Race | Penalty | Str | Int | Wis | Dex | Con | Align | Description |
Half-Elf | 0 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 22 | 19 | Good/Neutral | Mix breed of humans and elves. Mixed attributes. |
Half-Drow | 0 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 23 | 19 | Neutral/Evil | Like half-elves, except shunned by their drow ancestry. |
Storm | 25 | 24 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 22 | Good | Most intelligent of giants, always good. |
Stone | 50 | 24 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 24 | Neutral | Neutral giants, strong and healthy, but very dim. |
Gnome | 75 | 18 | 23 | 25 | 18 | 18 | Neutral | Fragile but very intelligent and incredibly wise. |
Human | 100 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | Any | The standard race, average attributes. |
Werebeast | 125 | 21 | 19 | 19 | 21 | 20 | Neutral | Half-human half-beasts, always neutral. |
Slith | 150 | 20 | 17 | 17 | 22 | 21 | Any | Sentient reptilians, quick and agile. |
Feral | 175 | 19 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 20 | Neutral/Evil | Humanoid chaos mammals, fast and ferocious. |
Minotaur | 200 | 23 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 22 | Neutral | Foul-tempered giant-like creatures with bull head. |
Fire | 225 | 25 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 23 | Evil | Unbelievably strong, healthy giants, always evil. |
Avian | 250 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 23 | 19 | Any | Bird-like humanoids that fly, very dexterous. |
Dwarf | 275 | 21 | 18 | 21 | 18 | 25 | Good/Neutral | Stocky demihumans that are amazingly hardy. |
Duergar | 300 | 21 | 18 | 20 | 21 | 23 | Evil | Evil dwarves, not as healthy but more dexterous. |
Faerie | 325 | 14 | 25 | 20 | 23 | 14 | Good | Small and fast, very intelligent. |
Halfling | 350 | 17 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 20 | Good/Neutral | Very small, wise and incredibly agile. |
Elf | 375 | 18 | 25 | 20 | 23 | 16 | Good | Fair, amazingly smart and dexterous, always good. +1 DEX/CON as BLMs |
Drow | 400 | 18 | 24 | 20 | 24 | 16 | Evil | Like their elven cousins, except sinisterly evil. +1 DEX/CON as BLMs |
Illithid | 425 | 17 | 25 | 23 | 18 | 17 | Evil | Powerful psi subterranean creatures, always evil. |
Ogre | 450 | 24 | 19 | 15 | 18 | 24 | Any | Large, strong and healthy, huge regenerative powers. |
Undead | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Evil | Strong, rotting corpses of filth and decay. |
Avatar | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Good | Divine angels of the light, strong and without mercy. |
Demon | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Evil | Twisted beings of another plane, strengthened by the damned. |
Vampire | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Evil | Unliving Knights of Blood, stalkers of the night. |
Lich | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Evil | Mages who have given up their mortality in their quest for power. |
There is also an informative table at RaceClass depicting all of the experience penalties for combinations of races and classes.
Primary Stat | Bar | Ber | Hea | Thi | Mon | Dru | Nin | Pal | Dkn | War | Cle | Nec | Ran | Bmg | Inv | Sha | Bla | Adv |
Strength | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||
Intelligence | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||
Wisdom | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||
Dexterity | x | x | x | x |