Randomly determine gender and physical features.Ģ0: You select a heritage into which you are reincarnated. Randomly determine gender and physical features.ġ7 to 19: You are reincarnated as a fey creature or awakened animal. Randomly determine gender and physical features.ġ4 to 16: You are reincarnated into a heritage unknown to your character. Randomly determine gender and physical features.ġ1 to 13: You are reincarnated into a heritage that belongs to a creature your PC has opposed in the past. Randomly determine gender and physical features.Ĩ to 10: You are reincarnated within a heritage that your PC knows well, either through background or adventuring experience. The DM decides on how the story unfolds and is provided with a thematic guidance to get them started.Ģ to 4: You are reincarnated within your original heritage, but randomly determine gender and physical features.ĥ: to 7: You are reincarnated within a heritage similar to your original heritage. However, despite the complexity, I never managed to tune it so well that it worked in a way I wanted it to work every time. In each edition, the core races are detailed in one of that edition's core rulebooks: Men & Monsters for 'original' Dungeons & Dragons, the Basic Set and Rules Cyclopedia for 'basic' Dungeons & Dragons and the Player's Handbook for all other editions.

PCs would roll a d100 and add a number based upon their prior heritage (between 0 and 301). Accordingly, I made a table that went from 1 to 400. I wanted reincarnation to take into account the story of the original PC rather than being entirely random. Personally I prefer this one, which doesn't include setting specific races or what I consider more obscure releases, as it just gets too crazy for my tastes when everything is in the mix, I don't like the idea of being turned into a Warforged by what is usually a Druid spell, and it keeps to basically the races for which I would have the books readily at hand when I'm DMing (ie: adding in the ones from Volo's and Mordenkainen's, which I bring with me for monster stats).Īlternatively you can use this customizable d1000 reincarnation table generator, which has options for all official published materials, the mtg planeshift supplements, and several major third party publications. It will presumably have to be updated next month for Beyond the Witchlight which will add a couple more races.

It seems to incorporate everything officially published including such obscure things as the Locathah from the Locathah Rising charity adventure release and the Verden, the lone racial option added by the Acquisitions Inc. I think this table is up to date, providing you don't want one that somehow also incorporates Van Richten lineages or Tasha's custom lineage.

All playable races in d&d 5e