Custom Race System

A Dawn of Heroes uses a custom Races system which includes both free races and premium races.

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These new races come with permanent abilities, stats and feats.
Some races can have some temporary buffs, triggered during day time or night time, as well as temporary debuffs during day time or night time. Some races might have these buffs and debuffs based on the area in which they are in (i.e. Azer gets buffs while underground, and debuffs while outdoor)
Some races might be sensitive to light and so suffer some blindness and other penalties, while other races might suffer from the dark of caverns and low light places in the same way..
Spells like darkness can give some breath from daylight sensibility, as well as light sources can avoid dark sensitive races from taking penalties while in underground areas.
New races will be directly bound to a base game race. I.E., Vampire will result as Undeads when checked as target for specific spells or on-hit abilities. Celestial I.E. will result as Outsider, Goblin as Humanod Goblinoid etc.
Special races will have some special abilities to use. I.E. Illithid will have a dimensional door, Celestial and Vampire will have the Fly ability, etc.
Special races will have some permanent effects applied on them. The effects type and values are based on the race itself. I.E. Goblin will have its movement speed permanently increased by 5% (based on default movement speed)

On character creation if your race requires a specific class you must meet that class requirement for the race to work, otherwise the character race will be wiped at first login. NOTE: some races might even accept more than 1 class as starting class.

Every time your character shifts alignment, for one reason or another, if you stop meeting your subrace requirements, your character won’t benefit from temporary race bonus and won’t be able to use race abilities anymore until the alignment is restored (i.e., no more day/night/area buffs/debuffs).

You will need to unlock your Premium Race, or you won’t be able to gain XP with that character. To identify a Premium race, check the spreadsheet below, under the “Premium” column.
Premium races can be unlocked by paying a fee in Boss Tokens.
To unlock your Premium Race, head to the Epic Zone – Castle Glendario area (a portal is available from each major faction capitals), then talk with the Nordock Avatar in there.
You can create a character with a Premium Race even if you cannot afford to pay the token required for it, but you won’t gain any XP from killing monsters or doing quests.

During character creation you will see, during race selection, that many more races than standard are available for you to choose.
You won’t need to input any kind of Subrace Field. Just select the race via character creation, meet its requirements (class e/o alignment restriction, check spreadsheet below), and you will be good to go!

Updated on 16 August 2024