Races found in Dungeons and Dragons

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Dungeons and Dragons Races

Every race increases one or more of a character’s ability scores.

Age: gives the expected lifespan of the race. Helps you decide how old your character is at the start of the game.

Alignment: Most races have tendencies toward certain alignments. But that does not prevent you from coming up for reasons for other alignments.

Size: Most characters are medium between 4 to 8 feet tall. A few races are small between 2 and 4 feet tall. Small characters have trouble wielding heavy weapons.

Speed: How far you can move when traveling and fighting.

Languages: that race can speak, read and write certain languages.

Subraces: Members of a subrace have traits of the parent race in addition to the traits specified for their subrace.