

The age entry notes the age when a member of the race is considered an adult, as well as the race’s expected lifespan. Ability Score IncreaseĮvery race increases one or more of a character’s ability scores. The following entries appear among the traits of most races. The description of each race includes racial traits that are common to members of that race. It’s worthwhile to consider why your character is different, as a helpful way to think about your character’s background and personality. These details are suggestions to help you think about your character adventurers can deviate widely from the norm for their race. Each race’s description in this chapter includes inform ation to help you roleplay a character of that race, including personality, physical appearance, features of society, and racial alignment tendencies. Your character race not only affects your ability scores and traits but also provides the cues for building your character’s story. For example, a halfling could be a good choice for a sneaky rogue, a dwarf m akes a tough warrior, and an elf can be a master of arcane magic. When making this decision, keep in mind the kind of character you want to play. It establishes fundamental qualities that exist throughout your character’s adventuring career. Your choice of race affects many different aspects of your character. Drow, a subrace of elves, are also uncommon. Dragonborn, gnomes, half-elves, halforcs, and tieflings are less common as adventurers. Dwarves, elves, halflings, and humans are the most common races to produce the sort of adventurers who make up typical parties. Not every intelligent race of the multiverse is appropriate for a player - controlled adventurer. Your character belongs to one of these peoples. Humans are the most common people in the worlds of D&D, but they live and work alongside dwarves, elves, halflings, and countless other fantastic species. It will mostly consist of the stats for each race with a little bit of lore. I think it’s going to be a good campaign.In this compilation of races I will be collating all the races from the core books, the expanded collections (excluding Plane Shift), Unearthered Arcana and selected homebrews from around the internet. He spent the first fight strumming his lute while on the shoulders of the Barbarian. He’s a good sport about it and plays the Halfling like a natural. The table erupts in laughter and Jason just kind of deflates. Everyone is dead silent and Jason says, “.Halfling.like a Half-Elf right?”

I make a face and say a Halfling can’t be that y’all. Jason begins by saying his character is 5’11. As the campaign begins I have everyone introduce their characters. Make his character, describe all his Halfling traits, but I never say his size is Small. He says he wants to be a Halfling and I’m like perfect. It’s a little flustering making 6 new characters from scratch and having to explain every aspect to the players, but it’s been a great learning experience for me.īut the last person to make his character is a guy who wanted to be a Bard. But character creation goes down without a major hitch. It ended up being 6 people in total so bit of a step up from my usual player groups of four or so, but I’m adjusting. Been playing DND for a good two years now, and was approached by a few friends recently because they had interest.
