D&D 5E List of All 33 Races in Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse

Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse contains 33 races compiled from previous Dungeons & Dragons books.

• Aarackocra
• Assimar
• Bugbear
• Centaur
• Changeling
• Deep Gnome
• Duergar
• Eladrin
• Fairy
• Firbolg
• Genasi, Air
• Genasi, Earth
• Genasi, Fire
• Gennasi, Water
• Githyanki
• Githzerai
• Goblin
• Goliath
• Harengon
• Hobgoblin
• Kenku
• Kobold
• Lizardfolk
• Minotaur
• Orc
• Satyr
• Sea Elf
• Shadar Kai
• Shifter
• Tabaxi
• Turtle
• Triton
• Yuan-ti

D&D 5E - Full List of Monsters in Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse

Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse contains revamped stat blocks for 260 monsters previously published in previous Dungeons & Dragons 5E books. The list was compiled by YouTuber Bob Worldbuilder based on some blurry screenshots originally shared by Nerd Immersion (see the video...

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While reprinted, these races have all been updated to the current standard used by WotC for D&D races used in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, including a free choice of ability score increases (increase one by 2 points and another by 1 point; or increase three by 1 point), and small races not suffering a movement speed penalty.

The video below from Nerd Immersion delves into the races in more detail.

 

[Frozen_Heart]

I find the lack on information about how it will handled on DDB quite frustrating.

I'm worried that DnD Beyond itself has been left out to dry on this one by WotC. I'm slightly paranoid that with WotC seemingly making moves towards their own digital service, they will end up gradually stopping support to platforms like DnD Beyond.

 

[Cadence]

All races move at least 30ft.

Haven't played any in 5e. What are the remaining game effect differences for short races?

 

[bedir than]

Nobody is being manipulated at all. You can hoose to buy at a higher price, or choose to wait (as I will). It will be available, and I suspect it will be exactly one month after sales for the box set decline meaningfully.

There's absolutely no way that happens with the way shipping is now.
If Hasbro could control shipping that way this product wouldn't have been delayed past Christmas and we wouldn't be seeing a massive marketing push for a collector's product that's selling in January. The push is almost certainly because they will miss their sales target on this set due to the delay.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Sure is, but did you mean 4E Essentials?

I think I'm right too when I said 6E is probably coming sooner than you think. The span between the release of 3E and 3.5 was 2 years, 11 months. So, I'm sure that 3.5 was well in the works by early to mid 2002.

No, I was being pithy. I see this "new" book as well as the forthcoming core book rewrite as the 5e equivalent of Essentials.

 

[R_J_K75]

No, I was being pithy. I see this "new" book as well as the forthcoming core book rewrite as the 5e equivalent of Essentials.

Got ya, I agree. The more I think about buying into 5.5E or even 6E I think I'll have to see enough relevant change to get on board.

 

[Willie the Duck]

It's fascinating to me that WotC has just up and ditched the 25 foot movement speed for all of the smaller races. I recall that they tried doing that during the playtest and there was such an uproar against it that they switched it back for the final product.

One of my gamers brought this up recently, and I'm mulling over how true I consider it: -- because of D&D 'doing so unprecedentedly well' (the narrative we've been getting for the past 5+ years) and breaking ground with a lot of new gamers, the demographics of those who were there for the playtests differs from the total player base we have today. There are a number of things I see in 5e core that look like things used to lure back people D&D lost when it transferred from oTSR* to WotC, or just plain were mainstays of previous editions, that probably have no particular resonance with lots of current gamers, and if they are disruptive to play (and having 'that one slow-raced character' reduce the entire-party overland movement has been a bane for decades), why not get rid of them?
*how sad is it that I have to make this distinction?

There's absolutely no way that happens with the way shipping is now.
If Hasbro could control shipping that way this product wouldn't have been delayed past Christmas and we wouldn't be seeing a massive marketing push for a collector's product that's selling in January. The push is almost certainly because they will miss their sales target on this set due to the delay.

Agreed. This is a Christmas Sales project losing the holiday market. That's got to be the major driver for all of this. Things like trying to screw over completionists or whatnot make no sense from a financial point of view. They will get the single-book sales item to market when they can based on the logistics over anything else.

 

[Reynard]

I think perhaps the Mos Eisley/Pirates of Dark Water style species options has gone too far for my taste. First off, it turns into "humans in rubber masks" because it is difficult to make player species truly alien. Second, I am one of those people that likes having stock enemy species ("Bugbears were forged by the dark god of assassins!" or whatever) and making some of these species player character available muddied the ethical waters on that score.

 

[Weiley31]

Haven't played any in 5e. What are the remaining game effect differences for short races?

Trying to use a Weapon with the "Heavy" tag makes you suffer disadvantage when using it IIRC.

 

[Weiley31]

I don't get why the Monster version of the races still suffer stuff like Sunlight Sensitivity while the PC versions of said races don't.

Granted, I'll admit that I keep on forgetting to apply the effects of Sunlight Sensitivity at times, but that's beside the point.

 

[Frozen_Heart]

Trying to use a Weapon with the "Heavy" tag makes you suffer disadvantage when using it IIRC.

I suspect that will be ditched in 5.5e, and small will just get merged into medium sadly.