Available in 2014 & 2024 editions
## Elf Traits Your elf character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of elven refinement.
Size
Medium
Speed
30 ft.
Ability Bonuses
DEX +2
Languages
**_Languages._** You can speak, read, and write Common and Elvish. Elvish is fluid, with subtle intonations and intricate grammar. Elven literature is rich and varied, and their songs and poems are famous among other races. Many bards learn their language so they can add Elvish ballads to their repertoires.
**_Keen Senses._** You have proficiency in the Perception skill. **_Fey Ancestry._** You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep. **_Trance._** Elves don't need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.
**_Darkvision._** Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, 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.
As a high elf, you have a keen mind and a mastery of at least the basics of magic. In many fantasy gaming worlds, there are two kinds of high elves. One type is haughty and reclusive, believing themselves to be superior to non-elves and even other elves. The other type is more common and more friendly, and often encountered among humans and other races.
**_Elf Weapon Training._** You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow. **_Cantrip._** You know one cantrip of your choice from the wizard spell list. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for it. **_Extra Language._** You can speak, read, and write one extra language of your choice.