier.
Languages. Your character can speak, read, and write Avian and the Common Tongue.
Feathered folk who resemble birds, avians come in three types, the common avians who specialize in intelligent activities, predatory avians who are the main defenders of their settlements, and uncommon avians who specialize is mimicing human activities, but nonetheless both are blessed with keen observation and accurate memories.
Common Avians
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.
Age. Avians have shorter lifespans than humans. They reach maturity at about 12 years old and can live to 60.
Alignment. Avians are chaotic creatures, rarely making enduring commitments, and they care mostly for preserving their own lives. They are generally chaotic neutral in life.
Size. Avians are around 5 feet tall and weigh between 90 and 120 pounds. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Expert Forgery. You can duplicate other creatures' handwriting and craftwork. You have advantage on all checks made to produce forgeries or duplicates of existing objects.
Avian Training. You are proficient in your choice of two of the following skills: Acrobatics, Deception, Stealth, and Sleight of Hand.
Mimicry. You can mimic sounds you have heard, including voices. A creature that hears the sounds you make can tell they are imitations with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check opposed by your Charisma (Deception) check.
Languages. You can speak, read and write Avian and the Common Tongue.
Predatory Avians
Description
Avians have humanlike bodies, arms, and legs, along with birdlike wings and heads. Two distinct varieties of Avians are found in Eldoria. One has the head of a hawk or similar bird of prey, with short wings allowing for fast flight. The other variety has the head of an ibis atop a long neck, with wide, angular wings better suited to soaring. All aven have lean bodies with feathers extending from their heads down to their shoulders.
Avians delight in flying above their foes, using their superior mobility to confound and outpace their opponents.
Features
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2.
Age. Like humans, aven reach adulthood in their late teens and can theoretically live into their 80s. Of course, most find a glorious (or inglorious) death long before that point.
Alignment. Most aven lean toward some form of neutrality. Ibis-headed aven, focused more on knowledge than any other virtue, are usually neutral. Hawk-headed aven are inclined toward lawful neutral.
Size. Aven stand from 5 to 6 feet tall, but their bodies are slender and their bones are partially hollow to facilitate their flight. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet. You have a flying speed of 30 feet. You can’t use your flying speed while you wear medium or heavy armor. (If your campaign uses the variant rule for encumbrance, you can’t use your flying speed if you are encumbered.)
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Aven.
Plane Shift - Amonkhet
Common Aven
A majority of ibis-headed aven, drawn to the teachings of Kefnet, specialize in spellcasting. They take great pride in all the qualities they share with the god of knowledge—not just their avian heads, but their quick wit, self-confidence, cunning, and spellcasting prowess.
Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.
Bird Brained. You can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any Intelligence check you make that doesn’t already include your proficiency bonus.
Predatory Aven
Description Following the example of Oketra, hawkheaded aven often focus on the techniques of long-range combat. Most prefer javelins, but some are skilled with bows, spears, and throwing axes.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2.
Hawkeyed. You are trained in the Perception skill. In addition, attacking at long range doesn’t impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls.
Uncommon Avians
Ability Score Increase. When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. You can't raise any of your scores above 20.
Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.
Size. Your size is Medium or Small. You choose the size when you select this race.
Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet, You have a flying speed of 15feet, and a gliding speed of 30feet.
Expert Duplicator. When you copy writing or craftwork produced by yourself or someone else, you have advantage on any ability checks you make to produce an exact duplicate.
Avian Recall. Thanks to your supernaturally good memory, you have proficiency in two knowledge based skills of your choice.
Moreover, when you make an ability check using any skill in which you are trained, you can give yourself advantage on the check before rolling the d20. You can give yourself advantage in this way a number of times equal to your highest trained skill, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Mimicry. You can accurately mimic sounds you have heard, including voices. A creature that hears the sounds you make can tell they are imitations only with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check against a DC of 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier.
Languages. Your character can speak, read, and write Avian and the Common Tongue.
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