Kith and Kind

Maybe you don’t want to play a human character today. Or you want to give this NPC something more than “this human duder”. But the game you’re playing or running doesn’t offer non-human options, or you don’t want to deal with “race-as-class”, or you just want some flavour, etc etc etc …

That’s where these two tables come in.

The first table offers a selection of other species — kiths, if you will — with a few suggestions for appearance and two traits or quirks, positive and negative. The second table instead presents variants, whether from environment or accident or intervention or what have you — the “kinds” of the kiths — and this table works similarly to the first.

You can, of course, only roll on the second table to find out what kind of human your character is.

The positive and negative traits have been left vague; you can probably assume most that are a do-a-thing type (like making or destroying something) can require some kind of test or check for success, if you like.

Kith	Appearance?	Positive	Negative
01. Sidhe	tapered ears, slender bones	perfect recall	get lost in memories
02. Sauros	scales, tail, fanged muzzle	surprise action	cold vulnerability
03. Mafdet	bipedal feline	nightsight	distractable
04. Dama	digitigrade, hooved, plumed tail	speedy	fragile
05. Dvergr	short, burly, shaggy-haired	sense flaws	treasure-tempted
06. Boggart	1/2-human-size, gnarled	ironguts	redcap’s retaliation
07. Asterion	broad, tall, bull’s horns and tail	direction sense	geased
08. Gruagach	1/2-human-size, pointed ears	stealthy	overlooked
09. Wilder	large furred ears, tail or fangs	jury-rigger	magic vulnerability
10. Gigas	towering, sculpted, tusks or horns	crusher	slow reaction
11. Seshen	enfolding “blossom” on back	blossom hibernation	flame vulnerability
12. Talking Beast	animal with odd mark or colour	magic resist	no hands

Kind	Possible Apperance?	Positive	Negative
01. Cerulean	blue spiral-and-line markings	spirit sight	poison vulnerability
02. Sanguine	sharper features, fangs	sustained on blood	blood need
03. Damned	hoof(s), lopsided horns, scaled tail	evil eye	blessed object bane
04. Hallowed	aureola, stigmata, bright plumes	bestow tranquility	defiled object bane
05. Aquatic	smooth flesh, gill slits, webbing	breathe water	require immersion
06. Lunar	white/silver hair, pale/luminous eyes	magic resist	easily influenced
07. Umbral	coiling shadow wisps, blacked eyes	light extinguishing	sun aversion
08. Nuadan	parts replaced by metal/porcelain	inbuilt weapon/tool	elemental vulnerable
09. Grave	deathly looks, cauled eyes	illness immune	halve healing
10. Verdant	green tint, tiny plant growths	half food required	need sunlight
11. Warp	“cracks” in flesh glow	call object to hand	magic may fail
12. Wyrm	scales, horns, odd exhalations	venom breath	treasure-tempted
13. Espri	organic jewel in flesh	mindspeech	frail-bodied
14. Celestian	starfield eyes, star-markings	sense fate	destined death
15. Abyssian	retractile tentacles	omnidextrous	increased hunger
16. Fae	odd colours, mismatched eyes, long ears	lucky	iron bane
17. God-kin	divine aura, golden flesh, holy mark	divine instrument	geased
18. Runic	marked with runes/glyphs/sigils	spell storage	fickle fate
19. Luminous	bioluminescent markings, soft glow	candlelight	darkness poison
20. Skinwalker	silvery mark, pelt of other shape	shapechange	lose pelt, lose gift