Christmas Races

## Polar Elves

***Few can match the enthusiasm and festivity of the Christmas Elves, most of whom toil tirelessly to produce presents for the good children of the world.***

**Ability Scores:** Excited, enthusiastic, and very bright, Polar Elves gain +2 intelligence and charisma.

**Age:** While Polar Elves are similar to Elves and Gnomes in many respects, they do not enjoy their cousins’ longevity. Polar Elves mature at age 2 and live for less than 30 years.

**Alignment:** Polar Elves are...well...polar. The vast majority are Lawful Good, but those that go bad go Chaotic Evil. Jack Frost is an example of a good elf gone bad.

**Size:** standing 2.5 feet tall on average, your size is small.

**Speed:** Polar Elves are enthusiastic, but have tiny legs. Your base walking speed is 25 ft.

**Languages:** Polar Elves speak Gnome, Elvish, and Common.

**Restless:** Polar Elves are not technically elves in the common sense, they still enjoy some of the perks, namely the absence of a need to sleep. As long as 2 hours of a long rest are spent meditating in relative stillness, you enjoy the benefits of a long rest.

**Polar Affinity:** Polar Elves are immune to environmental cold effects and resistant to cold damage.

**Tinkering Mind:** Beginning at 1st level, you can use the Artificer’s Magical Tinkering feature. You also are proficient with tinker’s tools and you know the cantrip *Mending*.

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## Snowmen

***Sculpted as a servant by some twisted lord of frost or shaped by an unassuming child who unwittingly infused it with the spirit of Christmas, snowmen come alive more often than most expect.***

**Ability Scores:** Snowmen don’t particularly specialize, but tend to be hardy. They gain +1 constitution.

**Age:** Snowmen are usually formed fully mature (appearing whatever age the sculptor intended), and do not age.

**Alignment:** Snowmen take on whatever personality their shaper intended.

**Size:** Most Snowmen stand between 5 and 8 feet in height, making you medium, but depending on the circumstances of your creation, you could be small or large as well.

**Speed:** Snowmen aren’t particularly agile. Your base walking speed is 20 feet.

**Languages:** Snowmen speak Primordial and Common.

**Frosty:** Being made entirely of snow, Snowmen are resistant to fire damage and immune to cold damage. They are also immune to the effects of environmental cold, but have disadvantage on saves against environmental heat.

**Man of Snow:** Snowmen are considered both Elementals and Constructs for situations where either would be of consequence.

**Absorbent Frigidity:** When you are dealt cold damage, you can use your reaction to make a constitution-based ability check. While you take no damage either way, you heal a number of hp equal to the roll’s total. You cannot heal more using this feature than the total damage that would have been dealt, and once you use this feature you cannot use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

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## Gingerbread-folk

***Formed long ago as a race by some celestial baker, these good-hearted people have the luck and misfortune of being made out of food.***

**Ability Scores:** Gingerbread men and women are passionate and tough. They gain +2 charisma and +1 constitution.

**Age:** Gingerbread-folk mature and age only slightly faster than the average human.

**Alignment:** The vast majority are good to some degree, although evil gingerbread-folk are bad news.

**Size:** Standing anywhere from 4 to 5 feet tall, your size is medium.

**Speed:** Gingerbread-folk have a base walking speed of 30 ft.

**Languages:** Gingerbread-folk speak Common and Dessert.

**Tasty Treat:** A friendly creature within 5 feet of you can use its action to bite you if you are willing. When they do so, you lose 1 hp and they regain a number of hit points equal to your level. You may use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your constitution modifier.

**Cookious Form:** Being made from food as they are, Gingerbread-folk do not need to eat.

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## Yetis

***Silent but strong, brutish but sensitive, that is the way of the abominable snowman.***

**Ability Scores:** Yetis are big and tough. They gain +2 strength and constitution and -2 intelligence.

**Age:** Most Yetis mature around age 5 and live for 60 or so years.

**Alignment:** Yetis tend to be neutral, although can embrace any alignment.

**Size:** Standing at the top end of the 8 foot range, your size is medium.

**Speed:** Yetis have a base walking speed of 30 feet and ignore difficult terrain caused by ice, snow, or rocks. You also have a climbing speed of 10 feet on icy or rocky surfaces.

**Languages:** Yetis speak Common, Giant, and Yeti.

**Powerful Build:** You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

**Mountain Born:** You have resistance to cold damage. You’re also acclimated to high altitude, including elevations above 20,000 feet.

**Abominable Toughness:** All damage you take is reduced by 1.

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