Races

What is this
Thank you for taking the time to have a look at this PDF. These are all the races we tend to use and their rehashes we had designed too. Almost every race and additional information and subtracted information that I felt was unnecessary.

Racial Abilities
When I looked at races in D&D 5E I found many of the races are for the most part were unrecognisable from other races in respect to their mechanical abilities. In order to try and change this, I changed certain details about them that makes them much more recognizable such as the Elves ability to derive some memories from flesh. A concept derived from Larian Studios Divinity Series.

Some of these abilities are simply just ripped from racial feats that can be gained as it made it easier to account for. Due to imbalances though, including these abilities are up to the DMs Discretion as shown on most but not all of the racial abilities. All the races have one of these abilities (But are not mentioned in the wiki as they aren't significant)

Racial Freedoms
A lot of the time people would pick races primarily based on the favourability of the racial bonuses relative to their chosen class. For instance Tieflings make good bards not because of their Thaumaturgy spell, but instead its because they get a +2 to their charisma attribute score. To combat this, these bonuses are flexible. So inside of the Tiefling getting a +2 to Charisma and +1 to Intelligence. They instead get a +2 to a score of the players choosing and a +1 to a score of the players choosing. This makes it perfectly understandable for why there would be more Firbolg Bards or Druid Dragonborns.

That being said they aren't devoid of some racial lockdowns. For instance its only gonna be the tabaxi that can always land on his feet with resistance to falling damage. But of course this is a stylistic thing of the race. It isn't a feature that ties a player into choosing the race because its favourable. Its a feature that makes the racial recognizable and stylistic to the players. Its a feature that defines the player a little more broadly.