Your koala character possesses a number of traits associated with their koala-y nature.
- Ability Score Increase: Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.
- Age: While no one is quite sure how long an awakened animal (of any species) lives for, koalas reach maturity at 12 months. Typically, they live at least 13 years but rarely reach beyond their early 20s.
- Alignment: With their own internal unwritten social structure and their lingering purpose for which they stand guard in their trees, most koalas are agents of good and kindness to those less informed as themselves.
- Size: Koalas grow between approximately 2 and 3 feet when standing up right, which would imply you are not in a tree. Your size is Small.
- Speed: Your movement speed is 25 feet, and you have a climbing speed of 30 feet.
- Darkvision: You can see in dim light within 30 ft as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You cannot discern colour and see only in shades of grey through this feature.
- Keen Senses: You gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.
- Pouches: You have three pouches where you can hide one Tiny creature or a piece of equipment that fits inside a human fist. You can access your pouches as a bonus action. These backward-facing pouches do not allow objects to fall out of them unless you wish for them to.
- Specialised Eaters: You can eat most foods that are toxic to other animals and gain sustenance from almost anything remotely edible. You have advantage on saving throws against poison damage and the poisoned condition. You can go twice as long without water before suffering any negative effects.
- Well Rested: As part of a short rest, you can add your proficiency bonus to hit points regained from each spent Hit Die. You must complete a long rest before you can use this feature again.
- Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common and speak Koalarite—a specialised dialect of Bearian. Koalarite sounds like growls but is actually a language of low-pitched, snore-like breaths… but no one needs to know that!