D&D Giff Race

The Giff are a remark­able and impos­ing species who live in the land of Roy­aume. They resem­ble large, upright hip­pos with a flair for dra­ma and deca­dence. Roy­aume is famous (and infa­mous)
for many things: its deli­cious food (such as cheese, wine, snails and oth­er “inter­est­ing” del­i­ca­cies), fash­ion, art and cul­ture, impres­sive mon­u­ments like the Roy Tow­er and the mys­te­ri­ous Bona, and of course their sig­na­ture col­or com­bi­na­tion of red, blue and white, a reflec­tion of their pride and 
pow­er.

Royaume

What tru­ly makes Roy­aume unique is the bizarre shape of the land itself. Parts of the land­scape lit­er­al­ly resem­ble food. There is a region that looks like a giant piece of cheese, anoth­er shaped like an enor­mous baguette, and a third that takes the form of a wine bot­tle. The entire king­dom seems built on a mix of culi­nary pride and visu­al con­fu­sion.

Lifestyle

The Giff are known as a wealthy, over­ly prop­er and pompous peo­ple. Most of them wear expen­sive cloth­ing, per­fumed wigs and keep their noses in the air, a style inspired by both French aris­toc­ra­cy and the Eng­lish wal­rus folk. They love lux­u­ry,
clean­li­ness and impe­ri­al­ism. Con­quer­ing land is, to a Giff, a form of art.

Relations With Other Races

Although the Giff con­sid­er them­selves the most refined species in the mul­ti­verse, they are not exact­ly open to oth­er races. In fact, the aver­age Giff has a strong dis­like for oth­er peo­ples unless they are rich and pow­er­ful. In that case, they sud­den­ly become much friend­lier. Sta­tus and wealth are every­thing to the Giff when it comes to respect and accep­tance.

Napoleon Bonagiffte

The cur­rent leader of Roy­aume is the infa­mous Napoleon Bonag­iffte, a per­fect­ly dressed but notably small Giff. His height is a sen­si­tive sub­ject. He has paint­ings altered so he appears taller, and no one dares to men­tion it. Napoleon was once a sim­ple sell­er of sour can­dies, the well-known “Napoleons”, and even now a crys­tal bowl filled with his sig­na­ture sweets is always present in his palace.

Monsieur Samm Le Grandiose

Napoleon is sup­port­ed by his right-hand man, Mon­sieur Samm Legrandiose, cap­tain of the flag­ship Le Vin (“The Wine”).
Mon­sieur Samm is the proud own­er of the most pres­ti­gious
wine brand in the king­dom, Le FAT­bas­tard, an extreme­ly
expen­sive wine he loves to brag about. Yet Samm always lives in the­shad­ow of his emper­or. He longs to earn Napoleon’s pride, but that recog­ni­tion remains rare.

Mon­sieur Samm often ven­tures out with his crew to con­quer
ter­ri­to­ries or defeat pirates. His great­est ene­my is Floyd “Tall Tale” Chold­mon­key, a cun­ning Apel­ing and noto­ri­ous cap­tain
of the pirate ship The Blue Eye. Although Samm fights brave­ly,
he unfor­tu­nate­ly los­es to Floyd a bit too often, much to his
frus­tra­tion.

Stats

• Abil­i­ty Score Increase. Increase one abil­i­ty score by 2, and increase a dif­fer­ent one by 1, or increase three dif­fer­ent scores by 1.

• Crea­ture Type. You are a Humanoid.

• Size. You are Medi­um.

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

• Astral Spark. Your psy­chic con­nec­tion to the Astral Plane enables you to mys­ti­cal­ly access a spark of divine pow­er, which you can chan­nel through your weapons. When you hit a tar­get with a sim­ple or mar­tial weapon, you can cause the tar­get to take extra force dam­age equal to your pro­fi­cien­cy bonus. You can use this trait a num­ber of times equal to your pro­fi­cien­cy bonus, but you can use it no more than once per turn. You regain all expend­ed uses when you fin­ish a long rest.

• Firearms Mas­tery. You have a mys­ti­cal con­nec­tion to firearms that traces back to the gods of the giff, who delight­ed in such weapons. You have pro­fi­cien­cy with all firearms and ignore the load­ing prop­er­ty of any firearm. In addi­tion, attack­ing at long range with a firearm does­n’t impose dis­ad­van­tage on your attack roll.

• Hip­po 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.
• Lan­guages: Your char­ac­ter can speak, read, and write. Com­mon, Frans and one oth­er lan­guage that you want.