Editing Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition races (section)

==3.0e Core Books==

===Player's Handbook===

None of the base races in the Player's Handbook have level adjustments or racial hit dice. Their character level and ECL are both equal to their total class levels. Their creature types and subtypes are not given in the PHB, but can be found in the relevant sections of the Monster Manual, except for humans.

{| class='wikitable sortable'
! Race
! Size/Type
! Automatic Languages
! Bonus Languages
! Favored Class
|- 
| [[Dwarf]]
| Medium Humanoid (Dwarf)
| Common and Dwarven
| Giant, Gnome, Goblin, Orc, Terran, and Undercommon
| Fighter
|-
| [[Elf]]
| Medium Humanoid (Elf)
| Common and Elven
| Draconic, Gnoll, Gnome, Goblin, Orc, and Sylvan
| Wizard
|-
| [[Gnome]]
| Small Humanoid (Gnome)
| Common and Gnome
| Draconic, Dwarven, Elven, Giant, Goblin, and Orc
| Bard
|-
| [[Half-Elf]]
| Medium Humanoid (Elf)
| Common and Elven
| Any
| Any
|-
| [[Half-Orc]]
| Medium Humanoid (Orc)
| Common and Orc
| Draconic, Giant, Gnoll, Goblin, and Abyssal
| Barbarian
|-
| [[Halfling]]
| Small Humanoid (Halfling)
| Common and Halfling
| Dwarven, Elven, Gnome, Goblin, and Orc
| Rogue
|-
| [[Human|Human]]
| Medium
| Common
| Any
| Any
|- 
|}

===Dungeon Master's Guide===

The DMG offers no canon playable races. It does provide a "half-human" and a "gold dwarf", but only as examples of homebrewed races in Chapter Two, which is dedicated exclusively to variant, alternate, and homebrewed rules.

===3.0e Monster Manual I===

When D&D 3.0 was first launched, the terms "Level Adjustment" and "Effective Character Level" did not exist. Instead, there was a "Level Equivalent" system, which functioned much like ECL except that it did not affect the amount of experience required to level up. As a result, while a Tiefling or Aasimar would have to start at level 1 in a party of otherwise level 2 players, this level gap would quickly evaporate, leaving high-LE characters at a long-term advantage. It was also common, in the beginning, for monster races to have most of their stats printed in one book while their LEs or LAs would be printed in a separate book, because WotC was using massive amounts of drugs at the time and had no idea what they were doing. The following monster races had their Level Equivalents printed in the DMG and all of their other stats printed in the Monster Manual. Subraces such as Duergar, Drow, and Svirfneblins were not given level equivalents and thus remained unplayable.

{| class='wikitable sortable'
! Monster
! Size/Type
! RHD
! Languages
! Favored Class
! Level Equivalent
|-
| [[Blink Dog]]
| Medium Magical Beast
| 4 d10
| ''(dog noises)''
| ???
| +4 (LA +0)
|-
| [[Bugbear]]
| Medium Humanoid (Goblinoid)
| 3 d8
| Goblin, Common
| Rogue
| +3 (LA +0)
|-
| [[Centaur]]
| Large monstrous humanoid
| 4 d8
| Sylvan, Elven
| Ranger
| +5 (LA +1)
|-
| [[Hill Giant|Giant, Hill]]
| Large Giant
| 12 d8
| Giant, Common
| ???
| +12 (LA +0)
|-
| [[Gnoll]]
| Medium Humanoid (Gnoll)
| 2 d8
| Gnoll, Goblin, Orc
| Ranger
| +2 (LA +0)
|-
| [[Goblin]]
| Small Humanoid (Goblinoid)
| -
| Goblin, Common
| Rogue
| +0 (LA +0)
|-
| [[Hobgoblin]]
| Medium Humanoid (Goblinoid)
| -
| Goblin, Common
| Fighter
| +0 (LA +0)
|-
| [[Kobold]]
| Small Humanoid (Reptilian)
| -
| Draconic
| Sorcerer
| +0 (LA +0)
|-
| [[Lizardfolk]]
| Medium Humanoid (Aquatic, Reptilian)
| 2 d8
| Draconic
| Druid
| +2 (LA +0)
|-
| [[Minotaur]]
| Large Monstrous Humanoid
| 6 d8
| Giant
| ???
| +8 (LA +2)
|-
| [[Ogre]]
| Large Giant
| 4 d8
| Giant, Common
| ???
| +5 (LA +1)
|-
| [[Oni|Ogre Mage]]
| Large Giant
| 5 d8
| Giant, Common
| ???
| +9 (LA +4)
|-
| [[Orc]]
| Medium Humanoid (Orc)
| -
| Orc, Goblin, Giant
| Barbarian
| +0 (LA +0)
|-
| [[Pixie]]
| Small fey
| -
| ???
| ???
| +4 (LA +4)
|-
| [[Aasimar]]
| Medium Outsider
| -
| ???
| Paladin
| +1 (LA +1)
|- 
| [[Tiefling]]
| Medium Outsider
| -
| ???
| Rogue
| +1 (LA +1)
|-
| [[Satyr]]
| Medium Fey
| 5 d6
| ???
| ???
| +5 (LA +0)
|-
| [[Troglodyte]]
| Medium Humanoid (Reptilian)
| 2 d8
| Draconic
| Cleric
| +2 (LA +0)
|-
| [[Troll]]
| Medium Humanoid (Aquatic, Reptilian)
| 6 d8
| Giant
| ???
| +8 (LA +2)
|-
| [[Unicorn]]
| Large Magical Beast
| 2 d8
| Sylvan, Common
| ???
| +6 (LA +2)
|}