DM-Nastics #7: All your race are belong to us.

Going to have to read up on the race creation guidelines in the DMG before I tackle this one. Think I'll make the Ferengi when I get to it, though!

Working on White Walkers in my head. They're a tough one as they are so powerful. A lot of damage immunity and such. Hard to make them balanced as a playable race.

Ferengi

"There is nothing beyond greed. Greed is the purest, most noble of emotions." Quark

The Ferengi are a mercantile humanoid species from the land of Ferenginar. Their civilization is built on capitalism taken to its extremes, where profit is the sole meaningful goal in life. They are typically shorter than humans, with orange-brown colored skin, blue finger and toe nails, wrinkled noses, sharp teeth, and large rounded ears. 

Ability Score Increase: Your intelligence score increases by 1, and your wisdom increases by 2.
Age: Ferengi often live to be over 100 years of age, and mature at the same rate as humans.
Alignment: Though they abide by their own "Rules of Acquisition," their dealings with other species is often subversive to local law and custom. Ferengi are not typically violent, but their fixation on greed may cause others to perceive them as evil. By and large, they are neutral in regard to both axes of alignment, with a strong tendency to chaotic.
Keen Hearing: Their large ears grant Ferengi extremely sensitive hearing. They gain advantage on perception checks involving sound. (* Ferengi have disadvantage on saving throws against thunder effects, and take 1d4 psychic damage from all thunder effects and damage sources)
Hidden Mind: Ferengi have a brain with four lobes, which makes detecting their surface thoughts impossible for most telepaths. Any ability which allows for mind reading automatically fails on a Ferengi. 
Shrewd Traders: Ferengi gain deception as a bonus skill.
Eye for Value: Ferengi gain advantage on any intelligence check to appraise the value of an item.



* - suggested as an option. 5e races tend only to have advantageous features. However, Star Trek canon has demonstrated that especially loud sounds are painful to Ferengi

I really like the Ferengi stat block, and the awesome in town scenarios they could slide their way through. The Wisdom bump makes me think about how awesome a Ferengi Cleric would be to play!

Hissho

“Tradition, Honor, Victory”

The Hissho are a race of humanoid life forms that evolved from avian creatures in the early days of the world. For much of their history they existed as several tribes spread across the region they now claim as their kingdom. But in recent times have unified under a single monarch. In addition to rule from this monarch, Hissho culture follows strict ritual and protocols, holding honor of oneself and one's family being as important as one’s own life. Sacrifices especially those that deal with blood are still practiced regularly and are a large part of Hissho culture. In addition to these things Hissho feel that they are superior to all others and aim to prove this through war and combat. Being a competent warrior is very important to being a member of the Hissho kingdom.

Ability Score Increases: Your STR and DEX increase by 1 each, or you can increase either STR or DEX by 2.
Age: Mature at the same rate as humans and live to be about 200.
Alignment: You lean towards lawful, as honor and protocol were a large part of your culture.

Racial Abilities

Keen Vision - Due to being evolved from avian creature you have very keen eyesight and gain advantage on in perception check involving sight.

Ranged Experts - You gain proficiency with all ranged weapons.

Death before Dishonor - If you fail 2 death saving throws and will die, you can make one final attack against any target of your choice. You can choose to attack yourself. 

Languages: Common, Hissho

Warning: I made this really long so it definetly needs tinkering. Advice Highly welcome. well here goes:

Argonians-

Ability Scores- Argonians tend to be very nimble and tough. They gain a +2 to dex and a +1 to Con

Water Breath- Argonians are born with gills and therefore have the ability to breath underwater for long periods without needing to come up for air.

Cold Blooded- Argonians are reptillian in nature and are effected by their climate. The have disadvantage on survival rolls in cold climates and lose 5ft of movement speed when chilled.

Instinctual Thieves- Argonians have a natural affinity for all things roguish and have proficiency in sleight of hand and stealth checks.

Addictive Personality- Argonians tend to have difficulty not endulging desires especially when it comes to drugs and drink. They tend to have some addiction starting out whether that be to ale or skooma.(Make a roll on the drug table or create your own)

Rough Hands- Argonians can use their hands as natural weapons which do 1d6 as though they were proficient with unarmed strike.

Proficiencies- Light Armor, Unarmed Strike, Scimitars, Daggers, and Cutlass's

Tough Skinned- Argonians have proficiency on saves against disease.

Alignment- Argonians tend to be Chaotic aligned but don't lean toward evil or good generally. They are usually tricksters but sometimes this escalates to them becoming assassins or Pirates.

Size- They are Medium and are generally similar in size and weight to humans.

Age- Argonians true capacity for lifespan is unknown because they all generally die of drug overdoses or due to making enemies of people stronger then them. They reach adulthood around 25 and are believed to live upwards of 130 years.

Drugs-
1 Crystals- arcane crystals from long broken magical artifacts that when swallowed give you some random effect(i didnt make a table for this but think some are cursed and some are not) they are difficult to come by and must be taken around twice a month or else the user will suffer night terrors and be unable to complete a full rest. The effect lasts about 3 hours and when the gem is "passed" 8 hours or more later its effect tends to change. They are reusable in that sense. If taken more frequently they will cause the user to be more likely to get negative effects on the table.(1-5 are good 6-10 are bad and if taken to iften would add +2 to rolls meaning bad things are more likely).
2 Caps- A common mushroom found in the forest which grants its user insane strength for a short time. Someone using caps gains 10 minutes of a strength score equal to 20 however when it wears off their stats all drop down to 10 for 30 minutes. Caps can only be used once a day or risk overdose and must be taken every other day in order to retain an immunity to te toxins also found in caps. If immunity is lost the user will not be able to move for a full day until the neuro toxin wears off
3 Ale- No great bonus but also not great minus other then an addiction to ale which when over consumed causes nausea and disconcertedness
4 Skooma- Skooma is a drug that gives its user the ability to subtract up to 3 from their roll to hit and add it to their attack damage. However, when taking skooma roll a d8 if the out come is a 1 the user falls to the ground and begins to convulse for 1d8+3 rounds. If the roll is an 8 the user gets advantage on rolls to hit when using the effect. The effect lasts 3 rounds of combat. Skooma can be used twice per day as a maximum but if used twice the users long rest time is 4 hours longer. Skooma is common but if prepared wrong can be deadly.
5 Dice- Look identical to a sugar cube with a taste to match. The user takes a minus 3 to all rolls witha d20 but also adds 1d6 to the roll. This drug which is commonly found in gambling halls is the drug of choice for anyone who likes to take chances. It is however highly addictive and tends to cost a pretty penny. If this habit is not maintained the user starts to lose feeling in their fingers. They lose 1 dex a day if they don't keep up their habit. Their dex returns to normal once they resume using.
6 Rocks- A coarse mineral discovered by the dwarves in the ground. Primarily used in non-magical healing Rocks is the street name for a mineral cal Taldimite. When ingested the user gains temporary hit points equal to their con modifier+3. However, creatures who use this dug recreationally also gain ancient knowledge from the earth and therefore have proficiency on all relevant intelligence based skills. The big negative to Rocks is that if overused it effects intelligence and memory. Users have a permanent -2 to int when addicted to this drug which increases to a -3 if in withdrawel.

Ok so, I tried to use the drug table to balance out all the good traits but I may have gone a but overkill. Let me know if you think the race needs any changes, a nerf, or a buff. i personalky think a nerf is in order but since I typed it all up I'm going to post it all and see what people do and don't like.

I think this is well done. The only thing that I would suggest is to tighten up the drugs section to be more akin to the length of the choices in the background sections (i.e. Ideals, Bonds, etc.) I think that it works well though as a one off as the Drugs need more explanation as they can't be referenced to as would be available in a larger piece of work. 

Also, how did you come to equate Tough Skinned to give proficiency to Save Against Diseases? I only ask because the Kree also have tough skin, but I couldn't figure out how to mechanically make that happen.