Choosing a Race

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. Your character belongs to one of these peoples.

Not every intelligent race of the multiverse is appropriate for a player-controlled adventurer. Dwarves, Elves, Halflings, and Humans are the most common races to produce the sort of adventurers who make up typical parties. Other races and subraces are less common as adventurers.

Your choice of race affects many different aspects of your character. It establishes fundamental qualities that exist throughout your character's adventuring career. When making this decision, keep in mind the kind of character you want to play. For example, a Halfling could be a good choice for a sneaky rogue, a dwarf makes a tough warrior, and an Elf can be a master of arcane magic.

Your character race not only affects your ability scores and traits but also provides the cues for building your character's story. Each race's description in this chapter includes information to help you roleplay a character of that race, including personality, physical appearance, features of society, and racial alignment tendencies.

Short and Stout

Bold and hardy, Dwarves are known as skilled warriors, miners, and workers of stone and metal. Though they stand well under 5 feet tall, Dwarves are so broad and compact that they can weigh as much as a Human standing nearly two feet taller. Their courage and endurance are also easily a match for any of the larger folk.

Dwarven skin ranges from deep brown to a paler hue tinged with red, but the most common shades are light brown or deep tan, like certain tones of earth.

Their hair, worn long but in simple styles, is usually black, gray, or brown, though paler Dwarves often have red hair. Male Dwarves value their beards highly and groom them carefully.

Long Memory, Long Grudges

Dwarves can live to be more than 400 years old, so the oldest living Dwarves often remember a very different world.

For example, some of the oldest Dwarves living in Bal-Bofgal can recall the day, more than three centuries ago, when Orcs conquered the fortress and drove them into an exile that lasted over 250 years. This longevity grants them a perspective on the world that shorter-lived races such as Humans and Halflings lack.

Dwarves are solid and enduring like the mountains they love, weathering the passage of centuries with stoic endurance and little change. They respect the traditions of their clans, tracing their ancestry back to the founding of their most ancient strongholds in the youth of the world, and don't abandon those traditions lightly.

Part of those traditions is devotion to the gods of the Dwarves, who uphold the Dwarven ideals of industrious labor, skill in battle, and devotion to the forge.

Individual Dwarves are determined and loyal, true to their word and decisive in action, sometimes to the point of stubbornness. Many Dwarves have a strong sense of justice, and they are slow to forget wrongs they have suffered.

A wrong done to one Dwarf is a wrong done to the Dwarf's entire clan, so what begins as one Dwarf's hunt for vengeance can become a full-blown clan feud.

Clans and Kingdoms

Dwarven kingdoms stretch deep beneath the mountains where the Dwarves mine gems and precious metals and forge items of wonder.

They love the beauty and artistry of precious metals and fine jewelry, and in some Dwarves this love festers into avarice. Whatever wealth they can't find in their mountains, they gain through trade.

They dislike boats, so enterprising Humans and Halflings frequently handle trade in Dwarven goods along water routes. Trustworthy members of other races are welcome in Dwarf settlements, though some areas are often off limits.

Slow to Trust

Dwarves get along passably well with most other races. "The difference between an acquaintance and a friend is about a hundred years," is a Dwarf saying that might be hyperbole, but certainly points to how difficult it can be for a member of a short-lived race like Humans to earn a Dwarf's trust.

Elves. "It's not wise to depend on the Elves. They're flighty and frivolous. Two things to be said for them, though: They don't have many smiths, but the ones they have do very fine work. And when Orcs or Goblins come streaming down out of the mountains, an Elf's good to have at your back. Not as good as a Dwarf, maybe, but no doubt they hate the Orcs as much as we do."

Halflings. "Sure, they're pleasant folk. But show me a Halfling hero. An empire, a triumphant army. Even a treasure for the ages made by Halfling hands. Nothing. How can you take them seriously?"

Humans. "You take the time to get to know a human, and by then the human's on her deathbed. If you're lucky, she's got kin — a daughter or granddaughter, maybe — who's got hands and heart as good as hers. That's when you can make a Human friend. And watch them go! They set their hearts on something, they'll get it, whether it's a dragon's hoard or an empire's throne. You have to admire that kind of dedication, even if it gets them in trouble more often than not."

Hill Dwarves

Hill Dwarves are accustomed to a life close to, or a part of, the surface world as well as the other races that live there. Usually less strict in their traditions, they have an easier time interacting with foreign cultures and integrating themselves into mixed societies.

As such, Hill Dwarves seem to have an easier time enjoying the fruits of their labor rather than merely the labor itself. They like to laugh and celebrate and, for many, life is meant to be enjoyed and good fortune is meant to be shared with friends and family.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.

Dwarven Armor Training. You have proficiency with light and medium armor.

Sure of Foot. Your base walking speed is increased to 30 feet and nonmagical difficult terrain doesn’t cost you additional movement in mountainous or rocky terrain.

Cunning Traveler. When selecting a type of artisan's tool to benefit from your Cunning Artisan trait, you may choose an additional tool from the following list: Cobbler’s Tools, Cook’s Utensils, or Weaver’s Tools.

Coastal Dwarves

Not all Dwarvenkind dwell in deep or high places, leading insular lives amongst those of their own kind. Instead, some Dwarven clans have chosen to take to the seas.

With a mastery of the ocean and its many bounties, Coastal Dwarves have always found a sense of solace within the heavy winds and rough waves of an oceanic life. Few Coastal Dwarves spend their entire lives in any one place. The sea is their mistress and she calls them to her as sailors, fishermen, and traders alike.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Skilled Sailor. You have proficiency in the Athletics skill and Water Vehicles.

Sea Legs. You have advantage on ability checks and saving throws you make to avoid or end the grappled condition on yourself. Additionally, while traveling, you have advantage on Constitution saving throws made to resist exhaustion.

Cunning Shiphand. When selecting a type of artisan's tool to benefit from your Cunning Artisan trait, you may choose an additional tool from the following list: Carpenter’s Tools, Cartographer’s Tools, or Navigator’s Tools.

Forge Dwarves

Forge Dwarves are one with the flame. Touched by the Elemental Plane of Fire, their very souls are imbued with the heat of the furnaces wherein Dwarves work their steel.

Like fire, Forge Dwarves are wild, intense and passionate. Like their ancestral, elemental kin, The Azer, they choose to live, laugh, and love with an utter wildness and endless ferocity, for the heat of the moment never lasts and, if you wait too long, your flame may soon begin to dim.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Inner Flame. You have resistance to fire damage. Additionally, you have adapted to hot environments as described in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide.

Fine Artisan. When selecting a type of artisan's tool to benefit from your Cunning Artisan trait, you may choose an additional tool from the following list: Glassblower’s tools, Potter's Tools, or Woodcarver's Tools.

Illumination. Your fiery form naturally sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. You can choose to suppress these flames as a bonus action and may do so for a number of hours equal to your Proficiency Bonus. Additionally, you can light a small fire using any flammable object that you can touch as an object interaction.

Slender and Graceful

With their unearthly grace and fine features, Elves appear hauntingly beautiful to Humans and members of many other races. They are slightly shorter than Humans on average, ranging from well under 5 feet tall to just over 6 feet.

They are more slender than Humans, weighing only 100 to 145 pounds. Males and females are about the same height, and males are only marginally heavier than females.

Elves' coloration encompasses the normal Human range and also includes skin in shades of copper, bronze, and almost bluish-white, hair of green or blue, and eyes like pools of liquid gold or silver. Elves have no facial and little body hair. They favor elegant clothing in bright colors, and they enjoy simple yet lovely jewelry.

A Timeless Perspective

Elves can live well over 700 years, giving them a broad perspective on events that might trouble the shorter lived races more deeply, They are more often amused than excited, and more likely to be curious than greedy.

They tend to remain aloof and unfazed by happenstance. When pursuing a goal, however, whether adventuring on a mission or learning a new skill or art, Elves can be focused and relentless. They are slow to make friends and enemies, and even slower to forget them. They reply to petty insults with disdain and to serious insults with vengeance.

Like the branches of a young tree, Elves are flexible in the face of danger. They trust in diplomacy and compromise to resolve differences before they escalate to violence.

They have been known to retreat from intrusions into their woodland homes, confident that they can simply wait the invaders out. But when the need arises, Elves reveal a stern martial side, demonstrating skill with sword, bow, and strategy.

Hidden Woodland Elves

Most Elves dwell in small forest villages hidden among the trees. Elves hunt game, gather food, and grow vegetables, and their skill and magic allow them to support themselves without the need for clearing and plowing land.

They are talented artisans, crafting finely worked clothes and works of art. Their contact with outsiders is usually limited, though some make a good living by trading crafted items for metals (which they have no interest in mining).

Elves encountered outside their own lands are commonly traveling minstrels, artists, or sages. Human nobles compete for the services of Elf instructors to teach swordplay or magic to their children.

Exploration and Adventure

Elves take up adventuring out of wanderlust. Since they are so long-lived, they can enjoy centuries of exploration and discovery. They dislike the pace of Human society, which is regimented from day to day but constantly changing over decades, so they find careers that let them travel freely and set their own pace.

Elves also enjoy exercising their martial prowess or gaining greater magical power, and adventuring allows them to do so. Some might join with rebels fighting against oppression, and others might become champions of moral causes.

Wood Elves

Often referred to as Wild Elves, the Wood Elves stand a step closer to the world of the fey than their kin, giving them more primal features and a wild look within their eyes.

Finding a home within the ancient trees once planted by their ancestors, Wood Elves are considered to be much more isolated than the other Elven races, having no true desire to explore the likes of mankind's newfound role in this world.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Wood Elf Training. You can speak, read, and write Sylvan and you have proficiency with shortbows and longbows. Once per turn, when you hit with an attack using one of these weapons, you can choose to deal additional damage equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Fleet of Foot. Your have proficiency in the Stealth skill and your base walking speed is increased to 35 feet. Additionally, when traveling for an extended period of time, you can move stealthily at a normal pace (See chapter 8 of the Player's Handbook for information about travel pace).

Mask of the Wild. You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena. Additionally, when traveling through heavily forested or jungled environments, you can move across nonmagical difficult terrain without expending extra movement and you may ignore half cover created by the natural environment.

Haughty but Gracious

Although they can be haughty, Elves are generally gracious even to those who fall short of their high expectations which is most non-Elves. Still, they can find good in just about anyone.

Dwarves. "Dwarves are dull, clumsy oafs. But what they lack in humor, sophistication, and manners, they make up in valor. And I must admit, their best smiths produce art that approaches Elven quality."

Halflings. "Halflings are people of simple pleasures, and that is not a quality to scorn. they're good folk, they care for each other and tend their gardens, and they have proven themselves tougher than they seem when the need arises."

Humans. "All that haste, their ambitions and drive to accomplish something before their brief lives pass away - Human endeavors seem so futile sometimes. But then you look at what they have accomplished, and you have to appreciate their achievements. If only they could slow down and learn some refinement."

The Darkness of the Drow

To most, they are a race of demon-worshipping marauders dwelling in the subterranean depths of the Underdark, emerging only on the blackest nights to pillage and slaughter the surface dwellers they despise.

Drow grow up believing that surface-dwelling races are inferior, worthless except as slaves. Drow who develop a conscience or find it necessary to cooperate with members of other races find it hard to overcome that prejudice, especially when they are so often on the receiving end of hatred.

Sea Elves

Many years ago, the ancient Elven tribes now known as the Sea Elves fell in love with the vast beauty of the ocean.

While other Elves traveled from realm to realm, Sea Elves navigated the deepest currents and explored the waters across a hundred worlds. Today, they live in small, hidden communities in the ocean shallows and on the Elemental Plane of Water.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.

Darkvision. Accustomed to the depths of the oceans, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Sea Elf Training. You can speak, read, and write Aquan you have proficiency with shortpears, longspears, and tridents. Once per turn, when you hit with an attack using one of these weapons, you can choose to deal additional damage equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Children of the Sea. You have a swimming speed equal of 35 feet, you can breathe air and water, and you have resistance to cold damage.

Friend of the Sea. Aquatic animals have an extraordinary affinity with your people. Through sounds and gestures, you can communicate simple ideas with any beast that has an innate swimming speed. They can understand the meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return. You have advantage on all Wisdom and Charisma checks you make to influence them.

Vibrant Expression

A Gnome's energy and enthusiasm for living shines through every inch of his or her tiny body. Gnomes average slightly over 3 feet tall and weigh 40 to 45 pounds.

Their tan or brown faces are usually adorned with broad smiles (beneath their prodigious noses), and their bright eyes shine with excitement. Their fair hair has a tendency to stick out in every direction, as if expressing the Gnome's insatiable interest in everything around.

Delighted Dedication

As far as Gnomes are concerned, being alive is a wonderful thing, and they squeeze every ounce of enjoyment out of their three to five centuries of life.

Humans might wonder about getting bored over the course of such a long life, and Elves take plenty of time to savor the beauties of the world in their long years, but Gnomes seem to worry that even with all that time, they can't get in enough of the things they want to do and see.

Gnomes speak as if they can't get the thoughts out of their heads fast enough. Even as they offer ideas and opinions on a range of subjects, they still manage to listen carefully to others, adding the appropriate exclamations of surprise and appreciation along the way.

Though Gnomes love jokes of all kinds, particularly puns and pranks, they're just as dedicated to the more serious tasks they undertake. Many Gnomes are skilled engineers, alchemists, tinkers, and inventors. They're willing to make mistakes and laugh at themselves in the process of perfecting what they do, taking bold (sometimes foolhardy) risks and dreaming large.

Bright Burrows

Gnomes make their homes in hilly, wooded lands. They live underground but get more fresh air than Dwarves do, enjoying the natural, living world on the surface whenever they can. Their homes are well hidden by both clever construction and simple illusions.

Welcome visitors are quickly ushered into the bright, warm burrows. Those who are not welcome are unlikely to find the burrows in the first place.

Gnomes who settle in Human lands are commonly gemcutters, engineers, sages, or tinkers. Some Human families retain Gnome tutors, ensuring that their pupils enjoy a mix of serious learning and delighted enjoyment. A Gnome might tutor severaI generations of a single Human family over the course of his or her long life.

Seeing the World

Curious and impulsive, Gnomes might take up adventuring as a way to see the world or for the love of exploring.

As lovers of gems and other fine items, some Gnomes take to adventuring as a quick, if dangerous, path to wealth. Regardless of what spurs them to adventure, Gnomes who adopt this way of life eke as much enjoyment out of it as they do out of any other activity they undertake, sometimes to the great annoyance of their adventuring companions.

Gnome Names

Gnomes love names, and most have half a dozen or so. A Gnome's mother, father, clan elder, aunts, and uncles each give the Gnome a name, and various nicknames from just about everyone else might or might not stick over time.

Male Names: Alston, Alvyn, Boddynock, Brocc, Burgell,

Dimble, Eldon, Erky, Fonkin, Frug, Gerbo, Gimble,

Glim,Jebeddo, Kellen, Namfoodle, Orryn, Roondar,

Seebo, Sindri, Warryn, Wrenn, Zook
Female Names: Bimpnollin, Breena, Caramip, Carlin,

Donella, Duvamil, ElIa, ElIyjobell, ElIywick, Lilli,

Loopmottin, Lorilla, Mardnab, Nissa, Nyx, Oda, Orla,

Roywyn, Shamil, Tana, Waywocket, Zanna
Clan Names: Beren, Daergel, Folkor, Garrick, Nackle,

Murnig, Ningel, Raulnor, Scheppen, Timbers, Turen
Nicknames: Ashhearth, Badger, Cloak, Doublelock,

Fnipper, Nim, Oneshoe, Pock, Sparklegem, Stumble

Salt Gnomes

A seafaring people with a love of the stars, Salt Gnomes are said to have long left the sandy shores of their past in favor of a life led by the endless adventures of the sea and stars alike.

Intimately connected to the night sky, Salt Gnomes are masters of divination and are known to chart stars and the various celestial bodies within the night sky in order to peer beyond the veils of the material realm and foretell the course of the strings of fate.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.

Ocean Guide. You know the guidance cantrip. You can use Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma (your choice) as your spellcasting ability when casting this spell.

Natural Recall. You always know which direction is north, and you have advantage on any Wisdom (Survival) check you make to navigate or track.

Star Gazer You have proficiency with Navigator's Tools and Water Vehicles. Additionally, you have learned to use these tools for a unique form of astrological divination.

If you have a clear view of the night sky, you can use these tools to study the movements of the celestial bodies over the course of a long rest. By charting their paths and performing a ritual of divination, you may predict the course of fate itself. Roll a d20 and record the roll. Once before the end of your next long rest, when you roll that number on a d20, you may choose to treat the roll as a natural 20. If the recorded roll is a natural 20, you may instead choose to replace a single roll with the natural 20 recorded.

Deep Gnomes

Known as the Deep Gnomes to most, the Svirfneblin are a race of tricksters and thieves living deep within the many dangers of the Underdark.

Unlike the Duergar and the Drow, Svirfneblin are just as good as their surface cousins, if a little bit more chaotic at heart. Despite the intense hostility of their surroundings, they have maintained a genuine love for this world, choosing to fill it with humor and levity where others would not.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Superior Darkvision. Accustomed to life underground, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 90 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Svirfneblin Camouflage. When you make a Dexterity (Stealth) check, you can make the check with advantage. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Alchemical Crafter. You have proficiency with Alchemist's Supplies. Using these tools, you can spend 10 GP worth of materials over the course of a long rest to craft a number of alchemical concoctions equal to your Proficiency Bonus. These concoctions last until your next long rest and a creature can use a bonus action to consume one, gaining temporary hit points equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

Svirfneblin Magic. You know the magic stone cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you learn the disguise self spell and can cast it once with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you also learn the magic aura spell and can cast it once with this trait. Once you cast either of these spells with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Sunlight Sensitivity. Your affinity for the depths has left you vulnerable when traveling the surface world. You have a -2 to attack rolls, Spell Save DCs, Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight, and your Passive Perception score when you, the target of your attacks or spells, or whatever you are trying to perceive are in direct sunlight.

Additionally, you can only spend a limited number of hours in direct sunlight, equal to 1 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 30 minutes), before having to take a short rest within a shaded area to recover. For every additional hour you spend in direct sunlight, you must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + Number of hours in the sun) or take a level of exhaustion.

At the highest mountain peaks—far above the slopes where trees grow and where the air is thin and the frigid winds howl—dwell the reclusive Goliaths. Few folk can claim to have seen a Goliath, and fewer still can claim friendship with one.

Goliaths wander a bleak realm of rock, wind, and cold. Their bodies look as if they are carved from mountain stone and give them great physical power. Their spirits take after the wandering wind, making them nomads who wander from peak to peak.

Survival of the Fittest

Among Goliaths, any adult who can't contribute to the tribe is expelled. A lone Goliath has little chance of survival, especially an older or weaker one. Goliaths have little pity for adults who can't take care of themselves, though a sick or injured individual is treated, as a result of the Goliath concept of fair play.

A permanently injured Goliath is still expected to pull his or her weight in the tribe. Typically, such a Goliath dies attempting to keep up, or the Goliath slips away in the night to seek the cold will of fate.

In some ways, the Goliath drive to outdo themselves feeds into the grim inevitability of their decline and death. A Goliath would much rather die in battle, at the peak of strength and skill, than endure the slow decay of old age.

Few folk have ever meet an elderly Goliath, and even those Goliaths who have left their people grapple with the urge to give up their lives as their physical skills decay.

Because of their risk-taking, Goliath tribes suffer from a chronic lack of the experience offered by longterm leaders. They hope for innate wisdom in their leadership, for they can rarely count on a wisdom grown with age.

Squats, Half-Bred, Muls

Depending on who you talk to, a Half-Dwarf may look like a short stocky hairless Human or a tall, beardless Dwarf. In Human communities, Half-Dwarves are often called "Squats", in reference to their stout builds and mixed heritage. Among Dwarves, they are called "Muls" or, more derogatorily, "Half-Breeds". In either case, the life of a Half-Dwarf is often filled with ridicule, disdain, or worst of all, pity. As a result, Half-Dwarves tend to be loners and are focused on proving themselves through quiet deed rather than word.

By Hammer, Axe, or Blade

Half-Dwarves often find fulfillment through work that others might consider menial, and especially delight in excelling in crafts typically favoured by their Dwarven heritage. They are consummate stone-workers, smiths, and brewers. Those that embrace their Human side often find work as lumberjacks, woodcarvers, and carpenters.

Half-Dwarf Names

Half-Dwarves use Human or Dwarven naming conventions, depending on where they were raised, though it is common for them to acquire nicknames in either Dwarven or common, depending on which heritage they gravitate towards, as they grow older.

Half-Dwarf Traits

Your Half-Dwarf character has some qualities in common with Dwarves and some that are unique to Half-Dwarves.

Ability Score Increases. Your Constitution score increases by 2 and two other ability scores of your choice increase by 1.

Age. Half-Dwarves mature the same as Humans, reach adulthood around the age of 20, and often live over 200 years.

Size. A Half-Dwarf is taller than a Dwarf, and bulkier than a Human, standing at 5 to 6 feet tall and weighing between 240-300 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. Your speed is not reduced by wearing heavy armour.

Low-Light Vision. Accustomed to life underground, you have superior vision in dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light.

Skilled Versatility. You have proficiency in two skills of your choice.

Dwarven Resilience. You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance against poison damage.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, Dwarvish, and one additional language of your choice.

Subrace. Like their Dwarven kin, there exist five subraces of Half-Dwarves, one for each of the Dwarven races.

Half Mountain Dwarves

Dwarven Toughness. Your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a level.

Of Many Trades. You have proficiency with two of the following tools of your choice: Brewer’s Supplies, Mason’s Tools, Jeweler's Tools, or Smith’s Tools.

Half Hill Dwarves

Dwarven Armor Training. You have proficiency with light and medium armor.

Cunning Traveler. You have proficiency with one of the following tools of your choice: Cobbler’s Tools, Cook’s Utensils, or Weaver’s Tools.

Half Coastal Dwarves

Sea Legs. You have advantage on ability checks and saving throws you make to avoid or end the grappled condition on yourself. Additionally, while traveling, you have advantage on Constitution saving throws made to resist exhaustion.

Cunning Shiphand. You have proficiency with one of the following tools of your choice: Carpenter’s Tools, Cartographer’s Tools, or Navigator’s Tools.

Half Stone Dwarves

Psionic Fortitude. You have advantage on all ability checks made to reveal the true nature of an illusion and to avoid or end the charmed or petrified conditions on yourself.

Crazed Artisan. You have proficiency with one of the following tools of your choice: Alchemist's Supplies, Tinker's Tools, or Poisoner's Kit.

Half Forge Dwarves

Inner Flame. You have resistance to fire damage. Additionally, you have adapted to hot environments as described in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide.

Fine Artisan. You have proficiency with one of the following tools of your choice: Glassblower’s tools, Potter's Tools, or Woodcarver's Tools.

Of Two Worlds

To Humans, Half-Elves look like Elves, and to Elves, they look human. In height, they're on par with both parents, though they're neither as slender as Elves nor as broad as Humans. They range from under 5 feet to about 6 feet tall, and from 100 to 180 pounds, with men only slightly taller and heavier than women.

Half-Elf men do have facial hair, and sometimes grow beards to mask their Elven ancestry. Half-Elven coloration and features lie, somewhere between their Human and Elf parents, and thus show a variety even more pronounced than that found among either race. They tend to have the eyes of their Elven parents.

Diplomats or Wanderers

Half-Elves have no lands of their own, though they are welcome in Human cities and somewhat less welcome in Elven forests. In large cities in regions where Elves and Humans interact often, Half-Elves are sometimes numerous enough to form small communities of their own.

They enjoy the company of other Half-Elves, the only people who truly understand what it is to live between these two worlds. In most parts of the world, though, Half-Elves are uncommon enough that one might live for years without meeting another.

Some prefer to avoid company altogether, wandering the wilds as foresters, hunters, or adventurers and rarely visiting civilization. Others, in contrast, throw themselves into the thick of society, putting their charisma and social skills to great use in diplomatic roles or as swindlers.

Half-Elf Names

Half-Elves use either Human or Elven naming conventions. As if to emphasize that they don't really fit in to either society, Half-Elves raised among Humans are often given Elven names, and those raised among Elves often take Human names.

Excellent Ambassadors

Many Half-Elves learn at an early age to get along with everyone, defusing hostility and finding common ground. As a race, they have Elven grace without Elven aloofness and Human energy without Human boorishness.

Green Half-Orcs

Savage Attacks. When you hit roll the highest value on a weapon's damage die, you may roll the die an additional time and add the result to your total damage. If you roll the highest value on the additional damage die, you gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

Gray Half-Orcs

Natural Mountaineer. Your base walking speed is increased to 35 feet and nonmagical difficult terrain doesn’t cost you additional movement in mountainous or rocky terrain.

Additionally, whenever you make a Strength (Athletics) check related to climbing or jumping, you are considered proficient in the given check. If you are already proficient in the Athletics skill, you may instead add double your Proficiency Bonus to the check.

Red Half-Orcs

Adrenaline Rush. You can take the Dash action as a bonus action. Whenever you use this trait, you gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Deep Half-Orcs

Deep Magic. You know the resistance cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you learn the compelled duel spell and can cast it once with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you also learn the silence spell and can cast it once with this trait. Once you cast either of these spells with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Small and Practical

The diminutive Halflings survive in a world full of larger creatures by avoiding notice or, barring that, avoiding offense.

Standing about 3 feet tall, they appear relatively harmless and so have managed to survive for centuries in the shadow of empires and on the edges of wars and political strife. They are inclined to be stout, weighing between 40 and 45 pounds.

Halflings' skin ranges from tan to pale with a ruddy cast, and their hair is usually brown or sandy brown and wavy. They have brown or hazel eyes.

Halfling men often sport long sideburns, but beards are rare among them and mustaches even more so. They like to wear simple, comfortable, and practical clothes, favoring bright colors.

Halfling practicality extends beyond their clothing. They're concerned with basic needs and simple pleasures and have little use for ostentation.

Even the wealthiest of Halflings keep their treasures locked in a cellar rather than on display for all to see. They have a knack for finding the most straightforward solution to a problem, and have little patience for dithering.

Kind and Curious

Halflings are an affable and cheerful people. They cherish the bonds of family and friendship as well as the comforts of hearth and home, harboring few dreams of gold or glory.

Even adventurers among them usually venture into the world for reasons of community, friendship, wanderlust, or curiosity. They love discovering new things, even simple things, such as an exotic food or an unfamiliar style of clothing.

Halflings are easily moved to pity and hate to see any living thing suffer. They are generous, happily sharing what they have even in lean times.

Blend into the Crowd

Halflings are adept at fitting into a community of Humans, Dwarves, or Elves, making themselves valuable and welcome. The combination of their inherent stealth and their unassuming nature helps Halflings to avoid unwanted attention.

Exploring Opportunities

Halflings usually set out on the adventurer's path to defend their communities, support their friends, or explore a wide and wonder-filled world. For them, adventuring is less a career than an opportunity or sometimes a necessity.

Ghostwise Halflings

Ghostwise Halflings descend from a peoples that have long since left a life of passivity behind in favor of supernal intrigue, occult exploration, and spiritual understanding.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Occult Education. You have proficiency in your choice of two of the following skills: Arcana, History, Insight, Nature, or Religion.

Telepathy. You can telepathically communicate with any creature you can see within 30 feet. You don’t need to share a language, but the target must speak at least one language to respond, which it may do as a reaction. You can only communicate with one creature at a time.

Ghostwise Magics. You know the thaumaturgy cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you learn the command spell and can cast it once with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you also learn the silence spell and can cast it once with this trait. Once you cast either spell with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Small and Shrewd

Goblin lairs are challenging to maneuver by design. They festoon their lairs with alarms designed to signal the arrival of intruders.

These lairs are also riddled with narrow tunnel and bolt-holes that Human-sized creatures can't navigate, but which Goblins can crawl through with ease, allowing them to flee or to circle around and surprise their enemies.

Goblins are taught from the day they're born to construct jury-rig traps from anything at their disposal and as such are able to engineer traps out of even the most minimal of materials. These contriances aren't always the most predictable or lasting mechanisms in existence, but they do the job well enough.

Worshippers of Maglubiyet

Maglubiyet the Mighty One, the Lord of Depths and Darkness, is the greater god of goblinoids.

Envisioned by most Goblins as an eleven-foot-tall battle-scarred goblin with black skin and fire erupting from his eyes, he is worshipped not out of adoration but fear. Goblins believe that when they die in battle, their spirits join the ranks of Maglubiyet's army on the plane of Archeron.

Malicious Leaders

Goblins are ruled by the strongest or the smartest among them. A goblin boss might command a single lair, while a goblin king or queen (who is nothing more than a glorified goblin boss) would rule hundreds of Goblins, spread out among multiple lairs to ensure the tribe's survival.

Goblin bosses are easily ousted, and many goblin tribes are taken over by nearby rival tribes. If ever a leader shows weakness in front of his clan, another ambitious goblin is there to take his place (after slitting his throat of course).

Goblin Names

A goblin's name consists of a given name and a tribe name. A tribe name is of exponentially greater importance than a given name. A goblin who loses his or her tribe name is a shame to all around him or her.

Male Names: Argo, Berk, Bilik, Boorgub, Chuffy, Churkus,

Drubbus, Erytulk, Gawg, Ghorg, Gobber, Graz, Gryxt,

Irnk, Kavak, Lunthus, Mogawg, Murch,Nurpus, Pogus,

Poog, Ronk, Rotfoot, Unk, Vogun, Zogmaggle, Zord
Female Names: Aka, Chee, Elva, Fevva, Geedra, Gretcha,

Hoglob, Janka, Klongy, Luckums, Lupi, Medge, Namby,

Nyk, Olba, Rempy, Reta, Ruxi, Vruta, Yalla, Ziku
Tribe Names: Big Belly, Blacktooth, Brikklext, Chalarstaukh,

Broken Bones, Dwarfbane, One Ears, Grodd, Flatbacks,

Kreeth, Longpoles, Red Fangs, Scab Eaters, Shining,

Spearbiters, Warpaws, Winterborne, Yellow Skin

Swamp Goblins

After learning the ways of the swamp, Swamp Goblins have adapted by literally growing gills and webbed appendages over the course of generations within these lands. With a naturally slimy exterior and skittish nature, these Goblins are hard to corner, especially within their preferred environment of the swampy lands they call home.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Swamp Adaptation. You have a swimming speed equal to 35 feet and you can breathe air and water. Additionally, you have advantage on any Dexterity (Stealth) check you make while you are submerged in water.

Slippery Swimmers. While submerged in water, you can move across nonmagical difficult terrain without expending extra movement. Additionally, you have advantage on all ability checks and saving throws made to resist being grappled.

Frost Goblins

Taller and a bit less deranged than most of their kin, Frost Goblins are thought to have been civilized by the prismatic lights of the north. Having devoted themselves to the strange magics of these lights, the Frost Goblins are well known for the devious tricks that they play upon unsuspecting victims.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Arctic Adaptation. You have resistance to cold damage and you are naturally adapted to cold climates, as described in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master's Guide.

Blessing of the Aurora. You know the dancing lights cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you learn the disguise self spell and can cast it once with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you also learn the blur spell and can cast it once with this trait. Once you cast either spell with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Sneaky and Devious

Goblins are not trustworthy, they cannot afford to be. They are suspicious of others and tend to look for any advantage they can. They will lie, cheat, and steal from others with little regard to consequences.

Dwarves. "Dwarves are always so angry and serious. And they are always looking to kill you over absolutely nothing! Kill them first or keep clear, unless you outnumber them by at least two to one. Be ready to run if you ever see them raech for their axe."

Halflings. "They are so boring! And dumb. At least they usually aren't out to kill us like everyone else. They can more or less take a joke, but they'll fall for every trick in the book and still keep that dumb smiled plastered on their faces."

Brutal Civility

Hobgoblins hold themselves to high standards of military honor. The race has a long history of shared traditions, recorded and retold to keep the knowledge fresh for new generations. When Hobgoblins aren’t waging war, they farm, they build, and they practice both martial and arcane arts.

These trappings of civil society do little to conceal an underlying brutality that Hobgoblins practice on each other and perfect upon other races. Punishment for infractions of Hobgoblin law are swift and merciless. Beauty is something Hobgoblins associate only with images of conflict and warfare.

The iron grip their philosophy holds on their hearts blinds Hobgoblins to the accomplishments of other peoples. Hobgoblins have little appreciation or patience for art. They leave little space for joy or leisure in their lives, and thus have no reserves of faith to call upon when in dire straits.

Rank, Status, and Title

As in any strict military hierarchy, every Hobgoblin in a legion has a rank, from the warlord down through a cadre of officers to the soldiers that make up most of its number.

A legion is organized into units called banners, each one made up of a group of interrelated families. Members of a banner live, work, and fight together, and each banner has a separate status within the legion that is reflected in the power of its officers. For instance, the captains of the highest-ranking banners can expect their orders to be followed by the captains of any banners of lower rank.

Rank and responsibility aren’t necessarily commensurate from one legion to another or even between banners in the same legion. A phalanx of foot soldiers led by a captain in one legion might be two hundred strong, while in another such a force numbers just twenty. One banner might have four warriors mounted on worgs led by a fist, while a fist in another banner of the same legion might lead ten mounted warriors. If any rank doesn’t serve a purpose in the legion, the warlord eliminates it from the hierarchy to maximize efficiency.

Honor Bound, By Glory Crowned

Advancement in rank comes as a result of attaining glory, but for the achievement to mean anything, a Hobgoblin must abide by the race’s code of honor in doing so.

Glory can be earned by discovery of great resources (such as finding a new vein of iron or a powerful magic item), by fine performances (writing and performing a great ballad about the legion), by designing and constructing a great defense or monument, and through other means. But the greatest respect is reserved for those who earn their glory in battle. In theory, the fortunes of war can elevate the lowest-ranking banner in a legion to the highest status.

In practice, warlords are careful to position themselves and their banners to claim the greatest victories in any conflict, and they portion out opportunities and responsibilities to other banners as politics dictate.

Follow Orders. Carrying out orders without question is critical on the battlefield, and Hobgoblins follow this dictum in peaceful times as well in order to maintain stability in their society. Hobgoblins don’t shrink from following orders that they know will result in death if the act will bring glory to the banner or the legion.

Honor the Gods. Hobgoblins give regular recognition to the deities left to them after Maglubiyet’s conquest. Idols of Nomog-Geaya, as well as standards and flags with his image or symbol, receive a bow or salute at all times except emergencies. Bargrivyek’s peacemakers receive due deference regardless of rank or banner status. Of course, Maglubiyet’s call to conquest is always answered.

Scale Pattern

Trapclaws

While some Kobolds are blessed with elemental hearts, others are instead blessed with a curiously unhinged mind. With a wandering focus and a need to fiddle with whatever is within grabbing distance, Trapclaws are often quite twitchy when not exploring whatever project has taken their fancy.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Defiant Mind. You have advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the frightened condition on yourself.

Crazed Intuition. Thanks to your inventive mind, you have proficiency with two of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, or Survival.

Scrappy Crafter. As part of a short or long rest, you can use a blade or dagger to harvest bone and hide from a Small or larger creature to create one of the following objects: a shield, a club, a javelin, or 1d4 darts or needles.

Improvised Artisan. You have proficiency in your choice of one of the following artisan’s tools: Alchemist’s Supplies, Mason’s Tools, Smith’s Tools, or Tinkerer’s Tools.

Additionally, you are considered proficient with improvised weapons and the damage die of improvised weapons you wield is increased to 1d6.

Runtwings

Often much smaller and more meak than others of their kind, Runtwings are born with, you guessed it, a pair of runtish wings, not even big enough to truly carry their shrunken stature. With enough time and practice, most Runtwings eventually learn to glide well enough, though true flight is most often nothing more than a dream for their kind.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Stunted Wings. You have a pair of stunted wings that protrude from your back. Although not quite large enough to truly fly, these wings give you the ability to leap and glide great distances. Your vertical jump distance is doubled and your horizontal jump distance is tripled.

Additionally, when you fall, you can use your reaction to spread your wings, allowing you to move up to 5 feet horizontally for every 1 foot you descend. When falling in this way, your movement speed is doubled and you do not take fall damage.

Skittish. When forced to make a Dexterity saving throw against an area effect, you may use your reaction to move up to half of your movement without provoking attacks of opportunity. If this movement would take you out of the area of effect, you are still considered to be targeted by the effect, but may roll the saving throw with advantage.

You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Draconic Rite of Passage

If a Scaleheart Kobold decides to tap into their blood and awaken the draconic powers within, they must undertake a draconic rite of passage, unlocking the powers of their draconic blood.

If you pick the Draconic Sorcerer subclass and choose the same damage type for your Draconic Ancestry and Draconic Heritage traits, you may increase your sorcery point maximum by two.

Deep Orcs

The Deep Orcs, more commonly known as Orogs, share few similarities with their surface world counterparts. Having spent eons hidden away from the world above, Orogs have learned to temper their blades and live a life of peace.

Still, despite their desire for peace, Orogs have not grown naive to the horrors of this world and train vigorously in order to be ready for any attack upon their peoples.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Superior Darkvision. Accustomed to life underground, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 90 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Stoic Hunters. You have resistance to psychic damage and you have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed or stunned conditions on yourself.

Orog Magic. You know the resistance cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you learn the compelled duel spell and can cast it once with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you also learn the silence spell and can cast it once with this trait. Once you cast either of these spells with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Sunlight Sensitivity. Your affinity for the depths has left you vulnerable when traveling the surface world. You have a -2 to attack rolls, Spell Save DCs, Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight, and your Passive Perception score when you, the target of your attacks or spells, or whatever you are trying to perceive are in direct sunlight.

Additionally, you can only spend a limited number of hours in direct sunlight, equal to 1 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 30 minutes), before having to take a short rest within a shaded area to recover. For every additional hour you spend in direct sunlight, you must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 10 + Number of hours in the sun) or take a level of exhaustion.

Beak and Feather

From below, Aarakocra look much like large birds. Only when they decend to roost on a branch or walk across the ground does their humanoid appearance reveal itself. Standing upright, Aarakocra might reach 5 feet tall, and they have long, narrow legs that taper to sharp talons.

Feathers cover their bodies. Their plumage typically denotes membership in a tribe. Males are brightly coloured, with feathers of red, orange, or yellow. Females have more subdued colours, usually brown or grey. Their heads complete the avian appearance, often resembling common birds, such as eagles, hawks, or parrots.

Sky Wardens

Nowhere are the Aarakocra more comfortable than the sky. They can spend hours in the air, and some go as long as days, locking their wings in place and letting the thermals hold them aloft.

In battle, they prove dynamic and acrobatic fliers, moving with remarkable speed and grace, diving to lash opponents with weapons before turning and flying away.

Once airborn, an Aarakocra leaves the sky with reluctance. On their native plane, they can fly for days or months, landing only to lay their eggs and feed their young before launching themselves back into the air.

Those that make it to a world in the Material Plane find it a strange place. They sometimes forget or ignore vertical distances, and they have only pity for earthbound people forced to live and toil on the ground.

Avian Mannerisms

The resemblance of Aarakocra to birds isn't limited to physical features. Aarakocra display many of the same mannerisms of ordinary birds. They are fastidious about their plumage, frequently tending their feathers, cleaning and scratching away any tiny passengers they may have collected.

Many Aarakocra punctuate their speech with chirps, sounds they use to convey emphasis and to shade meaning, much as a Human might through facial expressions and gestures. An Aarakocra might become frustrated with people who fail to pick up on the nuances; an Aarakocra's threat might be taken as a jest and vice versa.

The idea of ownership baffles most Aarakocra. After all, who owns the sky? Even when explained to them, the initially find the notion of ownership mystifying. As a result, Aarakocra who have little interaction with other people might be a nuisance as they snatch livestock or plunder harvests for fruits and grains. Shiny, glittering objects catch their eyes. They find it hard not to pluck the treasure and bring it back to their settlement to beautify it. An Aarakocra who spends years among other races can learn to inhibit these impulses.

Aarakocra Backgrounds

Backgrounds that are most appropriate for the Aarakocra include the outlander, the hermit, and the sage.

The small colonies of Aarakocra that exist are usually insular and remote, and few Aarakocra live away from their roosts; no more than a few dozen Aarakocra live away from the nests of their families. Those that do are usually fighters or rangers, constantly patrolling for outside threats.

Avariens

The Avariens are the most noble of the Aarakocran peoples. Given the natural form of a hunter, akin to the likes of many birds of prey you may find in the wild, the Avariens are the deadliest of their kin with large, sharpened talons and a sense of superiority within the skies. Bound to a code of honor, the Avariens are noble warriors and protectors of their homelands with an affinity for positions of leadership.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.

Keen Sight. You have proficiency in the Perception skill, and you have advantage on Perception checks while flying.

Talons. You have talons that you can use to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier slashing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Dive Bomb. While flying, you can use a bonus action to take the Dash action. When taking the Dash action with this trait, you must move directly toward a hostile creature you can see or hear that is below you, ending this movement closer to the enemy than you started. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Whenever you use this trait to move at least 30 feet down towards a target, you have advantage on the first attack you make against the target with your Talons on this turn. When attacking a target with your talons in this way, if the attack hits, it deals additional damage equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

Strixens

The nocturnal life of a Strixen is often left a mystery to those beyond their inner circles. They are often isolationists at heart, choosing a life where they may gain a deeper understanding of these natural lands that most simply take for granted. With an affinity for the shadows, Strixens are said to have an intimate connection of the night sky and glimmering moons above.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Superior Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 90 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Talons. Your have talons that you can use to make unarmed strikes. You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls when using your talons. When you hit with them, the strike deals slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Silent Soaring. You have proficiency in the Stealth skill and have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks while flying at night.

Strong and Wise

A Centaur is physically defined by an almost perfect blend of beastly and humanoid traits. They have well-muscled bodies, and even the lithest among them having a certain supple strength.

Mentally they are as intelligent as any other mortal race, with an intution and a sense for animals that far surpasses their more Human counterparts.

A Tribal People

Regardless of type, Centaur communities take two forms-- the first is traditionally known as the herd: roving tribes of Centaur following their food sources and staying ahead of their enemies. The other is distinctly modern: mixed rural communities of Centaur and others whom work hand in hand to protect and sustain their existences.

In either case, Centaur hold loyalty to the community as high in their esteem and will certainly fight to preserve the safety of their herd.

Centaur are usually serious and hardworking with a typically stern disposition, but that isn't to suggest that they are always morose, the typical Centaur loves to celebrate the culmination of their labors with good food and drink, laughter amongst friends, and dancing.

Centaur respond to danger with courage and boldness, putting the safety of the herd before their own. Amidst the weapons used by Centaur Warriors, hafted weapons like spears and axes are particularly beloved.

Other Centaur choose to protect their communities with powerful druidic magic and most Centaur communities are led or advised by some variety of druidic shaman.

Wary of Outsiders

Centaur communities, whether they be mixed race or purely Centaur, are typically deeply suspicious of outsiders. Those from outside the herd are seen as potential dangers, and are unlikely to be trusted.

For this reason, most such communities will be loath to ask for outside help, even as problems present themselves as being too large to handle.

Once the trust of the herd has been achieved however, there are few more loyal allies. Centaur make loyal companions, and tend to make friends for life- viewing life as a series of hardships to be overcome by strong bonds of family and friendship.

Centaur Names

Centaur favor names that favor a hard consonant in every syllable. For surnames they tend to identify themselves as a member of a regional herd, more than individual families- as a result such a name can change over the course of their life as their herd itself might change.

Male Names: Kardus, Tinskell, Sarm, Seltari, Burdock.

Female Names: Selva, Kori, Helgra, Valtora, Chamri.

Herd Names: Herd of the Great Forest, Herd of the River

Plains, Herd of the Western Pass.

Alsied

As an Alsied, life for your herd is intimately tied to a mystical understanding of the natural world. The most prolific magic users among the different breeds of Centaur, they possess keen minds and the slender, agile bodies of deer.

Alsied herds live in the forested lands of the Feywild, where they spend their time as natural guardians of its beautifully strange and ever enchanting woodlands, warding off any attempts from the outside world to taint their homeland.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom is increased by 1.

Natural Recall. You always know which direction is north, and you have advantage on any Wisdom (Survival) check you make to navigate or track.

Speech of Beast and Leaf. You have the ability to communicate in a limited manner with Beasts, Plants, and vegetation. They can understand the meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return. You have advantage on all Wisdom and Charisma checks you make to influence them.

Heart of the Woods. You know the druidcraft cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you learn the hail of thorns spell and can cast it once with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you also learn the beast sense spell and can cast it once with this trait. Once you cast either spell with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Two-legged Beasts

Gnolls are very tall creatures with a greenish-gray skin, and their furry hide a light or dark brown hue, sometimes marked with spots or stripes. Many Gnolls also have a dirty yellow to reddish-gray crest-like mane that stands on end when they are angry.

Distinguishing a male from a female is almost impossible, the only reliable way to tell the difference, other than through a close physical examination, is if a female is pregnant or openly nursing.

Gnolls have short lifespans compared to other humanoids, living only 50 or so years on average and maturing to adulthood at a remarkable speed. Gnolls do not, however, age particularly dramatically except at the end of their lifespans, at which point the decline quickly ends in their death. When a Gnoll dies, its bones are occasionally harvested by the other Gnolls and used in rituals, some demonic in nature.

Demonic Origin

The first Gnolls came into existence when the demon lord Yeenoghu rampaged across the material plane. Wherever he went, packs of hyenas followed in his wake, scavenging on his kills. Any that ate from a corpse slain by Yeenoghu was transformed into a Gnoll, filled with an insatiable hunger for more flesh.

The first Gnolls followed after Yeenoghu, continuing to scavenge off his destruction. Once Yeenoghu was banished back to the abyss, the Gnolls were left to find their own sources of food - and so began their own slaughter.

As time passed and Yeenoghu's touch upon the material plane lessened, the Gnolls had to find their own way. The craving of the hunt and primal bloodlust that inhabited the Gnoll mind, coupled with their bloody history, made it impossible to join other humanoid settlements. This led them to live nomadic lives, moving across the plains as they kept their distance while searching for food and other salvage.

Belligerent Outcasts

The perception of Gnolls has slowly changed over time for the better, but few would welcome one into their home since they are often viewed as feral, aggressive, and untrustworthy. Gnolls start fighting among one another at a very early age, and most are brought up around the principles that might makes right.

An Ancient Curse

The Kenku once served a mysterious, powerful entity on another plane of existence. Some believe they were minions of Grazz't, while others say that they were scouts and explorers for the Wind Dukes of Aaqa.

Whatever the truth, according to legend, the Kenku betrayed their master. Unable to resist the lure of a beautiful sparkling treasure, the Kenku plotted to steal the item and escape to the Material Plane.

Unfortunately for the Kenku, their master discovered their plan before they could enact it. Enraged, the entity imposed three dreadful curses upon them. First, the Kenku's beloved wings withered and fell away from their bodies, leaving them bound to the earth. Second, because their ingenuity and skill had turned toward scheming against their patron, the spark of creativity was torn from their souls.

Finally, to ensure that the Kenku could never divulge any secrets, their master took away their voices. Once the entity was satisfied that they had been sufficiently punished, the Kenku were set loose on the Material Plane.

Since then, the Kenku have wandered the world. They settle in places that accept them, usually bleak cities that have fallen on hard times and are overrun with crime.

Dreams of Flight

Above all else, Kenku wish to regain their ability to fly. Every Kenku is born with a desire to take to the air, and those who learn spellcasting do so in hope of mastering spells that will allow them to fly.

Rumors of magic items such as flying carpets, brooms capable of flight, and similar objects provoke a great desire for the Kenku to acquire the items for themselves. Despite their lack of wings, Kenku love dwelling in towers and other tall structures.

They seek out ruins that reach to the sky, though they lack the motivation and creativity to make repairs or fortify such places. Even so, their light weight and size allow them to dwell in rickety structures that would otherwise collapse.

Some thieves' guilds use Kenku as lookouts and messengers. The Kenku dwell in the tallest buildings and towers the guild controls, allowing them to lurk in the highest levels and to keep watch on the city below.

Hopeless Plagiarists

As, a result of their lack of creativity, Kenku function comfortably as minions of a powerful master. Flock leaders enforce discipline and minimize conflicts, but they fail at effective planning or crafting longterm schemes.

Although unable to speak in their own voices, Kenku can perfectly mimic any sound they hear, from a Halfling's voice to the noise of rocks clattering down a hillside.

However, Kenku cannot create new sounds and can communicate only by using sounds they have heard. Most Kenku use a combination of overheard phrases and sound effects to convey their ideas and thoughts. By the same token, Kenku have no ability to invent new ideas or create new things. Kenku can copy existing items with exceptional skill, allowing them to become excellent artisans and scribes.

They can copy books, make replicas of objects, and otherwise thrive in situations where they can produce large numbers of identical items. Few Kenku find this work satisfying, since their quest for the freedom of flight makes them ill-suited to settle into a routine.

Kenku Adventurers

Kenku adventurers are usually the survivors of a flock that has sustained heavy losses, or a rare Kenku who has grown weary of a life of crime. These Kenku are more ambitious and daring than their fellows. Others strike out on their own in search of the secrets of flight, to master magic, or uncover the secret of their curse and find a method to break it.

Kenku adventurers, despite their relative independence, still have a tendency to seek out a companion to emulate and follow. A Kenku loves to mimic the voice and words of its chosen companion.

Shadehunters

As followers of the Arbitor of the Damned, the Shadehunters aim to protect the thin veil that so often exists between life and death. Starkly opposed to all things necromantic in nature, the Shadehunters live as walking sentinels against the incursion of undead that seek entry into this realm.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.

Necrotic Resistance. You have resistance to necrotic damage.

Grave Robber. You know the spare the dying cantrip. You can use Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma (your choice) as your spellcasting ability when casting this spell.

Shadehunter Recall. When selecting a skill proficiency to benefit from your Kenku Recall trait, you may add the following skills to those available above: Athletics, History, and Intimidation.

Collector of Souls. Upon reducing a hostile creature to 0 hit points, you may use your reaction to gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your Proficiency Bonus. If the targeted creature is undead, the number of temporary hit points gained is doubled. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Plaguewalkers

As followers of the Maiden of Misfortune, the Plaguewalkers are pestilent forces of the supernatural with an affinity for curses and various forms of darker magics. Known to have been spotted at the scene of some of histories darkest moments, they are said to be spread death, disease, and ill omen to all those who may cross their unfortunate paths.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Pestilent. You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance against poison damage. Additionally, you are immune to the effects of diseases, though you are still able to carry them.

Infested. You know the infestation cantrip. You can use Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma (your choice) as your spellcasting ability when casting this spell.

• You have advantage on death saving throws.
• You don’t need to eat, drink, or breathe and you don't age.
• You have resistance to necrotic and poison damage and you are immune to disease.

Undead Fortitude. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. Once you use this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Six Feet Under. You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep. When you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you are completely indiscernible from a corpse unless divined by magical means, but it doesn't render you unconscious, and you can see and hear as normal.

Sunlight Sensitivity. Your affinity for the depths has left you vulnerable when traveling the surface world. You have a -2 to attack rolls, Spell Save DCs, Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight, and your Passive Perception score when you, the target of your attacks or spells, or whatever you are trying to perceive are in direct sunlight.

Additionally, you can only spend a limited number of hours in direct sunlight, equal to 1 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 30 minutes), before having to take a short rest within a shaded area to recover. For every additional hour you spend in direct sunlight, you must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 10 + Number of hours in the sun) or take a level of exhaustion.

Swampdwellers

Living within the variety of damp environments and boggy waters which they call home, Swampdwellers have begun to embrace the eerier stillness of the swamps and have even learned to integrate this factor into their hunting tactics.

With their elongate snouts and large teeth, the Swampdwellers have become natural ambush predators not only for the various creatures of the wild that may cross their paths, but also the many unsuspecting caravans and parties that so often pass through their lands.

Ability Score Increase. Yours Constitution score increases by 1.

Swamp Dweller. You have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed and you can hold your breath for a number of hours at a time equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

Aquatic Stalker. You have proficiency in the Stealth skill, and you have advantage on any Dexterity (Stealth) checks you make while you are submerged in water. Additionally, while submerged in water, you can move across nonmagical difficult terrain without expending extra movement.

Death Roll. While grappling a creature, you may use a bonus action to take a Bite attack against the target of your grapple. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Snapping Jaws. You’ve learned the ways of an ambush predator. While hidden, when you take the Attack action, you can make a special attack with your Bite. If the attack hits, it deals additional damage equal to twice your Proficiency Bonus and the target of the attack must make a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your Constitution modifier), or be grappled by you.

While grappling a creature in this way, you have advantage on Bite attacks against the grappled creature but may otherwise not use your Bite attack until releasing the grapple. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Head of a Demon

Born into the world by forbidden rites that melded powerful horned beasts with the intelligence of civilized species, the race of Minotaurs is proud and domineering, assured of their superiority over lesser, merely natural races.

A cult that performs such rituals raises its bestial champion as a caged totem, a monstrous weapon fed on the flesh of blasphemers. Yet Minotaurs are seldom content to be merely a tool. Those who escape inevitably forge their own paths, even seek out others of their kind. From such stories are born the founding myths of horned half-beast kingdoms.

Yet Minotaurs regard their natural drive as something to be mastered, a hunger that will consume them if they are weak. Only those who shackle their arrogance and ambition with a strict code can truly achieve greatness.

Arrogance and Honor

Minotaurs are blessed with supreme self-confidence, and raised to be deeply competitive. They seldom accept anything but a temporary loss, and will often make excuses even then.

Minotaur etiquette focuses on postponing or redirecting disputes, and most Minotaurs love games, puzzles, and other trials. The imposition of rules is particularly appealing to Minotaurs, serving to restrain and channel their temper.

Some bull-nations allow this element to go unspoken, while others outright proclaim that might means right, with open contests and murderously subtle plots as a foundation of their society. Treachery is not necessarily unknown to Minotaurs: a strict personal code of honour need not comply with any wider view of morality. Still, cheating or renenging on debts is considered deeply suspicious, a display of poor self-control that speaks ill of the bull's other abilities.

Bestial Urges

Minotaurs vary widely in appearance, incorporating features from a range of horned beasts into a humanoid form. Bovine creatures are by far the most common template, but hooves or feet, the number of fingers, and the presence of a muzzle all depend purely on the bloodline in question.

One common factor is a Minotaur's violent temperament. In addition to a strict adherence to honour, each Minotaur culture develops communal ways to bleed off this aggression. Berserk performances, passionate festivals, and even simple pit fights. Others resort to hermitage and ritual, regarding bloodthirst as something to be ruled, not bled off.

Aloof, Not Alone

Minotaurs become adventurers for a variety of reasons, most of which boil down to having something to prove. Those who break the mold tend to be mercenaries or missionaries, rejecting the brutish code of their home for better or worse.

Firstborn Minotaurs raised in the shrines of horned gods have less diverse attitudes. Some are loyal to their home, sent forth as agents of prophecy or revenge. The rest fled from holy captivity, escaping their labyrinth homes in search of something greater.

Labyrinthians

Having never broken free of the abyssal connection that first birthed them, the Labyrinthian Minotaur are still in service to the dark ambitions of the Prince of Beasts himself. Massive in frame and deadly in combat, Labyrintians follow orders with precise efficiency, holding onto few mortal desires.

Still, there are those that have been able to form a life of their own, a life not devoted to their demonic creator. Though possible, these Minotaur are often still burdened with beastial impulses and unforgiving dreams drawing them back to the darkness from which they first entered with world.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Superior Darkvision. Demonic blessings grant you superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 90 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Abyssal Fortitude. Your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a level.

Labyrinthian Recall. You always know which direction is north, and you have advantage on any Wisdom (Survival) check you make to navigate or track.

Training of the Abyss. You are proficiency in the Intimidation skill.

Additionally, when you make a Melee Attack on your turn, you may choose to increase your reach by 5 feet until the end of your turn. You can use this trait in this way a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Sunlight Sensitivity. Your affinity for the depths has left you vulnerable when traveling the surface world. You have a -2 to attack rolls, Spell Save DCs, Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight, and your Passive Perception score when you, the target of your attacks or spells, or whatever you are trying to perceive are in direct sunlight.

Additionally, you can only spend a limited number of hours in direct sunlight, equal to 1 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 30 minutes), before having to take a short rest within a shaded area to recover. For every additional hour you spend in direct sunlight, you must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 10 + Number of hours in the sun) or take a level of exhaustion.

Pyrodon

By Pachydan standards, the Pyrodon are a smaller people that stand a foot shorter than their sister races, though this still leaves them standing well above the races of man that run rampant throughout the Material Realm.

The Pyrodon find their strengths not in their intellect nor their might, but from their patience and virtues. Living within isolated tribes within dense jungles or distant mountains, they have found an unmatched sense of peace and a love for this world that guides their every step.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Sure of Foot. Your base walking speed is increased to 30 feet and nonmagical difficult terrain doesn’t cost you additional movement in heavily forested or jungled environments.

Pyrodon's Grace. You know one cantrip from the druid spell list. Starting at 3rd level, you learn the sanctuary spell and can cast it once with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you also learn the calm emotions spell and can cast it once with this trait. Once you cast either spell with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Wandering Outcasts

Most Tabaxi remain in their distant homeland, content to dwell in small, tight clans. These Tabaxi hunt for food, craft goods, and largely keep to themselves.

However, not all Tabaxi are satisfied with such a life. The Cat Lord, the divine figure responsible for the creation of the Tabaxi, gifts each of his children with one specific feline trait. Those Tabaxi gifted with curiosity are compelled to wander far and wide. They seek out stories, artifacts, and lore. Those who survive this period of wanderlust return home in their elder years to share news of the outside world. In this manner, the Tabaxi remain isolated but never ignorant of the world beyond their home.

Barterers of Lore

Tabaxi treasure knowledge over material things. A chest filled with gold coins might be useful to buy food or a coil of rope, but it's not intrinsically interesting. In a Tabaxi's eyes, gathering wealth is like packing rations for a long trip. It's important to survive in the world, but not worth fussing over.

Instead, Tabaxi value knowledge and new experiences. Their ears perk up in a busy tavern, and they tease out stories with offers of food, drink, and coin. Tabaxi might walk away with empty purses, but they mull over the stories and rumors they collected like a miser counting coins.

Although material wealth holds little attraction for the Tabaxi, they have an insatiable desire to find and inspect ancient relics, magical items, and other rare objects. Aside from the power such items might confer, a Tabaxi takes great joy in unraveling the stories behind their creation and the history of their use.

Fleeting Fancies

Wandering Tabaxi are mercurial creatures, trading one obsession or passion for the next as the whim strikes. A Tabaxi's desire burns bright, but once met it disappears to be replaced with a new obsession. Objects remain intriguing only as long as they still hold secrets.

A Tabaxi rogue could happily spend months plotting to steal a strange gem from a noble, only to trade it for passage on a ship or a week's lodging after stealing it. The Tabaxi might take extensive notes or memorize every facet of the gem before passing it on, but the gem holds no more allure once its secrets and nature have been laid bare.

Tinkers and Minstrels

Curiosity drives most of the Tabaxi found outside their homeland, but not all of them become adventurers. Tabaxi who seek a safer path to satisfy their obsessions become wandering tinkers and minstrels.

The Cat Lord

The deity of the Tabaxi is a fickle entity as befits the patron of cats. The Tabaxi believe that the Cat Lord wanders the world, watching over them and intervening in their affairs as needed. Clerics of the Cat Lord are rare and typically access the Trickery domain.

Katari

Built for agility and grace, the Katari are a lean, playful folk that have found an endless fascination for the world of man. Rarely living in one place for more than a few days at a time, Katari tribes are known as traveling merchants that move from town to town in search of the best deal.

With their nimble fingers and affinity for all things shiny, Katari are known to let their curiosity get the best of them when perusing the many oddities of the civilized world; a trait that has caused more than its fair share of criticism towards their kin.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.

Fast Claws. Your incredibly quick movements make you a natural combatant. Your Claws have the light property when using your Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage modifiers.

Natural Sprinter. When using your Feline Agility trait, you can move up to three times your walking speed instead of twice your walking speed. You can use this trait in this way a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Speed of the Wilds. When using your Feline Agility trait to move more than 30 feet toward a hostile creature, if you end your movement within 5 feet of your target to take the Attack action, you may make a special attack with your Claws. This attack can be made at advantage if the target is fleeing from you or one of your allies.

If the attack hits, it deals additional damage equal to your Proficiency Bonus and the target of the attack must make a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier), or be grappled by you. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Leorin

The Leorin are a proud folk born of honor and strength. Within their tribes, they are known to respect strength and prowess in battle above all else, using these traits to lead themselves towards what they view as a more honorable position before the gods.

With their honorbound ways, when Leorin find themselves leaving their tribes, they will often find their place in the world as warriors and guardians amongst the likes of man; taking the form of mercenaries, knights, and bodyguards most often.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.

Deft Claws. The damage die for your Claws is increased to a d6 when using your Strength modifier for the attack and damage rolls.

Therin

Hidden amongst the trees and foliage of dense forests and jungles, the Therin are a skeptical people that are few and far between. With much smaller tribes than the rest of their Tabaxi kin, they are known to be quite the isolationists, finding a sense of solace as lone hunters.

This kinship with the lonely road and love of the hunt, the Therin are known to be great mercenaries and bounty hunters; able to single-mindedly focus upon their contracts without distraction.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Jungle Cat. You have a climbing speed of 30 feet and when you take falling damage, you may use your reaction to reduce the fall damage rolled by a number of d6 equal to twice your proficiency bonus.

Jungle Stalker. When using your Feline Agility trait, you can choose to double your climbing speed instead of your walking speed. When used in this way, you can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.

Death From Above. While climbing, you can use your bonus action to leap down on to a hostile creature you can see or hear that is at least 30 feet below you in order to take a special attack with your Claws.

If the attack hits, it deals additional damage equal to your Proficiency Bonus and the target of the attack must make a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier), or be knocked prone. If you are hidden from your target when dealing damage in this way, the additional damage dealt by this trait is doubled. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Snapjaws

Born of the murky waters of swamps and bogs, Snapjaws are an especially hearty folk. Often seen as grouchy and rowdy in comparison to the more tranquil Tortle races, they are, in truth, a people of family; placing incredible purpose and value in those they consider family, whether by blood or choice.

Most often living in small villages upon the boggy waters of a swamp, Snapjaws have learned to be masters of their favored terrain by merely waiting amongst the muck of the water for the right opportunity to strike against the monstrous creatures of the swamp.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.

Swamp Dweller. You have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed and you can hold your breath for a number of hours at a time equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

Ambush Predator. You can emerge from your shell as a part of a held action instead of a bonus action. Additionally, while withdrawn into your shell, you have advantage on Initiative rolls.

Aquatic Stalker. You have proficiency in the Stealth skill, and you have advantage on any Dexterity (Stealth) checks you make while you are submerged in water. Additionally, while submerged in water, you can move across nonmagical difficult terrain without expending extra movement.

Snapjaw Bite. Your jagged maw is a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. Additionally, once per turn, when attempting to grapple a creature, you may use your Bite to do so, giving you advantage on the Strength (Athletics) check to do so.

Draconbloods

Spawned of a lineage blessed by the ancient Dragon Turtles of old, Draconbloods are serene and graceful for as long as the need to be, though the underlying wrath of the dragon always lies just beyond the surface.

Distanced from the rest of their kin, the Draconbloods are a difficult people to find. Absconded from the likes of the civilized world, they prefer a life away from the distractions of the world of man, choosing instead to home within places of intense mystical potential wherein they may better connect to the leylines of this world.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.

Ocean Swimmer. You have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed and can breathe both air and water.

Draconic Ancestry. You have an ancestral connection to the gargantuan dragon turtles of old, giving you proficiency in the Intimidation skill and resistance to fire damage.

Steam Breath. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with an exhalation of scalding steam in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your Constitution modifier + your Proficiency Bonus), taking 1d8 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Being underwater doesn't grant resistance against this damage, which increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).

You can use your Breath Weapon a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Animalistic Nature

Though many see the Ursurai as intelligent bears, there are many differences between the Ursurai and their savage cousins. A fully grown Ursurai is much smaller than a bear and is almost as nimble on his hind legs as he is on all four.

Outsiders may find it hard to believe, but the rough Ursurai have much more restrain and self-control than the beasts they are often mistaken for, though some suspect this is a result of their lack of need to hibernate.

Strong and Though

Years of living in the rough lands of Aerathiat have made the Ursurai tough. The harsh storms at the base of the mountain often lead to lack of food, requiring many of the Ursurai to survive off of the tough plant life native to Aerathiat.

Though many of the other races have trouble with larger temperature differences, but the Ursurai have fur coat which can adapt to the temperature.

Homeland Traditions

Many Ursurai choose to wander the world in their formative years, curious about the state of the rest of the world. However, most of which who go out often return to their home, either because they miss their home of their curiosity has been sated.

History of War

In the past, long ago, the Ursurai were a warrior race, savage, fierce, and disciplined. However, once peace arrived at Freljord, the Ursurai settled down and much of their war-like temperament was lost.

This changed once Volibear, the chief shaman, had visions of a brutal conflict. Journeying to the top of the mountain, he was touched by an unnatural bolt of lightning.

Ursurai Names

Ursurai name their young based on what they want to achieve as adults. An agressive war-like Ursurai may give his son a rough, cacophonous name while another might name her son after the hero of an Ursurai folk tale.

Male Ursurai Names: Arrus, Anrun, Callun, Deruhs,

Leneth, Marukus, Olland, Rutushush, Veeros, Wlaren
Female Ursurai Names: Arsa, Belara, Dalara, Ebdulla,

Hoina, Ollinde, Nacura, Neruna, Warra

Ghrazir

Born of dark hues to match the earthy tones of their forested homelands, the Ghrazir are a warrior people that are best known for their unparalleled strength and unending sense of honor. Despite being capable of great feats of strength and brutality, their people place respect not in one's physical prowess, but in their ability to act selflessly in the face of a world that lacks true honor.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Ailuren

A rotund peoples with a love for life and all of it's many amenities, the Ailuren are without a doubt the most peaceful of the Ursurai races. Unlike the renown warriors of their sister races, the Ailuren have chosen to lead a life of peace, living as practiced healers and shamans that may bring guidance and good fortune to their people.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Caretaker. You have proficiency in the Medicine skill and your choice of Cook’s Utensils or Brewer’s Supplies.

Inner Peace. You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed or frightened conditions on yourself.

Sure-Footed. Your massive size and wide stance makes you particularly hard to knock over. When a creature attempts to knock you prone or move you against your will, you have advantage on the ability check or saving throw made to resist it.

Nocturan

The nocturnal life of a Strixen is often left a mystery to those beyond their inner circles. They are often isolationists at heart, choosing a life where they may gain a deeper understanding of these natural lands that most simply take for granted. With an affinity for the shadows, Strixens are said to have an intimate connection of the night sky and glimmering moons above.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Superior Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 90 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Nocturan's Leap. Whenever you make a long jump or a high jump, you can increase the number of feet you cover by a number equal to twice your Proficiency Bonus, even when making a standing jump. This extra distance costs movement as usual.

Fleet of Feather. Your have proficiency in the Stealth skill and your base walking speed is increased to 30 feet when standing on your hind legs and 35 feet when on all fours. Additionally, when traveling for an extended period of time, you can move stealthily at a normal pace (See chapter 8 of the Player's Handbook for information about travel pace).

Celestial Champions

Aasimar are placed in the world to serve as guardians of law and good. Their patrons expect them to strike at evil, lead by example, and further the cause of justice.

From an early age, an aasimar receives visions and guidance from celestial entities via dreams. These dreams help shape an aasimar, granting a sense of destiny and a desire for righteousness.

Each aasimar can count a specific celestial agent of the gods as a guide. This entity is typically a deva, an angel who acts as a messenger to the mortal world.

Hidden Wanderers

While aasimar are strident foes of evil, they typically prefer to keep a low profile. An aasimar inevitably draws the attention of evil cultists, fiends, and other enemies of good, all of whom would be eager to strike down a celestial champion if they had the chance.

When traveling, aasimar prefer hoods, closed helms, and other gear that allows them to conceal their identities. They nevertheless have no compunction about striking openly at evil. The secrecy they desire is never worth endangering the innocent.

Conflicted Souls

Despite its celestial origin, an aasimar is mortal and possesses free will. Most aasimar follow their ordained path, but some grow to see their abilities as a curse.

These disaffected aasimar are typically content to turn away from the world, but a few become agents of evil. In their minds, their exposure to celestial powers amounted to little more than brainwashing.

Evil aasimar make deadly foes. The radiant power they once commanded becomes corrupted into a horrid, draining magic. And their angelic guides abandon them.

Even aasimar wholly dedicated to good sometimes feel torn between two worlds. The angels that guide them see the world from a distant perch.

An aasimar who wishes to stop and help a town recover from a drought might be told by an angelic guide to push forward on a greater quest. To a distant angel, saving a few commoners might pale in comparison to defeating a cult of Orcus. An aasimar's guide is wise but not infallible.

Aasimar Guides

An aasimar, except for one who has turned to evil, has a link to an angelic being. That being- usually a deva provides guidance to the aasimar, though this connection functions only in dreams.

As such, the guidance is not a direct command or a simple spoken word. Instead, the aasimar receives visions, prophecies, and feelings.

The angelic being is far from omniscient. Its guidance is based on its understanding of the tenets of law and good, and it might have insight into combating especially powerful evils that it knows about.

Angelic Guide

d6	Name
1	Tadriel
2	Myllandra
3	Seraphina
4	Galladia
5	Mykiel
6	Valandras

d6	Nature
1	Bookish and lecturing
2	Caring and hopeful
3	Practical and tactful
4	Fierce and vengeful
5	Stern and judgemental
6	Kind and parental

Aasimar Names

Most aasimar are born from Human parents, and they use the same naming conventions as their native culture.

Scourge Aasimar

An Aasimar who was touched by dark powers of vile gods or whom is born of evil blood can become one of the Scourge- a group of Aasimar whose insides hold not light, but shadow.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2.

Necrotic Resistance. You have resistance to necrotic damage.

Necrotic Shroud. Starting at 3rd level, while using your Celestial Revelation trait, your take on a horrifying visage befitting of your celestial heritage. When you transform in this way, creatures that can see you within 15 feet of your transformation must succeed on a Charisma saving throw (DC 8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your Constitution modifier) or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn. While transformed in this way, you may spend an action to force creatures within 5 feet of you to make a Charisma saving throw as though they were caught in the initial effect.

Acidtongue

Bringers of strife, Acidtongue Aasimar stand against the constructs of society, aiming to dismantle the civilized world from the inside out.

Rusted blades in hand, it is their mission to bring tear down the many flaws that run rampent through the world of man before they may begin to rebuild a new world, a better world, free of such flaws.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.

Emberbark

Fire Genasi have inherited a volatile mood and keen mind from the Efreet of the Elemental Plane of Fire. They tend towards impatience and making snap judgments and, rather than hiding their distinctive appearance, they exult in it.

Fire Genasi have inherited a volatile mood and keen mind from the Efreet of the Elemental Plane of Fire. They tend towards impatience and making snap judgments and, rather than hiding their distinctive appearance, they exult in it.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.

Mourningwood

Fire Genasi have inherited a volatile mood and keen mind from the Efreet of the Elemental Plane of Fire. They tend towards impatience and making snap judgments and, rather than hiding their distinctive appearance, they exult in it.

Fire Genasi have inherited a volatile mood and keen mind from the Efreet of the Elemental Plane of Fire. They tend towards impatience and making snap judgments and, rather than hiding their distinctive appearance, they exult in it.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Touch of the Veil. You have resistance to necrotic damage. Additionally, you have advantage on death saving throws and all saving throws that would lower your maximum health.

Deathly Fortitude. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. Once you use this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Magics of Mourning. You know the toll the dead cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you learn the inflict wounds spell and can cast it once with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you also learn the wither and bloom spell and can cast it once with this trait. Once you cast either spell with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Wyrwood

Fire Genasi have inherited a volatile mood and keen mind from the Efreet of the Elemental Plane of Fire. They tend towards impatience and making snap judgments and, rather than hiding their distinctive appearance, they exult in it.

Fire Genasi have inherited a volatile mood and keen mind from the Efreet of the Elemental Plane of Fire. They tend towards impatience and making snap judgments and, rather than hiding their distinctive appearance, they exult in it.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Psionic Sense. You have resistance to psychic damage and you can telepathically communicate with any creature you can see within 30 feet. You don’t need to share a language, but the target must speak at least one language to respond, which it may do as a reaction. You can only communicate with one creature at a time.

Fatewalker. You have the ability to peer past fate itself and make slight shifts to the flow of time. At the end of each long rest, roll a d20 and record the roll. Once before the end of your next long rest, when you roll that number on a d20, you may choose to treat the roll as a natural 20. If the recorded roll is a natural 20, you may instead choose to replace a single roll with the natural 20 recorded.

Seer of Fate. You know the guidance cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you learn the sanctuary spell and can cast it once with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you also learn the augury spell and can cast it once with this trait. Once you cast either spell with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Changeling

Due to their scarcity, most people don't even consider the presence of changelings in their society. Their ties to the far realms give them the ability to take on appearances of others, which is why they are generally greeted with suspicion and distrust. Well, that is, if they are seen in their true form.

Changeling Names

There are two kinds of changeling names, depending on the culture they're born into. Those born to non-changeling parents, and aren't abandoned, tend to have a name of befitting their parent's culture.

Changelings have a fluid relationship with gender, seeing it as one characteristic to change among many others. Because of this, if it is up to them, they tend to take a simple and monosyllabic name, to avoid confusion while taking different forms. A changeling might use a different name for each form and adopt new names as easily as they develop new faces.

Quirks

d6	Quirk
1	I like to judge people by their outside, figuring out what pieces of each of them would fit together well.
2	I have worn so many faces that I have problem telling who I really am.
3	One of my biggest problems is my indecision. I think...
4	My looks reflect my mood, and my body is a means of self-expression for me.
5	I steal qualities and quirks of others to piece together my own identity.
6	When I have trouble deciding, I like to roll a dice to make up my mind.

Proud Dragon Kin

Dragonborn look very much like dragons standing erect in humanoid form, though they lack wings. The first Dragonborn had scales of vibrant hues matching the colors of their dragon kin, but generations of interbreeding have created a more uniform appearance, though usually there are one primary color to their scales.

Their small, fine scales are usually brass or bronze in color, sometimes ranging to scarlet, rust, gold, or copper-green. They are tall and strongly built, often standing close to 6½ feet tall and weighing 300 pounds or more. Their hands and feet are strong, talonlike claws with three fingers and a thumb on each hand.

The blood of a particular type of dragon runs very strong through some Dragonborn clans. These Dragonborn often boast scales that more closely match those of their dragon ancestor—bright red, green, blue, or white, lustrous black, or gleaming metallic gold, silver, brass, copper, or bronze.

Self-Sufficient Clans

To any Dragonborn, the clan is more important than life itself. Dragonborn owe their devotion and respect to their clan above all else, even the gods.

Each Dragonborn’s conduct reflects on the honor of his or her clan, and bringing dishonor to the clan can result in expulsion and exile. Each Dragonborn knows his or her station and duties within the clan, and honor demands maintaining the bounds of that position.

A continual drive for self-improvement reflects the self-sufficiency of the race as a whole. Dragonborn value skill and excellence in all endeavors. They hate to fail, and they push themselves to extreme efforts before they give up on something. A Dragonborn holds mastery of a particular skill as a lifetime goal. Members of other races who share the same commitment find it easy to earn the respect of a Dragonborn.

Though all Dragonborn strive to be self-sufficient, they recognize that help is sometimes needed in difficult situations. But the best source for such help is the clan, and when a clan needs help, it turns to another Dragonborn clan before seeking aid from other races—or even from the gods.

Dragonborn Names

Dragonborn have personal names given at birth, but they put their clan names first as a mark of honor. A childhood name is often used as a descriptive term or a term of endearment.

Chromatic Dragonborn

Dragonborn with a chromatic ancestry claim the raw elemental power of chromatic dragons. The vibrant colors of green, black, blue, white, and red dragons gleam in their scaled skin and in the deadly energy of their breath weapons.

Unlike their metallic counterparts, Chromatic Dragonborn have always been at their best when far from the walls and hearths of the civilized world. Living instead within sprawling nomadic clans, they brave the natural environments of this world and endure the harshness of its raw elements.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2. Additionally, your Breath Weapon DC scales off of your Constitution modifier.

Intimidating Presence. You have proficiency in your choice of one of the following skills: Animal Handling, Athletics, Intimidation, Nature, or Survival.

Claws. Your claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier. Additionally, when a creature fails its save against your Breath Weapon attack, you have advantage on the first attack roll using your Claws against that creature until the end of your next turn.

Draconic Fear. Starting at 3rd level, you gain an innate connection to the primal ferocity of your draconic kin.

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you may expend one use of your Breath Weapon to replace one of your attacks with an exhalation of primal energy in a 15-foot cone (DC 8 + your Constitution modifier + your Proficiency Bonus). On a failed save, a target becomes frightened of you for 1 minute. If the frightened target takes any damage, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Spring Eladrin

Their hearts filled with joy, spring Eladrin cavort through their sylvan realms, their songs and laughter filling the air. These playful Eladrin beguile other creatures to fill them with the joy of spring. Their antics can lead other creatures into danger and make mischief for them.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Step of the Evening Breeze. Starting at 3rd level, when using your Fey Step, you may bring one willing creature with you as long as they are within 5 feet of your starting position and no more than one size larger than you.

Court Magic: Spring. You know the friends cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you learn the charm person spell and can cast it once with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you also learn the enthrall spell and can cast it once with this trait. Once you cast either spell with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Summer Eladrin

When angered, Eladrin enter the season of summer, a burning, tempestuous state that transforms them into aggressive warriors eager to vent their wrath. Their magic responds to their fury and amplifies their fighting ability, helping them move with astonishing quickness and strike with terrible force.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.

Step of the Rising Sun. Starting at 3rd level, immediately before or after using your Fey Step, creatures within 5 feet of you must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take fire damage equal to 1d6 + your Proficiency Bonus.

Court Magic: Summer. You know the produce flame cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you learn the heroism spell and can cast it once with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you also learn the aid spell and can cast it once with this trait. Once you cast either spell with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Winter Eladrin

When sorrow distresses Eladrin, they enter their winter season, shifting into melancholy figures formed of a bitter coldness. Their palpable sadness emanates from them as an aura of chilled air that may bring their breath to frost and their tears to freeze upon impact with their sorrowful aura.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Step of the Northern Winds. Starting at 3rd level, immediately before or after using your Fey Step, creatures within 5 feet of you must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or have their movement speed reduced by 10 feet until the end of their next turn.

Court Magic: Winter. You know the minor illusion cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you learn the fog cloud spell and can cast it once with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you also learn the silence spell and can cast it once with this trait. Once you cast either spell with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Humble Guardians

Firbolgs love nothing more than a peaceful day spent among the trees of an old forest. They see forests as sacred places, representing the heart of the world and monuments to the durability of life.

In their role as caretakers, Firbolgs live off the land while striving to remain in balance with nature. Their methods reflect common sense and remarkable resourcefulness. During a bountiful summer, they store away excess nuts, fruit, and berries. When winter arrives, they scatter everything they can spare to ensure the animals of the wood survive until springtime.

In a Firbolg's eyes, there is no greater fault than greed. The Firbolgs believe that the world remains healthiest when each creature takes only what it needs. Material goods, especially precious gems and gold, have little appeal to them. What use are such things when winter lingers and food runs short?

Natural Druids

Firbolgs have a talent for druidic magic. Their cultural reverence for nature, combined with their strong and insightful minds, makes learning such magic an instinctive part of their development. Almost every Firbolg learns a few spells, typically those used to mask their presence, and many go on to master nature magic.

Firbolgs who become druids serve as stronghold leaders. With every action the tribe takes, the druids weigh not only the group's needs, but the effect each action will have on the forest and the rest of the natural world. Firbolg tribes would rather go hungry than strain the land during a famine.

Hidden Shepherds

As caretakers of the land, Firbolgs prefer to remain out of sight and out of mind. They don't try to dominate nature, but rather seek to ensure that it prospers and survives according to its own laws.

Firbolgs use their magic to keep their presence in a forest secret. This approach allows them to avoid the politics and struggles of Elves, Humans, and Orcs. Such events concern the Firbolgs only when the events affect the forest.

Even in the face of an intrusion, Firbolgs prefer a subtle, gentle approach to prevent damage to their territory. They employ their magic to make the forest an unappealing place to explore by temporarily diverting springs, driving away game, stealing critical tools, and altering trails to leave hunting or lumber parties hopelessly lost.

The Firbolgs' presence is marked by an absence of animals and a strange quiet, as if the forest wishes to avoid attracting attention to itself. If these tactics fail, the Firbolgs take more direct action. Their observations of a settlement determine what happens next. If the outsiders seem peaceful, the Firbolgs approach and gently ask them to leave, even offering food and other supplies to aid their departure.

If those who insist on remaining respect nature, take only what they need, and live in harmony with the wood, Firbolgs explore the possibility of friends

Divine Genasi

The soul of a Divine Genasi is intimately intertwined with not only the magics of the Elemental Planes, but with the heavens above. Most often, an ancestry as unusual as this is spawned from the progenitor of a Genasi's bloodline seeking out a greater purpose than their elemental kin, a purpose only found within a connection to the divine.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2.

Divine Ancestry. You are resistant to radiant damage and may use your Elemental Consumption trait when taking radiant damage. When used in this way, if you reach the end of your next turn without expelling this energy, the number of temporary hit points you gain is increased by a number equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

Crystal

Formed of a prismatic array of crystalline design, Crystal Genasi gleam with an endless, seemingly uncontrollable, refraction of multi-colored light spawning from their own indestructible crystalline make.

As tough as the crystals that seem to consume their form, these Genasi represent the purest of elemental earth. The jagged crystals that jut out from their physical form will, at times, vibrate and ring as they move, creating the lightest, nearly imperceptible harmony for those that may catch it.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.

Crystalline Skin. Your skin is comprised of hardened crystals. When you aren’t wearing armor, your AC is 12 + your Constitution modifier. You can use your Natural Armor if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield’s benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.

Resonant Form. You know the thunderclap cantrip and can cast it dealing your choice of radiant or thunder damage. Starting at 3rd level, you learn the color spray spell and can cast it once with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you also learn the shatter spell and can cast it once with this trait. Once you cast either spell with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Accursed Genasi

The soul of an Accursed Genasi is formed of dark magics and an endless sense of turmoil and despair. Bloodlines such as this only spawn from genies with an eternal lust for power that has driven them mad, leading to the formation a dark deal with one of the many occult powers of this world that has forever cursed their ancestral lineage.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2.