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Deep Gnome

Subterranean gnomes with darkvision and gifts for concealment.

Traits

Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Superior Darkvision

Your darkvision has a radius of 120 feet.

Stone Camouflage

You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks to hide in rocky terrain.

Extra Language

You can speak, read, and write Undercommon.

Optional feat: Svirfneblin Magic

Prerequisite: Gnome (deep gnome). This is an optional feat, separate from the species traits.

You can cast nondetection on yourself at will without a material component. You can also cast blindness/deafness, blur, and disguise self once each with this ability, regaining those uses after a long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Source & compatibility

Source: Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide · page 115 · Legacy 5e.

Sword Coast 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.