BAKEMONO
Bakemono is a catch-all term for furry humanoids resembling everything from bears and cats to wolves and rats. They range in size, shape, and specialties wildly, but as they are all inhabitants of the wilderness, they stand firm in ensuring that dwarven and human expansion is kept in check. Bakaneko, bjorn, hobs, kasha, kitsune, kobolds, rougarou, sasquatches, vanara, wulvers, yeti, and many more all make up the varied bestials.
CREATURE TRAITS (15 XP)
- Types Medium or Small Organic Humanoid (Bakemono)
- Reach 5 feet
- Speed Land 30 feet
ATTRIBUTES (2 XP)
Bakemono are either medium or small humanoids with the bakemono subtype. Each bakemono race is unique with many different subspecies. Examples include:
- Adlet are medium-sized bakemono that appear like humanoid dogs. +2 Con, +2 Cha.
- Bakeneko are small-sized bakemono that appear like humanoid small cats. +2 Dex, +2 Cha.
- Bjorn are medium-sized bakemono that appear like humanoid bears. +2 Str, +2 Con.
- Bouda are medium-sized bakemono that appear like humanoid hyenas. +2 Str, +2 Dex.
- Gnolls are small-sized bakemono that appear like humanoid dogs. +2 Dex, +2 Cha.
- Hobs are small-sized bakemono that appear like humanoid lagomorphs, marsupials, or mustelids. +2 Dex, +2 Cha.
- Kasha are medium-sized bakemono that appear like humanoid big cats. +2 Dex, +2 Cha.
- Kitsune are medium-sized bakemono that appear like humanoid foxes. +2 Dex, +2 Cha.
- Kobolds are small-sized bakemono that appear like humanoid rodents. +2 Dex, +2 Int.
- Rikṣā are medium-sized bakemono that appear like humanoid southern bears. +2 Con, +2 Cha
- Rougarou are medium-sized bakemono that appear like humanoid southern and eastern wolves. +2 Str, +2 Wis.
- Selkies are small-sized bakemono that appear like humanoid beavers, manatees, otters, seals, walruses, or other furry marine mammals. +2 Con, +2 Cha.
- Tanuki are small-sized bakemono that appear like humanoid racoons or other procyonidae. +2 Dex, +2 Wis.
- Wulver are medium-sized bakemono that appear like humanoid northern and western wolves. +2 Con, +2 Wis.
LANGUAGES (1 XP)
- Starting Languages: Common, Sylvan.
- Bonus Languages: Any except secretive languages such as Druidic.
INNATE ABILITIES (12 XP)
Bite (1 XP): In their natural and animal form, a bakemono has a bite attack that deals 1d4 points of piercing damage.
Cryptid (2 XP): Cryptids can be treated as animal, humanoid, magical beast, or monstrous humanoid by any effect, as determined by the creator of the effect. They have a +2 innate bonus to saves against anything that any of these types are immune to.
Low-light Vision (1 XP): Bakemono can see well in the dark ignoring penalties and concealment created by dim lighting conditions, but not total darkness.
Polymorphism (8 XP): Each bakemono race is unique beginning with 8 XP's worth of innate traits chosen from the list below. You can sacrifice your 1st-level feat to increase this to 13 RP.
- Agile (1 XP): You gain a +2 innate bonus to Acrobatics checks.
- Athletic (1 XP): You gain a +2 innate bonus to Athletics checks.
- Bakemono Magic (2 XP): You must be small or tiny-sized in either of your forms to take this trait. Add +1 to the DC of any saving throws against enchantment effects that you create. You also gain dancing lights as a spell-like ability.
- Beast Form (2 XP): Bakemono can assume a specific animal form unique to them that resembles the same beast as their natural form of the same size as per beast shape I or one size smaller as per beast shape II (choose one upon gaining this ability). For 4 RP, they can choose a size larger instead.
- Claws (1 XP): In your natural and animal form, you have a claw attack that deals 1d4 points of slashing damage.
- Darkvision (2 XP): You gain Darkvision 60 feet.
- Humanoid Form (1 XP): Bakemono can assume a human form unique to them as per alter self.
- Lucky Leaf (2 XP): You must be small or tiny-sized in either of your forms to take this trait. You gain divine favor as a spell-like ability. If you take this a second time, you gain good hope as a spell-like ability but instead of targeting creatures, it targets objects and instead of granting morale bonuses it grants luck bonuses. The objects affected bestow the benefits of this spell upon the creature carrying them for the duration of the effect. If you target only a single object, the duration increases to 1 hour/level instead.
- Magical Strikes (2 XP): You have the Arcane Strike feat.
- Natural Armor (2 XP): In their natural and animal form, a bakemono has a +1 natural armor bonus. For 3 RP this increases to +2 natural armor.
- Pass without Trace (2 XP): You are permanently affected by pass without trace using your level as your caster level. You can bestow this effect on others who remain within 30 feet of you while it is active or suppress or reactivate this ability at will.
- Scent (4 XP): You gain the Scent special ability.
- Shapechanger (1 XP): Creatures with the shapechanger subtype can use a single action to dispel any morph or polymorph effects affecting them using their level as the caster level to do so.
- Tanuki Magic (2 XP): You must be small or tiny-sized in either of your forms to take this trait. You gain silent image as a spell-like ability. Taking this a second time replaces this with major image.
- Thick Fur (2 XP): You have lesser resistance to cold granting you a +2 innate bonus to saves against cold effects and damage resistance equal to 5 + half your level against cold damage.
ADDITIONAL ABILITIES
Bakemono begin with their innate traits and can gain additional traits from the following list as feats:
- Gnoll traits.
- Halfling traits.
- Catfolk traits.
- Kitsune traits.
- Ratfolk traits race statistics.