Niblins V1.2

Niblins are distinct subset of goblinoid, though they can be born among common goblin tribes, born either through inbreeding, mutation, or magical means, Niblins are the smaller and much more dumb and agitating relatives of common goblins

Often being dumber than a normal goblin and much more irritating. They sport an overgrown balloon like, almost football shaped head. Much smaller than an ordinary goblin, niblins are born with large mouths and bad tempers. Treated even by goblins as goblins are by larger humanoids, niblins tend to gravitate towards each other and form tribes. Despitea small stature, low intelligence, they have proven to be quite nimble and quite adaptable.

Society and habitat

Niblins tend to die fast and breed even faster, not living for more than a two decades at most, its more common to see them die before their natural life span. Female Niblins are outnumbered by their male counterparts almost 5 to 1, and they tend to birth a large amount of young, numbering close to 5 or 6 and raising them communally in pens or cages as they come out near self sufficient and and more akin to pets rather than babies, quite often though much less than half of the litter make it to maturity. Niblins don't often build their own homes; though when they do, it tends to be a mix of pilfered materials and stolen objects, often settling in abandoned areas, and swamps and bogs, but its not uncommon to see them in other environments so long as they live close to places where food or animals are abundant. They tend to scavenge for most of their food, sometimes sharing a hunter/hunter relationship with larger prey depending on the environment they live in, the most common creatures that tend to favor niblin flesh are wild boars, wolves and other carnivorous animals. Niblins gather in tribes of up to a few dozen, following a chieftain and sub-chiefs who are either toughest individuals in the group or the longest lived. Successful niblin tribes will keep numerous mounts in their settlements, typically wolves and worgs, but never horses as they are much too large, and have an odd innate fear of Niblins, normally kicking them in the head or trampling them as they approach.

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Inspired by 1d6Adventure's Niblin and Pathfinder's goblin but not really a goblin, its more like a gremlin, but ok if you say so its a goblin

5e Player Race made by /u/Cipath

Niblin Quirks

All Niblin have 2 of the following traits.

Cowardly Nature. You wouldn't describe yourself as gutless, but seeing as how often you run, you might be. When you are at on quarter health or lower you gain the benefit of the dash action while disengaging.

Ambusher. Like some others of you're kind, you're the kind to skulk about, You are proficient with the stealth skill.

Big Ears. While Niblin have large ears, yours are particularly large, granting you advantage on perception checks to hear things, and proficiency with the perception skill

Darkvision. Accustomed to life underground, you gain darkvision out to 60ft.

Cave Crawler. You gain a climb speed equal to half of your movement speed, and gain proficiency with the acrobatics skill.

Spelunker. You are exceptional at squeezing through narrow passages and other tight spaces. You suffer no movement penalty from crawling, and, if you were standing when you began your turn, standing back up costs no movement.

Excitable. When you reduce a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on your turn, you can take a bonus action to move up to half your movement towards another hostile entity.

Filthy Maw. Upon making a bite attack, whoever you bit must make a con saving throw or be poisoned by your unclean filthy mouth, dealing 1d8 poison damage. The DC is equal to 8 + Constitution Modifier + Proficiency bonus, on a successful save they take half as much damage from your disgusting saliva, and on a failure they take full damage. Once you use this feature you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Lock Jaw. Your jaws are akin to a bear trap, dealing an additional 1 piercing damage and making you hard to pull free, impeding the movement of those you clamp down on. As a bonus action when biting a creature one size larger you may choose to stay clamped down on them reducing their movement by half. When Clamped down, if one tries to pry you off it acts as a contested strength roll.

Just a taste. Upon using your bite attack on an enemy, you may also choose to tear a chunk of meat out of them as a bonus action, not only disfiguring and scarring them, it deals an additional 1d4 bleeding damage which repeats on their next 3 turns, unless they use their action to attempt to stop the bleeding by passing a medicine check, equal to 8 + your strength modifier + Proficiency Bonus.

Cannibalism. Among your tribe you do so savor the flesh of sentient beings, you may ravenously eat a fallen sapient foe as a full action so long as its been dead for less than 2 hours, when eating their flesh you regain hp equal to a roll of one of your hit die + your con modifier. After using this feature you may not use it again until you complete a long rest.

Carrion Devourer. You have advantage on Constitution saving throws to resist diseases, poisons, and the adverse effects of eating food of inferior quality, such as carcasses or rotten fruit. Also if you have the cannibalism trait, it works on bodies that have been dead for no longer than a week.

Mount Tamer. You gain proficiency with whips, nets and the Animal Handling Skill.

Friend to Frogs. Through sounds and gestures you are able to communicate simple ideas with amphibians such as newts, frogs, toads, and salamanders. When making animal handling checks with amphibian beasts, you do so with advantage. Additionally you gain a small amphibian as a pet when you take this trait.

Copy Cat. When seeing another creature that has proficiency performing a skill, or using a tool or weapon, you attempt to mimic their own actions and gain proficiency with said thing for 8 hours. You may only use this trait once a day.

Flexible Mind. You're vision is outwards while your brethren are more concerned with eating and murdering, you gain proficiency in a tool set, and an intelligence or charisma skill of your choice.

Devout. Knocking around in your football head is knowledge of dark and evil entities that are subjects of worship among your kind and others, you gain proficiency in the Religion or History skill. When using these skills in relation to dark entities and deities you do so with double your proficiency bonus.

Trickster. You have proficiency in the Deception and Persuasion skills. You know another language of your choice.