5e Races Reimagined

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Races Reimagined


Drachenmagier

“	A simple way to modify an existing race is to change its appearance. Changes to a race's appearance need not affect its game elements. For example, you could transform halflings into anthropomorphic mice without changing their racial traits at all. [...] In your world, elves might be desert nomads instead of forest dwellers, halflings might live in cloud cities, and dwarves might be sailors instead of miners.	”
—DMG p.285

Just because you imagined it, doesn't mean you need to build a dedicated unique race entry for it. In fact, for many ideas, that is entirely unnecessary. The core races are fairly generic, and can easily be reimagined as something thematically similar without any need for mechanical alteration whatsoever. To encourage this activity, rather than endless heaps of redundant race entries, this page was created. Here, we can list all the things we have used the core races to represent. Note that this is only for purely cosmetic and thematic alterations, not mechanical ones. Mechanically altered core races are variant races.

Humans

Anthro-Rodents: Rats
Star-Trek: No change necessary
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine
Pokemon: Pikachu, Mr. Mime
Elder Scrolls: Imperial, Nord, or Redgaurd
Marvel: Asgardians, with no extra powers?

Feats Variant

Star-Trek: Bajorans, maybe? Really, humans and bajorans are basically interchangeable.
Pokemon: Any of the Pikachu clones - Marill? Emolga?
Warhammer 40k: Maybe the ability to summon other space marines, or perhaps guardsmen?
Marvel: Any metahuman

High Elves

Human Stereotypes: Snobby academics
Anthro-Rodents: Hares
Star-Trek: Vulcans
Pokemon: Espeon or Sylveon
Warhammer 40k: Eldar
Elder Scrolls: Altmer

Wood Elves

Human Stereotypes: The wirey, agile swashbuckler acrobat types.
Anthro-Rodents: Rabbits
Pokemon: Leafeon and Glaceon
Marvel: Groot

Dark Elves, Drow

Human Stereotypes: The Tweenage-Fiction Antihero
Anthro-Rodents: Weasels
Star-Trek: Cardassians
Pokemon: Umbreon
Warhammer 40k: Dark Eldar
Marvel: Still Dark Elves

Hill Dwarves

Human Stereotypes: The pudgy sidekick
Anthro-Rodents: Groundhogs
Pokemon: Diglett

Mountain Dwarves

Warhammer 40k: Squat
Human Stereotypes: The little tough-guy
Anthro-Rodents: Gophers
Pokemon: Geodude
The Elder Scrolls: Dwemer

Gray Dwarves (Duergar)

Human Stereotypes: The Little Boss from Hell
Anthro-Rodents: Beavers
Marvel: Nidavellir Dwarves
Warhammer: Chaos Dwarves

Lightfoot Halflings

Human Stereotypes: Child thieves
Anthro-Rodents: Mice
Pokemon: Pichu
Warhammer 40k: Ratling
Marvel: Rocket Racoon

Stout Halflings

Human Stereotypes: Fat Kids
Anthro-Rodents: Hamsters
Pokemon: Dedenne

Forest Gnomes

Human Stereotypes: Children
Anthro-Rodents: Squirrels
Pokemon: Rattata and Raticate
Zelda: Kuokori

Rock Gnomes

Human Stereotypes: Child Prodigy
Anthro-Rodents: Chipmunks
Pokemon: Sandshrew

Deep Gnomes (Svirfneblin)

Human Stereotypes: Evil Children
Anthro-rodents: Possoms
Pokemon: Alolan Raticate

Half-Elves

Human Stereotypes: Fops and Dandies
Anthro-Rodents: Capybara
Star-Trek: Ferengi
Pokemon: Jolteon, or maybe Flareon
Horror campaign: Vampires or Half-Vampires

Half-Orcs

Human Stereotypes: Big, strong, threatening people
Anthro-Rodents: Badgers
Star-Trek: Klingons
Pokemon: Machamp or Barbaracle
Marvel: Titans

Dragonborn

Human Stereotypes: The In-Laws
Anthro-Rodents: Reptiles
Star Trek: Breen or Jem'Hadar
Pokemon: Charizard, Dragonite, Goodra, Tyranitar, Tyrantrum, Salamence or their previous forms

Tieflings

Human Stereotypes: Ex-Lovers
Pokemon: Mimikyu
Warhammer 40k: Mutant

Aarakocra

Human Stereotype: Batman Cosplayer
Anthro-Rodents: Bats
Pokemon: Aerodactyl

Warforged

Human Stereotype: Free Labor
Marvel: Iron Man, War Machine
Sci-Fi: Android
Anthro: Protogen

Wiki Races

When making a reimagined version of a race here on the wiki, always leave a link back to that race for others to view it.

Alraune

Human Stereotype: Hippie/"Tree Hugger"
Marvel: Flora Colossus (i.e. Groot's race)
Pokémon: Basically any Grass-type
Starbound/Wargroove: Floran

Fireborn

Human Stereotype: Pyro
Pokémon: Flareon
Marvel: Fire Giant

Stormborn

Human Stereotype: Weather Man
Pokémon: Jolteon, Pikachu, Pichu, Raichu
Marvel: Thor, Storm

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