Browse ancestry options by size, source, movement, and universe. This is the compendium view for playable races and related Forge additions.
Aasimars are humans with a significant amount of celestial or other good outsider blood in their ancestry.
Catfolk are a race of natural explorers who rarely tire of trailblazing, but such trailblazing is not limited merely to the search for new horizons in distant lands.
Changelings are the offspring of hags and their lovers taken through magic or madness.
The half-living children of vampires birthed by human females, dhampirs are progenies of both horror and tragedy.
Cruel and cunning, drow are a dark reflection of the elven race.
Duergar dwell in subterranean caverns far from the touch of light.
Dwarves are a stoic but stern race, ensconced in cities carved from the hearts of mountains and fiercely determined to repel the depredations of savage races like orcs and goblins.
The long-lived elves are children of the natural world, similar in many superficial ways to fey creatures, though with key differences.
Descended from humans trapped on the Shadow Plane, fetchlings are creatures of darkness and light intertwined.
Gillmen are the remnants of a race of surface-dwelling humanoids whose homeland was drowned in a great cataclysm at the hands of the aboleth.
Gnomes are distant relatives of the fey, and their history tells of a time when they lived in the fey's mysterious realm, a place where colors are brighter, the wildlands wilder, and emotions more primal.
Goblins are a race of childlike creatures with a destructive and voracious nature that makes them almost universally despised.
Gripplis stand just over 2 feet tall and have mottled green-and-brown skin.
Elves have long drawn the covetous gazes of other races.
Optimistic and cheerful by nature, blessed with uncanny luck, and driven by a powerful wanderlust, halflings make up for their short stature with an abundance of bravado and curiosity.
As seen by civilized races, half-orcs are monstrosities, the result of perversion and violence—whether or not this is actually true.
Fierce and militaristic, hobgoblins survive by conquest.
Humans possess exceptional drive and a great capacity to endure and expand, and as such are currently the dominant race in the world.
Humans whose ancestry includes beings of elemental fire such as efreet, ifrits are a passionate and fickle race.
Kitsune, or fox folk, are vulpine shapeshifters known for their love of both trickery and art.