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Hobgoblin

Humanoids whose fey gifts strengthen cooperation.

Traits

TraitDescription
Creature typeYou are a Humanoid. You are also considered a goblinoid for any prerequisite or effect that requires you to be a goblinoid.
SizeYou are Medium.
SpeedYour walking speed is 30 feet.

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 discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Fey Ancestry

You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed condition on yourself.

Fey Gift

You can use this trait to take the Help action as a bonus action, and you can do so a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. Starting at 3rd level, choose one of the options below each time you take the Help action with this trait:

Hospitality

You and the creature you help each gain a number of temporary hit points equal to 1d6 plus your proficiency bonus.

Passage

You and the creature you help each increase your walking speeds by 10 feet until the start of your next turn.

Spite

Until the start of your next turn, the first time the creature you help hits a target with an attack roll, that target has disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes within the next minute.

Fortune from the Many

If you miss with an attack roll or fail an ability check or a saving throw, you can draw on your bonds of reciprocity to gain a bonus to the roll equal to the number of allies you can see within 30 feet of you (maximum bonus of +3). You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Source & compatibility

Source: Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse · page 23 · Legacy 5e.

Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse; locally supplied reference, original publisher rights retained.

Campaign adaptation: Use the 2024 background ability increases instead of any legacy species ability increases printed below. Keep the other source traits; record conditional trait effects manually. A source variant remains distinct from an SRD or Eberron variant.