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.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Serious question.

Since small and medium creatures take up the same space, have the same movement rate, there exists creature types that allow S or M, and there are humans IRL that would be small on the current D&D scale... why do we even have them separate? Is it really worth penalizing the S for using large weapons or letting the S slip by a L creature but not letting an M do the same?

Why not have their racial abilities revolve around the fun things you can so as a shorty rather than punching them in the throat? OR at least a tradeoff instead of just making being short suck?

 

[Azzy]

You really think it's a good idea to give players nothing to work with? Just because WotC is afraid what people might say about their lore, and too lazy to do it right, it's ok to just stop giving a starting point?

Are they actually giving players nothing to work with, or is that just more tired, unhelpful hyperbole? Because it certainly seems more like the latter.

 

[Thunder Brother]

Is there a game that is more gritty by height? (Did Villains and Vigilantes have a formula that went by player weight for carrying capacity or something like that?)

I can see an optional rule somewhere that is more crunchy in D&D, but not getting through as the default anymore.

BRP-derived games such as Runequest and Pendragon have Size (height and weight) as a core attribute. It influences HP and some other stats.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Combat speed was defined somewhere as "being able to move at a brisk pace with some caution, while still being aware of the dangers around", it wasn't ever move at full speed or at a casual speed one is comfortable with.

 

[Maxperson]

It so does not matter, as it is unrealistic anyway.

That isn't a truism. It doesn't matter to you. It does matter to a lot of us. Realism is a spectrum and just because people are okay with X level of realism, doesn't mean that increasing it to Y level "does not matter."

 

[Maxperson]

Halfling need to have 25' movement per round in order to make them feel like halflings? Yeah, great. And guess what? Most of those halflings are playing Rogues, which means they're moving 50' per round via Dash while everyone is moving 30'. Oh yeah... that 25' movement speed REALLY shows us how "slow" they are from their size compared to the other races.

So "rogue" is a racial ability now? Every halfling is a rogue?

 

[Frozen_Heart]

It is weird how important hurting small races it to some people.

Is air genasi now hurting every single player race which doesn't get 35 movement speed?

 

[Frozen_Heart]

Serious question.

Since small and medium creatures take up the same space, have the same movement rate, there exists creature types that allow S or M, and there are humans IRL that would be small on the current D&D scale... why do we even have them separate? Is it really worth penalizing the S for using large weapons or letting the S slip by a L creature but not letting an M do the same?

I actually suspect that small and medium will get merged in 5.5e. The terms will still be there to keep backwards compatibility, but their actual rules will become 100% identical.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

Is air genasi now hurting every single player race which doesn't get 35 movement speed?

Also why don’t all species get flight speed? We don’t want some species feel that they are a hindrance to the movement of the party.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

Also why don’t all species get flight speed? We don’t want some species feel that they are a hindrance to the movement of the party.

And Luck. I'd really like to see the in-universe explanation for halfling to be racially lucky.