Update : A second follow-up blog post has now been posted at Beyond Dwelfs: Even more mixed race options for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition. You can still make your half-Elf/half-Dwarf Dwelf, but maybe you want to make a half-Dragonborn/half-Goblin, or a half-Shifter/half-Tabaxi, or one of over a thousand other possibilities. Whereas the previous guide included only 10 different official races (and some of their subraces), this new guide includes 71 different official races and sub-races, which can now be freely mixed and matched to create new racial options. Alternatively, if you don’t want to download the file, you can browse the components at the end of this blog post.) Archives of the previous (Excel) versions linked from this page can be found here: v2 (22 March 2019) and v3 (). (Since 22 March 2020, this link is to the updated version on Google Drive.

So, finally, here is the expanded and improved guide for creating mixed race or hybrid characters in Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition:Ĭreating Hybrid Races in D&D 5e by Stephen Morffew However, after posting I realised I wasn’t entirely happy with it, and felt it could be expanded and improved. That blog post was Bring on the dwelfs: Mixed race options in Dungeons & Dragons 5e, and it has become my most-viewed post on this site. One year ago, I posted a way of creating player characters in Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition that have the traits of two different playable races. Male dwelf concept art by dmantz, via reddit

List of 5e playable races