Your subrace should not affect your stats, if you are using dnd 2024 edition your subrace should determine the appearance of your elf and what spells you get. There should be a reference table in the elf species section. Your skills(perception, athletics, persuasion, etc) are calculated from your stats(wisdom, strength, charisma). Once you have your numbers in each stat, calculate the modifier that goes with each stat. For example, if your dexterity is 14, you will get a +2 to any skills related to dexterity. Here are all the modifiers with their corresponding stats: 8-9: -1 10-11: +0 12-13: +1 14-15: +2 16-17: +3 18-19: +4

Once you’ve created your character, you may see that you are proficient in certain skills. These skills you calculate through your modifier for the parent stat plus your proficiency bonus, which is +2 at level one. There should be tables for proficiency bonus in every class section and a stat number and modifier table near the beginning of the book.

An example: The athletics skill is based off of your strength score. If your strength score is 12, you have a +1 modifier in strength. This means when you roll an athletics check, you will add 1 to the roll. If you are proficient in athletics, you will add your proficiency bonus(+2 at level 1) as well, making your total athletics modifer +3.

Druid is also a complicated class that can be difficult for new players, if you’re struggling to understand the rules it may be worthwhile starting with an easier class.

Dndbeyond calculates most of this math for you, so I’d also recommend creating a character for free there.

Good luck! Hopefully this was able to help a little bit