
The night noises carry on in their own quiet way and, without ceremony or sound, it appears in the doorway on padded feet. Someone coughs in the street, or was it the sound of a window unlatching? A floorboard creaks, or else a fox yowls. There are no stars outside the window and the moon hides its face behind cloud. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) piercing damage in melee or 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage at range.

Javelin: Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft.

Morningstar: Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.Surprise Attack: If the bugbear surprises a creature and hits it with an attack during the first round of combat, the target takes an extra 7 (2d6) damage from the attack.Brute: A melee weapon deals one extra die of its damage when the bugbear hits with it (included in the attack).Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10 Medium humanoid (goblinoid), chaotic evil Its panting mouth is filled with bristly needle-teeth spiderwebbed in disgusting strands of yellowish saliva, all vibrating to the tune of its wheezing breath. Tremendous milk-white ovals loom on either side of the thing’s wheezy pig-like nose. The crouching shadow’s ears are large and floppy, draping shoulder-length, adding to the creature’s unnatural shape.

Apologies if this violates a rule that I misinterpreted.This ugly creature resembles a twisted shadow puppet’s silhouette, a wild thing of flared black and brown fur whose pelt juts out from its body at freakish angles. This will be my first long-term campaign, and I’ve never done any sort of homebrewing, so any and all help will be appreciated. I’m asking all of you to make sure that everything’s balanced properly, so that it’s not over/underpowered. What follows is my take on how it could work, after combining attributes from the PHB and Volo’s that made sense to me. One of my players is wanting to do the above racial combo, for lore/background purposes. Tl dr - help me make sure the homebrewed race for my player isn’t broken or weak, please!
