Your character race not only affects your ability scores and traits but also provides the cues for building your character’s story. For example, a halfling could be a good choice for a sneaky rogue, a dwarf makes a tough warrior, and an elf can be a master of arcane magic. When making this decision, keep in mind the kind of character you want to play. It establishes fundamental qualities that exist throughout your character’s adventuring career. Your choice of race affects many different aspects of your character. Drow, a subrace of elves, are a lso uncommon. Dragonborn, gnomes, half-elves, half-orcs, and tieflings are less common as adventurers. Dwarves, elves, halflings, and humans are the most common races to produce the sort of adventurers who make up typical parties. Not every intelligent race of the multiverse is appropriate for a player-controlled adventurer.

Your character belongs to one of t hese peoples. Humans are the most common people in the worlds of D&D, but they live and work alongside dwarves, elves, halflings, and countless other fantastic species. And there, well out of the sunlight, is a lone drow - a fugitive from the subterranean expanse of the Underdark, trying to make his way in a world that fears his kind. Half-elves and half-orcs live and work alongside humans, without fully belonging to the races of either of their parents. A group of gnomes laughs as one of them activates a clever wooden toy that moves of its own accord. Scattered among these common peoples are less numerous folk: a hulking dragonborn here, pushing his way through the crowd, and a sly tiefling there, lurking in the shadows with mischief in her eyes. Buildings in myriad architectural styles display the diverse origins of their inhabitants.Īnd the people themselves - people of varying size, shape, and color, dressed in a dazzling spectrum of styles and hues - represent many different races, from diminutive halflings and stout dwarves to majestically beautiful elves, mingling among a variety of human ethnicities. The smells of cooking in dozens of different cuisines mingle with the odors of crowded streets and poor sanitation. Voices chatter in countless different languages. Phandelver and Below: The Shattered ObeliskĪ visit to one of the great cities in the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons - Waterdeep, the Free City of Greyhawk, or even uncanny Sigil, the City of Doors - overwhelms the senses.

Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Age of wonders 3 racial units