KENKU

KENKU TRAITS

Your kenku character has the following racial traits.

SIZE. Kenku are around 5 feet tall and weigh between 90 and 120 pounds. Your size is Medium.

SPEED. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

ABILITY SCARE INCREASE. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

KENKU TRAINING. You are proficient in your choice of two of the following skills: Acrobatics, Deception, Stealth, and Sleight of Hand.

KENKU TRAINING. proficient two of the following: Acrobatics, Deception, Stealth, and Sleight of Hand.

LANGUAGES. You can read and write Common and Auran, but you can speak only by using your Mimicry trait.

EXPERT FORGERY. You can duplicate other creatures' handwriting and craftwork. You have advantage on all checks made to produce forgeries or duplicates of existing objects.

EXPERT FORGERY. duplicate other creatures' handwriting and craftwork. advantage checks made to produce forgeries or duplicates.

MIMICRY. You can mimic sounds you have heard, including voices. A creature that hears the sounds you make can tell they are imitations with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check opposed by your Charisma (Deception) check.

MIMICRY. mimic sounds have heard. Creature hears sounds can tell imitations with Wisdom (Insight) check opposed Charisma (Deception) check.

AGE. Kenku have shorter lifespans than humans. They reach maturity at about 12 years old and can live to 60.

ALIGNMENT. Kenku are chaotic creatures, rarely making enduring commitments, and they care mostly for preserving their own hides. They are generally chaotic neutral in outlook.

ROLEPLAYING A KENKU

If you're playing a kenku, constant attempts to mimic noises can come across as confusing or irritating rather than entertaining. You can just as easily describe the sounds your character makes and what they mean. Be clear about your character's intentions unless you're deliberately aiming for inscrutable or mysterious. You might say, "Snapper makes the noise of a hammer slowly and rhythmically tapping a stone to show how bored he is. He plays with his dagger and studies the Lords' Alliance agent sitting at the bar." Creating a vocabulary of noises for the other players to decode might sound like fun, but it can prove distracting and could slow down the game.