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The elf appeared as a character race in the third edition Player's Handbook (2000), [19] and in the 3.5 revised Player's Handbook. [20] Elves were detailed for the Forgotten Realms setting in Races of Faerûn (2003). [21] Elves were one of the races detailed in Races of the Wild (2005). [3]
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 half-elf appeared as a character race in the second edition Player's Handbook (1989). [8] The half-elf also appeared in the Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989), [9] and Monstrous Manual (1993). Options for the half-elf character race were presented in Player's Option: Skills & Powers (1995).
Bleeding Cool found the firbolg one "of the more distinctive race options in the D&D multiverse" in a 2016 review of Volo's Guide to Monsters. [64] In 2021, Comic Book Resources counted the firbolg as one of the "7 Underused Monster Races in Dungeons & Dragons", stating that "Firbolgs are a blend of strength and magic, making them useful for ...
Gus Wezerek, for FiveThirtyEight, reported that of the 5th Edition "class and race combinations per 100,000 characters that players created on D&D Beyond from" August 15 to September 15, 2017, half-elves were the third most created at 10,454 total, preceded by elves (16,443) and humans (25,248).
Halflings have long been one of the playable humanoid races in Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), [2] starting with the original 1974 Men & Magic, [5] where the term hobbit was used. [2] Later editions of the original D&D box set began using the name halfling as an alternative to hobbit [6] for legal reasons. [7]
On May 10, 2022, it was announced that the digital release of Monsters of the Multiverse will correspond with the delisting of Volo's Guide to Monsters (2016) and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (2018) on D&D Beyond as Monsters of the Multiverse revises the player races and monsters previously published in those sourcebooks.
[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.