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.

 

[HammerMan]

A median 9yo human is a lot bigger than a halfling aren't they? (Median 53" if I read the table right). Is that medium or small?

I guess that depends, My nephew was over 5ft by 10 and over 6ft by 14. His sister was not yet 5ft at 12 (but hit a spurt and did get like 4 inchs summer before her 13th birthday) but My buddy's daughter was tall thin and a basketball player who was taller than my nephew is now (at 16 he is 6'2) at age 10

 

[DEFCON 1]

I honestly feel it would have been better to make all those other races move at 25 than to retcon two small PC races. I have a very hard time seeing someone the size of a toddler as physically proficient as an adult human as it is. The speed wasn't much, but it was a nod to reality in a game that sometimes takes too many breaks from it in the name of ease of use (and clearly intends to take more).

My own personal take is that I can't in good conscience think about any 'nods to reality' regarding speed when every single person of an entire race moves at the exact same speed, and 95% of all races do too (unless of course they by chance took a class that let them move faster, or one single feat.) For every halfling that moves 25' there should be plenty of humans and dragonborn that did the same-- likewise there should have been halflings that moved upwards to 30' and wood elves that moved downwards to 30', and some humans who moved up to 35' or 40'. But all of that would have required more rules and balancing and page count to figure out thow to distribute different starting speeds for every PC compared to each other and to their other features and such, so it's not at all surprising they just handwaved it and said "Screw it, almost all of them move 30'".

So if I'm willing to just throw away my worry about why almost all Medium races move the same speed as do all the individual members of said races... I can throw away my worry about why Small races can now move 30' too.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

I don't know. D&D combat is weird you have 360 vision and can react and defend as well against the 7th attack as the first (in 6 seconds) and if me and you both start next to each other you move 25 ft, then the mage casts fireball, then I move 25ft next to you we might not be in fireball range at same time (cause we wait and do nothing until out turn) so who knows...

The weirdest thing is that you can move diagonally for five feet and sit in the middle of the diagonal five-foot square. Those characters obviously have a limited teleport ability activating when they move sideways. Compared to this, no weirdness can surprise me.

 

[Cadence]

I guess that depends, My nephew was over 5ft by 10 and over 6ft by 14. His sister was not yet 5ft at 12 (but hit a spurt and did get like 4 inchs summer before her 13th birthday) but My buddy's daughter was tall thin and a basketball player who was taller than my nephew is now (at 16 he is 6'2) at age 10

That was just the median. Some charts give ranges of different types. Halflings are around 3' tall. Shortest adult human height is apparently around 21.5".

 

[pukunui]

I'm still waiting for them to pop up in a UA. Which I do expect that we'll get UA that details some of the potential changes to the PHB races as we draw closer and closer to 2024.

I don’t expect the other two drow cultures to be mechanically different. Just culturally so. I doubt they’ll be included in a UA.

 

[HammerMan]

My own personal take is that I can't in good conscience think about any 'nods to reality' regarding speed when every single person of an entire race moves at the exact same speed, and 95% of all races do too (unless of course they by chance took a class that let them move faster, or one single feat.) For every halfling that moves 25' there should be plenty of humans and dragonborn that did the same-- likewise there should have been halflings that moved upwards to 30' and wood elves that moved downwards to 30', and some humans who moved up to 35' or 40'. But all of that would have required more rules and balancing and page count to figure out thow to distribute different starting speeds for every PC compared to each other and to their other features and such, so it's not at all surprising they just handwaved it and said "Screw it, almost all of them move 30'".

So if I'm willing to just throw away my worry about why almost all Medium races move the same speed as do all the individual members of said races... I can throw away my worry about why Small races can now move 30' too.

yeah that too...

I mean by D&D standard a 20str 20dex 20con trained in athletics 17 year old fighter moves 30 and so does a 11str 9dex 12con 80 year old wizard

 

[HammerMan]

That was just the median. Some charts give ranges of different types. Halflings are around 3' tall. Shortest adult human height is apparently around 21.5".

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I don't fully get the chart but it looks to me like no 10 year old in history was ever under 50 inches 4'2 and none was ever over 59 inches 4'11 is that right? that doesn't feel right...

 

[Azzy]

I don’t expect the other two drow cultures to be mechanically different. Just culturally so. I doubt they’ll be included in a UA.

Exactly. WotC are changing race so that it no longer informs culture, so different drow cultures don't need seperate race entries.

 

[HammerMan]

The weirdest thing is that you can move diagonally for five feet and sit in the middle of the diagonal five-foot square. Those characters obviously have a limited teleport ability activating when they move sideways. Compared to this, no weirdness can surprise me.

yeah, and all of this is just scratching the surface of walk speeds... D&D is weird and not realistic at all and I never understand arguments that make it seem like these crazy tthings are outliers and not the whole damn game

 

[Cadence]

I don't fully get the chart but it looks to me like no 10 year old in history was ever under 50 inches 4'2 and none was ever over 59 inches 4'11 is that right? that doesn't feel right...

Which percentiles the bands are is hidden on the upper right of the graphic. Top band is 95th percentile, middle band is median, and lowest band is 5th percentile.