Grung
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Grung
Through the murk and grime of Minamishiwa, many creatures will kill you, but not all of them are as deadly as they appear. Some are more deadly than they would lead you to believe. The adorable grung are a race of tribal, water dwelling, frog-like gremlins, mischievous and ever-plotting.
Amphibious Gremlins
The grung are a race of short, hobbled amphibious humanoids originating from Minamishiwa, an island of dark poisons and corrupting energies. Despite their treacherous homeland, their frog-like appearance has them seeming quite innocent. They move awkwardly on land, leaving them seemingly open to predators. Standing a meager 3 feet tall, with two rarely blinking spheres that serve as eyes, one can never tell what thoughts, if any, are moving through a grung’s head at any given moment. They can come in a wide array of colors, from bright red to dark blue.
The grung were the first inhabitants of their swampland home, developing a poisonous skin to protect themselves from the many awful predators looking to make them easy prey. Simple by nature, they developed a tribal lifestyle, somehow bumbling their way through history and surviving the worst of both yokai and nature. They are much the same as they were one thousand years ago, using nothing but simple spears and bows tipped in their own poisonous secretions to defend themselves.
Grung society is simple, with a single leader barely managing to hold things together. Should the leader perish in one of many assorted ways in the swamps of their homeland, the first one to name themself leader inherits the title. There is never conflict over this role, and there is no established hierarchy. The closest that grung come to conflict with each other is when two leaders vie for the title at the same time. At this point, the halves of the tribe closest to their respective leader split off into new tribes.
Grung names
A grung name is usually a simple, single syllable that the grung enjoys to pronounce or that their parents enjoyed pronouncing.
Example grung names: Glip, Hroo, Baaa, Kilp, Mup, Sro, XumAmphibious Alertness. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.
Amphibious. You can breathe in both water and air.
Poison Immunity. You are immune to being poisoned.
Poison Skin. Any creature that grapples you or otherwise comes into direct contact with your skin must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with you can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
You can also apply this poison to any piercing weapon as part of an attack with that weapon, though when you hit the poison reacts differently. The target must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or take 2d4 poison damage.
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.
Water Dependency. If you fail to immerse yourself in water for at least 1 hour a day, you suffer one level of exhaustion at the end of that day. You can only recover from this exhaustion through magic or by immersing yourself in water for at least 1 hour.
