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GRIPPLI

ANCESTRY

UNCOMMON

GRIPPLI

HUMANOID

Hit Points 6

Size Small; Speed 25 feet

Ability Boosts Dexterity, Wisdom, Free; Ability Flaw Strength

Languages Common, Grippli

Additional Languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if it’s positive). Choose from Abyssal, Aquan, Boggard, Draconic, Elven, Iruxi, Sylvan, and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent in your region).

Senses Low-Light Vision

Gripplis are a shy and cautious people who generally seek to avoid being drawn into the complicated and dangerous affairs of others. Despite their outlook and small stature, gripplis often take bold and noble action when the situation demands it.

Reclusive and canny, gripplis are treetop survivalists who harvest their homes’ bounty and defend themselves against terrible threats. Their reliance on cunning and simple tools has led to gripplis being mischaracterized as primitive, yet this overlooks their shaping of the land with hidden orchards and camouflaged causeways that allow gripplis to live in prosperous peace. Gripplis are most likely to emerge from their forest homes to trade, explore, and combat threats that would despoil the world.

You Might…

  • Seek out clever ways to exploit your environment when overcoming challenges.
  • Make friends slowly, concerned by cautionary tales of exploitative strangers.
  • Be fiercely protective of your home or community.

Others Probably

  • Assume you dislike cities and people who live in them.
  • Trust in your impartial, measured approach to understanding situations and solving problems.
  • Give you space, fearing that touching you would prove toxic.

Physical Description

Gripplis resemble humanoid tree frogs, with oversized eyes, wide mouths, and gangly physiques. Their slight frames and large toes afford excellent grip while climbing, while their colorful skin provides reliable camouflage that varies by their home environment— green and brown for jungle-dwelling groups, blue and orange for riparian communities, and many other colors between. A grippli grows quickly, reaching adult size of about 2 feet in height about 3 years after hatching, though they’re only considered adults around age 12. Gripplis rarely live beyond 60 years, though exceptional individuals occasionally live as long as a century.

Society

Gripplis lead a sophisticated hunter-gatherer lifestyle with which they reshape the landscape to suit their needs: building spillways to trap fish, seeding fruit-bearing trees, sowing cover-granting foliage for future hunts, and more techniques that often escape an agriculturist’s eye. These strategies rely on community cooperation as well as dispersed populations, so gripplis commonly live in small villages, each part of a complex web of alliances and relationships. Reclusiveness has preserved grippli lives and lifestyles for millennia, yet they increasingly find themselves threatened by ancient evils and new explorers alike.

Alignment and Religion

Taught to wait, observe, and respect natural processes of life and death, many gripplis adopt neutral alignments. Those who take a more active role suppressing evils that take refuge in the jungles are often neutral good, most notably those rare fiend-keepers who absorb an evil being into their soul to contain and eventually transform its villainy through virtuous acts. Nature deities such as Gozreh or Erastil often earn gripplis’ respect, yet communities often prefer less prominent, more intimate divinities such as empyreal lords, psychopomp ushers, or the fey Eldest.

Names

Grippli names often include resonant vowels and chirped consonants that remain difficult for non-gripplis to vocalize properly. Gripplis that travel widely often adopt one or more names more easily replicated by their associates.

Sample Names

Aalpo’ol, Bogwynne, Ctaprak, Eegru, Gpoun, Gruoksh, Hrrauti, Iopo, Iykiki, Kyrsiik, Mhruugu, Oplugo, Quaasol, Yolkuu, Ztaal

Grippli Adventurers

For the many gripplis who hail from remote regions, wilderness backgrounds like hunter, nomad, or scout are excellent fits. Those more accustomed to urban areas might be animal whisperers, bounty hunters, and herbalists. Hermits are common, and emissaries are critical to maintaining relationships with other peoples.

Thanks to their deep cultural connections to nature, gripplis make excellent druids and rangers. Their musical traditions are a great fit for bards. Gripplis’ natural agility and perceptiveness also make them capable clerics, monks, and rogues.

Grippli Enclaves

Most gripplis originate from the Kaava Lands, a broad, jungled peninsula in the Mwangi Expanse. After centuries of colonial pressure, many gripplis have migrated to Vidrian, both to its capital, Anthusis, as well as its less settled lands. Likewise, once-isolationist gripplis now enjoy strong ties with Nantambu, and a sizeable population lives in and around that magical metropolis. Especially ambitious or underhanded gripplis make their fortunes in treacherous Bloodcove to the north, where they comprise a small minority.

Beyond western Garund, gripplis are much rarer. Small groups have made their homes in the Verduran forest, where they assist the Wildwood druids in patrolling the vast territory. Gripplis periodically travel to Katapesh, whose markets are eager for rare Kaava goods and never balk at strange visitors. Most notably, a sizable grippli population inhabits the deadly Valashmai Jungle of southern Tian Xia, where those gripplis clash with dinosaurs and even larger beasts.

TABLE 1: GRIPPLI HERITAGES
Exclusive Heritages Description
poisonhide grippliLOTME You may be small, but the poison glands concealed across your body hide a deadly defense.
snaptongue grippliLOTME Your tongue is especially long, and you can launch it with extraordinary range and precision.
stickytoe grippliLOTME Your hands and feet exude a film that helps them adhere to surfaces.
windweb grippliLOTME Tough webbing along your hands and toes can slow any fall.
Versatile Heritages Description
ArdandeRE Your elemental heritage is reflected in the oils and fragrances of plants, in tree resin that fossilizes into amber, or in the gentle smell of a flower.
ReflectionDA You were created as a duplicate of another creature, intentionally or accidentally, though you might not know of your origins.
TalosRE Your physical features reflect the influence a zuhra or other metal elemental has had over your bloodline.
draconic scionBAD You possess the power of dragons, whether you descended from dragons, learned from dragons, were transformed by exposure to draconic energy, or reincarnated from a past life as a dragon.
TABLE 2: GRIPPLI ANCESTRY FEATS
Level 1 Grippli Feats Prerequisites Benefits
Grippli LoreLOTME — You are well versed in grippli culture and tactics.
Grippli Weapon FamiliarityLOTME — You’ve trained with weapons ideally suited to marshes and dense forests.
Hunter’s DefenseLOTME trained in Nature Your canny understanding of natural and primal creatures helps you predict and dodge their attacks.
Jungle StriderLOTME — You are adept at dodging roots, foliage, and other jungle obstacles.
rLet’s Try That AgainSG-04 — You feel a sense of deja vu when you’ve made a mistake, almost as if you weren’t so careless in a past life and could certainly do better if given another chance.
rLike a RoachSG-04 — Living with the bare necessities isn’t terribly hard for someone who has defied death, and like a cockroach, you always know how to survive.
Nocturnal GrippliLOTME — You tend to do most of your hunting and work at night and have adapted to the requirements of nocturnal life.
rWeight of ExperienceSG-04 — The experience you’ve accumulated over multiple lifetimes envelops you like a weighted blanket, providing comfort and bestowing confidence under pressure.
rWisdom From Another LifeSG-04 — You absorbed a wide variety of facts before you died, and your soul still remembers slivers of this precious knowledge.
Level 5 Grippli Feats Prerequisites Benefits
rAnimal Soul SiblingsSG-04 — Your eyes have been opened to the spiritual essence suffusing the world.
rEmpathy IncarnateSG-04 — Reincarnation has given you a compassionate perspective and enabled you to relate to almost everyone you speak with, putting them at ease and quickly generating trust.
rFey InfluenceLOIL — You have been exposed to powerful fey magic.
Grippli GlideLOTME windweb grippli You can use your webbed feet to guide your fall.
Grippli Weapon InnovatorLOTME Grippli Weapon Familiarity You’ve learned devious ways to make the most of your grippli weapons.
rI’Ve Had Many JobsSG-04 — Finding and excelling at odd jobs is child’s play to one who has worked many occupations during many lives.
Long TongueLOTME snaptongue grippli You’ve learned to stretch your exceptionally long tongue beyond its original limits.
rReincarnated RidiculerSG-04 — You’ve practiced the art of taunting an enemy, ensuring they know death will only make you stronger.
rSleep of the RebornSG-04 — Philosophers compare the cycle of life, death, and rebirth to sleeping, dreaming, and waking.
Tenacious NetLOTME — Escaping your nets is no simple task.
Level 9 Grippli Feats Prerequisites Benefits
Absorb ToxinLOTME You are not immune to diseases or poisons Your skin readily absorbs poison and can consciously draw toxins into your body to spare others.
rDrain EmotionLOIL Fey Influence You touch an adjacent creature and attempt to draw out its excess emotion.
rFey AscensionLOIL Fey Influence The fey influence on your form and features grows even more powerful and notable.
rLingering EchoesSG-04 — Not everyone is reincarnated, and you feel a strong connection with the spiritual echoes of those who didn’t receive the same opportunity as you.
rPlant Soul SiblingsSG-04 Animal Soul Siblings You’re now able to connect with the spirits present in the greenery of the natural world.
rRapid RetrainingSG-04 — Some feel trapped by their choices and have a tough time reinventing themselves.
Ricocheting LeapLOTME master in Athletics, Wall Jump You quickly use your momentum to topple and spring off of foes.
Tongue TetherLOTME snaptongue grippli Your tongue can momentarily latch on as readily as your hands.
rYou Seem Somewhat FamiliarSG-04 — You fought hundreds of foes in your various past lives, and now and then, something about a new opponent tugs at your memory, almost as if you defeated their grandparent long ago.
Level 13 Grippli Feats Prerequisites Benefits
rCannibalize MagicLOIL Fey Influence The fey magic inside of you is a vital part of your body, and you can steal other sources of magic to replenish yours.
rClinging to LifeSG-04 — This life still holds much for you, and you aren’t ready to fall back into the River of Souls just yet.
rEldritch CalmLOIL Fey Influence Your fey heritage has altered your mindset to more resemble the uncanny perspective of the fey.
Envenomed EdgeLOTME — With a combination of your poison glands and herbal concoctions, you can consistently deliver venomous attacks when you hit an enemy’s weak points.
rGlamourLOIL Fey Influence You unlock a new level of fey power and can manipulate the perceptions of others using a font of First World magic.
Grippli Weapon ExpertiseLOTME Grippli Weapon Familiarity You fight with effortless expertise with grippli weapons.
rI Sense MalevolenceSG-04 — Your time in theRiver of Souls has given you deep insight into the machinations of those who refuse to move on.
rLinguistic RevivalSG-04 — You achieved fluency in different languages with each reincarnation, and your brain remembers much of the grammar, idioms, and obscenities that you spouted in old lives.
rPain Is TemporarySG-04 — Sangpotshi practitioners know that suffering is a fleeting sensation that ultimately strengthens the soul and prepares it for a new reincarnation.
rStone Soul SiblingsSG-04 Plant Soul Siblings Your connection with nature’s spirits has progressed to the point where you can even have casual conversation with pebbles and boulders.
rUnbreakable ResolveSG-04 — The experience of coming back after death has granted you a strong sense of resolve; devilish words, slick spells, and conniving trickery can’t easily catch you off guard.
Level 17 Grippli Feats Prerequisites Benefits
rBoneyard AcquaintanceSG-04 — Before your soul returned to the Material Plane, you interacted with a host of other souls on their way to the Boneyard.
rFey TranscendenceLOIL Fey Influence You become a powerful fey creature, gaining strengths tied to the First World but also some of the weakness against which all fey must contend.
rIndomitable SpiritSG-04 — Your soul has accumulated countless particles of quintessence over myriad deaths and rebirths, and for one moment, this raw material from the Great Beyond envelops you and your comrades.
rRelease the LightSG-04 — Many people report seeing a bright light before their death.
rSee You in HellSG-04 — You aren’t sure if you’ll be reincarnated again, so you might as well take this foe with you.
rThis Time, Bring the BodySG-04 — Death sends a soul into the River of Souls.