Chimney Cat

Greyhawk Campaign race

attributes Int: +2 Cha: +2

Chimney Cats are small humanoid felines standing about three feet tall.

They look very much like how you would imagine a little chibi cat person would look.

The Soap Maker, hellbent on creating a slavishly loyal servitor race, is responsible for their existence.

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Habitat/Society

• Being living constructs, they have no known upper age limit.
• Without magical assistance, they breed prodigiously slowly; far too slowly to maintain their numbers naturally.
  • With magical assistance, they have the same birth rate and gestation period as a human.
    • This assistance comes in the form of either a potion or a unique magic item.
• Besides live birth, Chimney Cats can be created through a complex alchemical process involving inducing a series of controlled mutations in a chosen house cat.
  • Though the process is generally a miserable experience for the house cat, the vast majority of Chimney Cats are created this way.
• They are generally cheery, hardworking, and unwaveringly devoted to the Soapmaker and (most of) his various causes.
• They possess an instinctive fondness for hats.
  • Generally, the higher the status of the wearer, the more elaborate the hat. Generally.
• They believe strongly in the value of science and progress, and are quick to adapt to any new technology introduced to them.

Fun Facts

• They where engineered from goblins, halflings, and common house cats.

WIP

• Angles Are Attitudes
• Are Your Knees Cold?
• Autodidact
• Blind Sober
• Catnap
• Dogs Devour; Cats Dine
• Dark Vision[xxx’]
• Gunslinger
  • Due to all that carefully engineered instinctive hard wiring the Noble Master imbued them with, all Chimney Cats are inherently proficient in all firearms for free.
  • The first attack a Chimney Cat makes in a combat with a firearm has tactical advantage and one free luck reroll.
  • If an attack is made by anyone during a surprise round in which a Chimney Cat with ready access to a functional firearm would not otherwise be able to act normally, that Chimney Cat can and must immediately use his reaction in response to attack something with the firearm in question.
• I Only Wanted To Pay For College
  • The second and third attack a Chimney Cat makes during combat has tactical disadvantage.
• It’s A Kitty!
• Knife-Twisting Conscience
• Math Wrath
• Propriety And Sobriety
• Self-Sustaining Alchemy
  • Due the traditional method of their creation, Chimney Cats count as both living creatures and constructs.
• Seventeen Shots, One Kill
  • If, after damage is rolled, a ranged attack would reduce the target to 0 hp or less, a Chimney Cat can specify that the attack was meant to be non-lethal. The target is then rendered unconscious instead of dying.
• The Distance Between Wise-Cracking And Wit
  • Chimney Cats receive +2 Intelligence and +2 Charisma.
• Tell All The Truth, But Tell It Slant
  • Due to all that carefully engineered instinctive hard wiring the Noble Master imbued them with, all Chimney Cats are inherently proficient in the Charisma[Persuasion] skill for free.
  • As long as you're not outright lying, you have tactical advantage on all Charisma[Persuasion] checks. (Hyperbole, spin-doctoring, turd-polishing, rhetorical word-twisting, and applying your finest lipstick to the ugliest pig you have is not only totally kosher for this ability, but well within theme and encouraged.)
• Work Ethic
  • Poorly informed admiration for the so-called “puritan work effort” quickly falls to the wayside when one finally gets the chance to witness the inspired nose-to-the-grindstone dedication of the average Chimney Cat in action. The first three exhaustion levels a Chimney Cat accrues are ignored for the purposes of determining the overall effects of exhaustion.

Old Stuff to modify/whatever

• Firearm Familiarity
  • +1 bonus to attack rolls when using firearms.
  • Can gain proficiency with various types of firearms regardless of class.
• Infravision (60')
• Instinctive Knowledge
  • Bonus NWPs gained at birth/creation.
    • Bureaucracy
    • Etiquette
    • Language (Ancient or Modern)
      • If natural birth: same as the most commonly used language by the birth mother.
      • If created via alchemy: choice of any known by the individual overseeing the process.
    • Read/Write
• Quick Learner
  • Three bonus NWP slots are gained at birth/creation.
  • Training time to learn anything is divided by 4.