Vanaras

System: Pathfinder | SRD | Source: Advanced Race Guide

Vanaras are intelligent, monkeylike humanoids that live in deep, warm forests and lush jungles. A vanara's body is covered in a thin coat of soft fur, and individuals with chestnut, ivory, and even golden coats are common. Despite their fur, vanaras can grow lengthy hair on their head just as humans can, and both male and female vanaras take pains to wear elaborate hairstyles for important social functions. The hair on a vanara's head matches the color of its fur. All vanaras have long, prehensile tails and handlike feet capable of well-articulated movements. A vanara stands slightly shorter and weighs slightly less than a typical human.

Racial Traits

+2 Dexterity, +2 Wisdom, -2 Charisma

. Vanaras are agile and insightful, but are also rather mischievous.

Vanara

Vanaras are humanoids with the vanara subtype.

Medium

Vanaras are Medium creatures and have no bonuses or penalties due to their size.

Normal Speed

Vanaras have a base speed of 30 feet and a Climb speed of 30 feet.

Low-Light Vision

A vanara can see twice as far as a human in dim light.

Nimble

Vanaras have a +2 racial bonus on Acrobatics and Stealth checks.

Prehensile Tail

A vanara has a long, flexible tail that she can use to carry objects. She cannot wield weapons with her tail, but the tail allows her to retrieve a small, stowed object carried on her person as a swift action.

Languages

Vanaras begin play speaking Common and Vanaran. Vanaras with high Intelligence scores can choose from the following: Aklo, Celestial, Elven, Gnome, Goblin, and Sylvan.

Alternate Racial Traits

Tree Stranger

Some vanaras have spent their lives among humans in centers of learning instead of traditional treetop homes. These vanaras treat all Knowledge skills as class skills, but lose their climb speed racial trait.

Whitecape (replaces prehensile tail)

The rare whitecape vanara clans have more in common with savanna-dwelling baboons than the jungle-dwelling monkeys that most vanaras resemble. Their stooping build grants them a +4 racial bonus to CMD when resisting a bull rush or trip. These vanaras usually have a thick mane of hair on the head and shoulders (called a "cape") and shorter tails. This racial trait replaces prehensile tail.

Favored Class Options

Alchemist

Add +1/2 to the alchemist's bomb damage.

Druid

Add a +1/2 bonus on wild empathy checks and a +1/2 bonus on Handle Animal skill checks.

Fighter

Add +1 to the fighter's CMD when resisting a reposition or trip attempt.

Monk

Add a +1 bonus on Acrobatics checks made to jump.

Ranger

Add +1/4 dodge bonus to Armor Class against the ranger's favored enemies.

Rogue

The rogue gains 1/6 of a new rogue talent.

Source: Advanced Race Guide