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===Subraces And Paragon Classes===

As a general rule, a member of a subrace can take levels in the standard race’s paragon class unless a specific paragon class exists for the subrace. For example, [[SRD:Elves, Aquatic (Race)|aquatic elves]], [[SRD:Elves, Gray (Race)|gray elves]], [[SRD:Elves, Wild (Race)|wild elves]], and [[SRD:Elves, Wood (Race)|wood elves]] may all advance as [[Publication:Unearthed Arcana/Elf Paragon|elf paragon]]s, but [[SRD:Elves, Dark—Drow (Race)|drow]] elves may not, because drow have a separate paragon class. If you wanted to further differentiate the elven subraces by creating a paragon class for one or more of the subraces, those subraces could not then take levels of [[Publication:Unearthed Arcana/Elf Paragon|elf paragon]].

When deciding whether to create new paragon classes for subraces in your game, consider how different the subrace is from the main race. For instance, the [[SRD:Elves, Gray (Race)|gray elf]] is very similar to the [[SRD:Elves, High (Race)|standard (high) elf]], but both the [[SRD:Elves, Wild (Race)|wild elf]] and [[SRD:Elves, Wood (Race)|wood elf]] receive a penalty to [[SRD:Intelligence|Intelligence]], suggesting that the [[Publication:Unearthed Arcana/Elf Paragon|elf paragon]]’s [[SRD:Intelligence|Intelligence]] increase at 3rd level might not be appropriate for those races. The [[SRD:Gnomes, Forest (Race)|forest gnome]] is very similar to the [[SRD:Gnomes, Rock (Race)|standard (rock) gnome]], but the [[SRD:Gnomes, Deep&mdash;Svirfneblin (Race)|svirfneblin]] is so different (including a +3 [[SRD:Race Descriptions#Level Adjustment|level adjustment]]) that it probably deserves its own paragon class.
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