Half-Elf
Half-Elf is a D&D 3.5 player race from APG. Medium Humanoid (elf).
Quick answers
What size and type is Half-Elf?
Half-Elf is categorized as Medium Humanoid (elf).
Which source covers Half-Elf?
Half-Elf is covered in World of Warcraft: Alliance Player's Guide (APG).
- Size
- Medium
- Type
- Humanoid (elf)
- Medium: As Medium creatures, half-elves have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
- Half-elf base land speed is 30 feet.
- Low-Light Vision: Half-elves can see twice as far as humans in starlight, moonlight, torchlight and similar conditions of poor illumination. They retain the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions.
- Elven Blood: For all special abilities and effects, a half-elf is considered both a high elf and a human.
- One extra feat at 1st level. Half-elves are adaptable and capable.
- +2 racial bonus on Gather Information and Sense Motive checks. These skills are considered class skills for all half-elf characters. Half-elves have learned to be wary of deception and the possibility of persecution.
- +1 racial bonus on Concentration, Knowledge (arcana) and Spellcraft checks. These skills are considered class skills for all half-elf characters. Their high elf heritage grants half-elves a natural talent with magic-related skills.
- Automatic Languages: Common and Thalassian.
- Bonus Languages: Any unrestricted. Half-elves are versatile wanderers and pick up many different languages.
- Favored Class: Any. A multiclass half-elf's highest-level class does not count when determining whether he suffers an XP penalty for multiclassing (see
- The half-elf looks more like a night elf and is treated as a night elf for all special abilities and effects (as appropriate for his elven blood racial trait).
- Instead of a bonus on Concentration, Knowledge (arcana) and Spellcraft checks, half-night elves have a +1 racial bonus on Knowledge (nature) and Survival checks. These skills are class skills for all half-night elf characters.
- Instead of the Limited Arcane Ability feat (see
- Instead of Thalassian, the half-elf has Darnassian as an automatic language. Half-Blood Elves Since the blood elves came into existence only four years ago, they certainly have not had time to mingle with humans and produce adult offspring. This does not mean that it cannot happen, however; and if your GM sets his campaign 20 years in the future it is possible. Half-blood elves have only the following mechanical changes: they are treated as blood elves for all special abilities and effects (as appropriate for their elven blood racial trait); and if an individual selects the Limited Arcane Ability feat (see