Races of Ansalon (SVP4404), Dungeons and Dragons
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Races of Ansalon
Designers:
Cam Banks, Sean Macdonald, Clark Valentine, Trampas Whiteman
Additional Design:
Jamie Chambers, Sean Everette, Ben Jacobson, André LaRoche, Joe Mashuga,
Ashe Potter, Jean Rabe, Scott Williams
Editing:
Christy Everette
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Devlopment:
Cam Banks
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Proofreading:
Jamie Chambers
Project Manager:
Sean Everette
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Layout & Page Design:
Digger Hayes, Sean Everette
Art Director:
Renae Chambers
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Cover Artist:
Larry Elmore
Interior Artists:
Lindsay Archer, Michael Bielaczyc, Paul Bielaczyc, Daniel Bryce, Jason Engle,
Michael Franchina, Jeff Jenkins, Quentin Johnson, Ron Lemen, Adrian Majkrzak, Jennifer Meyer,
Dzu Bguyen, Chris Tackett
Cover Graphic Designer:
Ken Whitman
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Interior Graphic Designer:
Kevin T. Stein
Special Thanks:
Luis Fernando De Pippo, Matt Haag, Tobin Melroy, Heine Kim Stick
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A Brief History ...................................5
Common Traits ...................................7
Civilized Humans ................................8
Civilized Human Racial Traits ...............8
Nomadic Humans ...............................13
Nomadic Human Racial Traits ..............13
Nomadic Human Cultures ...................14
Ithin’carthians ..................................18
Physical Appearance ...........................18
Psychology ......................................18
Religion ...........................................19
Language ..........................................19
Racial Relations ................................20
Ithin’carthian Racial Traits .................20
Humans in Other Eras .........................21
Human Alternative Class Features .......22
Chapter Two:
Physical Description ..........................64
Magical Practices ..............................66
Language ..........................................67
Racial Relations ................................68
Qualinesti Racial Traits ......................71
Silvanesti, High Elves ..........................71
Physical Description ..........................71
Magical Practices ..............................75
Language ..........................................77
Racial Relations ................................77
Silvanesti Racial Traits ........................79
Sea Elves ..........................................80
Physical Appearance ...........................80
Language ..........................................82
Racial Relations ................................82
Dargonesti Racial Traits .....................82
Dimernesti Racial Traits ......................83
Half-Elves .......................................84
Physical Appearance ...........................84
Language ..........................................85
Racial Relations ................................85
Half-Elf Racial Traits ........................86
Elves in Other Eras ............................86
The Kirath ........................................87
Kirath Alternative Class Features ........89
Chapter Four:
A Brief History .................................24
Common Traits .................................25
Hill Dwarves ....................................25
Physical Appearance ...........................26
Magical Practices ..............................28
Language ..........................................29
Racial Relations ................................29
Hill Dwarf Racial Traits .....................31
Mountain Dwarves .............................31
Physical Appearance ..........................31
Magical Practices ..............................35
Language ..........................................36
Racial Relations ................................36
Mountain Dwarf Racial Traits ..............38
Dark Dwarves ..................................38
Physical Appearance ...........................38
Racial Relations ................................41
Dark Dwarf Racial Traits ....................41
Gully Dwarves .................................42
Physical Appearance ...........................42
Racial Relations ................................44
Gully Dwarf Racial Traits ...................45
Half-Dwarves ..................................45
Physical Appearance ...........................45
Language ..........................................46
Racial Relations ................................47
Half-Dwarf Racial Traits ....................47
Dwarves in Other Eras.......................48
The Golden Hammers .........................48
Dwarf Clan Alternative Class Features 52
Chapter Three:
A Brief History .................................90
Common Traits ..................................91
Tinker Gnomes ..................................92
Physical Appearance ...........................92
Magical Practices ..............................95
Language ..........................................96
Racial Relations ................................96
Tinker Gnome Racial Traits ..................98
Mad Gnomes, “Thinkers” ...................99
Physical Appearance ...........................99
Language ........................................100
Racial Relations ..............................100
Mad Gnome Racial Traits ..................101
Wild Gnomes ....................................101
Physical Appearance ..........................101
Language .........................................102
Racial Relations ...............................102
Wild Gnome Racial Traits ..................102
Half-Gnomes ..................................102
Physical Appearance ..........................102
Language .........................................104
Racial Relations ...............................104
Half-Gnome Racial Traits ..................104
Gnomes in Other Eras.......................105
Gnomish Tinker ................................106
Gnome Alternative Class Features ......109
Gnomish Contraptions ......................110
Sample Contraptions .........................117
Chapter Five:
A Brief History .................................54
Common Traits .................................56
Kagonesti, Wilder Elves ......................57
Physical Appearance ...........................57
Magical Practices ..............................59
Language ..........................................60
Racial Relations ................................60
Kagonesti Racial Traits .......................63
Qualinesti ........................................64
A Brief History .................................121
Common Traits ................................122
Goblins ..........................................122
Physical Appearance ..........................122
Chapter One:
Language .........................................123
Racial Relations ...............................124
Goblin Racial Traits ..........................125
Bugbears ........................................125
Physical Appearance ..........................125
Language .........................................126
Racial Relations ...............................126
Bugbear Racial Traits ........................127
Bugbear Racial Class .........................127
Racial Traits ....................................127
Class Features ..................................128
Hobgoblins .....................................128
Physical Appearance ..........................128
Language .........................................129
Racial Relations ...............................129
Hobgoblin Racial Traits ....................130
Half-Goblins ..................................130
Physical Appearance ..........................130
Language .........................................131
Racial Relations ...............................131
Half-Goblin Racial Traits ..................132
Goblins in Other Eras ......................132
Sikk’et Hul Freedom Fighters .............133
Sikk’et Hul Alternative Class Features .134
Chapter Six:
A Brief History ................................180
Common Traits .................................181
Ogres, “the Fallen” ...........................181
Physical Appearance ..........................181
Language .........................................185
Racial Relations ...............................185
Fallen Ogre Racial Traits ...................188
Fallen Ogre Racial Class ....................188
Racial Traits ....................................188
Class Features ..................................189
Half-Ogres ....................................189
Physical Appearance ..........................189
Language ........................................190
Racial Relations ..............................190
Half-Ogre Characters .....................190
Half-Ogre Racial Traits ....................191
Irda ................................................191
Physical Appearance ..........................191
Racial Relations ...............................193
Irda Characters ...............................193
Irda Racial Traits .............................195
Irda Adventures ................................195
Other Ogre Races ............................195
Athaches .........................................195
Ettins .............................................195
Giants ............................................196
Hags ..............................................196
Ogre Mages .....................................196
Trolls ............................................197
Ogres in Other Eras ..........................197
Ogre Alternative Class Features .........197
Ogre Slaver ....................................199
Chapter Nine:
A Brief History ................................136
True Kender .....................................137
Physical Appearance ..........................137
Magical Practices .............................139
Language .........................................141
Racial Relations ...............................141
Kender Racial Traits ..........................144
Afflicted Kender .............................144
Language .........................................145
Racial Relations ...............................145
Aflicted Kender Racial Traits ............146
Half-Kender ...................................147
Physical Appearance ..........................147
Language .........................................148
Racial Relations ...............................148
Half-Kender Racial Traits ..................149
Kender in Other Eras ........................150
Belladonna’s Eyes ............................150
Belladonna’s Eyes Alt. Class Features .152
Nightstalker ...................................153
Handler Prestige Class .....................156
Kender Pouch Grab..........................159
Kender Pouch Grab Items ...................161
Chapter Seven:
Centaurs ........................................202
Kyrie ..............................................207
Phaethons .......................................210
Thanoi ............................................214
Ursoi ..............................................217
Elder Phaethon Prestige Class ...........221
Other Race Alternate Class Features ..222
Feats...............................................224
Armor ............................................227
Weapons .........................................227
Gear and Special Items ......................234
Magic Items ....................................235
Artifacts ........................................237
Vital Statistics .................................240
A Brief History ................................162
Minotaurs ......................................163
Physical Appearance ..........................163
Magic ............................................166
Language .........................................167
Racial Relations ..............................167
Minotaur Racial Traits ......................170
Thoradorian Minotaurs ...................170
Physical Appearance ..........................171
Language .........................................171
Racial Relations ...............................172
Thoradorian Minotaur Racial Traits ....172
Thoradorian Minotaur Racial Class ...173
Racial Traits ....................................173
Class Features ..................................173
Minotaurs in Other Eras ..................174
Minotaur Legions ............................174
Minotaur Legionary Alt. Class Features 176
Minotaur Alternative Class Features ...179
Chapter Eight:
I
thought I knew what a half-elf was.
I’d read the manual, you see. A half-elf was like a low-calorie version of an elf, with some of
the powers, and a few more class options. He could pass for either, and often did. He was friends with
elves and humans alike – in fact, he got along with most races. Everyone liked him, more or less. Even
dwarves.
So then this new series comes along, and the lead character is a half-elf. Some guy named Tanis. And …
well, hold on a second. Most people
don’t
like him, at least on sight. He’s an outsider to humans, a mixed-blood
mongrel to elves. He’s in love with an elf, so her brother hates him, and he leaves home. He grows a beard to it
in among humans – and to stand out from elves. He has to ight for every bit of trust he can get. Instead of being
both
a human and an elf, he’s neither.
What the heck was going on?
For me, Dragonlance was an eye-opener: the irst time a game I played really challenged the genre’s
norms. There were elves, yes, but there were different nations of them and they didn’t get along. There were
dwarves, both hill- and mountain-lavored, and they’d fought a war that nearly wiped out both nations.
There were humans, of course, but not just the standard, wandered-in-from-the-Middle-Ages guys I’d always
envisioned in fantasy. There were tribes of barbarians similar to native Americans; there were swarthy seafarers
descended from an ancient, ruined kingdom; there was an empire like Rome that the gods smashed. Even the
Solamnians, with their strict code of knightly honor, were new to me.
And there were the others, too, the kinds I’d never seen before. Instead of hallings, there were kender: a
race of light-ingered, irrepressible, frequently irritating thieves – but don’t call
them
that. Gnomes who liked to
invent things: big, dangerous, impractical things with a tendency to explode. And minotaurs – you could actually
play
a minotaur as your character, instead of wandering around a maze waiting to be eaten by one!
Plus gully dwarves. Good grief, the gully dwarves.
Even before the magic, the gods, the knightly orders and strange locations, it was the races that drew
me into Krynn. For the irst time in my young life (I was 12), I saw the different races in a game as
people
, with
different outlooks and philosophies, rather than just attributes and combat bonuses. It’s the races that still stand
out for me.
Picking a character’s race immediately gives you a mindset, and helps you work out how you’re going
to associate with other characters in the game. If you’re a dark elf, you’re going to have a much different outlook
from a wild Kagonesti or a high-and-mighty Silvanesti. If you’re a human from Solamnia, you’ll interact with the
local peasants much differently than if you’re a Qué-shu warrior … or a kender.
By choosing a race, you’re choosing a culture where you’re welcome, or at least tolerated. You’re picking
your friends and your enemies … at least until you give people a reason of your own to like you (or hate you).
It’s much more than just deciding whether you have a beard or pointy ears (or both). It’s
who you
are
– or, at
least, who people think you are.
So read on. If you have a favorite race in Ansalon, you’ll ind it here: Qualinesti or Neidar, centaur,
draconian, Ergothian human or tinker gnome. And, of course, the half-elf. And if you don’t have a favorite, you’ll
have one by the time you’re done.
—ChrisPierson
Foreword
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