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5e Racial Stats
- Ability Score Racial Traits: A bugbear increases their Strength score by 2, and increases one other ability score of your choice by 1.
- Type: Bugbears are humanoids with the goblinoid subtype.
- Size: Bugbears are medium.
- Speed: Bugbears have a base speed of 30ft.
- Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common and Goblin.
Darkvision (x)
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.
Long-Limbed (2)
When you make a melee attack on your turn, your reach for it is 5 feet greater than normal.
Powerful Build (1)
You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.
Sneaky (1)
You are proficient in the Stealth skill.
Surprise Attack (2)
If you surprise a creature and hit it with an attack on your first turn in combat, the attack deals an extra 2d6 damage to it. You can use this trait only once per combat.
Sub Races
Kardan
Kardans are the most common species of Bugbear, most bearing dark gray to deep brown or black fur, they are by far the stealthiest of their kin, possessing the vexing ability to transform themselves, albeit for a limited time into something mundane or perhaps worst of all, taking on the likeness of the loved ones that they hunt.
- Ability Score Racial Traits: Your Dexterity score is increased by 1.
- Morph Visage (2): As an action, the kardan can take on the form of an object of a size no larger than their own size category and no smaller than one size category smaller than themselves; the object must be mundane, simple in make, and the most basic of materials used. They can remain in this form for up to an hour. Alternatively, the kardan can cast the spell Disguise Self on themselves. Either way, this ability is treated as a 1st level illusion spell and can be used once, regaining its use after taking a long rest. Intelligence is the kardans casting ability score for this ability.
Koblak
These stillborn bugbears have passed unto the afterlife for but the briefest of moments before with a sudden wheeze they take on the first gasp of air that signals life. The koblaks are often viewed as cursed, or even monstrous by their kin, shunned into exile, or worse. They have pitch black eyes which are larger than the others of their kind and their fur is often a ghostly shade of white, though some still maintain semblances of their kins original fur tones. These beings are hardy, and unlike their kin find the ravages of time to turn a blind eye towards them.
- Ability Score Racial Traits: One ability score of your choice, other than Strength, is increased by 1.
- Languages: The koblak can speak, read, and write Necril.
- Fear Feeder (2): Whenever you would hit a creature that is suffering from a fear-based condition, you deal an additional 1d4 points of damage against that creature.
- Deathless Nature (x): You are considered both humanoid and undead for the purposes of detection and negative effects relating to creature type, the only exception to this would be resurrection spells, though the DC to resurrect you is increased by four. Additionally:
- You don’t need to breathe, and you are healed by leveled spells that deal Necrotic damage as if the damage were healing, however, because of your connection to death, you are vulnerable to Radiant damage.
- You have advantage on saving throws against disease and being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage. You have advantage on death saving throws.
- Your age categories are all doubled; however, you cannot die of old age.
- Healing spells that do not function against undead, instead heal you for half the normal amount of healing.
- Necrotic damage leveled-spells that heal you cannot critically hit against you.
Murd
The murds are the swampy cousins of the common kardan, often caking their fur with mud to hide the ruddy reds and vibrant blonde fur that they normally bear while hunting within their homelands. They dye their in tribal patterns as decreed by the clans shaman to herald their purpose in life, often leaving these spots clean of mud for their purpose to remain true without anything blocking their path forward.
- Ability Score Racial Traits: Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
- Swamp Traveler (2): You are proficient in the Athletics skill, and treat naturally formed difficult terrain within a swampy terrain as one step less severe.
Wikkawak
The wikkawaks are albino bugbears, white of fur, with deep red, yellow, or pink eyes, they are known to hunt the icy landscapes and frozen tundras of the realm, prowling through the glaciers at night, and using their thickened coat of fur to avoid the harshest of cold, sleet-filled storms.
- Ability Score Racial Traits: Your Constitution score increases by 1.
- Cold Resistance (2): You gain resistance to cold damage.
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