Elf

• Ability Scores.
• Size. Medium
• Speed. 30 ft.

Darkvision. You have Darkvision with a range of 60 feet.

Elven Lineage. You are part of a lineage that grants you supernatural abilities. Choose a lineage from the Elven Lineages table. You gain the level 1 benefit of that lineage.

When you reach character levels 3 and 5, you learn a higher-level spell, as shown on the table. You always have that spell prepared. You can cast it once without a spell slot, and you regain the ability to cast it in that way when you finish a Long Rest. You can also cast the spell using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level.

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

Elven Lineages

Lineage	Level 1	Level 3	Level 5
Drow	The range of your Darkvision increases to 120 feet. You also know the Dancing Lights cantrip.	Faerie Fire	Darkness
High Elf	You know the Prestidigitation cantrip. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace that cantrip with a different cantrip from the Wizard spell list.	Detect Magic	Misty Step
Wood Elf	Your Speed increases to 35 feet. You also know the Druidcraft cantrip.	Longstrider	Pass without Trace

Fey Ancestry. You have Advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the Charmed condition.

Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Insight, Perception, or Survival skill.

Trance. You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep. You can finish a Long Rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in a trancelike meditation, during which you retain consciousness.

ELF TRAITS

Your elf character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of elven refinement.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2.

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. Ao elf typically c1aims 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 toward the gentler aspects of chaos. They value and protect others' freedom as well as their own, and they are more often good than 001. The 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 feet.

Darkvision. Accustomed to twilit forests and the oight sky, you have superior vision io dark aod dim cooditioos. Vou cao see io dim light withio 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, aod io darkness as if it were dim lighl. Vou cao'l discero color io darkoess, ooIy shades of gray. ,

Keen Senses. Vou have proficieocy io the Perceptioo skill.

FeyAncestry.Vouhaveadvaolage00saviogthrows agaiost beiog charmed, and magic cao't put you to sleep.

Trance. Elves doo't need to sleep. Ioslead, lhey meditate deeply, remainiog semicooscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Commoo word for such meditatioo is "traoce.") While meditatiog, you cao dream after a fashioo; such dreams are actually meotal exercises that have beco me reflexive through years of practice. Afler resliog io lhis way, you gaio lhe same beoefit that a humao does from 8 hours of sleep. Languages. Vou cao speak, read, and write Common aod Elvish. Elvish is fluid, wilh subtle iotonatioos aod iotricate grammar. Elveo literature is rich aod varied, aod their soogs aod poems are famous among other races. Maoy bards learo lheir laoguage so lhey cao add Elvish ballads lo lheir repertoires. Subrace. Aocieot divides amoog the elveo people resulled in lhree maio subraces: high elves, wood elves, aod dark elves, who are commooly called drow. Choose ooe of lhese subraces. lo some worlds, these subraces are divided slill further (such as lhe suo e1ves and mooo elves of the Forgotteo Realms), so if you wish, you can choose a oarrower subrace.

HIGH ELF

As a high elf, you have a keeo mind and a mastery of at least lhe basics of magic. In many of the worlds of 0&0, lhere are two kinds of high elves. Ooe lype (which includes lhe gray e1ves aod valley elves of Greyhawk, the Silvaoesti of Oragoolaoce, and lhe sun elves of lhe Forgotteo Realms) is haughty and reclusive, believing lhemselves to be superior lo ooo-elves and even other elves. The other type (iocludiog the high elves of Greyhawk. the Qualinesli of Oragonlance, and the moon elves of the Forgotteo Realms) are more common and more friendly, and oflen encouolered among humans and olhe r races. The sun elves of Faeruo (also called gold elves or sunrise elves) have bronze skin and hair of copper, black, or golden blood. Thcir eyes are golden, silver, or black. Moon elves (also called silver elves or gray elves) are much paler, with alabasler skio somelimes tioged wilh blue. They oflen 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. Ability Score Increase. Your lotelligeoce score iocreases by I. ElfWeapon Training. Vou have proficiency with lhe longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow Cantrip. Vou know one Canlrip of your choice from lhe wizard spelllisl. Inlelligence is your spellcasling abilily for il. ',." Extra Language. Vou can speak, read, and wrile one exlra language of your choice.

WOOD ELF

As a wood elf, you have keen senses and inluilion, and your fleel feel carry you quickly and sleallhily lhrough your nalive foresls. This calegory includes lhe wild elves (grugach) of Greyhawk and lhe Kagonesli of Dragonlance, as well as lhe races called wood elves in Greyhawk and lhe Forgolten Realms. [n Faenln, wood elves (also called wild elves. green elves, or foresl elves) are reclusive and dislrusling of non-elves. Wood elves' skin lends lo be copperish in hue, somelimes wilh lraces of green. Their hair lends loward browns and blacks, bul il is occasionally blond or copper-colored. Their eyes are green, brown, or hazel. Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1. ElfWeapon Training. Vou have proficiency wilh lhe longsword, shorlsword, shorlbow, and longbow. F1eet ofFoot. Your base walking speed increases lo 35 feel. Mask ofthe Wild. Vou can altempllo hide even when you are only lighlly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, misl, and olher nalural phenomena.

DARK ELF (DROW)

Descended from an earlier subrace of dark-skinned elves; lhedrow were banished from lhe surface world for following lhe goddess Lollh down lhe palh lo evil and corruplion. Now lhey have builllheir own civilizalion in lhe deplhs of lhe Underdark, palterned afler lhe Way of Lollh. Also called dark elves. lhe drow have black skin lhal resemb[es polished obsidian and slark while ar pale yellow hair. They commonly have very pale eyes (so pale as lObe mislaken for while) in shades of lilac, silver, pink, red, and blue. They lend lo be smaller and lhinner lhan mosl elves. Drow advenlurers are rare, and lhe race does nol exisl in ali worlds. Check wilh your Dungeon Masler lo see if you can play a drow characler. Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1. Superior Darkvision. Your darkvision has a radius of 120 feel. SunJight Sensitivity. Vou have disadvanlage on altack rolls and on Wisdom (Perceplion) checks lhal rely on sighl when you, lhe largel of your altack, ar whalever you are trying to perceive is in direcl sunlighl. Drow Magic. Vou know lhe dancing Jights cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can casllhe faerie tire spell once per day. When you reach 51h level, you can also casl lhe darkness spell once per day. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for lhese spells. Drow Weapon Training. You have proficiency with rapiers, shorlswords, and hand crossbows.

HALF-ELF

HALF- ELF TRAITS Vour half-elf character has some qualities in common with elves and some that are unique to half-elves. AbiJity Score Increase. Vour Charisma score increases by 2, and two other ability scores of your choice increase by I. Age. Half-elves mature at the same rate humans do and reach adulthood around the age of 20. They live much longer than humans, however, often exceeding 180 years. AJignment. Half-elves share the chaotic bent of their elven heritage. They value both personal freedom and crealive expression, demonstrating neither love of Jeaders nor desire for followers. They chafe at rules, resenl others' demands, and sometimes prove unreliable, or at least unpredictable. Size. HaIf-eIves are about the same size as humans, ranging from 5 to 6 feet taIl. Vour size is Medium. Speed. Vour base walking speed is 30 feel. Darkvision. Thanks to your elfblood, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. Vou can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim lighl. Vou can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. Fey Ancestry. Vou have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep. Skill VersatiJity. Vou gain proficiency in two skilIs ofyour choice. Languages. Voucan speak, read, and write Common, EIvish, and one extra language of your choice,