
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:
Race | Average Height | Average Weight |
Aasimar | 5’9″ | 165 |
Bugbear | 7’1″ | 291 |
Centaur | 6’6″ | 672 |
Dragonborn | 6’3″ | 238 |
Dwarf, hill | 4’1″ | 150 |
Dwarf, mountain | 4’5″ | 165 |
Elf, drow | 5’0″ | 100 |
Elf, Eladrin | 5’7″ | 123 |
Elf, high | 5’5″ | 118 |
Elf, sea | 5’3″ | 113 |
Elf, Shadar-kai | 5’5″ | 113 |
Elf, wood | 5’5″ | 128 |
Firbolg | 7’3″ | 266 |
Githyanki | 6’1″ | 165 |
Githzerai | 6’1″ | 123 |
Gnome | 3’4″ | 40 |
Goblin | 3’10” | 40 |
Goliath | 7’1″ | 277 |
Half-elf | 5’6″ | 155 |
Halfling | 3’0″ | 40 |
Half-orc | 5’9″ | 213 |
Hobgoblin | 5’7″ | 165 |
Human | 5’7″ | 166 |
Kenku | 5’1″ | 82 |
Kobold | 2’6″ | 30 |
Lizardfolk | 5’8″ | 197 |
Loxodon | 7’6″ | 350 |
Minotaur | 6’1″ | 238 |
Orc | 6’1″ | 238 |
Simic hybrid | 5’7″ | 166 |
Tabaxi | 5’9″ | 145 |
Tiefling | 5’6″ | 155 |
Triton | 5’5″ | 145 |
Vedalken | 6’3″ | 165 |
Yuan-ti | 5’7″ | 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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