Choosing which species to be or make an NPC with in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dungeons & Dragons can take some thought. Do you go with a species that has traits that complement your class? Maybe there is a species you like best and have always wanted to play? When crafting your character, age could play a factor, especially if the campai꧋gn spans a great amount of time.

While the 2024 Player's Handbook doesn't inclꦕude ages in the species' descriptions, you can use pasꦗt sourcebooks as a guide to determining some age-old questions about life and how long it is. This list presents every species in the 2024 Player's Handbook and their lifespans.

Updated November 7, 2024 by Marissa Fiore: There are far more species in Dungeons & Dragons than just those listed in the 2024 Player's Handbook. This list has been updated to include entries from Mordenkainen Presents Monsters Of The Multiverse, which pulls species from multiple Fifth Edition sourcebooks.

29 Orc

Around 75

While 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:orcs are a hearty species that has features aiding them in their travels and combat, they don't live very long. This is in part attributed to the fact that they will one day be in a fight that they do not survive. After all, ad🎃venturing in the world of Dungeons & Dragons can be💝 fatal.

Now, if you want to use this species as either your own character or NPC if you're a Dungeons Master (DM), this shouldn't impact things too much. But if t♌here's a lot 🌳of downtime or they are part of a campaign that spans many years, in-game or outside of it, your orc may start to show their age.

28 💝 Dragonborn

Around 80

While dragons can grow to be ancient, that gene didn't accompany 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the breath weapon that dragonborn receive from their kin. In fact, dragonborn have a relatively short li♏fe expectancy, even sඣhorter than us humans. Could it be their breath weapon taking a toll on them?

No matter the reason, dragonborn aren't all that far off from humans, and age at about the same stages, meaning that you won't have to adjust how you roleplay them for quite some time. ✅And, if a campaign doesn't span great leaps in time, it won't make a difference.

27 Aarakocra

Around 100 (Previously 30)

Aarakocra were first presented as a playable species in the Elemental Evil Player's Companion. And, at that time, they were given an incredibly short lifespan o♈f only a few decades. However, aarakocra were one of the species that benefited from a generalized change to how species age in Dungeons & Dragons.

Because of this adjustment, aarakocra, and many other species, now live to be around a century old, giving these finely feathered folk ൩a much longer life expectancy and making it so that, as a player, you don't have to carefully count the days as journeys and missions stretch on through a campaign.

It is stated in Mordenkainen Presents Monsters Of The Multiverse (page 6) that it🌌 should be assumed player characters live to be nearly a century old. Thus, any lifespan that is not listed in this sourcebook is around the 100-year mark🗹 despite being different in previous editions or books.

26 Centaur

Around 100

You know them, you love them, everyone's favorite half-human, half-horse s🍸pecies in Dungeons & Dragons. Centaurs can be from j♐ust about anywhere in the Multiverse, but their lifespan remains the same. Unless your DM has some homebrew rules to make them stand apart if they hail from different locations.

Whether fey-touched or co♒ming from a more mortal background, this species can see many decades of battles and quests before calling it quits, making them a per🍌fect candidate for a future player character.

25 🥂 Changeling

Around 100

Changelings are fascinating people as they can easily alter and change their appearance, rarely ever showing people their true form. Despite this otherworldly ability, their age stays on par with ma꧅ny of the other creatures who don't have such mysterious, innate powers.

If using the information of their lifespan to inform some key roleplaying details, you could decide to only choose from the other species who ta🔯p out at about a century. That or young elves, dwarves, and the like who still have much more living left to do.

24 Fairy

Around 100

Fairies are some of the smallest creatures in terms of stature, but not when it comes to age. They didn't have the good fortune of inheriting as long a life as some of the other fey specie﷽s, but 100 years is certainly nothing to balk at.

Plus, when you weigh the pros and coಞns, being able to fly naturally thanks to their wings gives them an advantage on the battlefield, making it easier for them to see more of their years to come as opposed to those who are trapped on the ground and in dangerous situations.

23 Githyanki And Gওithzerai ꦫ

Around 100*

Githyanki and githzerai are cousins when it comes to their species. Under normal circumstances, they also live to be around a century old. However, githyanki can cheat the system a bit, thanks to their home in the Astral Plane, giving them the upper hand over their Li🐓mbo-based kin.

If a githyanki remains in the Astral Plane, they can live forever. The only reason 💜they don't rank higher on this list when compared to others who have no opportunity to live indefinitely is that, unless you are playing a campaign that only takes place there, chances are you'll be aging with the rest of the party members.

22 Goblin, Hobgoblin, And Bugbear 🗹 𝐆

Around 100

Goblins, hobgoblins, and b🔜ugbears, oh my! This could very well be a childhood song in the worlds that make up D&D, as the three species are related to one another and 🐻are typically feared or seen as monsters. Or servants of more sinister forces.

No matter their origin or where they come from in the Multiverse, their lifespans💛 are all roughly the same, making it so that, unless their life is cut short during their adventures, they have quite a while of good fighting in them all. Unlike with the gith cousins, this doesn't give any of the goblin-kin an age-based reason to pick one over the other.

21 Harengon

Around 100

Harengon are the rabbit-inspired folk of the D&D world, and their origins are based in the fey, which is similar to fairies. However, that isn't the only place you can run in💧to one, or the only place you can be from if you decide to play as one. They've traveled long and far, learning as much as they can about their new homes.

In fact, you could use this aꦆs a backsto💙ry detail that in their lifetime, they want to see and explore as many worlds and planes as possible. Especially if the campaign you're playing in already intends to explore multiple locations separated by time, space, magic, or any other type of border.

20 Kenku

Around 100

Unlike many of the other creatures on this list, a kenku you meet, or decide to create, could be from the Shadowfell instead of the Material Plane. Howev🐬er, having a different home hasn't impacted their age by either shortening it or allowing it to spanﷺ beyond a century.

This does give them quite a long time to learn from their surroundings, especially since they depend on mimicry 𒆙to effectively communicate. Who knows, it could lessenไ the mental burden when trying to learn words and gestures to not have to wonder how long the other species live for.