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Astral Elf

Elves with astral magic, short-range teleportation, and an adaptable trance.

Traits

TraitDescription
Creature typeYou are a Humanoid.
SizeYou are Medium.
SpeedYour walking speed is 30 feet.

Astral Fire

You know one of the following cantrips of your choice: dancing lights, light, or sacred flame. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for it (choose when you select this race).

Darkvision

You can see in dim light within 60 feet of yourself as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Fey Ancestry

You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed condition on yourself.

Keen Senses

You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Starlight Step

As a bonus action, you can magically teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Astral Trance

You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep. You can finish a long rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in a trancelike meditation, during which you remain conscious. Whenever you finish this trance, you gain proficiency in one skill of your choice and with one weapon or tool of your choice, selected from the Player's Handbook. You mystically acquire these proficiencies by drawing them from shared elven memory and the experiences of entities on the Astral Plane, and you retain them until you finish your next long rest.

Source & compatibility

Source: Spelljammer: Astral Adventurer's Guide · page 10 · Legacy 5e.

Spelljammer: Astral Adventurer's Guide; locally supplied reference, original publisher rights retained.

Campaign adaptation: Use the 2024 background ability increases instead of any legacy species ability increases printed below. Keep the other source traits; record conditional trait effects manually. A source variant remains distinct from an SRD or Eberron variant.