Elf
Ability Score Increase
Your Dexterity score increases by 2.
Character Building Tips
With darkvision, this species excels in dungeon delving and night missions. Consider classes that benefit from scouting ahead: Rogue, Ranger, or Druid.
Fey ancestry provides charm immunity and advantage - excellent for social builds or characters who will face many enchantment spells.
Basic Statistics
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Size
Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.
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. An elf typically claims 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 not.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Elvish. Elvish is fluid, with subtle intonations and intricate grammar. Elven literature is rich and varied, and their songs and poems are famous among other races. Many bards learn their language so they can add Elvish ballads to their repertoires.
Racial Features
Darkvision
Darkvision
Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Keen Senses
Keen Senses
You have proficiency in the Perception skill.
Fey Ancestry
Fey Ancestry
You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.
Trance
Trance
Elves don't need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.
Subspecies
About Elf
The Elf is a species with 10 racial traits.
Your elf character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of elven refinement.
Character Building Tips
Character Building Tips
With darkvision, this species excels in dungeon delving and night missions. Consider classes that benefit from scouting ahead: Rogue, Ranger, or Druid.
Fey ancestry provides charm immunity and advantage - excellent for social builds or characters who will face many enchantment spells.