List of character races in Dungeons & Dragons
Core races
In each edition, the core player character 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.

List of character races in Dungeons & Dragons

Section Title: Core races
Table Section Text: In each edition, the core player character 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.

Race	Editions as a core race	Sourcebooks in other editions

Dragonborn	4th, 5th	Races of the Dragon(3.5, T)

Dwarf	All

Eladrin	4th	Dungeon Master's Guide(5th), Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes(5th)

Elf	All

Gnome	1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3.5, 5th	Player's Handbook II(4th)

Half-elf	1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3.5, 4th, 5th	Greyhawk(O)

Half-orc	1st, 3rd, 3.5, 5th	Complete Book of Humanoids(2nd), Player's Handbook II(4th), Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms(4th)

Halfling	All

Human	All

Tiefling	4th, 5th	The Planewalker's Handbook(2nd), Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting(3rd), Monster Manual(3.5, M), Races of Destiny(3.5), Planar Handbook(3.5)

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Humans are a race for a character in the Dungeons & Dragons.
Human is a player character race in Dungeons & Dragons.

final_sentence: Humans are a race for a character in the Dungeons & Dragons.
final_sentence: Human is a player character race in Dungeons & Dragons.