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Festerling

Your people evolved separately from your goblin cousins, spurred on by the dangerous practice of manipulating diseases and the compounds that spread them. Your webbed hands and feet make you a strong swimmer, but it’s your knowledge that sets you apart. Your culture taught you much about diseases and rare ingredients that might spread or cure those diseases. Though your disease-spreading kin have a clear and grotesque idea of what they want the world to look like, you have other notions. These thoughts may have driven you from your clan, pushing you into a world that found you strange at first. But your knowledge of the diseases that plague the world left you in a unique position to help
ability score increase: Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Constitution score increases by 1.
age: You reach adulthood by age 10, living to approximately 60 years.
Size: Small
speed: Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a 30 foot swim speed aswell.
Languages: You can only speak Common, but you can speak read and write Rustent (Goblin).
race features:
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.   Disease Resistant.
You gain advantage on saving throws to resist disease. In addition, once per long rest, you can use a reaction to provide an adjacent ally advantage on a saving throw to resist diseases.   Final Words.
You can mimic the words of the dead. Once per day, you can use an action to touch a corpse and speak the last sentence they spoke before their demise.   Medical Knowledge.
Your interactions with disease and medicines provide you with superior knowledge. You make Intelligence (Nature) and Wisdom (Medicine) checks with advantage, and you are proficient with alchemist’s supplies. In addition, at the end of a short rest, you can choose yourself or one ally who spends hit dice to regain hit points. The chosen creature rolls each hit die spent twice, taking the higher of the two rolls.   Natural Alchemist.
At the end of a long rest, if you have access to alchemist’s supplies, you can create a substance that maintains a magical property until the start of your next long rest. This substance can act as a potion of healing, a vial of acid, or alchemist’s fire.

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DaLimes.

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