When you make a half-elf, just normal, you don’t get the option to take keen senses. If you may, say, an aquatic half-elf, you only get the swimming speed with no option to instead stick with skill versatility or keen senses.
What is a variant half-elf?
Variant Half-Elf: Mark of Storm. 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.
What traits do half-elves have?
Half-Elves have curiosity and ambitions like humans but they have sense for magic and love for nature like their elven parents. Their skin is paler than human skin and they are taller and bigger than elves. Half-Elves have long ears like elves. They live about 180 years.
What is half-elf skill versatility?
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 speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, and one extra language of your choice.
What class is best for Half-Elf?
Wizard. Sorcerer and Warlock are better options for the Half-Elf because the ability scores line up beetter, but the Half-Elf still has everything that they need to be a successful wizard.
Can a half elf take the skill versatility trait?
“Some half-elves in Faerun have a racial trait in place of the Skill Versatility trait. If your DM allows it, your half-elf character can forgo Skill Versatility and instead take the elf trait Keen Senses or a trait based on your elf parentage:
Is there a half elf trait in SCAG?
Too bad the variant half-elf stuff in the SCAG gives them drow magic. “Some half-elves in Faerun have a racial trait in place of the Skill Versatility trait. If your DM allows it, your half-elf character can forgo Skill Versatility and instead take the elf trait Keen Senses or a trait based on your elf parentage:
What can a half elf do in Faerun?
“Some half-elves in Faerun have a racial trait in place of the Skill Versatility trait. If your DM allows it, your half-elf character can forgo Skill Versatility and instead take the elf trait Keen Senses or a trait based on your elf parentage: A half-elf of drow descent can choose the drow’s Drow Magic.”
What do half elves have in common with elves?
If your DM allows it, your half-elf character can forgo Skill Versatility and instead take the elf trait Keen Senses or a trait based on your elf parentage: Your half-elf character has some qualities in common with elves and some that are unique to half-elves.
