3.4 KiB
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| Old Margreve |
Many villages scattered through the Margreve Forest are home to an elusive lineage of Humanoids known as the pineys. They follow a code known by most as “the Old Ways,” but for them, these rules of the forest are as natural as the leaves growing on the boughs above.
While the pineys were once human, their bodies have been changed by the magic of the great forest over many generations. When a piney leaves the Margreve Forest, the forest’s influence fades but never fully disappears. Their too-long limbs and blank inchoate eyes suggest a fey influence, but their kind is mostly known for strange plant-like qualities to their skin, hair, and nails. Though these plant-like aspects manifest in different ways for each piney, all pineys appear genderless, the forest’s power removing differences between male and female in favor of plant features. When two pineys want to reproduce, they do so via spores, typically shed from their bark-like skin or leaf-like hair.
Some elder pineys in the deepest parts of the forest exhibit very strong plant-like aspects, often appearing closer to a treant than a human. Most pineys, however, appear humanoid with plant-like features.
Life in the Forest
Piney villages are located deep in the Margreve Forest. Though their homes evoke human architecture, the villages are often melded into the trunks of trees or dug into the side of grassy hills. From these enclaves, pineys patrol their territory from dusk until sunrise ensuring the woods are safe and free from interlopers. Pineys feed through photosynthesis, which often requires them to chase patches of sunlight throughout the day before returning to their villages for a few hours of rest.
PINEY LINEAGE TRAITS
Your piney character has the following hereditary traits.
Age. Pineys reach adulthood in their late teenage years and typically live to be just over 100 years old.
Size: Your size is Medium or Small. Pineys vary widely in height but tend to have sturdy builds with bark-like growths. They range from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall and average around 175 pounds. If you choose to play a piney shorter than 4 feet however, you can choose your size to be Small.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Hybrid Humanoid. Though your type is Humanoid, you have traits in common with Plants. You have advantage on saves against effects that would cause you to become exhausted. In addition, you have advantage on saves against being paralyzed or petrified and against effects that would make you fall unconscious.
Living Wood. In moments of peril, you can rapidly grow tough bark, vines, or similar growth to shield you from harm. When an attacker you can see would hit you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to increase your AC by an amount equal to your PB against the triggering attack. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your PB, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Photosynthetic. If you spend at least 1 hour in an area of sunlight or natural bright light, your daily food requirements are met (see Starvation and Dehydration in the Player’s Guide). In addition, if you spend the entirety a short rest in such an area, you can regain a number of expended hit dice up to your PB. Once you recover hit dice in this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest..