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Character race is a descriptor used to describe the various sapient species and beings that make up the setting in modern fantasy and science fiction.In many tabletop role-playing games and video games, players may choose to be one of these creatures when creating their player character (PC) or encounter them as a non-player character (NPC).
A character class is a fundamental part of the identity and nature of characters in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.A character's capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses are largely defined by their class; choosing a class is one of the first steps a player takes to create a Dungeons & Dragons player character. [1]
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.
The elf appeared as a character race in the third edition Player's Handbook (2000), [19] and in the 3.5 revised Player's Handbook. [20] Elves were detailed for the Forgotten Realms setting in Races of Faerûn (2003). [21] Elves were one of the races detailed in Races of the Wild (2005). [3]
The original D&D was published as a box set in 1974 and features only a handful of the elements for which the game is known today: just three character classes (fighting-man, magic-user, and cleric); four races (human, dwarf, elf, and hobbit); only a few monsters; only three alignments (lawful, neutral, and chaotic).
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, druids were the least created at 6,328 total. Elf (1,779) was the most common racial combination followed by human (996) and then genasi (584). [20]
Faerûn (/ f eɪ ˈ r uː n / fay-ROON) is a fictional continent and the primary setting of the Dungeons & Dragons world of Forgotten Realms.It is described in detail in several editions of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (first published in 1987 by TSR, Inc.) with the most recent being the 5th edition from Wizards of the Coast, [1] [2] and various locales and aspects are described in ...
Parts of Fizban's Treasury of Dragons were developed through Unearthed Arcana, a public playtest series. [10] In October 2020, 2020: Subclasses, Part 5 featured two new draconic themed subclasses [11] [12] and then in April 2021, 2021: Draconic Options featured new variant Dragonborn subraces and an alternate player version of the Kobold race along with new draconic themed feats and spells.