Throughout April Dungeon’s Master is participating in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. More to the point I do not consider these races to be monsters. Sure a few of them might be a bit on the fringes of normal (the Goliath, Warforged and Dragonborn, for example), but I have no problem grouping these races in the same category as Humans, Elves and Dwarves. In my mind these are all “normal” races for a fantasy role-playing game. Since 4e I’ve played an Elf, Dwarf, Eladrin, Half-Orc, Goliath, Drow, Shifter, Half-Elf, Warforged, and Dragonborn just to name the first few that come to mind.
Over the years I’ve played my fair share of non-Human characters. In most cases these races had distinct culture and homelands in the same way as the Elves and Dwarves. As the list was expanded the game’s creators provided an explanation of how the new races fit into the world. The Half-Orc, Gnome, Drow, Warforged, Goliath and even Dragonborn have all become commonplace in today’s D&D. Over the years the D&D has allowed players to choose from a multitude of races when creating their characters. These are the most common and well known races, but they’re certainly not the only ones. In D&D a handful of fantasy races populate the majority of the gaming world – Human, Elf, Dwarf, Half-Elf, and Halfling.
