Proficiency Swaps

Ainok Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Medium or Small (choose when you select this race).

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Bite. You can use your elongated fangs to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with then, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Bark. As a bonus action, you can bark and growl menacingly. Creatures of your choice within 10 feet of you that can hear you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against a DC of 8 + your Charisma modifier + your proficiency bonus or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Canine Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Pack Tactics. You have advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of your allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.

Angel Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Celestial.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Life Span. Angels don't age as other races do. You are immune to the effects of aging and can't be aged magically.

Healing Hands. As an action, you can touch a creature and roll a number of d4s equal to your proficiency bonus. The creature regains a number of hit points equal to the total rolled. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Flight. Because of your wings, you have a flying speed equal to your walking speed. You can't use this flying speed if you're wearing medium or heavy armor.

Aven Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Small or Medium (choose when you select this race).

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Beak and Talons. You have a pointed beak and sharp talons that you can use to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier piercing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Flight. Because of your wings, you have a flying speed equal to your walking speed. You can't use this flying speed if you're wearing medium or heavy armor.

Powerful Wings. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the gust of wind spell with this trait, without requiring a material component. Once you cast the spell with this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast the spell using any spell slots you have of 2nd level or higher.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for when you cast gust of wind with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Azra Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Azra Talents. You have proficiency in two of the following skills of your choice: Deception, Insight, or Persuasion.

Darkvision. 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 discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Merchant's Magic. You can cast the distort value* spell with this trait. Starting at 3rd level, you can also cast the glowing coin* spell with it. Starting at 5th level, you can also cast the incite greed* spell with it. Once you cast any of these spells with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast them using any spell slots you have of appropriate level.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

* These spells appear in Acquisitions Incorporated.

Bearfolk Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Keen Smell. You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that involve smell.

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

Teeth and Claws. You have a fanged maw and sharp claws that you can use to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier piercing or slashing damage (you choose when you make the attack), instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Tough. Your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 again whenever you gain a level.

Ursine Talents. You have proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Perception, Nature, or Survival.

Bullywug Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Small.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Amphibious. You can breathe air and water.

Bullywug Camouflage. You have proficiency in the Stealth skill. When you make a Dexterity (Stealth) check, you can make the check with advantage. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Extra Language. You can speak Bullywug. Bullywug sounds like the croaking of frogs and croaks.

Speak with Frogs and Toads You can communicate simple ideas to any frog or toad when you speak in Bullywug. It can understand your words, though you have no special ability to understand it in return. You have advantage on all Charisma checks you make to influence them.

Standing Leap. Your long jump is up to 25 feet and your high jump is up to 15 feet, with or without a running start.

Centaur Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Monstrosity.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 40 feet.

Charge. If you move at least 30 feet straight toward a target and then hit it with a melee weapon attack on the same turn, you can immediately follow that attack with a bonus action, making one attack against the target with your hooves.

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

In addition, any climb that requires hands and feet is especially difficult for you because of your equine legs. When you make such a climb, each foot of movement costs you 4 extra feet, instead of the normal 1 extra foot.

Hooves. You have hooves that you can use to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier bludgeoning damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Natural Affinity. You have proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Medicine, Nature, or Survival.

Chameleon Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.

Chameleon Eyes. You have a wide range of vision and can see in two directions at once. No creature within 5 feet of you can make an attack roll with advantage against you, unless you're blinded or incapacitated.

Chameleon Skin. As an action, you can change the color of your skin to match the color and texture of your surroundings, giving you advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in those surroundings.

Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Tongue. You have a long tongue that you can use to make unarmed strikes. Your reach for it is 5 feet greater than normal. When you hit with it, the strike deals its normal damage, and the target is pulled into an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you.

Chicken Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid. You are also considered an aven for any prerequisite or effect that requires you to be an aven.

Size. You are Small or Medium (choose when you select this race).

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Beak. You have a sharp beak that you can use to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with it, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier piercing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Early Bird. Magic can't put you to sleep.

Chicken Wings. When you fall at least 10 feet above the ground, you can use your reaction to flap your wings and slow your descent to 60 feet per round, and you take 0 damage from the fall.

Cluck Weapon. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with a directed sonic attack in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area that can hear you must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against a DC of 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus or take 1d10 thunder damage. This damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).

You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Devil Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Fiend. You are also considered a demon* for any prerequisite or effect that requires you to be a demon.

Size. You are Small.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. 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.

Hellish Resistance. You have resistance to fire damage.

Infernal Legacy. You know the produce flame cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the hellish rebuke and hideous laughter spells with this trait, without requiring material components. Starting at 5th level, you can also cast the mischief** spell with it. Once you cast any of these spells with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast these spells using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

* Demons and devils have their roles reversed between Magic: the Gathering lore and the lore for Dungeons & Dragons/the Forgotten Realms.

** The Nathair's mischief spell appears in Fizban's Treasury of Dragons.

Elf Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 35 feet.

Life Span. 750 years on average.

Cantrip. You know one cantrip of your choice from the wizard spell list. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for it (choose when you select this race).

Darkvision. 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.

Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed condition on yourself.

Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Trance. You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep. You can finish a long rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in a trancelike meditation, during which you retain consciousness.

Whenever you finish this trance, you can gain two proficiencies that you don't have, each one with a weapon or a tool of your choice selected from the Player's Handbook. You mystically acquire these proficiencies by drawing them from shared elven memory, and you retain them until you finish your next long rest.

Faerie Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Fey.

Size. You are Tiny.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Faerie Dust. You can cast the fly spell with this trait without requiring a material component. Once you cast it, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast it using any spell slots you have of 1st level or higher.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell when you cast it with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Fey Passage. You can squeeze through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide, provided you are carrying nothing and aren't wearing armor. You have advantage on ability checks you make to avoid or escape a grapple.

Flight. Because of your wings, you have a flying speed equal to your walking speed. You can't use this flying speed if you're wearing medium or heavy armor.

Nimble. You have proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Acrobatics, Sleight of Hand, or Stealth.

Giraffe Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 40 feet.

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

Hooves. You have hooves that you can use to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier bludgeoning damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Tall. Due to your long neck, you can only move through a space large enough for Medium or smaller creatures by squeezing.

Long-Necked. You can use your mouth to manipulate an object, open or close a door or container, pick up or set down a Tiny object, or make a melee attack with a weapon that has the light property. Because of your long neck, when you do so, your reach for the action is 5 feet greater than normal.

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

Goblin Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid. You are also considered a goblinoid for any prerequisite or effect that requires you to be a goblinoid.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were in dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed condition on yourself.

Fury of the Small. When you damage a creature with an attack or a spell and the creature's size is larger than yours, you can cause the attack or spell to deal extra damage to the creature. The extra damage equals your proficiency bonus.

You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all expended uses when you finish a long rest, and you can use it no more than once per turn.

Nimble Escape. You can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on each of your turns.

Human Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Human Determination. When you make an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can do so with advantage. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Skills. Humans have a wide range of natural talents. You have proficiency in one skill of your choice and with one tool of your choice.

Leonin Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.

Agility. You can take the Dash action as a bonus action. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Cat's Grace. You don't take fall damage from falling 20 feet or less as long as you aren't incapacitated.

Claws. You can use your claws to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier slashing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Darkvision. 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 discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Feline Talent. You have proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Acrobatics, Perception, Stealth, or Survival.

Nine Lives. When you drop to 0 hit points as a result of taking damage, you can instead drop to 1 hit point and immediately spend a number of hit die up to your maximum, regaining hit points equal to one roll of each spent die. You can use this trait eight times.

Loxodon Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Medium (about 7-8 feet tall).

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Life Span. 450 years on average.

Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Modest Truth. You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed or frightened condition on yourself.

Natural Armor. While you aren't wearing armor, your base Armor Class is 13 + your Dexterity modifier.

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

Trunk. You can use your trunk to manipulate an object, open or close a door or container, pick up or set down a Tiny object, or make an unarmed strike. The trunk can't activate magic items or lift more than 20 pounds.

Merfolk Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Monstrosity.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Amphibious. You can breathe air and water.

Cold Resistance. Adapted to the frigid ocean depths, you have resistance to cold damage.

Darkvision. 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.

Illumination. You emit bright light in a 5 foot radius and dim light for an additional 5 feet.

Piscine Tail. Because of your piscine tail, when you make a climb that requires hands and feet, each foot of movement costs you 4 extra feet instead of the normal 1 extra foot.

Siren's Song. You know the friends cantrip and can cast it without material components.

Minotaur Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Monstrosity.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 35 feet.

Horns. You have horns that you can use to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier piercing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Charge. If you move at least 10 feet straight toward a target and then hit it with a melee attack on the same turn, the target must succeed on a Strength saving throw against a DC of 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier or be pushed up to 10 feet away and knocked prone.

Labyrinthine Recall. You always know which direction is north, and you have advantage on any Wisdom (Survival) check you make to navigate or track.

Ogre Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 40 feet.

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

Long-Limbed. When you make a melee attack on your turn, your reach for it is 5 feet greater than normal.

Ogroid Build. You have advantage on Strength-based ability checks and Strength saving throws. In addition, you count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Porcupine Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Small.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Gotta Go Fast. You can curl into a ball and roll for extra speed. As a bonus action, you can move up to your speed in a straight line without provoking opportunity attacks. While moving this way, you can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours, and can move through a space large enough for a Tiny creature without squeezing. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you move 0 feet on one of your turns.

Spiny Hide. A creature that hits you with a melee attack while within 5 feet of you takes piercing damage equal to your proficiency bonus. Additionally, a creature grappling or grappled by you takes piercing damage equal to your proficiency bonus at the start of each of your turns.

Quills. You have sharp quills on your head and back. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can fire some of the quills at a creature you can see within 30 feet of you in place of one of your attacks. The creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw with a DC of 8 + your Dexterity modifier + your proficiency bonus or take piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Dexterity modifier.

Raven-aven Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Small or Medium (choose when you select this race).

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Beak. You have a sharp beak that you can use to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with it, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier piercing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Raven Recall. Thanks to your supernaturally good memory, when you make an ability check using any skill in which you have proficiency, 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 proficiency bonus, 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.

Rhox Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 35 feet.

Charge. If you move at least 20 feet straight toward a target and then hit it with a melee weapon attack on the same turn, the target must succeed on a Strength saving throw against a DC of 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier or be knocked prone.

Horn. You have a horn that you can use to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier piercing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Natural Armor. You have thick, leathery skin. While you aren't wearing armor, your base Armor Class is 13 + your Dexterity modifier.

Natural Athlete. You have proficiency in the Athletics skill.

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

Robot Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Construct.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Life Span. You are immune to the effects of aging and can't be aged magically.

Constructed Nature. You have resistance to poison damage, and you have immunity to disease and the poisoned condition. You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe.

Narrow Programming. You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed condition on yourself.

Repair. If the mending spell is cast on you, you can spend a Hit Die, roll it, and regain a number of hit points equal to the roll plus your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 hit point).

Sleepless Revitalization. You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep. You remain conscious during a long rest, though you must still refrain from strenuous activity to gain the benefit of the rest.

Specialized Design. You have proficiency in one skill and with one artisan's tool of your choice. Whenever you make an ability check with the chosen skill or tool, roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the check's total.

Scarecrow Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Construct.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Life Span. You are immune to the effects of aging and can't be aged magically.

Constructed Nature. You have resistance to poison damage, and you have immunity to the poisoned condition and to disease. You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe.

False Appearance. If a creature hasn't seen you move or act, it must succeed on a Wisdom (Perception) check against a DC of 8 + your Dexterity modifier + your proficiency bonus to discern that you are animate.

Fire Vulnerability. You have vulnerability to fire damage.

Repair. If the mending spell is cast on you, you can spend a Hit Die, roll it, and regain a number of hit points equal to the roll plus your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 hit point).

Sleepless Revitalization. You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep. You remain conscious during a long rest, though you must still refrain from strenuous activity to gain the benefit of the rest.

Terrifying Glare. As an action, you can glare at one creature within 30 feet of you that can see you. That creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against a DC of 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Sloth Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 25 feet.

Hold Up A Minute. You can spend 1 minute of careful observation without moving or breaking concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell) to gain advantage on the next Wisdom, Intelligence, or Charisma check you make.

Slow. You can't take reactions.

But Steady. When you damage a creature with an attack or a spell for the first time on your turn, you can immediately follow that attack or spell with a bonus action, causing the attack or spell to deal an extra 1d6 damage to the creature. This damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).

You can use this bonus action only if you haven't moved during your turn, and after you use the bonus action, your speed is 0 until the end of your turn.

What Did You Say? You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed or frightened condition on yourself.

Vedalken Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Amphibious. You can breathe air and water.

Origin Query. You have proficiency in the Investigation and History skills.

Secondary Arms. You have two secondary arms below your primary pair of arms. The secondary arms function like your primary arms.

Tireless Precision. When you make an Intelligence (Investigation) check or an ability check using a tool with which you have proficiency, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check.

Vedalken Cunning. You have advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws against spells.

Zombie Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are an Undead.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Life Span. Zombies don't age. You are immune to the effects of aging and can't be aged magically.

Deathless Nature. You have resistance to poison damage and immunity to disease, and you have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the poisoned condition on yourself. You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe.

Knowledge of the Past. You temporarily remember glimpses of the past, faded memories from ages ago. When you make an ability check that uses a skill, you can roll a d6 immediately after seeing the number on the d20 and add the number on the d6 to the check. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Sleepless Revitalization. You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep. You remain conscious during a long rest, though you must still refrain from strenuous activity to gain the benefit of the rest.

Shining Armor

Medium or Heavy Armor (but not Hide), Uncommon (Requires Attunement)

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