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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9477375" data-attributes="member: 58172">In the section, "<a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/free-rules/character-origins" target="_blank">Character Species</a>", texts include the following:"A player characters species is the set of game traits that an adventurer gains from being one of those life forms.Members of most species live for about 80 years, with exceptions noted in the text about the species in this chapter. Regardless of life span, members of all species reach physical maturity at about the same age.Parts of a SpeciesCreature Type. Every species in this chapter is Humanoid. Playable non-Humanoid species appear in other D&D books. [ [USER=23751]@Maxperson[/USER] ].Size. Individuals within a species cover a wide range of heights, ans some species include such diversity of size that you can choose whether your character is Small or Medium."Otherwise, the appearance of species seem to depend on the specific setting. For example, the Elf entry mentions "elves have pointed ears and lack facial and body hair", but details like skin color which the Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms obsess over, are absent from core rules. Forgotten Realms Drow Elves generally have gray skin ranging from black to white, with a hint of purple, ranging from blue to red. Tashas has an image of two Elves, one "High" and one "Drow". It took me a moment to realize, the dark blue skin was the High Elf and the pale silver skin was the Drow Elf. When I looked into it, it turns out these color possibilities are canon in the Forgotten Realms.Generally speaking, players can choose any humanlike bodytype and appearance, and probably doublecheck with the DM if portraying something unusual.</blockquote>

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