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A dwarf, in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy roleplaying game, is a humanoid race, one of the primary races available for player characters.The idea for the D&D dwarf comes from the dwarves of European mythologies and J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955), and has been used in D&D and its predecessor Chainmail since the early 1970s.
The Complete Book of Dwarves is a supplemental rulebook for the 2nd edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, published in 1991 by TSR, Inc. [2] [4] It contains a variety of information useful to playing dwarf characters in the game, including information on strongholds, [5] dwarven subraces, [2] character "kits", [2] role-playing, mining, and more.
Throughout D&D history, up to and including the third edition Player's Handbook, spellcaster gnomes were either illusionists or had illusionist as their favored class. [19] [20] However, in Dungeons & Dragons v.3.5, gnomes' favored class has been changed to bard, as the favored class of illusionist was a subset of the wizard class.
Races explored were the major races dwarves, elves, gnomes, half-elves, half-orc, halflings, humans, and planetouched, as well as minor races, aarakocra, centaurs, goblinoids, kir-lanan, lizardfolk, lycanthropes, shades, wemics, and yuan-ti, and the various subraces (in the case of humans, ethnic groups) of each of the races.
[14] [17] In August 2022, Wizards of the Coast launched the One D&D public playtest to update Dungeons & Dragons. [18] The first playtest document removed the option of distinct rules for half-elves and half-orcs and replaced it with rules for mixed parentage where a player selects mechanical traits from one parent's race and has the choice of ...
3 new Elf subraces including the return of the Eladrin and Shadar-kai; Elven history, religion, outlook and more; Chapter 3: Dwarves and Duergar Duergar racial traits; History of the Dwarf/Duergar war, relations with dragons and more; Chapter 4: Gith and Their Endless War Githyanki and Githzerai racial traits; Wars, history, culture and more
The second version of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set combines the idea of race and class; non-human races do not have classes. Hence, a character might be a (human) Cleric or else simply an "Elf" or "Dwarf". The Basic Set presented four human classes: Cleric, Fighter, Magic User, and Thief, and three demi-human classes: Dwarf, Elf, and Halfling.
[37] Reviewer Dan Wickline from Bleeding Cool considered them a classic of D&D and among "the more distinctive race options in the D&D multiverse". [33] The orc was directly adapted from the orc in J.R.R. Tolkien's works. [38] [39]: 27 The orc was considered one of the "five main "humanoid" races" in AD&D by Paul Karczag and Lawrence Schick.