Race Name: Kappa

Ability Scores: +1 Dex, +1 Wis

Size: small
Speed: 25ft
Languages: common, aquan

Age: lived up to 100 years

Alignment: chaotic neutral
Size: around 2ft tall with an average weight of 20lbs

Traits:
 Hard Shell: your AC is equal to 12 + Dex when you aren’t wearing armour.
 Webbed Feet: you have a swim speed equal to your walking speed.
 Amphibious: you can breathe air and water.
 Pouch: you have a small pouch on your belly, large enough to carry up to 1ft of items.

Subraces:
 Kappa-Ti:
o Ability Scores: +1 Str, +1 Dex rather than the regular kappa stats
o Your size is medium rather than small as you are larger than a normal kappa. Your movement speed
becomes 35ft.
o You lose the Hard Shell ability.
 Vampiric Kappa:
o Ability Scores: +1 Int, +1 Con rather than the normal kappa stats
o Harder Shell: your unarmoured AC is equal to 13 + Dex
o Vampiric Bite: as an action, make a melee attack against a target (you are proficient in it). On a hit, the
target takes 1 piercing damage plus 1d6 necrotic damage. The creature’s current and max HP are
reduced by the amount of damage taken. If a creature reaches 0 max HP, it dies.
o You lose the Amphibious ability.

History:
Kappa were small and had a stooped stance. Their main distinguishing feature was a hard shell that covered their
back. Their heads were flat and pudgy, with a wide mouth filled with several rows of sharp hook-shaped teeth. A thin
row of hair encircled their head. They had round eyes that were usually red or yellow in color. They were able to see
underwater due to a transparent eyelid that covered their eyes when submerged. Their face was dominated by a
large beak-shaped nose.

Being aquatic, they had webbed hands and feet. Their hands ended in sharp claws while their feet resembled those
of a large turtle. Instead of skin, they had clammy that which were dark green in color with yellow spots and smelled
like fish. They had large bellies with a pouch. A kappa had evolved to use a set of unique lungs that enabled them to
breathe both air and water. Kappa were cold blooded.
A unique feature of the kappa was found at the top of its head, which was concave in shape. Within, the kappa was
able to place water from their home. This water gave the kappa strength and vitality.

Kappa were selfish creatures. They had no empathy for other beings, even their own family, and delighted in the
misfortune of others. If they did assist another creature or a member of their family, it was only after they were sure
no harm would come to them and it would benefit them personally. When they first approached a target, kappa
were incredibly polite, hiding their true intentions. They were so self-centered, a potential target could appease a
kappa by complimenting them, stroking their inflated ego, or offering them a gift.

Kappa were communal, living in large families of two to twenty-four. Their family structure was an equal number of
adults and children. Kappa often lived in bodies of water near human settlements. In this case, the humans learned
the best way to co-exist with a kappa was to throw offerings into the water. These offering were often food or items.
The offerings had the human's family name written on them, so the kappa would know who was the source of the
gifts.

Kappa were aquatic creatures and therefore lived within bodies of water. They were only able to reside in fresh
water, as long-term exposure to salt water was fatal. They made their lairs under the ground at the bottom of a lake,
river, pond, or swamp. The entrance to their lair was covered with a pile of rocks with a concealed entrance that led
to a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel was a water-filled cavern where they made their home and hoarded their
treasure. Their treasure was valuable items taken from their victims and stored in a hole hidden by a large stone.

Female kappa choose a male kappa to mate, and could lay up to six eggs per year, although only about half
eventually hatched. The female kappa kept the eggs within her abdomen pouch and then carried their young in it
after they hatched for up to a year. Kappa matured quickly and were able to communicate, swim and walk
immediately upon hatching. A kappa could live up to a hundred years.

Kappa were carnivores. Their favorite meal was horse-meat, and they would often attack horses near water.
Otherwise, kappas were known to eat cows, fish, humans, and sheep. A delicacy among kappas was cucumbers and
melons.