Random D&D race generator

Rolling up a new character and want the dice to pick your race? Press Generate and this random D&D race generator draws one from the fifth-edition SRD: a dwarf one roll, a tiefling the next, a rock gnome after that.

Letting a random race choose for you is half the fun of a fresh character. It is the fastest cure for default-race habit: the player who always rolls a human or a half-elf gets nudged into a dragonborn and finds a character they would never have written on purpose. New players use it to get moving at session zero without agonising over the options. DMs spin it to populate a town with varied NPCs, or to build a set of pre-generated characters for a one-shot or a convention table.

Keep the draw on theme with the size filter. Narrow it to Medium for the human-sized races or Small for halflings and gnomes, handy when a character concept or a bit of party balance calls for a particular build. Leave it open to draw from the whole SRD roster.

The pool is the races and subraces published in the System Reference Document 5.1 under Creative Commons: the nine core races plus the SRD's subraces, like the hill dwarf and high elf. Each result is a name you can look up in the SRD to read its traits.

A grid lays a set out for a whole party at once, and the wheel spins to one for a reveal the table can watch at character creation. Share a link that carries your filter and count so everyone rolls from the same list.