Your elf character has a variety of natural
Abilities, the result of thousands of years of elven refinement.
Ability Score Increase: Your
Dexterity score increases by 2.
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.
Size:
Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is
Medium.
Speed: Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
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: You have
Proficiency in the
Perception skill.
Fey Ancestry: You have advantage on
Saving Throws against being
Charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.
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.
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.
As a
High Elf, you have a
Keen Mind and a mastery of at least
The Basics of magic. In many fantasy gaming worlds, there are two kinds of high elves. One type is haughty and reclusive, believing themselves to be superior to non-elves and even other elves. The other type is more
Common and more friendly, and often encountered among
Humans and
Other Races.
Ability Score Increase: Your
Intelligence score increases by 1.
Elf Weapon Training: You have
Proficiency with the
Longsword,
Shortsword,
Shortbow, and
Longbow.
Cantrip: You know one cantrip of your choice from the
Wizard spell list.
Intelligence is your
Spellcasting ability for it.
Extra Language: You can speak, read, and write one extra language of your choice.
