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?

Star Wars

No change necessary

Feats Variant

Star-Trek

Bajorans, maybe? Really, humans and bajorans are basically interchangeable. Possibly a "near-human", covering various minor races.

Pokemon

Any of the Pikachu clones - Marill? Emolga?

Warhammer 40k

Maybe the ability to summon other space marines, or perhaps guardsmen?

Marvel

Any metahuman

Star Wars

Near-humans such as Pantorans, Wroonians, Mirialans, Zabrak, etc.

Elves

High Elves

Human Stereotypes

Snobby academics

Anthro-Rodents

Hares

Star-Trek

Vulcans

Pokemon

Espeon or Sylveon

Warhammer 40k

Eldar

Elder Scrolls

Altmer

Star Wars

Falleen, Twi’lek, Zeltron. “Pretty” races

Mass Effect

Asari

Wood Elves

Human Stereotypes

The wirey, agile swashbuckler acrobat types.

Anthro-Rodents

Rabbits

Star-Trek

Vulcanoids (minor Vulcan relatives, mostly pre-Warp)

Pokemon

Leafeon and Glaceon

Elder Scrolls

Bosmer

Marvel

Groot/Flora Colossus

Dark Elves, Drow

Human Stereotypes

The Tweenage-Fiction Antihero

Anthro-Rodents

Weasels

Star-Trek

Cardassians or perhaps Romulans

Pokemon

Umbreon

Warhammer 40k

Dark Eldar

Marvel

Still Dark Elves

Dwarves

Hill Dwarves

Human Stereotypes

The pudgy sidekick, dry-wit sensei

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

Pokemon

Graveler/Golem

Halflings

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

Gnomes

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

Opossoms

Warhammer

Skaven

Pokemon

Alolan Raticate

Half-Elves

Human Stereotypes

Fops and Dandies

Anthro-Rodents

Capybara

Star-Trek

Ferengi

Warhammer 40K

Long Shanks

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

Zelda

Bokoblin

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

Any flying-type

Warforged

Human Stereotype

Free Labor

Marvel

Iron Man, War Machine

Sci-Fi

Android

Anthro

Protogen

Pokemon

Beldum and its evolutions

Star Trek

The Borg

Star Wars

Droids (let’s face it, most droid PCs will probably be humanoid models or at least possible to portray using a Warforged)

Goliath

Warhammer 40K

Ogryn or perhaps Orks. Maybe T’au

Fallout

Super Mutant

Zelda

Gerudo

Triton

Marvel

Atlantean (Comics)/Talokanil (MCU)

Star Wars

Amphibious species (Gungans, Nautolans, Kaminoans, etc.) that can survive without access to water

Zelda

Zora

Tabaxi

RWBY

Faunus

Tortle

Final Fantasy

Kojin

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

Annablax

Human Stereotype

Insane people

Marvel

Thanos or Mantis

Pokémon

Espeon and Mewtwo

Stranger things

Eleven

Minecraft

Endermen, The Warden

Pog

Human Stereotype

Metalsmiths

Marvel

Korg

Pokémon

Chimchar and its evolutions

Minecraft

Anything from the Nether

Illager

Human Stereotype

Nomads, warlike people

Marvel

Ronan

Pokémon

Machop + machoke

Minecraft

Duh

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