Firbolg (continued)

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Speech of Beast and Leaf. You have the ability to communicate in a limited manner with beasts and plants. They can understand the meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return. You have advantage on all Charisma checks you make to influence them.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, and Giant.

Softened Descent. As you fall, you may use your reaction to make clouds materialize beneath you, slowing your descent. You fall at a rate of 120 feet per round and have resistance to falling damage for 1 minute.

Nimbus Resistant. Cloudborn Goliaths can withstand a thunderstorm while inside the cloud itself. You have resistance to thunder damage.

Flexible Build System

The concept behind the flexible build system is quite simple actually. First, you will determine your base race. This will determine it's favored ability score, along with any core physical traits they have. Afterwards, you will then assign your Ability Score Increase, and then use RP points to "purchase" additional traits.

Make sure to always check it in with me with your new race for approval and for any tweaks.

Armor Training (0.5 RP)

You gain proficiency in light, medium, or heavy armor, or shields.

You may take this trait more than once, each time selecting a different proficiency.

Boulder Toss (0.5 RP)

If you make an improvised ranged weapon attack with a stone you can lift, you may add your proficiency bonus to that attack. Use your Strength modifier instead of Dexterity for ranged attacks and damage when attacking with a stone. Use the following table to determine how far you can throw a stone, and the damage it deals. You can wield stones up to 50 lbs. with one hand-- this increases to 150 lbs. at 8th level.

Bound Footing (0.5 RP)

While standing, if you would be pushed or pulled, you may instead move 10 fewer feet in the direction you were being moved.

In addition, while standing you have advantage on saving throws against being knocked prone, pushed, or pulled.

Brave (0.5 RP)

You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Breath Weapon (1 RP)

You can use your bonus action to exhale destructive energy. This produces a 5 by 30 foot line or a 15 foot cone, your choice. The type of damage dealt may be any one of the following: acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison. The choices you make must be done at character creation, and cannot be changed later on.

When you use your breath weapon, each creature in the area of the exhalation must make a Dexterity saving throw (or Constitution if your breath weapon deals poison or cold damage). The DC for this saving throw equals 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. A creature takes 2d6 damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increases to 3d6 at 6th level, 4d6 at 11th level, and 5d6 at 16th level.

After you use your breath weapon, you can’t use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Cantrip (0.5 RP)

You know one cantrip of your choice from a spell list of your choice. Your spellcasting ability for it is the same as that class' spellacsting ability.

Cunning (2 RP)

You have advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws against magic.

Darkvision (0.5)

You have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.

Damage Resistance (0.5 RP)

You have resistance to one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, poison, psychic, radiant, thunder.

You may take this trait up to two times.

Damage Vulnerability (-1 RP)

You have vulnerability to one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, poison, psychic, radiant, thunder.

You may take this trait up to two times.

Durability (1 RP)

If an enemy within 5 feet of you hits you with a melee attack and you take damage, you can use your reaction to reduce the damage by a number equal to your Constitution Modifier and reduce the enemy's movement speed by half until the end of their next turn. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum 1) per long rest.

Earth Dream (0.5 RP)

Once per day, when you take a long rest in a natural environment, you can enter a trance-like state where the earth speaks to you through your dreams. This feature doesn't function where nature has been replaced by construction, such as in dungeons and towns.

At the end of your rest, you instantly gain knowledge of one fact of your choice about one of the following subjects as it relates to the area within 500 feet of you: terrain and bodies of water; prevalent plants, minerals, animals, or peoples; or buildings

Endurance (0.5 RP)

When you take damage, you can use your reaction to roll a dl2. Add your Constitution modifier to the number rolled, and reduce the damage by that total. After you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest

Ethereal Sight (0.5 RP)

You can use your bonus action to enter a state that allows you to see into the Ethereal plane for 30 feet around you. You can easily differentiate the Ethereal and Materialplanes, as objects and creatures on the ethereal plane appear translucent. This benefit lasts until you end the effect as a bonus action, or until you are incapacitated.

Extra Language (0.5 RP)

You can speak, read, and write one extra language of your choice.

Extra Movement (0.5 RP)

Your base walking speed increases by 5 feet, you gain a climbing speed of 20 feet, or you gain a swimming speed of 30 feet.

This trait may be taken multiple times, each time selecting a new effect.

Feat (4 RP)

You gain one feat of your choice.

Fey Ancestry (0.5 RP)

You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Healing Hands (0.5 RP)

As an action, you may touch a creature and cause it to regain hit points equal to your level. Once you use this trait you must finish a long rest before you can use it again

Hearty Meal (0.5 RP)

You gain proficiency with cook’s utensils. During a long rest, you can prepare and serve a meal that helps you and your allies recover from the rigors of adventuring, provided you have suitable food, cook’s utensils, and other supplies on hand. The meal serves up to six people, and each person who eats it gains 2 temporary hit points at the end of the long rest. In addition, those who partake of the meal have advantage on Constitution saving throws against disease for the next 24 hours.

Hidden Step (0.5 RP)

As a bonus action, you can magically turn invisible until the start of your next turn or until you attack, make a damage roll, or force someone to make a saving throw. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Honed Shooter (0.5 RP)

Choose two simple ranged weapons, or weapons with the thrown property. Attacking at long range with those weapons does not impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls.

Hungry Jaw (0.5 RP)

As a bonus action, you can make a special attack with your Natural Weapon (provided it is a "bite" weapon). If the attack hits, it deals its normal damage, and you gain temporary hit points (minimum of 1) equal to your Constitution modifier, and you can't use this trait again until you finish a short or long rest.

Hunter's Pride (0.5 RP)

When a friendly creature you can see scores a critical hit with a weapon attack, you have advantage on all attack rolls you make against that target on your next turn.

Inborn Prowess (0.5 RP)

Many humans are trained to excel in one role. Choose one of your skill proficiencies and one of your proficiencies with a set of tools or an instrument. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies. The skill or tool you choose must be one that is not already benefiting from a feature, such as Expertise, that doubles your proficiency bonus.

Innate Magic (1 RP)

You know one cantrip of your choice. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast a level 1 spell of your choice once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast a level 2 spell of your choice once with this trait and regain the ability to do

so when you finish a long rest. Each spell must be from the same spell list. Your spellcasting ability is the same as that class' spellcasting ability, or your race's favored ability.

Spells must be chosen during character creation, and cannot be changed later on.

Lessened Speed (-0.5 RP)

Your base walking speed decreases by 5 feet.

You may take this trait up to two times.

Lightning Strike (1 RP)

If a creature within 30 feet of you hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to strike at them with a bolt of lightning. The creature must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save the creature takes damage equal to 1d6 + your Wisdom modifier, or half as much on a successful save. The creature has disadvantage on the save if it is wearing metal armor. You can use this trait a number of times equal to 1 + your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1) per long rest.

Lucky (0.5 RP)

When you roll a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can re-roll the die and must use the new roll.

Magic Strike (0.5 RP)

Whenever you make a melee attack, as a bonus action you can use one cantrip of your choice, granted by your race, against the target of your melee attack.

Natural Armor (0.5 RP)

You have a natural armor bonus of +1. When unarmored, your AC is equal to 10 + your natural armor bonus + your dexterity modifier.

You may take this trait up to 4 times. Each bonus stacks, up to a maximum of a +4 bonus.

Naturally Stealthy (1 RP)

You can attempt to hide even when you are obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger than you.

Natural Weapon (0.5 RP)

You are proficient with your unarmed strikes, which deal 1d4 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage on a hit. You must choose the damage type at the beginning of character creation.

Natural Weapon, Improved (1 RP)

You are proficient with your unarmed strikes, which deal 1d6 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage on a hit. You must choose the damage type at the beginning of character creation.

Necrotic Shroud (1 RP)

Starting at 3rd level, you can use your action to unleash the divine energy within yourself, causing your eyes to turn into pools of darkness and two skeletal, ghostly, flightless wings to sprout from your back. The instant you transform, other creatures within 10 feet of you that can see you must each succeed on a charisma saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Your transformation lasts for 1 minute or until you end it as a bonus action. During it, once on each your your turns, you can deal extra necrotic damage to one target when you deal damage with an attack or a spell. The extra necrotic damage equals your level.

Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Nimble (0.5 RP)

You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours.

One with Nature (0.5 RP)

Whenever you make an Intelligence (Nature) check related to the identification of plants or animals, you are considered proficient in the Nature skill and add double your proficiency bonus to the check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus.

Poison Resilience (0.5 RP)

You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance against poison damage.

Pounce (0.5 RP)

As an action, you can move up to your speed toward a hostile creature of your choice that you can see or hear and make one unarmed strike against it. If this attack hits, the target is knocked prone, and you may use your bonus action to grapple the target.

Powerful Build (0.5 RP)

You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Predict Weather (0.5 RP)

Once per day you can create a tiny, harmless sensory effect that predicts what the weather will be at your location for the next 24 hours. This effect persists for 1 round.

Radiant Consumption (1 RP)

Starting at 3rd level, you can use your action to unleash the divine energy within yourself, causing a searing light to radiate from you, pour out of your eyes and mouth, and threaten to char you.

Your transformation lasts for one minute or until you end it as a bonus action. During it, you shed bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet, and at the end of each of your turns, you and each creature within 10 feet of you take radiant damage equal to half your level (rounded up). In addition, once on each of your turns, you can deal extra radiant damage to one target when you deal damage to it with an attack or spell. The radiant damage equals your level.

Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Radiant Soul (1 RP)

Starting at 3rd level, you can use your action to unleash the divine energy within yourself, causing your eyes to glimmer and two luminous, incorporeal wings to sprout from your back.

Your transformation lasts for 1 minute or until you end it as a bonus action. During it, you have a flying speed of 30 feet, and once on each your your turns, you can deal extra radiant damage to one target when you deal damage with an attack or a spell. The extra radiant damage equals your level.

Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Relentless Endurance (1 RP)

When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Resilient (1 RP)

You gain a +1 bonus to each of your saving throws.

Return Damage (1 RP)

Choose one energy damage type of your choice. When you take this damage you may use your reaction to absorb some of its elemental essence. You gain resistance to this damage until the end of your next turn. Also, your next melee weapon attack deals 1d6 additional damage on hit (the type being the one selected). You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1) per long rest.

Roar (0.5 RP)

As an action, you can make an Intimidation check to unleash a mighty roar to strike fear into your enemies' hearts. Each hostile creature within 15 feet of you that can hear you must make a Wisdom saving throw, using the Intimidation roll as the DC . On a failed save, a creature is frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can do so again.

Savage Attacks (0.5 RP)

When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon’s damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit.

Skill Proficiency (0.5 RP)

You have proficiency in one skill of your choice.

This trait may be taken up to three times.

Slick Skin (0.5 RP)

If you are wearing a salve for insect repellent or at least 1/10 of a flask of oil, and you are not wearing armor, you have advantage on attempts to escape a grapple.

In addition, you can use your action to make a DC 15 sleight of hand check to escape from nonmagical restraints, such as manacles or a rope bound around your limbs.

Softened Descent (0.5 RP)

As you fall, you may use your reaction to make clouds materialize beneath you, slowing your descent. You fall at a rate of 120 feet per round and have resistance to falling damage for 1 minute.

Speak with Small Beasts (0.5 RP)

Through sounds and gestures, you can communicate simple ideas with Small or smaller beasts.

Speech of Beast and Leaf (0.5 RP)

You have the ability to communicate in a limited manner with beasts and plants. They can understand the meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return. You have advantage on all Charisma checks you make to influence them.

Stable Walk (0.5 RP)

You can move across difficult terrain made of earth, ice, or other material of your choice without expending extra movement.

Stone Camouflage (0.5 RP)

You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in rocky terrain.

Stonecutting (0.5 RP)

Whenever you make an Intelligence (History) check related to the origin of stonework, you are considered proficient in the History skill and add double your proficiency bonus to the check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus.

Storming Weapon (1 RP)

If at least one of your hands is free you can use your action to create a weapon made of wind or lightning, it lasts 1 minute or until you dismiss it as a bonus action. You are proficient when using these weapons. You may use your Wisdom modifier for your attacks with these weapons. These weapons do not count as magic weapons for purposes of overcoming resistance. A weapon created using this feature cannot be wielded by another creature and disappates into mist when a creature tries to do so.

Once you create a weapon with this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Lightning Sword - Versatile, deals 1d8 / 1d10 + your Wisdom modifier lightning damage on hit.

Wind Javelin – Light, thrown (60/120), deals 1d6 + your Wisdom modifier thunder damage on hit.

Superior Darkvision (0.5 RP)

Your darkvision has a radius of 120 feet.

Sunlight Sensitivity (-0.5 RP)

You have disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.

Swift (0.5 RP)

Whenever you use your action to take the Dash action, your speed increases by 10 feet until end of turn.

Tool Proficiency (0.5 RP)

You gain proficiency with one set of artisan's tools or one instrument of your choice.

This trait may be taken up to three times.

Toughened Resilience (0.5 RP)

You have advantage on saving throws against disease.

Toughness (1.5 RP)

Your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a level.

Toughness, Lesser (0.5 RP)

Your hit point maximum increases by half your level (minimum of 1).

Trance (0.5 RP)

You don’t need to sleep. Instead, you meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.

Unclouded Vision (0.5 RP)

You can see through an area covered in fog or mist as though it were only lightly obscured, provided that the mist is natural or originates from a spell you are casting.

Universal Digestion (0.5 RP)

You may also consume most items as though they were food. You can eat 1lb of items per round. For every 4lbs of items you eat, you gain the effects of having eaten 1lb of food and must make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw to not become poisoned until you finish a long rest. You cannot digest magic items.

Weapon Training (0.5 RP)

You have proficiency with 4 weapons of your choice (at least one must be a simple weapon).

Weightless Step (0.5 RP)

While you are hidden your footsteps make no noise. In addition traps whose triggers are pressure or weight activated do not activate if you cross them at half your base speed or slower.

Whatever's at Hand (0.5 RP)

ou have Proficiency with improvised weapons, and your damage die when striking with an improvised weapon becomes a d6, instead of a d4.

Wilderness Tracker (0.5 RP)

You gain proficiency in the Nature and Survival skills. You have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks made to track a creature in forest, grassland, hill or jungle terrain.

Wolf Shape (1 RP)

You can use your action to polymorph into a medium wolf, or back into your true form. Your statistics are the same in each form, except your wolf form’s AC is equal to 10 + your Dexterity modifier. Any equipment you are wearing or carrying transforms with you, becoming part of your wolf form, and your corpse transforms back into your true form if you die while in your wolf shape. You cannot speak or cast spells while transformed.

While transformed, your sharp teeth become a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with your bite you deal 2d4 piercing damage and if the target is large or smaller you can use your bonus action to force the creature to make a Dexterity saving throw or fall prone. The DC for this saving throw equals 8 + your Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus. The damage of your bite increases to 2d6 at 11th level.

Acceptable Classes

Barbarian

Bard

Cleric

Fighter

Martial Archetype: Battle Master

Monk

Ki

Starting at 2nd level, your training allows you to harness the mystic energy of ki. Your access to this energy is represented by a number of ki points equal to your level + your Wisdom modifier.

Monastic Tradition: Four Elements

Paladin

Your blessed touch can heal wounds. You have a pool of Healing power that replenishes when you take a Long Rest. With that pool, you can restore a total number of Hit Points equal to your Paladin level x 5.

As an action, you can touch a creature and draw power from the pool to restore a number of Hit Points to that creature, up to the maximum amount remaining in your pool.

Alternatively, you can expend 5 Hit Points from your pool of Healing to cure the target of one disease or neutralize one

poison affecting it. Or 10 points from your pool of Healing to remove a level of Exhaustion from the target. You can cure multiple Diseases and neutralize multiple Poisons with a single use of Lay on Hands, expending Hit Points separately for each one.

This feature has no Effect on Undead and Constructs.

Rogue

Sorcerer

Warlock

Pact of the Talisman

Your patron gives you a special amulet, a talisman that can acts as a conduit for your eldritch power. You can cast any of your known warlock spells through your talisman, and your talisman serves as an arcane focus. Whenever you cast a spell through it, the spell's range is determined from its location instead of your own. You can target the spell's effects

as normal if the target is within your line of sight. Otherwise, any spell cast through your talisman without any targets within your line of sight will be unguided, and will instead be cast at a valid target or area nearest to the talisman following the spell's behaviour, or at the DM's discretion. If an unguided spell has no valid targets, the spell is wasted.

In addition, you can use this talisman to aid you, or anyone else who wears it, when the need is great. When the wearer makes an ability check with a skill in which they lack proficiency, they can add a d4 to the roll.

You can summon this talisman back to your hand as a bonus action. You always know the distance and direction between you and your talisman.

Other Rules

Personality and Backgrounds

Perhaps the most important part of creating your character is not only determining what they are or what they do as a living, but who they are. However, that is not entirely what this section is for. For that however, I would recommend the This is Your Life sections of Xanathar's Guide to Everything for newer players, or for those who just want something quick and simple. For aid in roleplaying these characters, p. 49 of Grit and Glory has a useful tool called the Personality Profile that may be used as well.

Anyways, this section instead includes rules and features that may be used in my adventures to make things a little more interesting, as they stem off your character's background and previous/current life. Please look through this, as it also includes rules for the final piece of character creation: backgrounds.