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Races

Browse ancestry options by size, source, movement, and universe. This is the compendium view for playable races and related Forge additions.

Showing 21–37 of 37 races.
Small 30 ft.

Kobolds are weak, craven, and seethe with a festering resentment for the rest of the world, especially members of races that seem stronger, smarter, or superior to them in any way.

Medium 5 ft.

Merfolk have the upper torsos of well-built and attractive humans and lower halves consisting of the tail and fins of a great fish.

Medium 30 ft.

The nagaji are a race of ophidian humanoids with scaled skin that mimics the dramatic appearance of true nagas.

Medium 20 ft.

Oreads are humans whose ancestry includes the touch of an elemental being of earth somewhere along the line, often that of a shaitan genie.

Small 20 ft.

Ratfolk are small, rodentlike humanoids; originally native to subterranean areas in dry deserts and plains, they are now more often found in nomadic trading caravans.

Medium 30 ft.

Mysterious humanoids with pale blue flesh and transparent blood like the waters of a trickling brook, samsarans are ancient creatures even in their youth.

Medium 30 ft.

Human neighbors tell horrific tales of slaughter woven with frightened suspicion when speaking of strix.

Small 30 ft.

In the dark below earth, svirfneblin protect their enclaves, keeping their small communities safe from the terrors of the lightless depths.

Medium 30 ft.

Born from the descendants of humans and beings of elemental air such as djinn, sylphs are a shy and reclusive race consumed by intense curiosity.

Medium 30 ft.

Vanaras are intelligent, monkeylike humanoids that live in deep, warm forests and lush jungles.

Small 20 ft.

The wayangs are a race of small supernatural humanoids who trace their ancestry to the Plane of Shadows.