Editing D&D 5E: Smallfolk of Dragon's Reach (section)

=== <u>Grippli</u> ===

Grippli are the least populous of the six smallfolk races of the Reach. Grippli are masters of concocting, rendering, or just collecting poisons from plants, animals, and minerals.

There's a longstanding feud between grippli and lizardfolk over the wetlands of the Dragon's Reach. The lizardfolk are fiercely territorial and hostile to trespassers, while the grippli tend to wander with the seasons and many of their traditional travel routes and dwellings are in lizardfolk territory. Who has the older and/or more rightful claim to any particular area is utterly unclear, and constantly fought over through words and weapons and diplomatic relations; the current situation is an uneasy, unsatisfying truce frequently punctuated by local skirmishes. Goblins breed giant spiders as mounts and sources of labor/materials (webbing) and milk/food.

The grippli keep a variety of domesticated giant frogs for use as steeds and beasts of burden, similar to the human use of various bovines and equines. Sometimes they're also slaughtered for meat and waterproof leather, but this is often seen as a waste of good working animals. Particularly aggressive and intelligent specimens of certain mid-sized breeds are sought after for combat-trained knightly mounts equivalent to warhorses.

* '''Weaponpaste:''' A grippli may be assumed to have created enough such substances for 1d6 uses as weapon-paste per Long Rest (doses created the previous long rest are considered to have lost their effectiveness, so these don't stack). On a successful hit, these inflict the Poisoned condition until the end of their next turn.