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Giff

Hippopotamus-like Humanoids with firearm mastery and an astral spark.

Traits

TraitDescription
Creature typeYou are a Humanoid.
SizeYou are Medium.
SpeedYour 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.

Source & compatibility

Source: Spelljammer: Astral Adventurer's Guide · page 12 · Legacy 5e.

Spelljammer: Astral Adventurer's Guide; 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.