Umpleby

Docile and curious until roused, Umplebys live simple lives in the wilderness and defend themselves with static electricity.

Umpleby
Ability Score Increase: Your Strength increases by 2 and your Constitution increases by 1.
Age: Umplebys are considered to be adults at around 10 years of age, and can live up to 100 years.
Alignment: Umplebys generally prefer to live and let live, pursuing simple lives in their native temperate forests. They tend toward Neutral alignments.
Size: Most Umplebys stand between 7 and 8 feet tall. Your size is Medium.
Speed: 30 ft.
Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common. Umplebys do not tend to be very communicative and their speech is often laborious and halting; many prefer to communicate simple concepts with gestures and save their words for more complex ideas.
Powerful Build: You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.
Heavy Blows: Your unarmed strikes deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, rather than the normal damage for unarmed strikes.
Static Discharge: You know the cantrip shocking grasp. In addition, when you are grappled or hit with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to cast shocking grasp at your attacker. Once you do so, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this feature.
Electrified Weave: You are proficient with nets. In addition, as part of a long rest, you can weave a net from your own shaggy hair. If you hit a creature with your net, the target takes 1d4 lightning damage. After this initial damage is deal, the net loses its special properties. It falls apart at the start of your next long rest.
Wilderness Skills: You are proficient in Survival and Athletics.

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