High Elf
Elf Subspecies
As a high elf, you have a keen mind and a mastery of at least the basics of magic. In many of the worlds of D&D, there are two kinds of high elves. One type (which includes the gray elves and valley elves of Greyhawk, the Silvanesti of Dragonlance, and the sun elves of the Forgotten Realms) is haughty and reclusive, believing themselves to be superior to non-elves and even other elves. The other type (including the high elves of Greyhawk. the Qualinesti of Dragonlance, and the moon elves of the Forgotten Realms) are more common and more friendly, and often encountered among humans and other races.
The sun elves of Faerun (also called gold elves or sunrise elves) have bronze skin and hair of copper, black, or golden blood. Their eyes are golden, silver, or black. Moon elves (also called silver elves or gray elves) are much paler, with alabaster skin sometimes tinged with blue. They often have hair of silver-while, black, or blue, but various shades of blond, brown, and red are not uncommon. Their eyes are blue or green and flecked with gold.
Source: Player's Handbook
What's new
- Weapon Proficiencies
- Elf Weapon Training
- Cantrip
- Extra Language
What's replaced
- Ability Score
- Languages
What's lost
- None
Basic Traits
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Age | Although elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the elven understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. An elf typically claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old. |
| Alignment | Elves love freedom, variety, and self-expression, so they lean strongly towards the gentler aspects of chaos. They value and protect others' freedom as well as their own, and are good more often than not. Drow are an exception; their exile into the Underdark has made them vicious and dangerous. Drow are more often evil than not. |
| Size | Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium. |
| Speed | Your base walking speed is 30 ft. |
| Darkvision | Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, 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. |
Ability scores High Elf
On top of your Dexterity increase from being an elf, your Intelligence score increases by 1.Languages High Elf
On top of being able to speak, read, and write Common and Elvish, you can learn one extra language of your choice.
Weapons High Elf
You have proficiency with longswords, shortswords, longbows, and shortbows.
Species Traits
Elf Weapon Training High Elf
You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow.
Cantrip High Elf
You know one cantrip of your choice from the wizard spell list. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for it.
Extra Language High Elf
You can speak, read, and write one extra language of your choice.
Fey Ancestry Elf
You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.
Trance Elf
Elves do not sleep. Instead they meditate deeply, remaining semi-conscious, for 4 hours a day. The Common word for this meditation is "trance." While meditating, you dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive after years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit a human would from 8 hours of sleep.
Keen Senses Elf
You have proficiency in the Perception skill.
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