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An obvious example of this is the Aarakocra’s Flight trait. Also, there are now situations in which specific traits will appear in both a Left component and a Right component, and will grant additional benefits if you pick components that both have the trait. ASIs for Elves have been fixed so that they aren’t as ludicrously generous as they were in version 1, while still working for both Elves and Half-Elves.

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Plus there’s a guide for recreating the official races that the components are derived from, and a bit more commentary. What’s changed?įormatting has been improved (which is to say that it has been formatted at all, unlike the first one), and there’s now a page that you can automatically populate with the traits of your chosen combinations.

I’m no longer going to try and impose my own view on it. For example, I’ve included the robotic Warforged in the latest guide, and it’s up to players to decide if there exists a fertile Warforged, or whether the combination is achieved by magic, or just whether a character with Warforged traits is some sort of cyborg. Once I got my head around my mistake, I felt like the only solution was to expand the guide to include all available races, and let the gaming groups that use the guide decide how these racial features are integrated. For one thing, it’s contrary to my argument in the first blog post (that the options should be available for everyone and not limited just because of a narrow interpretation of what the races could be) and, for another, I’d already been in a campaign featuring a half-Human/half-Dragonborn player character (albeit using Dragonborn stats). My argument at the time was that Dragonborn wouldn’t be compatible with other races because they don’t produce live young, but this is a stupid justification. Last time, my list of components excluded some core races, most notably Dragonborns, and in retrospect I think I was wrong to leave them out. I talked about some ways of playing a mixed race character without introducing a bunch of new rules or character options, but let’s be honest and admit that the most interesting thing I did was provide character options for any pairwise combination of 10 official playable races and their subraces (Aasimar, Dwarf, Elf, Gnome, Goliath, Half-Elf, Halfling, Half-Orc, Human, Tiefling), which I did by splitting the features of these official races into Left components and Right components that could be easily mixed and matched. I won’t go over them again, but I have issues with these mixed race options being treated as distinct races that sometimes appear very different from the races they’re supposedly descended from, with after-the-fact official justifications for why other combinations can’t exist (even when they sometimes do), and with the fact that one half of a mixed race character’s heritage is always assumed to be Human. In the previous blog post, I talked about my problems with the limitations of the mixed race options available to D&D players in 5th edition (which certainly include Half-Elves and Half-Orcs, and may also include Genasi, Tieflings and Aasimar).

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While the links in this blog have been updated to the latest version, you’ll need to see the updated blog post for an update to the components as presented at the end of this post. Update : A second follow-up blog post has now been posted at Beyond Dwelfs: Even more mixed race options for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition. You can still make your half-Elf/half-Dwarf Dwelf, but maybe you want to make a half-Dragonborn/half-Goblin, or a half-Shifter/half-Tabaxi, or one of over a thousand other possibilities. Whereas the previous guide included only 10 different official races (and some of their subraces), this new guide includes 71 different official races and sub-races, which can now be freely mixed and matched to create new racial options.

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Alternatively, if you don’t want to download the file, you can browse the components at the end of this blog post.) Archives of the previous (Excel) versions linked from this page can be found here: v2 (22 March 2019) and v3 (). (Since 22 March 2020, this link is to the updated version on Google Drive. So, finally, here is the expanded and improved guide for creating mixed race or hybrid characters in Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition:Ĭreating Hybrid Races in D&D 5e by Stephen Morffew However, after posting I realised I wasn’t entirely happy with it, and felt it could be expanded and improved.

That blog post was Bring on the dwelfs: Mixed race options in Dungeons & Dragons 5e, and it has become my most-viewed post on this site. One year ago, I posted a way of creating player characters in Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition that have the traits of two different playable races. Male dwelf concept art by dmantz, via reddit