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Like in other settings, they are split into several peoples, again echoing the splits among Tolkien's elves: [34] Silvanesti and Qualinesti, [34] two races of high elves estranged from each other; the Kagonesti or Wild Elves; and two races of sea elves: the Dimernesti or Shoal Elves, which inhabit the coastal areas and the Dargonesti or Deep Elves.
GAZ13 The Shadow Elves was written by Carl Sargent and Gary Thomas, with a cover by Clyde Caldwell, and was published by TSR in 1990 as a 64-page booklet and a 32-page booklet, with a large color map and an outer folder. [1] Later printings merged the two Guides into one 96-page booklet; although they did not repaginate the new booklet.
Races of Faerûn was designed by Eric L. Boyd, James Jacobs, and Matt Forbeck, and published in March 2003.Cover art is by Greg Staples, with interior art by Dennis Calero, Dennis Cramer, Mike Dutton, Wayne England, Jeremy Jarvis, Vince Locke, David Martin, Raven Mimura, Jim Pavelec, Vinod Rams, and Adam Rex.
Races of the Wild contains background information on the elves and halflings, introduces a race of winged humanoids called "raptorans," as well as giving rules for playing wilderness based creatures such centaurs and the newly created fey-race killoren as player characters.
Gus Wezerek, for FiveThirtyEight, reported that of the 5th Edition "class and race combinations per 100,000 characters that players created on D&D Beyond from" August 15 to September 15, 2017, half-elves were the third most created at 10,454 total, preceded by elves (16,443) and humans (25,248).
Thirty years after its publication, author Colin McComb admitted The Complete Book of Elves was "dreadful", and acknowledged the negative influence the book had on the 2nd edition of AD&D, apologizing for "making elves so incredibly powerful and unbalanced that all of our AD&D games were henceforth ruined until 3rd Edition D&D came to save us." [7]
The Elves of Alfheim is an accessory for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game that describes the elven forest nation of Alfheim in the Mystara setting.
Half-elves are a subrace unto themselves, blending the features of human and elf. Half-elves look like elves to humans and like humans to elves (hence their elven description as "half-human"). They do well with elves, humans, gnomes, dwarves, and halflings, a social ease reflected in racial bonuses to the Diplomacy and Gather Information skills ...