Walking in two worlds but truly belonging to neither, half-elves combine what some say are the best qualities of their elf and human parents: human curiosity, inventiveness, and ambition tempered by the refined senses, love of nature, and artistic tastes of the elves.
Half-Elf Features
Ability Score Increase: Your Charisma score increases by 2, and two other ability scores of your choice each increase by 1.
Age: Half-elves age at much the same rate as humans, reaching adulthood at the age of 20. They live much longer than humans, however, often exceeding 180 years.
Size: Half-elves are more or less the same size as humans, ranging from 5 to 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium.
Speed: Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Darkvision: Thanks to your elven heritage, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Fey Ancestry: You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.
Skill Versatility: You gain proficiency in two skills of your choice.
Languages: You can read, speak, and write God-Tongue, Elven, and one language of your choice.
Half-Elf Variants
Your half-elf character can forgo Skill Versatility and instead take the elf trait Keen Senses or one of the following traits based on your elf parentage:
Elf Weapon Training (High or Wood Elf Heritage): You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow.
Cantrip (High Elf Heritage): You know one cantrip of your choice from the wizard spell list. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for it.
Fleet of Foot (Wood Elf Heritage): Your base walking speed increases to 35 feet.
Mask of the Wild (Wood Elf Heritage): You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.
Swim Speed (Sea Elf Heritage): You have a swimming speed of 30 feet.
