Draconic Ancestry (breath weapon/resistance).

in great detail, but here’s a quick reference for the Half-Race’s Secondary Attributes. These can vary wildly for each of the races, but may include darkvision, damage resistances, minor spellcasting abilities, advantage on saving throws, or skill proficiencies. Mechanically speaking, Secondary Attributes consist of Age, along with anything else not included in the Primary Attributes. It could be the shape of the ears, a tint in their skin tone, or even the presence of small horns, tusks, or scales. Secondary Attributes come from the father and contribute to the new Half-Race character in a more subtle way. Primary Attributes reflect the main physical description of the new character, or traits that are noticed quite obviously. Now, we will take a look at the mother of the new Half-Race, as we will be taking the Primary Attributes – an arbitrary term that I made up to help explain this – from her. I’ve decided that my example character, Teddy Thomkins, will have a Gnome mother and a Tiefling father. This is going to help guide us through divvying up the stats, and will determine whether the character will be:

During character creation, the mother will contribute the Primary Attributes while the father will contribute the Secondary Attributes (but more on that in a minute).

The next step is to determine which of these parents will be the mother and which will be the father. Okay great, let’s say that you rolled a 4 and a 9: Gnome and Tiefling. Of course, if your second roll is the same as your first then just roll again! To select the races for your new character, grab a d10 and roll twice from the following table. It’s also worth mentioning that in this article I’m only going to using examples with the vanilla PHB races, but this system should work with any of the other available race options ( if your DM allows it) If you don’t already have a concept in mind, but just want to try using the system then grab your dice and get to rollin’! The first step to creating a Half-Race character is to decide the race of the parents ( duh). Today’s article will discuss the following: If Half-Elves and Half-Orcs can exist, why not Half-Dwarves or Half-Tieflings? And why is it always assumed that one of the halves will be human? Why shouldn’t there be an Elf-Gnome person, or a Dragonborn-Orc? What the hell ever happened to free love? In an attempt to solve some of these questions, I came up with a pretty straightforward system for creating characters or NPCs that are a mixture of races.

The Half-Races in D&D are pretty cool, but there’s just one problem: there’s only two of them.

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