Average Heights and Weights of DnD Races. A goblin who is too short for the ride it wants to go on.

Why have I calculated the average heights and weights of DnD Races? I’ve been looking into the carrying capacity of creatures and what the rules in the D&D 5e Player’s Handbook say about it. It came to my attention recently that I was using house rules for how it works when one character carries or movies another. Because of that, I needed to figure how much a character weighs on average.

This is not the first time I’ve done an unreasonable amount of math for D&D and it probably won’t be the last. You can find the tables these calculations were based on in the followin books: 5e Players Handbook, Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, Volo’s Guide to Monsters and Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica. All that said, you should probably just buy Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse, which contains updated stat blocks for many of the creatures Volo’s and the first Mordenkainen’s.

Average Heights and Weights of DnD Races:

RaceAverage HeightAverage Weight
Aasimar5’9″165
Bugbear7’1″291
Centaur6’6″672
Dragonborn6’3″238
Dwarf, hill4’1″150
Dwarf, mountain4’5″165
Elf, drow5’0″100
Elf, Eladrin5’7″123
Elf, high5’5″118
Elf, sea5’3″113
Elf, Shadar-kai5’5″113
Elf, wood5’5″128
Firbolg7’3″266
Githyanki6’1″165
Githzerai6’1″123
Gnome3’4″40
Goblin3’10”40
Goliath7’1″277
Half-elf5’6″155
Halfling3’0″40
Half-orc5’9″213
Hobgoblin5’7″165
Human5’7″166
Kenku5’1″82
Kobold2’6″30
Lizardfolk5’8″197
Loxodon7’6″350
Minotaur6’1″238
Orc6’1″238
Simic hybrid5’7″166
Tabaxi5’9″145
Tiefling5’6″155
Triton5’5″145
Vedalken6’3″165
Yuan-ti5’7″165

Next, I’ll put together an article on how dragging unconscious allies works in the arena. I’ll link it here in case you’re interested, until then, maybe take a look at these stat blocks I created for some famous D&D characters.


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