Rolling for Race at Character Creation

I’m kind of opening up to the idea of adding fantasy races in my game world. I kind of decided one of my players was a halfling because he took the diminutive heritage and grew up in the woods. It gave me some cool ideas for how I could do halflings different. So then I thought why don’t I just structure a 3d6 table for my players to roll on when they make new characters to determine their race!

So here ya go, another 3d6 table. I also think if you had a lot of fantasy races in your world you could make tables like this by region just to determine what’s common in the area they’re in when they meet the new character. A place with some powerful magic leaking into the world might produce more sorcerers, so you could expand their position on the tables.

#	Race/Class
3	Sorcerer
4	Dwarf
5	Dwarf
6	Dwarf
7	Human
8	Human
9	Human
10	Human
11	Human
12	Human
13	Human
14	Human
15	Halfling
16	Halfling
17	Halfling
18	Talking Monkey/Dog

Sorcerer isn’t exactly a race, but It’s the only time I’d let a player start with a class template. All other magic users either need to invoke a patron or learn from a mentor. So I put it on the list for a cool “Chosen One” vibe. Humans take up the majority of the middle bit because It’s a mostly human campaign, and then dwarves and halflings get an even split of the “fairly unlikely slots.” Finally 18 gets Talking Monkey or Dog. Probably doesn’t need explanation, but hey it’s a fantasy world and I like talking monkeys.

Okay, I guess I’m putting this online in the hopes someone else finds it useful, so lets try this with some traditional fantasy and sci-fi.

This fantasy one would be a nice way to keep a consistent tone in a 5e game where you want certain races to actually feel rare, it could possibly be more useful
when generating NPC’s.

#	Race/Class
3	Tiefling
4	Elf
5	Elf
6	Dwarf
7	Dwarf
8	Dwarf
9	Human
10	Human
11	Human
12	Human
13	Halfling
14	Halfling
15	Halfling
16	Half-orc
17	Half-orc
18	Genasi

And here’s a fun sci-fi one for If I ever pick up another Solar Blades and Cosmic Spells Campaign

#	Race/Class
3	AI
4	Alien (Insectiod)
5	Alien (reptilian)
6	Cyborg
7	Cyborg
8	Cyborg
9	Human
10	Human
11	Human
12	Human
13	Mutant
14	Mutant
15	Mutant
16	Alien (humanoid)
17	Alien (aquatic)
18	Psionics User