Goat

Your goat character has a variety of abilities that come with being a goat!

• Ability Score Increase: Your Constitution score increases by 1.
  
• Age: While no one is quite sure how long an awakened animal (of any species) lives for, goats typically reach adulthood around 12 to 15 months old and live to be about 15 or 16 years old, though some live much longer!
  
• Alignment: No animal as devoted to scrambling around mountainsides and butting people who annoy them could ever be described as anything but chaotic, and goats tend towards this alignment. Despite this, they’re fiercely loyal to their friends and family, and are typically good aligned.
• Size: Goats tend to average around 3 feet in height, approximately. Your size is Small.
  
• Speed: Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
  
• Horns: Most goats possess some form of horns, and you are no exception. Two sharp bone horns protrude from your skull—though how ornate they are, we leave up to you! You have a natural butting attack. This deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier bludgeoning damage. This increases to 1d8 + your Strength modifier at level 5, 1d10 + your Strength modifier at level 10, and 1d12 + your Strength modifier at level 15.
  
• Keen Senses: You have proficiency in the Perception skill.
  
• Stubborn: Goats do precisely what they want, when they want, and how they want. You have advantage on Charisma saves against any spells which attempt to charm or manipulate you.
  
• Troll Terror: We all know the story about the troll on the bridge and what happened when the troll encountered three different goats. The trolls, and other giant species, certainly do. When encountering a group of giants for the first time, the giants must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or be afflicted with the fear condition.
  
• Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common and Goatish—a language of bleats and headbutts known only to goats and only spoken by those with exceptionally tough skulls!
  

Standard Racial Traits

• Ability Score Modifiers: Goat characters gain a +2 racial bonus to Strength and Constituation. (2 RP)
  
• Type: Goats are the Animal type. (2 RP)
  
• Size: Goats are Small creatures, and gain a +1 size bonus to their AC, a +1 size bonus on attack rolls, a –1 penalty on combat maneuver checks and to their CMD, and a +4 size bonus on Stealth checks. Small races have a space of 5 feet by 5 feet and a reach of 5 feet. (0 RP)
  
• Base Speed: Goats have a base speed of 30 feet. (0 RP)
  
• Languages: Goats speak Goatish and one extra language of your choice. Goatish is a language of bleats and headbutts known only to goats and sheep, and only spoken by those with exceptionally tough skulls!. Goats with high Intelligence scores can learn any languages they want (except Druidic and other secret languages). Do note that as creatures of the Animal type, if they learn languages spoken by humanoids, they are physically incapable of speaking those languages without some sort of magical aid. (1 RP)
  

Defense Racial Traits

• Natural Armor: Goats gain a +1 natural armor bonus to their Armor Class. (2 RP)
  

Feat and Skill Racial Traits

• Steady: Goats have exceptional balance, and get a +2 bonus to Climb and Acrobatics checks. As well, they do not lose their Dexterity bonus to AC when making Climb checks or Acrobatics checks to cross narrow or slippery surfaces. (2 RP)
  

Offense Racial Traits

• Natural Attack: Goats gain a gore attack that deals damage according to their size. (1 RP)
  

Senses Racial Traits

• Low-Light Vision. Members of this race can see twice as far as humans in conditions of dim light. (1 RP)
  

Other Traits:

• Quadruped: (RACE) walk on all fours and have no arms - much less thumbs - with which to use weapons. Felines gain a +4 racial bonus to CMD against trip attempts, and  take a -4 penalty with man-made weapons, even ones they are trained in, unless they take a Weapon Focus feat. (0 RP)

Alternate Racial Traits

Ability Racial Traits

Defense Racial Traits

• Powerful Charge (2 RP) Whenever the goat charges, it deals twice the number of damage dice with it's gore attack plus 1-1/2 times its Strength bonus. This replaces Steady.
  
• Stubborn: Goats gain a +2 racial bonus on Will saving throws to resist spells and spell-like abilities of the enchantment (charm) and enchantment (compulsion) subschools. In addition, if a member of this race fails such a save, it receives another save 1 round later to prematurely end the effect (assuming the spell or spell-like ability has a duration greater than 1 round). This second save is made at the same DC as the first. If the member of the race has a similar ability from another source (such as a rogue’s slippery mind class feature), it can only use one of these abilities per round, but can try the other on the second round if the first reroll ability fails. This trait replaces Steady. (2 RP)
• Troll Slayer: Goats hate trolls, and have studied ways to fight them more effectively that help with many larger races. Goats receive a +2 dodge bonus to AC against any creatures with the Giant subtype. This trait replaces Steady and Lowlight Vision. (3 RP)