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. Take a single race to build around, or a handful when you're making a party of pre-gens, and turn on Unique so none repeat.

Letting a random race choose for you is half the fun of a fresh character. It's the fastest cure for default-race habit — the player who always rolls a human or a half-elf gets nudged into a dragonborn or a half-orc and finds a character they'd 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 balanced set of pre-generated characters for a one-shot or a convention table. It pairs neatly with rolling a random class, background, or alignment for a fully dice-decided hero.

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 and let any ancestry land.

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 — so everything you roll is free to use in your own games and anything you publish. Each result is a name you can look up in the SRD to read its traits.

Choose the output that suits the table. A single race in list view is the quickest pick; a grid lays a set out for a whole party at once; the wheel spins to one for a reveal the table can watch at character creation. Copy a set into your session notes, or share a link that carries your filter and count so everyone rolls from the same list. It's free, with no account and no cap on how many you draw. Whether you're starting a character, filling a table with NPCs, or leaving it all to the dice, your next race is one tap away.