Brownies of Salmagundi

A new race for D&D 5e. Brownies are small humanoids that help with domestic chores in return for gifts. They pride themselves on living honestly and virtuously, and view theft and fraud with disgust. They bargain hard, but their word is their bond. In lands above-ground they are generally found as merchants, tinkers, scribes and explorers, their diminutive size compared to many surface-dwellers not making them as well-suited to manual labor or the arts of war.

Wise and Wizened

+2 Wis

Size Small (approx as Halfling) Speed 25

Age Brownies reach maturity at age 20, when they immediately go from being fat-cheeked and cherubic to hale-but-elderly in appearence, and may live three centuries or more.

Alignment Lawful

Bourgeois Virtues

Shrewd Advantage on Insight vs. chicanery and fraud. Proficiency in double-entry bookkeeping.

Industrious your training times (but not costs...it still costs 250 GP for one extra proficiency) are halved, as you make efficient use of your spare time to practice new skills.

Thrifty you may maintain yourself in a lifestyle up to Wealthy for the price of one life-style lower due to your ability to find bargains and make do. Does not apply to the Aristocratic life-style, since that requires conspicuous consumption.

Brownie Traits

Languages speak, read, and write Brownie, Dwarf and Common.

Tool Proficiency Proficiency in a set of craftsman's tools of your choice.

Subtype

Eccentric

Once in a while a Brownie is seized by some big idea, and becomes monomaniacal. Such Brownies are likely to throw aside the usual Brownie interests and pieties in pursuit of a singular field of knowledge or art, including performing arts.

Ability Score Increase +1 Int or +1 Cha

Inspiration: Gain Expertise (double proficiency bonus) in a single field of art or knowledge of your choice.

Obsessive Working in your field invigorates you, and counts as a Short Rest.