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#1 kiritorn Nov 07, 2014 6:55:33	Hello. Just asking whether a wood elf has the same traits and features as a regular elf. (I mean like Darkvision, Trance, etc) as well as woodelf only traits like Mask of the wild and fleet of foot. or is it only woodelf traits without the other elf stuff?   (what I basically mean is do I get all of the below traits or just the woodelf ones?)   Elf Traits Your elf character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of elven refinement. Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2. Age. Although elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the elven understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. An elf typically claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old. Alignment. Elves love freedom, variety, and self- expression, so they lean strongly toward the gentler aspects of chaos. They value and protect others’ freedom as well as their own, and they are more often good than not. Size. Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium. Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. 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. 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. 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.     Wood Elf As a wood elf, you have keen senses and intuition, and your fleet feet carry you quickly and stealthily through your native forests. This category includes the wild elves (grugach) of Greyhawk and the Kagonesti of Dragonlance, as well as the races called wood elves in Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms. In Faerûn, wood elves (also called wild elves, green elves, or forest elves) are reclusive and distrusting of non-elves. Wood elves’ skin tends to be copperish in hue, sometimes with traces of green. Their hair tends toward browns and blacks, but it is occasionally blond or copper-colored. Their eyes are green, brown, or hazel. Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1. Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow. Fleet of Foot. Your base walking speed increases to 35 feet. Mask of the Wild. You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.
#2 Noctaem Nov 07, 2014 7:03:55	You get all of the normal elf traits as well as all the woodelf traits.  The only exception would be if a specific wood elf trait said that it replaces the normal benefits of another elven trait.  An example of this is the human variant rules which replace the normal human traits.
#3 Yunru Nov 07, 2014 7:29:43	"Regular Elves" don't actually exist, all elves are one of the three subraces.
#4 Noctaem Nov 07, 2014 7:37:57	Yunru wrote:
(Reply to #3) Coredump00	Yunru wrote:
#6 cowleymen Nov 07, 2014 9:09:32	More then likely. I can think of a few exceptions, Dark Sun. But even an Athasian elf could use most of the base traits.
#7 Writhani Nov 07, 2014 13:50:15	Previous edition's subrace rules were different though. For all 5E races so far, there is either only one main race type currently (such as with Dragonborn, Tiefling, and Half-Orc), or there are a set of sub-races that you must choose from. For example, you can't just be a halfling, you have to be either a stout or a light-foot halfling.  Both sub-races share traits that are general to all halflings ( +2 dex, Lucky, Brave), and have their sub-race traits in addition.
#8 kiritorn Nov 07, 2014 16:27:57	Thanks everyone