Relating 5e Races to Arbor Races

Why?

The Dnd 5e Race options are broadly speaking a mess, inter tangled in mechanics is heaps of lore that at best makes no sense in the context of Arbor and at worst actively hampers your creativity. So this document aims to tackle that problem and allow you to relate the various races that exist in DnD into their 5e counterparts.

Beastkin

First lets list all the races included in the Beastkin category:

• Aarakocra
• Centaur
• Dragonborn
• Giff
• Grung
• Hadozee
• Harengon
• Kenku
• Kobold
• Leonin
• Lizardfolk
• Locathah
• Loxodon
• Minotaur
• Owlin
• Satyr
• Shifter
• Tabaxi
• Triton
• Tortle
• Yuan-Ti

We can break each of these further down but broadly speaking the Beastkin are one species of people that have a fairly cohesive bond with each other. More information is contained in their specific page along with information about the individual sub-species mentioned below for now I'll just list the individual races and where they belong in the categories along with a link to their page in specific.

Amphibious

• Grung
• Locathah
• Tortle
• Triton

Avian

• Aarakocra
• Kenku
• Owlin

Furred

• Centaur
• Hadozee
• Harengon
• Leonin
• Minotaur
• Tabaxi

Scaled

• Dragonborn
• Kobold
• Lizardfolk
• Yuan-Ti

Smooth

• Giff
• Loxodon

Goblinoid

The Goblinnoid races work much similar to the humans with variations between them being more pronounced than they are in humans so instead of blonde hair vs red you have fur covered and smooth skin, similarly they can range far more in size than their human counterparts

• Bugbear
• Firbolg
• Goblin
• Hobgoblin
• Orc
• Verdan

Human

The ubiquitous Human everywhere and in all things the addition of Dwarves and Goliaths to their ranks is just to make my job easier Goliath are tall strong humans Dwarves are squatter tougher humans.

• Human
• Dwarf
• Goliath

Korrigan

These are a distinct group of people like the Goblinoids and Beastkin who came with the Humans as the The First Ones and they comprise the races below.

• Gnome
• Halfling
• Kender

Touched

The Touched represent all the races with a more unusual background and have only just started appearing a Touched person can be from any base species so you can have touched Beastkin or small folk and so on.

• Aasimar
• Changeling
• Eladrin
• Elf (All variants thereof)
• Fairy
• Genasi
• Gith
• Satyr
• Tiefling

Races not Mentioned

There are a number of races that fail to find a home in any of the above or are perhaps too unique to fit a criteria and fit into the world, not saying you can't play any of those but they may require extra work

Robotic Racial Options

As this is a steampunk setting with no sentient(yet) robotic or synthetic lifeforms the below require extra thought if choosing.

• Autognome
• Warforged

Half or Hybrid Races

These exist in much the same way you would expect so nothing special needs to be discussed here.